Counselling Short Courses | Online Australia - JNI
Counselling Short Courses Qualification
The Jansen Newman Institute has a long history of providing excellence in academic and applied education in counselling and psychotherapy; it also recognises the importance and need for continuing education in the field of mental health in order for practitioners to broaden and deepen their knowledge. JNI now offers a wide range of short courses that will provide mental health practitioners an exciting opportunity for learning and continued professional development as part of our philosophy of life-long growth and learning.
Our current list of short course offerings include:
- How to approach sexual dysfunction in psychotherapy: Introductory course
- How to approach sexual dysfunction in psychotherapy: Advanced course
- How to approach sexual trauma in psychotherapy: Introductory course
- How to approach sexual trauma in psychotherapy: Advanced course
- Basic counselling
- Working with couples in crisis
- Family training: an introduction
- Values in health care: a spiritual approach
- Working with addicted clients
- How to find meaning in the second half of life: Five Steps to living a Life with Purpose and Passion
- Narrative Therapy
- Sandplay
- Coaching for psychotherapists
- Others
These courses are geared to practitioners in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy, social work, nursing, disability and community welfare. They may also be of interest to people who are considering a career in mental health, or carers who would like greater understanding.
JNI also offers the opportunity for the following undergraduate and post-graduate study:
- Bachelor of Applied Social Science (Counselling)
- Bachelor of Applied Social Science (Community Services)
- Bachelor of Applied Social Science (Human Resource Management)
- Masters of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Short Course Enquiries
Please follow the links below to learn more about the short courses and degrees. To find out more about the short courses at JNI email shortcourses@think.edu.au or call 02 9436 3055.
- Values in health care: a spiritual approach
- How to approach sexual trauma in psychotherapy: Introductory course
- How to approach sexual trauma in psychotherapy: Advanced course
- How to approach sexual dysfunction in psychotherapy: Introductory course
- How to approach sexual dysfunction in psychotherapy: Advanced course
- Basic counselling skills – Enhance Your Communication
- Clients in Crisis - working with suicidal ideation, self-harming behaviours and personality disorder presentations.
- Systemic Couple Training - working with couples who present in crisis: Milan and Solution-Focused Therapy approaches.
- Systemic Family Therapy Training: an introduction to working with contemporary approaches - Milan, Narrative and Solution Focused Therapy
- (Men Only) How to find meaning in the second half of life: Five Steps to living a Life with Purpose and Passion
1. Values in health care: a spiritual approach
Lecturer: Jennifer Forrest
Hours and Time: 42Hours / 9:30am – 5pm
Starts: 7th April
Dates: 6 hours x 7 weeks with 3- week intervals between sessions: 7 April; 28 April; 19 May; 9 June; 30 June; 21 July; 11 August 2012
Cost: $1500
Course:
Consists of seven 6-hour workshops that explore inner values as an aid to self-care. Connecting to inner values from a spiritual perspective assists in the prevention of 'burnout'.
The workshops develop spiritual tools such as meditation, visualization, creativity and play to mention a few.
Research has shown that in order for this style of workshop to be effective there needs to be a 3 week break in between.
This 3-week break allows the participant's time to reflect on what was experienced but not enough time to forget the benefit of reconnecting with the values.
Valuing the self, compassion, and peace are some of the values that are examined.
Spiritual approach requires time and practice in order for benefits to be experienced.
Meditation along with other spiritual practices are more powerful when practiced in a group or gathering.
2. How to Approach Sexual Trauma in Psychotherapy: Introductory Course
Lecturer: Amanda Robb
Hours and Time: 14Hours / TBC
Starts: 28th February
Dates: 28 February 2012 and 29 February 2012
Cost: $495
Course:
This introductory course aims to introduce participants to counseling skills that can be used effectively with clients who present to therapy with Sexual Trauma. The course will focus on:
- Understanding Sexual Violence within Australian laws and legislations.
- Basic introduction to common impacts (short term & long term) of Sexual Trauma
- How to model the therapeutic relationship when working within the contest of sexual trauma
- How to identify risk taking behaviours and maladaptive coping strategies resulting from sexual trauma and turning them into healthy coping behaviours including safety planning
- How to make Sexual Assault Referrals
The course will balance theory with practical skills and participants will be encouraged to engage in interactive learning through reflection, group work and interactive training.
In consideration to the course subject and content being highly sensitive, a strong emphasis will be placed on participant respect, boundaries and participant self-care.
3. How to Approach Sexual Trauma in Psychotherapy: Advanced Course
Lecturer: Amanda Robb
Hours and Time: 14Hours / TBC
Starts: 18th February
Dates: 18 February 2012 and 19 February 2012
Cost: $595
Course:
This advanced course follows on from the introductory course, and is suitable for participants wanting to enhance their skills or work within the field of sexual trauma.
This course will place focus on further exploring common long-term effects of sexual trauma through theory, case studies, and interactive learning.
The advanced course will focus on:
- Understanding Sexual Violence: Trauma models applied in Sexual Assault Counselling
- Working with complex trauma clients and common disorders such as: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/Disosociative Identity Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
- Developing skills for working with resistant and dysfunctional clients
- How to interact from a client-centered approach when liaising with service providers in the mental health field
- Understanding Self Harm and serious risk taking behaviour in ASCSA (Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Assault)
- Supporter support, compassionate fatigue and vicarious trauma: how to professionally apply self-care
The course will balance theory with practical skills and participants will be encouraged to engage in interactive learning through reflection, group work and interactive training.
In consideration to the course subject and content being highly sensitive, a strong emphasis will be placed on participant respect, boundaries and participant self-care.
4. How to Approach Sexual Dysfunctions in Psychotherapy: Introductory Course
Lecturer: Amanda Robb
Hours and Time: 14Hours / 9:30am – 5pm
Starts: 3rd December
Dates: 3 Decemeber 2012 and 4 December 2012
Cost: $495
Course:
The aim of this course is to provide participants with a general understanding on sexual dysfunctions and what to expect in the therapeutic relationship.
The course is designed within a Sex Therapy framework and offers basic counselling techniques and tools for generalist counsellors to apply when clients present with issues around their sexuality.
The course will focus on:
- Understanding Human Sexuality and Sexual Health: Models applied in Sex Therapy
- A brief guide on Sex Laws and Legislations within Australia
- Sexual Differentiation and the Sexual Response Cycle
- How to identify and respond to Sexual Dysfunctions and Problematic Sexual Behaviour within the therapeutic relationship
- Basic skills in supporting clients with Sexually transmitted infections and HIV
- Taking a Sexual Health History Assessment using the PLISSIT model
- How to make Sexual Health Referrals to appropriate service
- Providers
The course will balance theory with practical skills and participants will be encouraged to engage in interactive learning through reflection, group work and interactive training.
In consideration to the course subject and content being highly sensitive, a strong emphasis will be placed on participant respect, boundaries and participant self-care.
5. How to Approach Sexual Dysfunctions in Psychotherapy: Advanced Course
Lecturer: Amanda Robb
Hours and Time: 14Hours / 9:30am – 5pm
Starts: 11th February
Dates: 11 February 2012 and 12 February 2012
Cost: $595
Course:
This advanced course follows on from the introductory course, and is suitable for participants wanting to enhance their skills or work within the Sexuality and Sexual Health Counselling field.
This course will place focus on building techniques, tools and assessments in working with Sexual Dysfunctions and Problematic Sexual Behaviours.
The advanced course will focus on:
- Sexual Paraphilias: How to identify and respond to them within the therapeutic relationship
- Understanding and working with Gender Identity/Transgender and Inter-sex conditions
- Sexuality and Ageing
- Sexuality and Mental/Physical Health
- Conceptualising Problematic Sexuality and how to therapeutically respond
- Helping People with Sexual Problems: assessment and treatment options
The course will balance theory with practical skills and participants will be encouraged to engage in interactive learning through reflection, group work and interactive training.
In consideration to the course subject and content being highly sensitive, a strong emphasis will be placed on participant respect, boundaries and participant self-care.
6. Basic counselling skills – Enhance Your Communication.
Lecturer: Jacqueline McDiarmid
Hours and Time: 6Hours / 9:30am – 12:30pm, 1:30pm – 4:30pm
Starts: 3rd December
Dates: 3rd December 2011
Cost: $550 + GST
Course:
There are many people working in the mental health community who do not feel they have acquired adequate counselling skills from their training or their education.
This one day course is suitable for those people who would like to learn basic counseling and communication skills so that they feel more confident when working with others.
This course is also suitable for students who do not work in the mental health area but are curious about learning some counselling skills in particular to enhance communication.
These skills can be used in and out of the work place.
Drawing from a Person-Centred therapy approach, students will learn how to engage a client, how to reflect, empathise and learn about the different types of questions which draw out information and perhaps resolutions.
There will be a strong emphasis on listening skills, as well as other general communication skills.
Learning is by presentations, group discussion and class practice sessions.
Outcomes:
- Students will learn how to engage a client/friend/work colleague.
- Students will understand the importance of listening skills and will have acquired some listening skills.
- Students will have learnt basic counselling skills such as reflecting, clarifying and empathy skills.
- Students will feel more confident when counselling and or communicating with others.
7. Systemic Family Therapy Training: an introduction to working with contemporary approaches - Milan, Narrative and Solution Focused Therapy
Lecturer: Jacqueline McDiarmid
Hours and Time: 17.5Hours / 9:30am – 1pm
Starts: 17th March
Dates: 17 March, 24 March, 31 March, 7 April, 14 April
Cost: $1700 + GST
Course:
Family work can be daunting and requires a different set of therapy skills to working with individuals.
It is a move away from intra-psychic to working interpersonally.
This course is designed to give both beginner and experienced therapists the opportunity to learn systemic concepts when working with family groups and to build confidence.
Students will be introduced to systemic ideas – drawing from Milan, Narrative and Solution-Focused approaches.
There will be an introduction to hypothesizing and circular questioning.
Students will also learn how to engage more than one person, how to keep the session balanced and manage various personalities and the issues that come with this.
Students will be introduced to systemic ideas through group work, DVD's and case work discussion.
This course is designed to be practical and there will be a clinical focus with an opportunity to watch the facilitator work with either a real family or with volunteers.
Outcomes:
- Students will understand when family therapy is appropriate.
- Students will understand systemic ideas and the difference between interpersonal work and intra-psychic work.
- Students will be able to hypothesize, positively connote and have a basic understanding of circular questioning.
- Students will be able to construct and work with a genogram.
- Students will understand how to engage a family and keep the session balanced.
- Students will understand how to manage their own anxiety and potential trigger responses to family situations.
- Students will feel more confident approaching family work.
8. Systemic Couple Training - working with couples who present in crisis: Milan and Solution-Focused Therapy approaches
Lecturer: Jacqueline McDiarmid
Hours and Time: 12Hours / 9:30am – 12.30pm 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Starts: 11th December
Dates: 11 December 2011 and 18 December2011
Cost: $980 + GST
Course:
This is a short course designed to give both new and experienced therapists the confidence and skills to work with a couple – particularly a couple who has presented in crisis.
Couple work can be confronting and challenging to new and experienced therapists alike.
Many therapists do not feel they have the confidence or the necessary skills to take the leap to couple work.
Students will learn how to engage a couple, manage both the couples' and the therapist's anxiety when the couple is engaged in high conflict, and manage escalation of the conflict in both the therapy room and outside of it.
There will be an emphasis on learning circular questioning, genogram work, hypothesizing and sequences.
This will be a practical course drawing on systemic ideas, in particular Milan and Solution Focused Theory.
Learning will be by class discussion, group work, DVD's and case presentations.
Outcomes:
- Students will understand systemic ideas and the difference between interpersonal work and intra-psychic work.
- Students will understand how to manage a first and second session where a couple has presented in a volatile way and is in crisis.
- Students will be able to hypothesize, positively connote and have a basic understanding of circular questioning.
- Students will be able to construct and work with a genogram.
- Students will understand how to engage a couple and keep the session balanced.
- Students will understand how to manage their own anxiety and potential trigger responses to crisis situations.
- Students will feel more confident approaching couple work.
9. Clients in Crisis - working with suicidal ideation, self-harming behaviours and personality disorder presentations – (Jacqueline McDiarmid)
Lecturer: Jacqueline McDiarmid
Hours and Time: 6Hours / 9:30am – 12.30pm 1:30 - 4:30
Starts: 25th February
Dates: 25 February 2012
Cost: $550 + GST
Course:
Working with clients who have experienced trauma can be frightening and challenging work.
Clients who have been traumatised through sexual/emotional/physical abuse, rape, stalking, domestic violence, other forms of violence and so on can be challenging, draining and distressing for the therapist.
Often these clients may be living with self-harming behaviours, extreme anxiety, personality disorders, suicidal ideation, paranoia, delusions, poor boundaries and so on.
At times clients may need to be hospitalized and often there is a need for the several professionals from within the mental health community to work each other.
This is a one day course designed to give students the skills and the confidence to manage challenging clients – particularly clients who are self-harming, suicidal, experiencing delusions, paranoia and extreme anxiety and depression.
This course will cover safety aspects.
Ways to create and maintain boundaries, ways to manage clients and the symptoms they experience, as well as ways to manage self-care for the professional.
The student will learn how to work with the client therapeutically and will understand how and when to refer.
This course will be of particular interest to therapists, counsellors, social workers, nurses and anybody else who works with mentally unwell patients who have experienced some kind of trauma.
Outcomes:
- The student will understand how to set up a therapeutic relationship with traumatized clients.
- Students will understand how to work with a client who is under acute distress.
- Students who understand how to determine whether self-harming behaviours are life threatening and how to look for life threatening behaviours.
- Students will know when and how to refer and involve other professionals to support both the professional and the client.
- Students will understand the importance and value of boundaries and have learnt ways to set these boundaries up even under extreme circumstances and emergencies.
- Students will understand how to manage their own anxieties and potential trigger responses.
10. How to find meaning in the second half of life Five Steps to living a Life with Purpose and Passion
Lecturer: Allan Rudner
Hours and Time: 13Hours / 9:30am – 5pm
Starts: 10th December
Dates: 10 December 2011 and 11 December 2011
Cost: $ 495
In this workshop we develop the context in the five areas below to support men transitioning to living purposely in the second half of their life.
- Trust
- Sharing our stories
- Communication
- Building inner resilience through Defenceless Listening©.
- Developing a capability for reframing experiences through a narrative approach
- Understanding
- Growing capacity for self reflection leading to greater empathy and compassion.
- Connection
- Clarifying interpersonal relationships by walking in another's footsteps.
- Celebration
- Witnessing and honouring self and other grounds identity.
Outcomes:
- Develop the capacity to create a more meaningful second half life.
- Harvest the wisdom of a lifetime of experiences
- Clarify life direction and personal legacy
