Skills in Counselling

Paper Code: 
PSY 412
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: 

Therapeutic skills and clinical practice : the client therapist relationship, generic skills, specific strategies and techniques, assessment and case formulation, structuring work with client.

9.00
Unit II: 

Skills to facilitate communication in psychotherapy and counselling : Attending skills, non-verbal communication, listening skills, questions to encourage communication.

9.00
Unit III: 

Response types : Verbal communication and client disclosure – Encouraging phrases, Restatements and paraphrases, reflections, interfacing response type, summarization.

9.00
Unit IV: 

Moving Beyond simple communication : the process of Empathy.

9.00
Unit V: 

Skills for cognitive awareness – Working with thoughts and cognition, basic skills and advanced interventions – confrontation here and now cognitive processing, interpretation.

Essential Readings: 
  • Culley S. (1990). Integrative Counselling Skills in Action. London Sage.
  • Thomas R.M. (1989). Counselling and Life Span Development. Thousand Oaks Sage. Patterson C.H. (1960) Theories of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Harper and Row. Wolpe J. (1973) : The Practice of Behavior Therapy : New York Paragon Press.
  • Nelson-Jones, R. (1994). Handbook of Counselling Psychology. London : Sage.
  • Rao, S.N. Counselling Psychology (1992). Tata McGraw Hill. New Delhi.
  • Frusten, J.M. Psychological Counselling in India. Mumbai McMillan.
  • Bordin E.S. Psychological Counselling, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 1968.
  • Ivey, Alen, E. (1978). Micro Counselling : Innovations interviewing Counselling, Psychotherapy and psycho education. Charles C.Themas, N.Y.
  • Mann, H. (1985). Methods of Social Investigation. Basil Blackwell, N.Y.
  • Sieman, Aron and Feldsten, Stanley (1978). Nonverbal Behaviour and Communication. John Willey, N.Y.
References: 
  1. Brammer L.M. and Shostrom E.L. 4th Ed. (1982) : Therapeutic Psychology Fundamentals of Counselling and Psychopathology. Englewood Cliffs Prentice Hall Inc.
  2. Bellock A.S. , Harson H. Kazdin A.E. (Ed.) (1982) : International Handbook of Behavior Modification and Therapy : New York Press.
  3. Barrett J.E. (1979) : Stress Mental Disorders American Psychopathological Association Series : New York. Raven Press.
  4. Dohrenwend B.S. Dohrenwend B.P. (1974) : Stressful Life Events – Their Nature and Effects : New York, John Wiley and Sons.
  5. Krumboltz J.D. and Thorson C.E. (1976) : Behavioral Counselling, Cases and Techniques. New York Hole Rinehart and Winston.
  6. Lazarus R.S. and Folkman S. (1984) Stress, Appraisal and Coping : New York Springes.
  7. Krumboltz J.D. and Thorson C.E. (1976) : Counselling Methods. New York Holt Rinchart and Winston.
  8. Gladding, S.T. (1992). Counselling : A Comprehensive Profession.
  9. Palmer, S. (1997). Handbook of Counselling. London : Routledge.
  10. Woolfe, R. S. and Dryden, W. (1996). Handbook of Counselling Psychology. N.D. : Sage.
  11. Belkin, G.S. (1988). Introduction to Counselling. W.G : Brown Publishers.
  12. Windy, D. (1988). (Ed.) Counselling in Action New York : Sage Publication.
  13. Seligman. L. (2001). Systems, Strategies and Skills of Counselling and Psychotherapy. N.J. : Merrill Prentice Hall.
  14. Ben, Ard, Jr (Ed.) (1977). Counselling and Psychotherapy : Classics on Theories and Issues. Science and Behavior, Books Co.
  15. Oates, Kim (1982). Child Abuse : A Community Concern, Butterworths, London. Schreiber, H. (1980). Handbook of Counselling. McGraw Hill, New York.
  16. Sieman, Aron and Feldsten, Stanely (1978). Nonverbal Behavior and communication, John Willey, New York.
  17. Waltes, John, P. and Hindmarch, (1988). Psychological Assessment of the Elderly. Churchill Living Stone, Edinburgh.
  18. Altman, I and Wohl Will J.F. (1977).Human Behaviour and Environment, Vol 2, Plenum Press, NY .
Academic Year: 
2018-19
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