Systems and Skills Interventions in Psychology-I

Paper Code: 
PSY 324 A
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

COURSE OUTCOMES

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

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

CO106: Understand the major therapeutic approaches and the use of psychological forms of intervention

CO107: Acquire basic counselling skills of problem identification, and relationship building

CO108: Demonstrate knowledge of therapist’s role and the values by which   the therapist conducts counselling

CO109: Identify primary intervention techniques of the major counselling systems and the skills that are used across most forms of psychotherapy.

CO110: Formulate and conceptualise cases; plan and implement interventions utilising consistent theoretical orientation. 

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

  

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Psychoanalysis

Freud’s drive theory, object-relations psychology, self-psychology, psychoanalytical approaches to treatment, brief psychoanalytic therapy

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Therapy System Emphasising Background and Content

Jungian analysis and therapy- theory of personality, analysis and therapy; Adlerian therapy: theory of personality, theory of therapy and counselling

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Therapy Systems Emphasising Background and Content

Development of Psychodynamic Theories, Transactional Analysis, Brief Psychodynamic Therapy, Psychodrama

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Therapy Systems Emphasising Emotions and Sensations

Person-Centred theory of personality and psychotherapy; Existential theory of personality and psychotherapy, Logotherapy

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Therapy Systems Emphasising Emotions and Sensations

Gestalt Therapy: history, theory of personality and psychotherapy

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Corey, G. (2000). Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Delhi: S. Chand & Company Ltd.
  • Seligman. L. (2011). Theories of Counselling and Psychotherapy: Systems, Strategies and Skills. Delhi: Prentice Hall India.
  • Sharf, R.S. (2011). Theories of Psychotherapy and Counselling: Concepts and Cases. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.

 

References: 

Suggested Readings

  • Beck, J.S. (1995). Cognitive Therapy Basics and Beyond. New York: Guildford Press.
  • Dryden, W. (1989) Rational Emotive Counselling in Action. Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • Kaslow, H.W. (2004). Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy. (Vol. I to IV). Noida: John Wiley and Sons.
  • McMullin, R.E. (1999). The New Handbook of Cognitive Therapy Techniques. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Nelson-Jones, R. (2012). Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy. London: Sage Publications.
  • 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
  • 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 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1dszz3z
  • 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

  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Psychological Bulletin
  • Psychological Sciences
  • The American Journal of Psychotherapy

 

Academic Year: 
2022-23
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