Starbridge Centre Online Counselling Course Lesson #1 Introduction

Starbridge Centre
Online Counselling Course
Lesson #1
Introduction

Welcome To
Starbridge Centre's
Online Counselling Course
This course has been throughout tested in the 8 successful years where it has been running as classteaching.
The course focuses and in an easy readable style on important aspects of the main areas that any
counsellor, regardless of way of working, needs to know, in order to deal with the vast and
intriguing complexity that is the human being.
We hope you can appreciate the depth and width of the teaching, and we ask, that you are alert to
the many feelings these topics is bound to evoke, because it is by the process of acknowledging
these feelings and their connections in your past present and future, that the real assimilation of the
course will happen..
Feel free to contact us by email and in the forums with feed back, questions etc.
Thank you for Studying at Starbridge Centre e-learning
We look forward to hearing from you
Ulla and Erik Sandersen

No-one can be counsellors
from theoretical knowledge alone
Obviously these topics are close to home, they are meant to describe why we are how we are, so in
order to study such a material, you need a honest attitude to yourself, and a readiness to seek help
when needed.
We ask of you that you consciously take responsibility for your own health and well-being,
and we understand your signing up for this course as a acknowledgement of that.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to use our email or forums.
If your question is of general interest, we invite you to also post it in the forum, or
alternatively, allow us to do so.
We offer face to face training and supervision both in individual sessions, and in groups at
Starbridge (groups are offered according to need and time available).
We continue to also offer the face to face certificate workshops where both teaching and training is
integrated. The link to these courses can be found on the main menu.
About this course
The course is build up as a series of related quotes from many different sources, bound together by
our own understanding of the topic at hand.
You can either read this material as a online book, and leave it there, or, if you would like a formal
recognition for your study, we give a certificate acknowledging your theoretical knowledge if you
have written and we have assessed all four essays.
It is our experience that a proper assimilation of this material will take at least 1/2 year.
A good way of studying is first to read a chapter through in its entirety. Then
go back to the beginning and read each quote, one at a time, stay with it until it makes sense, think
about it in its own right, and then move to the next quote, and think about the related quotes as a
whole.
In short, do not just read, study.
The theoretical part of the course consist of 47 topics. To help you check how much you have
assimilated, each chapter conclude with a multiple choice test.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to use our forums, both the public ones and the
specific forum for these courses. The idea is that the students will have a chance to discuss relevant
topics with each other, and that the teachers can be asked questions.

The exam consists of two aspects:
• That you have passed the individual multiple choice tests at the end of each chapter.
• Four essays, Three on 2-pages and one on 4-pages. Essays must be based on material
covered in the course, cross referenced with relevant quotes from the teaching and with
additional sources from the literature
Please note that since this is an exam in our teaching, the topics for your assignment, and the
techniques and exercises described, must be anchored in our teaching.
The essays needs to be written with cross references to the material and your personal comments to
this. You are most welcome to a to agree or disagree with us, as long as we can follow your
reasoning.
Passing these two tests ensure a good theoretical understanding of the field. Only after both
theoretical and practical training can one be fit is a practising counsellor.
How the essays can be written
not how you must do it:
1: Choose a subject related to the curriculum that you want to write about
2: Search the teaching material for clues on the topic
3: Search the literature-list.
4: Read the material
5: Brain-storm - write down in arbitrary order your ideas
6: Choose the good bits from the brain-storm, and put them into order
7: Write a draft
8: Read it
9: Leave it a day or two
10: Read it, add comments, new ideas etc.
11: Leave it a day or two
12: Read it
13: Make a new draft
14: Repeat steps 8 - 14 until you are satisfied.
15: Remember cross-referencing between course notes and your comments!
16: Don't be too critical - don't be too laid back
17: Good luck!
Please write your essay in your email format, or as word, open office or pdf format file attachments,
and submit it to us on our email: exam@starbridge.com.au
You will be emailed feedback etc. but it will also will appear in the forum on our website.
Feel free to contact us in the forums

Multiple Choice questions for Week 1
Welcome
Multiple Choice Answer 1: True / False (Cross out the wrong answer): I accept and agree that I
have understood and accepted as a condition of study at Starbridge Centre, that I consciously take
responsibility for my own health and well-being, and that we at Starbridge Centre understand your
signing up for this course as a acknowledgement of that.
Multiple Choice Answer 1: True / False (Cross out the wrong answer): Answer 2: I do not want to
take responsibility for stuff i do not know yet, so how can i click accept and agree to that
About this course
Multiple Choice Answer 1: True / False (Cross out the wrong answer): A good way of studying is
first to read a chapter through in its entirety. Then go back to the beginning and read each quote,
one at a time, stay with it until it makes sense, think about it in its own right, and then move to the
next quote, and think about the related quotes as a whole.
Multiple Choice Answer 2: True / False (Cross out the wrong answer): I am such a fast reader, that
after having read through something just one time, i know it. Response 2: Well yes, fast reading
may in fact be a good way of not being distracted, but there still is a vast distance between knowing
facts, and having thought through different scenarios where to apply this knowledge, and double
checking if you agree with the statements in these different circumstances. You have not properly
utilized this material without that type of processing.