Relationship and Communication Counselling
Relationship & Communication Counselling - BPS208
Creating a constructive communication style is essential to developing and maintaining healthy relationships!
For many individuals, the desire to connect with others in a meaningful, enjoyable or beneficial relationship is a natural basic drive, but for various reasons many find it elusive.
We all have what it takes to develop interesting, productive and highly beneficial relationships with others through the way we communicate. All it takes is learning the skills and developing the tools that will help us get there!
Whether you have experienced previous hurts or rejections, or been raised in an uncaring or hostile environment which has produced fear or rejection or caused you to anticipate hurt, you can let go of unuseful defense mechanisms and relate in a mature and productive way again.
Relationship and Communications counsellors can assist people to unlock the keys to successful relationships and enjoy their lives again.
Course Outline:
COURSE AIMS
To develop an understanding of the role that communication plays in establishing, building, maintaining and ending relationships.
Duration: 100 Hours (you study at your own pace).
COURSE STRUCTURE
The course is divided into six lessons as follows:
1. Communication in emerging relationships
2. Self-awareness & communication goals
3. Communication patterns in relationships
4. Influences on relating behaviour
5. Communication techniques and skills
6. Maintaining relationships
WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE
Determine ways in which we consciously communicate in a relationship, and ways in which we unconsciously communicate.
Examine the thinking, behaviour, triangle and its role in establishing wholistic communications.
Determine different negative messages that can damage relationships, and different positive messages that can nurture them.
Define effective and inefective communication.
Determine attitudes or expectations (thoughts and beliefs) that can result in destructive communication, and describe one likely negative outcome for each.
Identify common needs and goals people wish to satisfy through relationships.
Identify cultural or social influences that affect individual and family attitudes to happiness, self-expression, and relationships.
Explain psychological theories and terms such as attribution theory, implicit personality theory, Gestalt impression formation, inference processes, stereotyping.
List benefits and disadvantages of ‘self-disclosure’ and ‘self-disguise or concealment’ (lying)
Discuss the role that judgment and other roadblocks plays in preventing a person from understanding and/or respecting another person’s point of view and feelings.
Consider the ‘stages of a relationship’ models.
Reflect on the languages of love and how praise and gifts can build a relationship.
Discuss strategies and techniques for replacing negative communication patterns in relationships with positive patterns.
To learn more or to enrol, click here!
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