PERSONAL &

MANAGERIAL
COUNSELLING
 AIM
To help participants
– understand the basics of what counseling is
– The skills required to make our counseling
practices effective now and in the days to come.
More specifically, this course aims at helping
participants
– develop a basic understanding of the counseling
processes, and techniques involved in Rogerian
as well as Carkhuff Models and
– at creating a forum to help them practice the
basic counseling skills.
 CONTENT
Introduction to basics of counseling processes
Essential Skills for counseling:
– Identification of stages of counseling: feelings &
contents
– Empathy, Listening & Responding &
– Effective Feedback
Identifying one’s own strengths and weaknesses
in rendering counseling service & Future plans for
oneself
Recapitulation of the basics of different schools of
counseling, specific Processes and Techniques
involved in those schools of counseling
METHODOLOGY & EVALUATION
Assignment (50 marks) –
The participants will be divided into small groups of three
(known as TRIADS) and The participants can choose Option A
or Option B for the assignment component:
– Assignment : Option – A
– Each triad is expected to identify any one of the following
approaches (we may call them as schools of counselling) :
Freudian- Psychoanalysis, Eric Berne’s TA model, Fritz Perls
Gestalt, Albert Ellis’ RET & Richard Bandler & John Grinder’s
N.L.P – and is expected to write an assignment on the school
chosen by the triad. -
– The assignment should reflect (a) the basic frame work,
principles; dos & don’ts in the counselling process, and how the
counselling is rendered according to that school; (b) should
analyze at least ONE case along the lines of the chosen school
of thought; and ( c) four cases must be given in the appendix
along with the report.
METHODOLOGY & EVALUATION
Assignment Option – B - Counselling Practice in group -
Internship report
Each triad is expected to work through few important personal issues in
their respective triads outside the class hours. Each member’s role and his
or her experiences in the triad as counselor, counselee, & observer should
be highlighted and submitted as Internship Report The internship report
should include:
– The processes that were involved in counseling each other in the
triad; The difficulties encountered,
– The effectiveness and/or ineffectiveness of the counseling rendered to
each other
– Logging of the time of each counseling session, the stages reached
and action plans developed must be reflected in that report.
(Minimum of three hours of counseling by each individual should
have gone in this part of exercise and learning).
The assignment and the report will be submitted before the end term. .
 C. End term - (50 points)
End term examination will consist of
– two parts: part A & Part B with questions from
the text book as well as from the deliberations
made in the class and
– case analyses along the lines of the model
deliberated in the class.