Higher Diploma in Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE)

Course details

Central to the Higher Diploma in SPHE is the development of facilitation skills which will enable participants to work effectively in many settings including schools. The core focus on personal development supports participants to discover that when they empower themselves to be well they can support others to reach their potential to be well.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the Higher Diploma in SPHE participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate a basic knowledge of effective facilitation skills, i.e. effective listening, clarification skills, creating a safe environment;
• Design and deliver an experiential workshop;
• Demonstrate awareness of boundaries;
• Access and use the skills of assertive communication;
• Demonstrate a knowledge of underlying factors which contribute to current health problems and associated risk factors;
• Identify, own and feel their feelings;
• Distinguish between expressing feelings in a safe way and acting out those feelings;
• Identify how relationship with self impacts upon relationship with others;
• Identify how experiences encountered in formative years affect one’s process in the present day;
• Self-evaluate their process and performance;
• Access and interpret health information.

Outline

Semester 1

• Introduction to Personal Development (25 credits)
• Introduction to Health Research (5 credits)

Semester 2

• Intermediate Personal Development (25 credits)
• Health Promotion and the Determinants of Health (5 credits)

Entry Requirements

• Applicants for this programme must hold a Level 7 or an equivalent qualification (ordinarily 3 years study leading to an Ordinary Bachelors Degree or National Diploma).
• Participants will be interviewed before being offered a place on this programme and entry onto the course is subject to this interview.
• Applicants whose first language is not English must submit evidence of competency in English.