Children and Teenage Counseling

Certificate, Online/Distance Learning
Admission to the program will start in 2025

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Program Goals

Developing practical skills and a theoretical framework for counseling children and adolescents and organizing various forms of church-based activities.

This program will be beneficial to

  • Pastors
  • Children's and teenage ministry leaders
  • Social workers
  • Those who want to serve in the field of children and adolescents counseling

Admission Requirements

  • Belonging to a local church
  • Complete secondary education certificate
  • Age: 22 years+

Program Details

  • Format: Online/Distance Mode
  • Graduate Certificate
  • Duration: 2 years
  • Schedule: 1st year - 4 sessions (2 weeks each) per year; 2nd year - 3 sessions (2 weeks each) per year

Tuition Cost

  • Tuition - 16 400 UAH/year
  • Accommodation and Meals - on request
  • Accommodation - 4 840 UAH/year
  • Meals - UAH 7,200 per year
  • The annual fee can be paid in parts, separately for each session

Результати навчання

Enhanced Character

  • Spiritual, personal growth and personal responsibility
  • Emotional stability and a critical self-awareness
  • Empathy

Broadened Knowledge

  • Understanding the specifics of counseling children and adolescents
  • Mastering the principles of organizing various activities and events for children and adolescents

Refined Skills

  • Developing practical skills in counseling children and adolescents
  • Organizing various forms of activity on behalf of churches

Apply Now

There are 4 Steps to Take

01

Please Fill Out an Online Registration Form

02

Please Fill Out an Online Registration Form

Get a Recommendation Letter. There are 2 Recommendation Letters needed, one from your church pastor and one from your ministry leader

03

Take an Online Bible Test

04

Take an Interview with an Admission Committee

Curriculum Intro

  • Geropsychology

    The course presents a holistic view on personality from the position of one's age and introduces the main developmental problems and attempts to solve them; sensitive periods of personality development at different stages of individual development; peculiarities of the course of mental processes in the emotional, volitional, social and motivational spheres of personality.

  • Cinema Therapy

    Film therapy is a system of methods that helps people heal spiritually and mentally, and acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities by working with their reactions before, during and after watching movies, cartoons, shows, clips and any other audiovisual video.

  • Children and Teenage Clubs Project

    A workshop designed to develop practical skills in creating projects for development of children and teenage clubs. As a result, each student will understand the algorithm for drafting such projects and be able to apply it in practice.

  • Skills and Techniques of Psychological Counseling

    The course is aimed to introduce students to modern approaches of psychological counseling practice; develop practical skills; form moral and ethical norms and responsibility; understand professional identity and develop professional competence. The goal is to equip students with the basic technologies of psychological counseling by revealing the specifics of working with different categories of clients and their needs.

  • Day and Offsite Camps Project

    The seminar is dedicated to building practical skills in developing projects for organizing day and offsite camps. As a result, each student will understand the algorithm for creating such projects and be able to apply it in practice.

  • Psychological Counseling and Psychological Correction for Children and Adolescents

    Teaching objectives: to develop student's professional knowledge and skills in the field of psychotherapy for children and adolescents, to promote a holistic and deeper understanding of the essence of different approaches to Psychological Correction for children and adolescents, to master the basic requirements for the psychotherapeutic process.

  • Project: School

    The workshop focused on teaching practical skills in organizing and developing projects for the alternative schools. This will help each student to understand the algorithm for drawing up such projects and be able to apply it in practice.

  • Counseling Children with Special Needs/With Disabilities and Psychology of Somatic Symptom Disorder

    The course emphasizes both theoretical and practical training, equipping students to address contemporary challenges encountered while working with individuals with mental and physical disabilities.

  • Child Pathopsychology

    The course provides students with theoretical knowledge of the main forms of mental disorders; the emergence, symptoms and patterns of mental illness; patterns of change and recovery of mental activity of persons with various pathological conditions and developmental anomalies; provides an opportunity to master the techniques and methods of diagnosis, prevention and treatment for people with mental illness, as well as provides a theoretical basis for understanding cases of pathology of mental functions and forming practical skills how to use psychological tools.

  • Online Meetings Projects

    The workshop is aimed at developing practical skills in creating projects for organizing online meetings with children and teenagers. As a result, each student will understand the algorithm for preparing such projects and be able to apply it in practice.

  • Psychological counseling of children and teenagers with addictions

    Teaching objectives: to form students‘ professional knowledge and skills in the field of children and teenagers’ psychotherapy, to promote holistic and deeper understanding of the essence of different approaches in psycho correction for children and teenagers, to master the basic requirements for conducting the psychotherapeutic process.

  • Art therapy Fundamentals / Art Therapy Training

    This practically oriented course helps to master the techniques and methods of conducting a qualified art therapy session with a client, and to develop the ability to apply art techniques in group and individual psychological work. In teaching the discipline, we actively use art therapy techniques, which are explained to students in class.

  • Interactive Centers and/or Day Centre Project

    The workshop is designed to develop practical skills in organizing interactive and/or day-center projects. As a result, each student will understand the algorithm for creating such projects and be able to apply it in practice.

  • Fundamentals of Psychosomatics and Children Psychological Health

    The course introduces students to the concept and basic criteria of psychological health and the relationship between the human body and psychic, as well as the causes of psychosomatic disorders and diseases. Students also learn the basic principles of diagnosing and providing psychological assistance in working with people.

  • Child counseling: Working with Parents

    This course will help you recognize the importance of working with parents in counseling children and teenagers. Students will learn how to meet with parents and give them feedback on their child's sessions without violating the rules of the code of ethics.

  • Children and Teenagers Fear and Phobias

    This discipline examines the nature of fear and phobias, the specifics of working with those, the importance of caring for children and teenagers with this condition, and the ways to make parents their allies and supporters to help their child.

  • Theatre Project

    A workshop designed to develop practical skills in creating theater projects for children and teenagers. As a result, each student will understand the algorithm for creating this kind of project and be able to apply it in practice.

  • Counseling Children and Teenagers with Sexual Behavioral Disorders

    The course is aimed to introduce students to the patterns of psychosexual development of children and teenagers and its main stages; to improve students' sexual culture and competence; to form their readiness and ability to provide qualified professional assistance to children and teenagers.

  • Counseling children and Teenagers Suffered from Abuse

    The course is designed to introduce students to the specifics of accompanying and counseling children and teenagers who have suffered from abuse.

  • Projects Financial Component Workshop

    A workshop designed to develop practical skills in project development. As a result, each student will understand the algorithm for drafting projects and its budgets in practice.

Contact Us

Program Director

Svitlana Sichkar

svitlana.sichkar@uets.net

Admissions

info@uets.net
Kyiv, Pushcha-Vodytsia, 57 Kvitky Tsysyk St., UETS Academic Building, Floor 1.

Information

+380 95 315 84 42
0800331252

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