- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
postgraduate diploma which is designed to prepare teachers and other education professionals to provide and manage a school guidance counselling service. The programme is recognized by the Irish Department of Education and Science, the National Centre for Guidance in Education and the Institute of Guidance Counsellors as a professional, international qualification in Guidance Counselling.
Entry Requirements
Applicants are normally registered teachers with an honours degree or honours postgraduate diploma in education or equivalent qualifications. Experience in areas such as pastoral care or a school care team will be an asset. Applicants may be called for interview prior to acceptance on the programme.
Please note: applications will be evaluated as they are received and offers will be made to suitable candidates until all places are filled. Early application is advisable.
Module
Year 1
- PSYCHOLOGY (DEVELOPMENTAL AND SOCIAL)
- VOCATIONAL THEORY/PRACTICE AND PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING
- SCHOOL PLACEMENT AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
- MANAGEMENT OF THE GUIDANCE COUNSELLING SERVICE AND SCHOOL BASED RESEARCH
- GROUP THEORY AND PRACTICE
- COUNSELLING THEORY AND PRACTICE
- ACCREDITATION FOR PRIOR LEARNING
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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