Welcome to the Counseling Tutor Podcast.

The must listen to podcast for students of counseling and psychotherapy.

Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly.

Hello and welcome to this special edition of the counselling tutor podcast.

I'm Rory and my co-presenter Ken is taking a well-earned break over the UK half-term academic holiday.

However, I'm joined by Heather Price, senior counselling professional at CPCAB, who is bringing us some breaking news.

So welcome, Heather.

Thank you. Thank you, Rory. Yeah, really exciting news that we're very pleased to let everybody know that we have at last launched our new working with children,

counselling children and young people, level five qualification.

It's been in the making for the last two or three years, and at last, we've got it out there.

Oh, that's just so exciting. And, you know, both, you and myself have both taught.

And one of the things that comes up through the years is that we get a lot of people wanting to work with children and they want to do it during first trainings.

Why is it important that someone who's thinking of working with children and adolescents have specific training?

Well, we think it needs time to develop that probably the best way to approach is for students to have a good grounding in a counselling qualification first and then to think about how they might want to specialise.

So it fits very well with our other level fives like the CBT.

So people have done their level four. They want to specialize. They might want to work with

children and young people because that's where they've had an interest. They might have done a bit of

work with children and young people on their level four and then wanted to develop that.

And it's very important that they get a qualification because working with children and young

people is quite specialised and can be quite tricky, thinking of things like confidentiality, consent, all those sorts of areas,

which are a little bit different perhaps than the usual counselling training,

and people do need to have that knowledge, those skills and that specialist training.

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