Institute of Counselling Reviews

I would recommend to anyone who has contact with the bereaved.

Lots of content and provided plenty of material to work with.

Very easy to follow-only criticism is that proof reading is needed & a lot of web addresses are no longer available, so updating required.

I think I said this last time - the course text was basically good but, in my opinion, needs re-editing to improve consistency and remove repetitions and Increase clarity.

For anyone thinking study with IOC please do not hesitate. I have already enrolled for two courses with one of them been Diploma in Clinical and Pastoral Counselling and I am really happy with the content.

I found the pdf files difficult to follow and therefore ordered the paper files. I think the course would benefit from the materials being more interactive. For example, you watch a mentoring/coaching interaction video rather than read a transcript. This also helps to consider non-verbal communication and use of self commonly discussed in the modules.

i live and work in an area where it is quite difficult to access to public libraries and good resources including books therefore i believe more of material including notes should be offered

In depth with references for further reading

Materials are complete, simple and to the point. One link was out of date but I notified my tutor about it.

I thought it was a great cross section. I think in this day and age there was too much on Christian focused pastoral care. I believe that pastoral care is important but it needs to show more diversity.