Counselling Children and Young People (4-18 years)

About This Course

The Bangor University Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Counselling Young People and Children is a rigorous, professional diploma for counsellors and psychotherapists who wish to extend their practice into this specialist area. Aimed at therapeutic work with children and young people, it is professionally aligned to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Competencies for Working with Children and Young People (4-18yrs).

This Counselling Children and Young People (4-18 years) post qualifying Diploma will prepare you to work therapeutically with children and young people aged 4-18 years. The course provides practical training in counselling skills for working with children alongside theoretical guidance on counselling concepts specific to young people.

You will learn how to work in a person-centred way from the Humanistic perspective, but you may also draw on other therapeutic methods (such as cognitive and behavioural) to adopt an integrative approach to working with children and young people.

Alongside this practical training, you will gain an understanding of child development and an insight into the world of the young person from a social, psychological, and educational perspective.

Alongside this theoretical education and skills practice, you will complete an assessed placement of 100 hours of supervised counselling with children and young people. This placement may be in a school, charitable organisation, or any other therapeutic setting for young people. This assessed placement and academic training will be aligned to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Competencies for Working with Children and Young People (4-18yrs).

This Counselling Children and Young People (4-18 years) course is delivered in a flexible way to make it fully accessible to all. Weekly classes will run online (videocall) one evening a week for 24 weeks. Resources (including recorded lectures) will be available to access on-demand each week. Regular weekly drop-ins will also be available to support you in your assessments.

This comprehensive training package will be delivered by our team of academic staff from across the College of Human Sciences, drawing on expertise from our School of Human and Behavioural Sciences (including Psychology and Counselling) and the School of Educational Sciences (including Childhood Studies).

While it is not a condition of admission onto the course, it is strongly recommended that applicants have a placement and supervisor established prior to the start date of the course.

Why choose Bangor University for this course? 

•  A rigorous and professional PGDip aligned to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Competencies for Working with Children and Young People
• You will complete an assessed placement of 100 hours of supervised counselling with children and young people which is aligned to the BACP Competencies for Working with Children and Young People of 14-18 years old.
• This is course is delivered in a flexible way with online classes one evening a week and regular weekly drop-ins.