Skills in Counselling

Paper Code: 
PSY 312
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO56: Understand the various approaches to counselling and implement therapeutic techniques.

CO57: Understand counselling skills required in order to be good counsellors.

CO58: Examine their own attitudes, behaviors, perceptions, and biases to developing culturally aware approaches to teaching, counselling, and /or administration.

CO59: Apply skills for cognitive awareness to seeking clarity to enhance understanding.

CO60: Apply the skills of empathy during counseling sessions.

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: 

Suggested Readings

  • Danto, Elizabeth Ann. (2005). Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938. Columbia University Press. EISBN: 978-0-23150-656-4. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/dant13180
  • Golshan, Shahrokh ; Saks, Elyn R. (2013). Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis: The Law, the Theory, and the Data. Fordham University Press. EISBN: 978-0-82324-979-4. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x0d3x
  • Gysbers, N. C., & Henderson, P. (2014). Developing and managing your school guidance and counseling program. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Herr, E. L., & Cramer, S. H. (1988). Career guidance and counseling through the life span: Systematic approaches. Scott, Foresman & Co.
  • Lord, Ruth ; Solnit, Albert J. ; Nordhaus, Barbara F. (1992). When Home Is No Haven: Child Placement Issues. Yale University Press. EISBN: 978-0-30015-761-1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1dszz3z
  • Myrick, R. D. (1987). Developmental guidance and counseling: A practical approach. Educational Media Corporation, PO Box 21311, Minneapolis, MN 55421.
  • Peruniak, Geoffrey. (2010). A Quality of Life Approach to Career Development. University of Toronto Press. EISBN: 978-1-44268-688-5. EISBN: 978-1-44268-688-5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442686885

E Resources

  • ResearchGate
  • JSTOR
  • Proquest
  • Shodhganga
  • Delnet
  • Google Scholar
  • National Digital Library (NPTEL)
  • Academia

Journals

  • Counselling Psychology Quarterly
  • Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • The Case Study Journal
  • The Counseling Psychologist
Academic Year: 
2022-23
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