Is there a difference between a Counselling Psychologist and a Counsellor?

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While there are overlaps between counselling psychology and counselling, there are important differences. These can make a difference for those looking to become counsellors or counselling psychologists. They also make a difference in who clients choose to see, depending on issues they need to deal with.

Counsellors tend to deal with the immediate emotional and mental concerns of their clients. These can be anything from:

Work stress and anxiety
A strained personal or professional relationship
The loss of a loved one
Losing a job
Difficulties going through a break-up

Counsellors work with the client to create tools to help them deal with their current problems, or contributing habits. This is typically a short-term process and can be done across half a dozen session over the span of 6 months or so.

A counselling psychologist deals with similar issues, but they utilise a background in psychology to understand people’s behaviour and thought processes. Along with dealing with immediate emotional and mental concerns of clients, counselling psychologists can also deal with more serious cases such as:

Sexual assault and abuse
Domestic violence
Major life transitions

Importantly, Counselling Psychologists perform scientific enquiry and research into psychology, and human behaviour, as well as develop ways to help people improve their situation. They are also able to develop and administer psychometric tests and assessments to measure people’s interests, personality, motivation, and values.

Through their research and study, Counselling psychologists are able to establish patterns, and discover and develop various therapeutic techniques and targeted interventions to help people better cope with their concerns.

Counselling Psychology and Counselling are both focused on helping people overcome their concerns and issues to achieve mental and emotional well-being.

Join us at College of Allied Educators to learn more about the different counselling psychology courses available and what they mean for you.

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY
Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology (PGDICP) is a counselling psychology course accredited by the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC). The part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology programme focuses on developing and enhancing experiential knowledge and skills through a holistic approach. Some of the subjects covered include Counselling Children, Addiction Intervention, Crisis Intervention, and Family Therapy.

ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY
Advanced Diploma in Counselling Psychology (ADICP) trains students to apply appropriate counselling skills in different situations while understanding their underlying theories. The ADICP programme introduces students to the nature of psychology and relates it to the theories and concepts of counselling. Students move on to explore themselves in order to promote personal growth and self-awareness, acquiring the key attributes of a competent counsellor and the proper methods of applying those skills.

DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY
Diploma in Counselling Psychology (DCPSY) is a counselling course covering a range of conceptual and functional skills in counselling. It trains students to apply appropriate counselling psychology skills in different situations, and equips students with the ability to work effectively as a counsellor.

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Start your journey to teaching children with special needs!

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College of Allied Educator’s Diploma in Education (Special Needs) is a programme that provides an essential introduction to the various categories of exceptional children and educational programmes available. The course will also train you to confidently design and implement an Individualised Education Plan (IEP) to aid in specific areas such as language and communications. Read more

How do I know if it’s a learning disability?

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It’s not simple or easy to determine if a child has a learning disability. Many otherwise normal behaviour can sometimes be misidentified for being a learning disability.

Why is it so difficult to self-improve?

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If you started the new year with a new year’s resolution, chances are that many of those resolutions end up unresolved. Every year, we make a promise that this year, we’ll do things differently.

Why do I doubt myself so much?

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Self-doubt is that feeling that you aren’t good enough or you aren’t doing something right, so you end up second guessing yourself. In many cases, this can end up backfiring and sabotaging your success.

How do I find happiness in a really bad year?

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It’s true that some years are going to be really bad years. It could be due to losing your job and not being able to pick yourself up quickly enough, or you lost loved ones and had a difficult time coping, or you lost a relationship you treasured. It could even be true that all of these things happened all at once within the same year.

Including children with special needs in the holiday fun

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The holidays and new year are an exciting time usually filled with fun and laughter. It is a great time to include your special needs child in the festivities so they can enjoy themselves during this period. While the holidays are a festive period, not everyone is happy, with many people even falling into loneliness and depression.

It is important to keep this in mind, to not take it for granted that everyone will automatically enjoy themselves. This is especially true for special needs children as they tend to be quite sensitive to changing routines and rapidly changing environmental stimuli. While we might see festive lights, sounds, smells, colours, and noises, a special needs child may see this as something overwhelming. Especially the amount of people that the child may encounter may be excessive and trigger a panic.

While this period can be chaotic, it can still be made enjoyable.

Tame the unpredictable into a routine

We recommend trying to pre-empt your child in advance of the holiday. Create lists and show children in advance the fun things that are coming next week and subsequent weeks. Make the planning of these holiday activities an event that the children are a part of. There are various ways you can do this but having the child make a physical activity list with you will help pre-empt the events for them. Give them tasks in preparation of each event. The list can then be posted up somewhere accessible and be referenced every day in preparation.

If you sit down and create a calendar of events with your special needs child, they can be involved in the planning. By the time these events and activities come around, they aren’t sudden and disruptive, but expected and the child will be able to enjoy the activity rather than be stressed.

Designate specific days for certain activities, and talk through what is going to happen on those days. If you are planning to take the child shopping, you should start slowly and work your way up over several days. Jumping straight into a full holiday crowd would likely be too much for the child to handle, so plan accordingly and ensure your activities and plans can account for the crowd that they can comfortably accept.

If you are planning on decorating a tree, plan it with the child in advance, and have all the materials ready. Remember that holiday activities, although fun, can also be stressful and trigger arguments, so the better you plan, the more relaxed and ready you can be to carry out your decoration.

If you plan to have people over, talk to the child about this so they know who is coming and what to expect on certain days.

As the calendar of events come around, mark them off with your child so you both know what to expect. In this way, you can create a routine that makes the chaos of the holidays more predictable and manageable for your child.

College of Allied Educators offers our Diploma in Education (Special Needs), that provides an essential introduction to the various categories of exceptional children and educational programmes available. The course will also train you to confidently design and implement an Individualised Education Plan or IEP to aid in specific areas such as language and communications.

This is a 6-month, part-time programme that will allow you to continue onto the Advanced Diploma in Special Education, a 12-month course that trains educators and parents in the identification, diagnosis and treatment of these needs and the basic principles and practices of effective teaching and learning. The programme is highly practice-oriented to ensure that what you learn in class can be applied to children with special needs under your charge.

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Is loneliness the same as being alone?

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Being alone and being lonely are not the same things, even though many people mistaken it to be the same. Being alone can lead to loneliness.

What does a Master of Arts in Psychotherapy mean for you?

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You have spent years studying, training, and working to help people who have trouble overcoming life’s challenges. These challenges may be social, emotional, or mental; and you have chosen to help these people learn how to deal with obstacles they wouldn’t otherwise be able to deal with themselves. This requires a great deal of discipline, study, and knowledge on your part, and in response College of Allied Educators offers the Master of Arts in Psychotherapy, providing in-depth training and therapeutic approaches that professional psychotherapists like you will require.

Is it easy to identify learning difficulties?

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As parents and educators, we often do our homework on the various disabilities of special needs students. With the best of intentions, we sometimes make personal assessments of our children and students that look correct, but in some circumstances, these impromptu assessments end up incorrect a great deal of time.