This qualification is a new Single Subject and will be awarded as a Single Subject Certificate from June 2023.
Main Topics of Study:
Child and Adolescent Psychology
- The role and qualities of a child counsellor
- Child and adolescent developmental psychology
- Child psychology dynamics and special needs
Moral Development in Children
- Levels of moral development
- Factors that influence moral development
Issues Requiring Adolescent Counselling
- Personal hygiene and self care
- Sexuality, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy and abortion
- Depression and anxiety
- Suicide and self harm
- Parenting relationships and styles
Marriage and Family Counselling
- Marriage and family counselling theories
- Psychoanalysis
- Object relations theory
- Family systems theory - Family values and ethics
- Marriage conflicts
Loss, Death and Grief Counselling
- Types of loss
- Loss of relationship
- Loss of the self
- Loss of objects
- Developmental loss - Perspectives of managing loss
- Philosophical
- Spiritual
- Psychological
- Physiological
- Sociological
- Types of grief
- Normal
- Complicated
- Delayed
- Masked
- Chronic
- Exaggerated
- Disenfranchised - Considerations in grieving therapy
- Experiences and risk factors in bereavement
The Grieving Process
- Stages of grieving (Kübler-Ross 1969)
- Grieving theories
- Worden 1982
- Kavanaugh 1992
Example Candidate Response Booklet
Example Candidate Response (ECR) Booklets are a source of crucial information for Centres and Candidates as they use real candidate responses. We ask Senior Examiners to comment on five or more responses in terms of why the mark was awarded with commentary about how to improve the answer (if necessary).
