Edexcel Level 3 BTEC Nationals in Health and Social Care

UNIT 24: INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELLING SKILLS FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CAREEssential guidance for tutorsDeliveryThis unit should provide learners with opportunities to practise counselling skillsusing the Egan model. Delivery should start with stage 1 skills and progress onto theskills of stage 2, in which a potential client is helped to see themselves and theirsituation from a new perspective and to focus on what changes can be made to bemore effective.At stage 3, the potential client is helped to consider possible ways to act, to look atcosts and consequences, to plan action, implement it and evaluate.Learners should have an awareness of the application of the skills required by moderntechnology, such as online, phone lines, mini-com, type talk.Learners must have a commitment to and demonstrate equal opportunities, nondiscriminatorypractice and cross-cultural counselling.AssessmentEvidence may be in the form of role plays, video and audio tapes, with transcriptsand process notes of the sessions. When video and audio evidence is provided,learners need to be easily identifiable. Role play and simulations need to be focused,to enable learners to acquire appropriate skills and demonstrate the Three-StageModel. Tutors and learners should keep a record of the skills demonstrated as theprogramme progresses.Learners should be encouraged to develop their reflective skills and should use areflective practice log or diary. This log could be used to provide evidence in order tomeet the grading criteria. Learners will need guidance to support them in this. Theywill also need support in meeting the assessment criteria concerned with reflection,as reflecting on self-development and development of skills, and how these impacton practice, may be new skills in themselves.Links to National Occupational Standards, other BTEC units, other BTECqualifications and other relevant units and qualificationsThe knowledge and skills gained through this unit link to Unit 1: Developing EffectiveCommunication in Health and Social Care and Unit 6: Personal and ProfessionalDevelopment in Health and Social Care.324BN018467 – Specification – Edexcel Level 3 BTEC Nationals in Health and Social Care– Issue 1 – February 2007 © Edexcel Limited 2007