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Calgary Counselling Centre and Bow Valley College are partnering to offer a language and practice enhancement program for internationally trained counselling professionals. This course will help participants integrate into the counselling profession and achieve professional accreditation. Program will include 250 hours of classroom learning and 200 hours of related work experience.
This course is FREE

Program Rationale

Over the last ten years the demand for counselling in languages other than English has grown. Counselling agencies must respond to this need. At Calgary Counselling Centre we are committed to diversifying our counselling staff and providing education and training opportunities to internationally trained counsellors. We recognize that internationally trained counsellors bring rich and unique experience to organizations like ours; however, they often encounter challenges integrating into a Canadian counselling agency both with language and culture. This program is designed to help people overcome these challenges and integrate into the counselling profession within Canada.

Areas covered in this program include:
  • Improve communication with clients in a counselling setting e.g. listening/speaking skills, specialized vocabulary and terminology development
  • Pronunciation
  • Essential Skills, particularly document use, record keeping, management of client files
  • Canadian Counselling Culture
  • Canadian Counselling ethics and legislation guidelines
  • Assistance with acquiring professional accreditation
  • Supervised counselling work experience.

If you know of someone who would benefit from this program and would like more information, please contact:
Lynda Snyder, MA, MSW, RSW, RMFT
Education and Training Program Leader
Calgary Counselling Centre
Phone: 265-4980 Voicemail #249

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Please follow these steps:
  1. Contact Lynda Snyder at 265-4980 for program information and to learn about the application process.
  2. Prepare the following documents:
    • Academic credentials
    • Information verifying your immigration status
    • Results of your Canadian Language Benchmarks assessment. If you have not had this assessment, Lynda Snyder will provide you with information about how you can have the assessment done.
    • Resume or Curriculum Vitae
  3. Complete the application form and if necessary the ILVARC Referral form.
  4. Once the application form and ILVARC assessment are complete, formally register for the program at Bow Valley College (Room 400, Rocky Mountain Plaza, 615 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary, Alberta).
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Communication with Clients in a Counselling Setting

(100 hours)
This course focuses on improving your listening and speaking skills, non-verbal language and cues, specialized vocabulary and terminology development, and useful communication strategies for effective communication with clients in a counselling setting.

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Pronunciation Enhancement

(30 hours)
This course provides you with the opportunity to practise English pronunciation and teaches you to speak with correct word/sentence stress and intonation. It also focuses on the skills necessary for fluency.
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Essential Skills for Counsellors

(30 hours)
This course will teach you the essential skills in document use, reading text and writing to enable you to manage client files, complete forms and write reports according to the standards of the Canadian counselling workplace.
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Canadian Counselling Culture

(30 hours)
This course will raise awareness of the variations in therapy process between Canadian and other national settings, and it will assist you in understanding relationship definitions in Canadian practice. You will learn strategies for the development of effective therapeutic relationship development in the Canadian context and discuss different cultural views on working with diversity e.g. sexual orientation and attitudes to personal choice issues such as abortion, adoption, divorce and separation.
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Introduction to Legislation and Ethical Issues for Counsellors

(30 hours)
This course will provide an introduction to the Justice system in Canada with specific reference to Calgary and to the legislation that impacts counselling work. Legal language will be addressed. An "Ethical Decision making Model" that can guide counsellors in their practice will be presented.
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Preparation for Professional Accreditation

(30 hours)
Requirements and process for accreditation for the various professional groups will be discussed. Strategies and skills for obtaining this accreditation will be presented and practiced.
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Work Experience

The work experience component of this program is provided by the counselling agencies in the city and is ongoing throughout the duration of the program. Students should receive approximately 200 hours of supervised work experience during this phase.
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When:
Program will begin February 14, 2005, with an orientation session from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Where:
Bow Valley College
Rocky Mountain Plaza
615 Macleod Trail SE
Calgary, Alberta
Room location will be confirmed at time of registration.

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