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Career Exploration & Development Skills Certificate

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The Career Exploration & Development Skills Certificate is designed to allow students to both explore their own career development as well as become familiar with current career counselling research, concepts, and employment facilitation skills. Students will be trained to a level of competence enabling them to provide a variety of approaches to career exploration and employment counselling applicable across different community settings. It is available in both on-campus and distance education formats. Courses are in-depth with 60 hours of classroom time in each which is about double the time in similar university courses. This extra time allows for a high level of hands on skill practice. Courses are taught by experienced counsellors who have specialized knowledge in this area. The program exposes students to a wide range of contemporary models of career exploration and counselling techniques applicable to a variety of populations and cultural groups. In addition, earning the Career Exploration & Development Skills Certificate also allows students to apply credits earned in this certificate toward other VCCT diplomas should students want to further their counselling education and skills.

  • Introduction to Career Counselling
  • Clinical Counselling Skills I
  • Listening, Asserting & Resolving Conflict
  • Advanced Counselling Skills
  • Case Study Approaches to Career Counselling
  • Integrative Counselling Skills

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UBC Approved Prerequisites at VCCT.

Good news for any students who are thinking of undertaking further education and are interested in the Counselling Psychology MEd or MA Program at UBC.

The following VCCT courses have been approved as equivalent to the following prerequisites for the CNPS MA Program:

UBC Prerequisites
VCCT Equivalent Prerequisites
CNPS 362 (Basic Interviewing Skills)
= CCS 600 (Clinical Counselling Skills)
CNPS 363 (Career Counselling)
= CCO 600 (Introduction to Career Counselling)
CNPS 365 (Theories of Counselling)
= MOD 600 (Models of Counselling)
or CSM 600 (Case Study Approaches to Models of Counselling)
Abnormal or Behavioural Disorders
= IPP 600 (Introduction to Psychopathology)

This means that students at VCCT who have undertaken the above courses at VCCT will be eligible to apply to the UBC masters programs if they fulfill the other admission criteria specified by UBC.

VCCT & Simon Fraser University Transfer Credits

SFU Prerequisites
VCCT Equivalent Prerequisites
EDUC 323
MOD 600 Models of Counselling
CSM 600 Case Study Approaches to Models of Counselling
EDUC 423
CCS 600 Clinical Counselling Skills
BSC 600 Basic Counselling Skills
Developmental Psychology
PSD 600 Psychosocial Development
Other Relevant Course Requirement
CCO 600 Introduction to Career Counselling
IPP 600 Introduction to Psychopathology

New Transfer Credits to Trinity Western University (TWU).

Students who have completed the VCCT diploma program will receive 36 credits towards their BA in Psychology at Trinity Western University.

The Breakdown is as follows (this can be explained to students who require further information):

VCCT & Trinity Western University Transfer Credits
For PSYC Majors:
30 Lower Level PSYC credit; PSYC 331 (3); and PYSC 340 (3). 36 Credits total.
Students still need to complete the required psychology courses for a psychology major as listed in the calendar.

New college connection - Rocky Mountain College (RMC).

Students who have completed the VCCT Diploma of Professional Counselling will receive credits for the following Rocky Mountain College programs:

Rocky Mountain College Credits
BA in Human Services in Counselling:
24 – 33 credits
BA in Human Services in Child & Youth Care:
15 – 27 credits
Diploma in Counselling – Counselling Focus:
12 – 21 credits
Diploma in Counselling – Child & Youth Care Focus:
9 – 15 credits