Special Care Counselling
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Overview
Build a meaningful career from your passion as a special care counsellor providing professional and emotional support. The DCS in Special Care Counselling prepares you for appropriate interventions and teaches you to work with a range of professionals through hands-on workshops and professional internships.
About the Program
Join LaSalle College Montréal's Special Care Counselling program and acquire the tools needed to carry out appropriate interventions in terms of adaptation, education, and rehabilitation through collaboration with professionals like teachers, psychologists, and occupational therapists.
Get hands-on experience in the workplace through practical workshops, professional internships, and pre-graduation projects.
Opportunities
Our unique approach incorporates real-world experience with classroom learning for a hands-on, practical education.
- Collaborate with active industry professionals;
- Sharpen skills in a practical setting;
- Observe real interaction between professionals and children at our very own daycare centre.
Accelerate your career!
Admissions Criteria
Exceptions to these admission criteria may be applied.
Every application is reviewed by the College.
To be eligible for acceptance into this program, applicants are generally required to meet one of the following criteria:
Secondary School Diploma (DES).
Diploma of Vocational Studies (DVS) with completion of:
• Language of Instruction from Secondary V,
• Second Language from Secondary V,
• Mathematics from Secondary IV.
Equivalent education or an instruction deemed sufficient.
List of Courses
Diploma of College Studies (DCS) programs consist of:
- General education courses common to all programs,
- General education courses specific to the program,
- Complementary general education courses.
Concentration Courses
- Special Care Counseling Profession (45 h)
- Intervention Process 1 : Observation (45 h)
- Health and Professional Integrity (45 h)
- Child Psychology in Special Care Counseling (45 h)
- Adaptation Process (45 h)
- Preparation for Internships (45 h)
- Communication Skills in Special Care Counseling (45 h)
- Intervention Process 2 : Introduction to the Helping Relationship (45 h)
- Adolescence Psychology in Special Care Counseling (45 h)
- Planning and Leading Activities 1 (60 h)
- Learning Challenges (60 h)
- Intercultural Approach : Initiation (45 h)
- Youth with Adaptation Difficulties (45 h)
- Intervention Process 3 : Approaches and Techniques in Special Care Counseling (60 h)
- Adult Psychology in Special Sare Counseling (45 h)
- Planning and Leading Activities 2 (45 h)
- Internship 1 : Initiation to Intervention (180 h)
- Helping Skills in a Crisis Context (45 h)
- Addictions (45 h)
- Intervention Process 4 : Intervention Plan (45 h)
- Internship 2 : Intervention Experimentation (210 h)
- Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorder (60 h)
- Psychopathologies (45 h)
- Aging Process (45 h)
- Physical and Neurological Disabilities (45 h)
- Violence and Victimology (45 h)
- Interventions for Families (45 h)
- Intercultural Approach : Intervention (45 h)
- Contemporary Ethical and Political Issues (45 h)
- Internship 3 : Intervention Process (465 h)
* The College reserves the right to substitute certain courses.
General Education Courses
College-level institutions emphasize general education that focuses on core cultural knowledge, skill development, responsible citizenship, and shared cultural heritage.
Alumni have a well-rounded skill set and general knowledge that is valued in the workplace.
- 3 Physical Education courses (90 h)
- 3 Philosophy courses (150 h)
- 4 Language and Literature courses (240 h)
- 2 Second Language courses (90 h)
- 2 Complementary courses (90 h)
Tuition & Aid
LaSalle College programs qualify for the Loans and Bursaries Programs offered by the ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur du Québec, and for several other types of loans and bursaries.
