BPCE-145: Counselling Psychology

By Prof Swati Patra, Dr Ashwini Kumar | IGNOU

Learners enrolled: 2707

The course provides the basics about the field of counseling psychology. It explains the key concepts and approaches of counseling including the Indian approach. It describes the counseling process and the assessment procedure followed in counseling. Various counseling skills and techniques used in counseling are elaborated. Further, the course describes various application areas of counseling psychology ranging from school, career to family, workplace and other areas. Finally, the contemporary trends in counseling psychology such as the implications of technology in the field of counseling are highlighted. The course provides an understanding of the field of counselling psychology. It explains the key concepts, process and theories of counseling including the Indian approach to counselling. It also describes the skills and techniques used in counseling and applications of counseling to various areas including school, career, family and workplace.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Duration :	16 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit Points :	6
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	01 Jan 2024
End Date :	30 Apr 2024
Enrollment Ends :	29 Feb 2024
Exam Date :	25 May 2024 IST
Exam Shift :	Shift-I

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Weeks	Name of the Module
01	Introduction to Counselling Psychology
02	Counseling Process
03	Assessment in Counselling
04	Theoretical Approaches to Counselling (Psychodynamic)
05	Existential-Humanistic Approach
06	Cognitive and Behavioural Approach
07	Counselling Skills and Techniques-I
08	Counselling Skills and Techniques-II (Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Play Therapy)
09	Counselling Skills and Techniques-III (Dance/Movement Therapy and Drama Therapy)
10	Areas of Application of Counselling (Child and Adolescents Counselling)
11	School and Career Counselling
12	Couple and Family Counselling
13	Counselling at Workplace
14	Counselling for Special Population
15	Contemporary Trends (Indian Approaches to Counselling)
16	Counselling and Technology

Books and references

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Burnard, P. (2009). Counselling skills training: Book of activities. Viva Books, New Delhi.

Carroll, M. (1996). Workplace counselling. London: SAGE Publications.

Capuzzi, D., & Gross, D. R. (2007). Counselling and psychotherapy: Theories and interventions. New Delhi: Pearson.

Coles, A. (2004). Counselling in the workplace. Maidenhead, England: Open University Press.

Corey, G. (2009). Counselling and psychotherapy: Theory and practice. (7th Ed.) New Delhi: Cengage Learning.

Friedlander, M.L. & Diamond, G.M. (2012). Couple and family therapy. In E. M. Altmaier and J.C. Hansen (Eds.) The Oxford handbook of counselling psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sommers-Flanagan, J., & Sommers-Flanagan, R. (2012). Counselling and psychotherapy theories in context and practice study guide. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.

Geldard, K., & Geldard, D. (2011). Counselling children: A practical introduction. New Delhi: Sage

Gelso, C., Williams, E. & Fretz, B. (2014). Counseling psychology. Washington, D.C: American Psychological Assoc.

Gibson, R. L., & Mitchell, M. H. (2012). Introduction to counselling and guidance (7th Ed.) New Delhi: Pearson

Ginter, E., Roysircar, G. & Gerstein, L. (2019). Theories and applications of counselling and psychotherapy. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.

Gladding, S.T., & Batra, P. (2018). Counseling: A comprehensive profession. 8th ed. Pearson.

Hackney, H.L. (2012). The professional counsellor: A process guide to helping. Pearson.

Hansen, J.C. (2012). Contemporary counselling psychology. In E. M. Altmaier and J.C. Hansen (Eds) The Oxford handbook of counselling psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hutchinson. D. (2015). The essential counsellor: Process, skills and techniques. USA: Sage.

Manickam, L. (2010). Psychotherapy in India. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 366–370. doi:10.4103/0019-5545.69270.

Nelson-Jones, Richard. (2008). Basic counselling skills: A helper’s manual, Second Edition, Sage, South Asia Edition.

Neukrug. E. (2018). Counselling: Theory and practice. USA: Academic Publishing.

Rao, K. (2010). Psychological interventions: From theory to practice. In G. Misra (Ed): Psychology in India. volume 3: Clinical and health psychology. New Delhi. ICSSR/ Pearson.

Rao, S.N., & Sahajpal, P. (2013). Counselling and guidance. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill.

Seligman, L., & Reichenberg, L.W. (2010). Theories of counselling and psychotherapy: Systems, strategies, and skills. 3rd Ed. Indian reprint: Pearson.

Sharf, R. S. (2012). Theories of psychotherapy and counselling: Concepts and cases. Brooks/ Cole Cengage Learning.

Sriram, S. (2016). Counselling in India: An introduction to the volume. In: Sriram S. (eds) Counselling in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0584-8_1

Thompson. R. A. (2003). Counselling techniques: Improving relationships with others, ourselves, our families, and our environment. New York: Brunner- Routledge.

Instructor bio

Prof Swati Patra, Dr Ashwini Kumar

IGNOU

Prof. Swati Patra is Professor of Psychology at School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. She has earlier worked in National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT). She has 20 years of teaching, research and training experience. Her specializations are Educational & Counseling Psychology, Counseling & Family Therapy, Distance Education, and Human development & disadvantage. Her areas of research interest are counseling, mental health, emotional intelligence, positive psychology,mindfulness, parenting ,and child and adolescent psychology. Her professional activities include among other things course design and development, course writing, course editing and research guidance for Ph.D. She has various journalpublications and book chapters. Her recent publication is the edited book on ‘Adolescence in India: Issues, Challenges and Possibilities’ by Springer, Singapore. She is the Programme Coordinator of Master of Arts in Psychology and Post Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Programme of IGNOU.She has been involved in Interactive radio counseling (Gyanvani), academic counseling through television (Gyandarshan), and Facebook of IGNOU. She is a certified Happiness Coach from the Berkeley Institute of Well-being, California in association with Happiitude, India, and also a certified Mindfulness Trainer. She provides guest lectures and conducts training workshops on various areas related to psychological counseling, well-being, stress management, life skills, emotional intelligence and mental health including happiness and mindfulness.

Dr. Ashwini Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India. He has more than 6 years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Kumar worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, New Delhi for five years. His research interest areas are Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology. Dr. Kumar completed his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Roorkee) Roorkee, Uttarakhand, He has good number of research publication including book chapters in National and International journals/edited books. He has also completed one research project funded by cluster innovation center (CIC), University of Delhi, New Delhi.