Skills in Counselling

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

Course Objectives (COs):

This course will enable the students to –

 

  1. 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.

Course Outcomes (COs):

 

Learning Outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

 

PSY 312

 

Skills in Counselling

The students will be able to –

CO45: Understand the various approaches to counselling and implement therapeutic techniques.

CO46: Understand counselling skills required in order to be good counsellors.

CO47: Examine their own attitudes, behaviours, perceptions, and biases to developing culturally aware approaches to teaching, counselling, and /or administration.

CO48: Apply skills for cognitive awareness to seeking clarity to enhance understanding.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

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.
References: 
  • 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: 
2021-22
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