Level 1 Cybercounselling
Summer course is now closed. Use the email link below to pre-register for Fall 2020
Instructors
Paul Parnass, Lawrence Murphy and Sue Allen
(meet
the instructors)
"Cybercounselling - Level 1" is a three module course designed for experienced counselling practitioners who want to offer professional, ethical online counselling to their clients. We cover video, live text-chat and email-style communications methods. Certificates are issued upon completion of the full course.
Course Description
Participants will improve their online counselling skills and professionalism. The course is highly interactive and personal with a low student/teacher ratio. Online group and dyadic processes are used so that the entire course is a forum to practise text-based communication skills. Participants from around the world will study and discuss assigned readings, learn about and use secure e-mail and chat technology, practise a diverse range of therapeutic communication skills and tools, engage in role-play, and receive clinical feedback once each Module. The course employs a "practitioner-researcher" model and covers the three areas that are essential to the provision of professional, ethical, and effective online counselling services:
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Each week we check in, review video and written lectures, engage in online activities, and review and comment on journal articles or other relevant materials. Some weeks employ role-play and small-group activities. The 12 weeks are broken into three 4-week Modules:
- Module 1
- Course overview and introduction
- Online ethics
- Ethical and practical issues in video counselling
- Clinical activity: Video counselling roll play with clinical feedback Module 2
- Clinical activity: Text-based counselling role-play
- Clinical activity: Pracitioner-Researcher analysis
- Ethical and practical issues in text-chat
- Clinical Activity: Live text-chat role play with clinical feedback Module 3
- Clinical questioning techniques in text
- Enhancing the therapeutic alliance online
- Clinical activity: mock client with clinical feedback
- Self-Assessment and graduation
At the end of each Module (after weeks 4, 8 and 12) personal clinical feedback is provided by the instructor (quick tip: if you are only interested in Video, you can take and pay for only Module 1 and then stop!).
Assignments are given on a weekly basis. Every Friday evening a new session will be activated by the course facilitator on our Online Learning Platform. Students review the lecture along with the course website section appropriate to that session and complete the assignments by the following Thursday.
Individuals complete their course work in an asynchronous manner. Because of this, participants can fit the course work into their individual schedules to complete each session's assignments within specified deadlines. Participants who have plans to travel while the course is underway will be able to continue their participation, as long as they have Internet access. The only exception is the Chat exercise during which you must be online at the same time as your partner to complete the activity (this comprises one hour of the total course).
The full course (i.e.: all 3 modules) lasts 12 weeks. The work load involves approximately three to five hours per week. Please carefully consider your ability to schedule these hours into each week.
Read the Orientation Document to learn more.
Learning Goals and Expected Outcomes:Participants who complete the course will be able to
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Participant Feedback:"It
is an empowering and professional course
that I would encourage all therapists to
participate in." "You
[the instructors] were wonderful. The
layout is clear and sequential. I found
it a blessing to have such structure....
I appreciate the way that I can 'hear'
your voice in your instructions." "There
is nothing that I can think of that I had
hoped we would learn but didn't. I was
most interested in learning clinical
skills. I believe that I got that and
much more." "I
really enjoyed the Cybercounselling
course and have mentioned it each time I
have spoken around Australia about my
research. " |
Experiential Learning Activities:
Participants will
- continually practise online text-only communication and relationship building skills in their interactions with other participants and the instructors
- provide online counselling via role-play
- use the PrivacEmail system, including many of its features, in their interactions with other participants and the instructors. (There is no charge for the use of PrivacEmail Professional for duration of the course and 30 days beyond.)
- receive feedback from peers and instructors, as well as one-to-one eSupervisionTM
Course Prerequisites:
- A Master's degree in counselling or a related field and at least 2 years of experience delivering in-person counselling;
- OR an equivalent combination of education and experience (Please email Lawrence or call him at 519-831-9141 to inquire about equivalency).
- Comfort with, and extensive experience using a computer with at least the last 5 years using e-mail and the internet.
Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements:
Both Windows and Apple computers may be used. Dial-up Internet access is slow. High-speed access is recommended. For the use of Chat the computer you use must allow Secure Sockets.
Tuition fees for Level I
(all amounts in Canadian Dollars):
The total cost for the Level 1 training is $1287 (plus taxes as applicable). Fees may also be paid per Module as the training progresses.
Module 1 $429
Module 2 $429
Module 3 $429
Discounts may apply! See the payment form for details.
The Fall 2020 course will run September 11 to December 17.
To pre-register or for questions please contact: Lawrence Murphy or call (519) 831-9141