Guidance and Counselling Skills – Nigeria
Description
Course Overview
Guidance and Counselling Skills provides learners with essential knowledge for supporting individuals through educational, career, personal, and social challenges. The course introduces guidance services, counselling principles, professional responsibilities, helping relationships, and appropriate boundaries. Learners build a strong foundation for communicating with people who need structured support, direction, and encouragement in different settings.
The course develops active listening, questioning, empathy, feedback, assessment, goal setting, and action-planning skills. Learners explore approaches for supporting academic choices, career decisions, stress, self-esteem, confidence, conflict, relationships, and other common concerns while responding appropriately to individual needs.
Further topics include working with children, adolescents, adults, families, diverse communities, and vulnerable individuals. Learners also study safeguarding, referrals, confidentiality, informed consent, record keeping, Nigerian counselling practice standards, reflective practice, and professional self-care for responsible service delivery.
Key Topics Included
- Guidance and counselling principles, roles, and professional boundaries
- Active listening, questioning, empathy, communication, and feedback
- Client assessment, counselling goals, action plans, and session reviews
- Educational guidance, career decisions, stress, and self-esteem support
- Children, adolescents, families, cultural differences, and safeguarding
- Counselling ethics, confidentiality, referrals, records, and Nigerian standards
Entry Requirements
No previous counselling qualification or professional experience is required. Learners should have good communication and listening skills and an interest in helping and supporting others. A respectful, confidential, and non-judgmental approach is beneficial.
Who is This Course For
This course is ideal for aspiring counsellors, teachers, education professionals, youth workers, mentors, community workers, support staff, and career advisers. It can also benefit managers, caregivers, and other professionals seeking stronger Guidance and Counselling Skills for people-focused roles.
Course Curriculum
Frequently Asked Questions
The course is suitable for beginners and professionals who want to develop skills for supporting others through personal, educational, career, or social concerns. No previous counselling qualification or experience is required to enrol.
You will develop skills in active listening, effective questioning, empathy, communication, feedback, client needs assessment, goal setting, and action planning. You will also learn about safeguarding, referrals, confidentiality, informed consent, and maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
Yes. Guidance and Counselling Skills can complement roles in education, counselling support, youth services, community work, mentoring, career guidance, social support, and other people-focused fields. The course can also provide a foundation for learners considering further counselling education or specialised training.
Yes. Learners who successfully complete the course will receive a certificate of completion. This can demonstrate your commitment to developing knowledge and skills in guidance and counselling.
The course covers counselling principles, communication, helping relationships, client assessment, goal setting, educational guidance, career guidance, stress, confidence, and relationship challenges. It also addresses diverse client groups, safeguarding, referrals, ethics, confidentiality, Nigerian counselling practice standards, and self-care.