To be eligible for this award, students must complete 5 Required Core Subjects, 3 Elective Subjects, and pursue either the Practice Option or the Research Option.

Students who have successfully completed 21 credits including 5 Required Core Subjects and 2 Elective Subjects can exit the programme with a Postgraduate Diploma in Guidance and Counselling.

Required Subjects (5 subjects, 15 credits)

• Advanced Human Behaviour & Social Environment
• Counselling Assessment & Measurement
• Individual & Group Counselling Skills Workshop
• Social Context & Ethics
• Theories & Models of Counselling

and then EITHER Practice Option or Research Option:

Practice Option (6 credits)

• Counselling Practicum
  

Research Option (6 credits)

• Practice Research
• Integrative Project

Elective Subjects (any 3 subjects, 9 credits) #

• Advanced Practice Methods: Brief Therapy
• Advanced Practice Methods: Cognitive Behavioural Intervention
• Career Counselling: Theories & Practice
• Delinquency & Family
• Evolution in Family Therapy: Structural & Systemic Approaches
• Expressive Psychotherapy
• Guidance & Counselling for Students with Special Needs
• Information & Communication Technology for Psychosocial Interventions
• Mental Health Policy
• Mindfulness-based Programme in Mental Health and Social Care
• Narrative Therapy
• Psychopathology: Holistic & Humanistics Orientations
• Practice Research
• Social Policy Analysis & Social Accountability
• Workplace Counselling
• Violence in Intimate Relationships

# The department reserves the right to alter the subject offering pattern and subjects on offer.

# Not all elective subjects will be offered every year and registration is subject to the availability of quota.