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Skills in Counselling [1]

Paper Code: 
PSY 312
Credits: 
03
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course familiarizes the students with nature and process of counselling. Its major theories and techniques and exposes them to the different fields of application of Counselling.

9.00
Unit I: 
Counselling :

The Art and Scheme of Helping -  Meaning, Purpose and Goals of Counselling;  Professional Issues, Ethics, Education and Training of the Counsellor

9.00
Unit II: 
Theories and Techniques of Counselling :

: Assessment and Case Formulation; Structuring Work with Client; Psychodynamic Approach – Freudian;  Humanistic Approach - Client-centered. Cognitive Approach : Rational Emotive, Transactional Analysis

9.00
Unit III: 
Skills to Facilitate Communication in Psychotherapy and Counselling :

Attending Skills, Non-verbal Communication; Listening skills; Questions to Encourage Communication

9.00
Unit IV: 
Response Types :

Verbal Communication and Client Disclosure – Encouraging Phrases, Restatements and Paraphrases, Reflections, Interfacing Response Type, Summarization

Moving Beyond Simple Communication : The Process of Empathy

9.00
Unit V: 
Skills For Cognitive Awareness :

Imparting Information, Pointing Out Patterns, Asking Clarification Questions, Confrontation, Here-and-Now cognitive processing And Interpretation

Essential Readings: 
  • Brems, C. (2000). Basic Skills of Psychotherapy and Counseling. Canada: Nelson Thomson Learning.
  • Feltham, C. & Horton, I. (2006): The SAGE handbook of counselling and psychoyherapy(2nd Ed). New Delhi: SAGE publications
  • Gladding, S. T. (2014). Counselling: A comprehensive Profession (7th Ed). India: Dorling Kinsesley.
  • Rao, S. N. & Sahajpal, P. (2013). Counselling and Guidance (3rd Ed.). New Delhi: Mc Graw Hills.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020 [2]

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