Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months or 36 months
Our Person-Centred Counselling programme is the starting point for a career providing life-changing therapy. Full-time or part-time, you can achieve an MSc, PgDip or PgCert, allowing you to progress to your chosen career.
This programme is grounded in Carl Rogers’ theory of human potential, and training in this approach opens you to the self-knowledge needed to offer clients the deep connectedness at the heart of the therapeutic relationship.
Our full-time route allows you to complete an MSC in 18 months, with an option on the final 60 credits coming from either a Dissertation/Counselling Related Research Study, or our Specialist Certificate for Counselling Children and Young People. Our part-time options give you more flexibility, with the opportunity to qualify as a Person-Centred practitioner just after two years, or to complete the MSc in three years, equally via the dissertation or the CYP specialisation route.
Applicants will normally be expected to hold a relevant Honours degree with a 2:2 or above from a recognised university or body. In exceptional circumstances, applicants without this qualification may be admitted by achieving Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Please contact the programme director for guidance. Applicants must also prove they have relevant, credit-bearing counselling skills, totalling 60 credits, ideally from completion of Aberdeen University’s Counselling and Listening Skills courses 1 to 4.
On completion of the validated diploma students can register as a qualified counsellor with the professional bodies. There are growing opportunities for employment in the third sector, in Employee Assistance Programme companies and for working in private practice. There are also opportunities in human resources, occupational health and in the NHS as counsellors or wellbeing practitioners.
Career Opportunities
Counsellor
Psychotherapist
Marriage and family counsellor (requires further specialisation)
Children and Adolescents counsellor (requires further specialisation)
Grief counsellor
School counsellor
College counsellor
NHS counsellor
Military counsellor
Residential counsellor
Substance abuse counsellor
EAP counsellor
Core Modules:
Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen (PD5006)
Foundations and Therapeutic Process in Person - Centred Counselling (ED50NE)
Development of Professional Practice, Reflexivity and Enquiry (ED55NF)
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