Professional development course on language mediation in counselling: conducting sessions with interpreters with confidence – roles, process, duty of confidentiality and cost questions in three-way counselling.
Online self-study course for counselling practitioners in migration counselling, youth welfare services, clinics, women's counselling services and psychosocial centres who hold sessions with the support of language mediators – 8 modules, approx. 8 hours, at your own pace, with a confirmation of participation after working through all modules. Sources in APA 7 style, legal position as of September 2026.
The modules:
- Three-way counselling: fundamentals of the triadic conversation setting
- Roles and responsibility: counsellors, language mediators, clients
- Legal framework: official language, communication aids, cost questions
- Professional secrecy and confidentiality in three-way sessions
- Conducting three-way sessions: pre-session briefing, session, follow-up
- Special cases: lay interpreters, relatives, children and remote interpreting
- Distressing topics: sharing the load of trauma, violence and crises
- Ensuring quality: standards, organisation and reflection
📘 Background knowledge on the topic: Three-way counselling: sessions with interpreters
Self-study without supervision, assignments or evaluation of learning progress by instructors; the voluntary self-reflection is for your own orientation only. Your confirmation of participation becomes available once you have marked all modules as done yourself.