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Course Name
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Course Content
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Credits
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1
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Approaches of Counselling
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UNIT I: Behaviour Therapy (BT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Psychoanalytic Approaches to Therapy: Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Third Wave Behavior Therapy: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Social and Cultural Determinants to Therapy
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6
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UNIT II: Humanistic Approach (Person-centered Therapy), Existential Ideas (especially pertaining to loss and death), Logotherapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
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UNIT III: Educational Guidance and Career Counseling- Purpose of Educational Guidance, Process of Vocational and Career Counseling, Concept of Intelligence, Interest, Aptitude, Creativity, Motivation; Basics of career counseling, Decision Making
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UNIT IV: Stress and Stress Management: Definition and Classification, Types of Stressors, Effects of Stress, Causal Factors and their effects, Stress Management Techniques
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2
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Personality and Adjustment
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UNIT: Freudian and neo- Freudian theories of personality: Psychoanalytic perspective (Sigmund Freud), Analytical Perspective (Jung), Individual Psychology (Adler), Ego psychology (Anna Freud), Object relations theory, Self-psychology
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6
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UNIT II: Humanistic & Existential: Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, HS Sullivan, Victor Frankl, Rollo May, Irvin Yalom
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UNIT III: Adjustment Problems, Causes of Maladjustment. Conflict, Types of Conflict, Psychological Approaches to Adjustment, Standards of Adjustment, Factors Influencing Adjustment
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UNIT IV: Psychodynamics of Adjustment and Coping: Adjustment problems, causes of maladjustment, Coping strategies for adjustment problems, Mental Health Problems: Characteristics, Need and Status in India
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3
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Understanding Abnormal Behaviour
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UNIT I: Classification of Mental Health Disorders and Conditions, Depression: Symptoms, Clinical Features, Etiology, and Treatment Evidence, Description and Features of other Mood Disorders
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6
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UNIT II: Anxiety Spectrum Disorders: Symptoms, Clinical features, Etiology and Treatment Evidence: Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Phobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Stress and Adjustment Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and complex-PTSD, Dissociative Disorders, Somatization Disorders
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UNIT III: Common Manifestations of Anxiety and Depression through Childhood and Adolescence, Habit and Impulse control Disorders, Parent-Child Relationship, Peer Relationship, Teacher and student relationship, Suicide: Perspectives, tendencies, suicide prevention strategies and measures
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UNIT IV: Common Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Externalizing Conditions: Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation), Learning Disorders and Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Disruptive Behavior Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder
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4
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Paper IV
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Seminar
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2
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5
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Practical Paper I
Identification and Assessment
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- Identification and Assessment:
(i) Intelligence, (ii) Aptitude, (iii) Interest and Motivation, (iv) Personality, Mental Health, v) Creativity
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4
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2. Identification and Assessment of Development and Learning Disorder or Difficulties: (a) Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation), (b) Autism Spectrum Disorders, (c)Learning Disorders
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3. Identification and Assessment of Externalizing Behavior Deficits: (a) Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity, (b) Disruptive Behavior Disorder, (c) Oppositional Defiant Disorder, (d)DAP (e) CAT
Emotional Dysregulation: Assessment and Planning for Intervention
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4. Identification and Assessment of Internalizing Behavior Deficits: (i) Anxiety, (ii) Depression, (iii) Somatization
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5. Identification and Assessment of Problems of Interpersonal Relationships:
(a)Parent-Child Relationship, (b) Peer Relationship, (c)Teacher-student Relationship.
Screening Tools: CBCL, CSI, DSMD, CDI, NIMHANS-SLD
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