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Counselling Skills

What do you know?

Before you start this unit, it is important that you take some time to think about what
you already know in relation to using counselling skills and personal development.
Please take some time to answer the questions below and rate your confidence in
each topic area.

Use the following key to complete your answers to questions 1 to 5. You can then
write out your answer in full for question 6. At the end of the unit, you will be asked to
take another look at these questions so that you can rate your confidence again and
identify how you have progressed throughout the unit and how your knowledge and
awareness in each area has developed.

1 – Not confident at all 2 – A little confident 3 – Confident
4 – Very confident 5 – Confident enough to share my knowledge with others

1. How confident do you feel in your knowledge of counselling theories?

How confident are you in your understanding of the significance of
2.
counselling theories?
How confident are you in your knowledge of key elements of
3.
psychodynamic theory?
How confident are you in your understanding of key elements of
4.
person-centred theory?
How confident are you in your knowledge of key elements of cognitive
5.
behavioural theory?

6. What are you hoping to learn in this unit?

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