Counselling and Communication
Course Objectives—Participants will be able to:
- Distinguish the difference between counseling, advice, and guidance.
- List 3 core counsellor qualities for building a therapeutic alliance
- List 3 ways to attend the mother
- Describe 4 components of reflective listening
- Describe the difference in role acquisition for mothers and fathers
- Identify 3 post-partum mood disorders
- Identify appropriate solutions for particular counselling issues
Course Outline: 4 hours breaks not included
- Definition of counselling vs. advice or guidance (90 min)
Description of Active listening, Non-verbal cues and the importance of confidentiality
Counsellor Qualities
- Core Conditions
- More Counsellor Qualities
Attending the mother
- Posture
- Appropriate body motion
- Eye contact
- Door Openers
- Minimal Encourages
- Questions (closed/open)
- Silences
- Reflective Listening (80 min)
- paraphrasing
- reflecting feelings
- reflecting meanings
- summative reflections
Role Acquisition
- Parenting
- Emotions
- Mother
- Father
- Marital Satisfaction
- Unhappiness (45 min)
Post Partum Mood Disorders
- The blues
- Postnatal Depression (PDD)
- Puerperal psychosis
- Perinatal/postnatal loss
- Breastfeeding and Antidepressants
- Learning Styles (14 min)
- Kinesthetic learners
- Auditory
- Visual
- Focusing
- Solutions
5. Discussion period. (10 min)
- Open discussion about communication techniques and counselling
- Answer any relevant questions
Total – 4 hours