Institute of Counselling reviews

4.6 (483 reviews)
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Personal tutor support is the clearest strength attendees identify: tutors are approachable, patient and responsive, offering clear, constructive feedback that builds confidence. They find the distance-learning courses well structured, accessible and flexible around work, with clear explanations, exercises, case studies and assignments that connect theory to practice and strengthen their work with clients. Materials are informative and useful for revisiting learning, while the overall experience is encouraging and engaging. Some attendees find the PDFs, instructions and links need updating or clearer presentation.

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plenty to read and good advice on extra references and resources

Sarah S · 30 Oct 2017
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Interesting and relevant

Dave O · 23 Oct 2017
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Excellent course materials

Zoe B · 21 Oct 2017
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Covered a wide range of topics relevant to mentoring. I found the practical exercises a useful way of recapping on the learning.

Ruth H · 18 Oct 2017
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Easy accessible and easy to follow.Comprehensive material

Sebastian J · 18 Oct 2017
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Brilliant. I have limited access to a Library, but found all course material very useful.

Prunella Y · 18 Oct 2017
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The course content and materials were very good overall. However, I would like to make a few comments: 1.Study materials: The pdf files that materials come in are protected, which means that nothing can be either copied for printing or highlighted for studying electronically. This meant I had to print out all materials to make highlight and notes. Further, I like to copy and paste assignment tasks for tutor's and my own reference in the Portfolio, however, I found I had to take screenshots of that instead or type it all up myself. To conclude, the protected document mode was highly frustrating to me. 2.Study materials: The study materials come in parts, rather than in one large document. This means that when you want to look up something specific and you cannot remember where you read it, you need to search in a number of different documents, instead of one. This, combined with inability to highlight important concepts or attach notes (see point 1 above about protected document mode), makes it doubly difficult and frustrating. 3.TMA: I felt that TMA guidelines could have been more specific and mapped out on to the marking criteria more clearly. This generated some anxiety in me as I was worried I may not have covered everything, and that what I covered may not score many points as per marking criteria. 4.TMA: Finally, it would be helpful to have word count guidance for each section of TMA (at the moment, only the overall and the word count for the transcript part is provided).

andrea z · 06 Oct 2017
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As previously mentioned I feel it was well designed, easy to follow and to relate to with client work. I found one part a little confusing which explained the downward arrow technique and the difference between this and the DRDT did not seem clear. However this was cleared up by my tutor.

Neill H · 05 Oct 2017
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