Unit 04: Counselling skills and diversity

1. Understand the meaning of discrimination

• 1.1. Explain ways in which people experience discrimination
• 1.2. Evaluate own experiences or observations of possible discrimination

2. Understand issues of diversity

• 2.1. Assess how diversity impacts on the counselling relationship
• 2.2. Analyse examples from own experience where they have encountered issues of difference/diversity
• 2.3. Evaluate how awareness of diversity has impacted on own development and application of counselling skills

3. Understand power issues within the counselling process

• 3.1. Explain the role differences between counsellor and client
• 3.2. Explain the inherent power differences and perceptions of power, based on these role differences