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: 
  • Brammer L.M. and Shostrom E.L. 4th Ed. (1982) : Therapeutic Psychology Fundamentals of Counselling and Psychopathology. Englewood Cliffs Prentice Hall Inc.
  •  Bellock A.S. , Harson H. Kazdin A.E. (Ed.) (1982) : International Handbook of Behavior Modification and Therapy  : New York Press.
  • Barrett J.E. (1979) : Stress Mental Disorders American Psychopathological Association Series : New York. Raven Press.
  • Dohrenwend B.S. Dohrenwend B.P. (1974) : Stressful Life Events – Their Nature and Effects : New York, John Wiley and Sons.
  • Krumboltz J.D. and Thorson C.E. (1976) : Behavioral Counselling, Cases and Techniques. New York Hole Rinehart and Winston.
  • Lazarus R.S. and Folkman S. (1984) Stress, Appraisal and Coping : New York Springes.
  • Krumboltz J.D. and Thorson C.E. (1976) : Counselling Methods. New York Holt Rinchart and Winston.
  • Gladding, S.T. (1992). Counselling : A Comprehensive Profession.
  • Palmer, S. (1997). Handbook of Counselling. London : Routledge.
  • Woolfe, R. S. and Dryden, W. (1996). Handbook of Counselling Psychology. N.D. : Sage.
  •  Belkin, G.S. (1988). Introduction to Counselling. W.G :  Brown Publishers.
  • Windy, D. (1988). (Ed.) Counselling in Action New York : Sage Publication.
  • Seligman. L. (2001). Systems, Strategies and Skills of Counselling and Psychotherapy. N.J. : Merrill Prentice Hall.
  • Ben, Ard, Jr (Ed.) (1977). Counselling and Psychotherapy : Classics on Theories and Issues. Science and Behavior, Books Co.
  • Oates, Kim (1982). Child Abuse : A Community Concern, Butterworths, London.
  • Schreiber, H. (1980). Handbook of Counselling. McGraw Hill, New York.
  • Sieman, Aron and Feldsten, Stanely (1978). Nonverbal Behavior and communication, John Willey, New York.
  • Waltes, John, P. and Hindmarch, (1988). Psychological Assessment of the Elderly. Churchill Living Stone, Edinburgh.
  • Altman, I and Wohl Will J.F. (1977).Human Behaviour and Environment, Vol 2, Plenum Press, NY .

 

Academic Year: 
2015-16
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