As per Savitribai Phule Pune University
SEMESTER III
EP 330: COUNSELLING PROCESS
OBJECTIVES:
1. To familiarize students with the nature and process of counselling.
2. To acquaint students with various assessment techniques
3. To expose the students to the various types of intervention and strategies.
1. NATURE AND GOALS OF COUNSELLING [10]
1.1 Definition and Goals of Counselling
1.2 Training, Job Setting and Activities of Counsellor
1.3 Stages of the Counselling process
1.4 Written Communication and Counselling
a. Aims and objectives of record keeping
b. File composition
2. BUILDING THE RELATIONSHIP AND IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION [10]
2.1 Communication and Building the Counselling Relationship
2.2 The Core Conditions of Counselling
2.3 Counsellor’s Actions that Impede Communication
2.4 In Depth Exploration
c. Goals and methods
d. Advanced empathy
e. Immediacy
f. Confrontation
g. Interpretation
h. Role playing
3. COMMITMENT TO ACTION AND TERMINATION [10]
3.1 The Process of Goal Setting
3.2 Design and Implication of Action Plans
3.3 Termination
3.4 Ethical Principles of Counselling.
4. PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS IN COUNSELLING [10]
4.1 Components of Effective Assessment
4.2 Inter-disciplinary Implications and Guidelines for Human Assessment
4.3 Non-standardized Techniques for Human Assessment
a. Observations
b. Rating Scales
c. Anecdotal Reports
d. Autobiography
e. Questionnaire
f. Structural interview and Intake interviews
4.4 Standardized Techniques for Human Assessment
a. Intelligence Test
b. Aptitude Test.
c. Interest Test
d. Achievement Test.
e. Personality Test
f. Diagnostic Test
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