- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 2 Years
Course details
The Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Adult Guidance Counselling) is designed to serve as a training course for people working with adults in a guidance/counselling setting, providing information, advice and placement services. The course aims to work towards the development of an understanding of core concepts and ideas concerning sociology, marginalisation, exclusion and adult career development.
Entry Requirements
Primary Degree, professional diploma or equivalent with a minimum of three years experience working with adults in a developmental setting. All applicants must be seeing clients in a guidance context on a regular basis. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level. Certain programmes may have additional requirements.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
Year 1
- ADULT GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING SKILLS 1
- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN ADULT GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
- THE REFLECTIVE LEARNER AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE 1
- CASE REVIEW AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1
Year 2
- THE REFLECTIVE LEARNER AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE 2
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES IN ADULT GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
- INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRACTICE IN ADULT GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
- CASE REVIEW AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2
- ADULT GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING SKILLS 2
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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