BA (Hons) Psychology Studies with Counselling Studies

What Psychology Studies with Counselling Studies involves

The BA (Hons) Psychology Studies with Counselling Studies programme helps you understand how counselling fits within the overall discipline of psychology.  So, as well as finding out more about behaviour and mental processes, you’ll learn about approaches to theoretical aspects of counselling.

Applying a deeper understanding of people

Counselling is an exciting branch of psychology that helps people by enabling choice or change, or reducing their confusion.  The knowledge you’ll gain studying counselling will increase your interpersonal abilities and self-awareness – vital skills in many fields. 

What’s different about studying with ICS?

As well as helping you to understand the theoretical and academic aspects of Psychology and Counselling, this course focuses on real-world issues from the very start – and all the course materials are designed by experts in Psychology and Counselling.  This is a degree that will prepare you for a wide range of careers. 

You don’t need entry qualifications to start a module.   And because your degree is built up by individual modules, you could achieve your goal step by step – whether you want to do it quickly or take your time.  And that’s not all:

• There are no set term times and no classes to attend
• There’s a choice of flexible, affordable ways to pay
• Help and guidance from your mentor and ICS student advisers
• Academic support from your tutor
• Access to the ICS Online Student Community for support and networking

Is this the right degree for you?

If you can answer yes to the questions below, then you’ll find that studying for a Psychology Studies with Counselling Studies degree could be the right move for your career:

• Are you intrigued by the causes of people’s behaviour as well as the factors that influence it?
• Would you like to improve your interpersonal skills and self-awareness?
• Do you want to design and carry out studies exploring the factors influencing behaviour?
• Are you interested in discovering how psychologists and counsellors help people?
• Would you like valuable knowledge and skills that can be used in a wide range of careers?

Start your Psychology Studies with Counselling Studies Degree today - enrol on the first 2 modules here!

Where could a Psychology Studies with Counselling Studies degree take your career?

Many graduates find success in careers which aren’t psychology-related, but where their training is useful. Career opportunities include jobs within social welfare, sport and leisure or education.  But the qualification can also open doors to areas such as advertising, media and market research.

Alternatively, if you want to pursue a professional qualification in Psychology or Counselling, this course will provide an excellent introduction to further study in these fascinating areas.  It’s also very useful if you want to train as a teacher.

What this course can do for you

BA (Hons) Psychology Studies with Counselling Studies is designed to open up a wide range of options for you, giving you more choice and control over your future career.  What you learn on this course will allow you more freedom to decide what’s right for you:

• Choose a successful and useful career in a wide variety of areas
• Move on to further study
• Use your skills in other areas

How this course will build your skills

As with any degree, your course will do more than increase your understanding of psychology and counselling issues.   As well as building your specific skills and knowledge, you’ll find it helps in broader areas too – for example, improving your thinking and communication abilities.

Gain specialist knowledge

• Understand the core areas of psychology
• Learn about specific applications, such as clinical psychology
• Discover the nature and scope of Counselling Psychology
• Become familiar with the basic principles and processes of communicating

Improve your thinking skills

• Examine the inter-relationships of psychology and other relevant disciplines, including counselling psychology
• Increase your sensitivity towards the interplay between society, culture, and experience
• Know how to analyse the processes underpinning counselling skills

Learn specific psychology and counselling skills

• Be able  to design and conduct research
• Discover the psychological mechanisms involved in unhelpful behaviours
• Set goals for a proposed process of counselling
• Gain a deeper awareness of ethical issues and principles in research

Enhance your general life and work skills

• Improve your oral and written communication abilities
• Increase your computer literacy, including word-processing, e-communication, database and internet searching skills
• Improve your planning and time-management
• Develop flexible and reflective thinking
• Recognise the value of, and demonstrate a degree of, self-awareness
• Improve your numeracy and statistical competence

For more information or to enrol call 0800 096 8436