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.
The Client Therapist Relationship; Generic Skills; Specific Strategies and Techniques; Assessment and Case Formulation; Structuring Work with Client
Attending Skills, Non-verbal Communication; Listening skills; Questions to Encourage Communication
Verbal Communication and Client Disclosure – Encouraging Phrases, Restatements and Paraphrases, Reflections, Interfacing Response Type, Summarization
The Process of Empathy
Working with Thoughts and Cognition; Basic Skills and Advanced Interventions – Confrontation Here And Now Cognitive Processing; Interpretation
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