Counselling and Psychotherapy

1. Week 1 Counselling Skills (Basic)

Course Description:

Counselling Skills Basic introduces students to the fundamental elements of counselling and psychotherapy. The purposes and goals of the counselling and development of the therapeutic relationship are covered in specific skills such as active listening, empathy, and reflection of feeling and content.

A core component of this course is to introduce the participants to the hands-on supervised practice of the specific skills taught. Students will be given the maximum opportunity to develop these skills in a safe and supportive learning environment. The objectives of this course are for students to master basic counseling skills, build intermediate counselling skills in preparation for supervised clinical experience, and become familiar with advanced skills that would further their development.

Course Structure:

1. History of counselling and its scope and principles
2. Conceptualizing client problems
3. Stages of the counseling relationship
4. Listening Skills (Attending, Bonding, Empathy)
5. Observation Skill (Verbal and Non Verbal communication)
6. Interview Techniques and Questioning Skills
7. Case study and management

 

Time duration: 40 Hours

Supervised practice sessions: 15 Hours

 

 

 

1. Week 2 Training in Psychotherapies

Course Description:

             Psychotherapy refers to techniques and interventions, that help people change unhelpful behaviors, thoughts, and emotions that cause emotional disturbances or distress. It is an umbrella term that describes treating mental distress and some clinical mental conditions through verbal and psychological techniques. This unique module teaches you how to use these interventions and techniques along with counselling to deal with emotions such as Anger, Fear, Trauma, Phobias, Grief, and the like and help people to alleviate such emotional disturbances.

 

Course Structure:

1. History of Psychotherapy
2. Types of Psychotherapy
3. Therapeutic techniques
4. Gestalt therapy (Empty chair technique)
5. Systematic Desensitization
6. Visual Kinesthetic Dissociation
7. Exposure therapy
8. Focusing therapy
9. New Behaviour Generator
10. Anchoring
11. Introduction to couple counseling

 

Time duration: 40 Hours

Supervised practice sessions: 20 Hours

 

 

III. Week 3 Counselling Skills (Advanced)

Course Description:

The counselling skills advanced module will teach the students deeper insights into counselling such as how to diagnose a client and what therapeutic interventions to apply. It also gives them a deeper knowledge of the theoretical understandings of Mental disorders, and types of counselling and most importantly make them aware, of when to use therapeutic interventions in counselling and when should a person be referred to a clinical psychologist or a psychiatrist for medical assistance.

Course Structure:

1. Diagnosing skills
2. Pacing and Mirroring skills
3. Personalizing and Reframing
4. Goal setting and termination
5. Introduction to Clinical Psychology
6. Different types of counselling
7. Using psychotherapies in counselling sessions

 

Time duration: 40 Hours

Supervised practice sessions: 20 Hours

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Week 4 Training in Cognitive therapies (REBT, CBT)

Course Description:

Cognitive Psychology is the science of how we think. It concerns our inner mental processes such as attention, perception, memory, action planning, and language. Each component is vital in forming who we are and how we see the world and others and derive meaning from them. If our thoughts are distorted and our perceptions blurred, then we get emotionally and behaviorally disturbed. This course helps the students understand their thought processes and those of their clients and teaches them the skills to correct thought distortions in them and their clients. Doing so empowers them to improve their outlook on themselves, their relationships, and the world that surrounds them and their clients.

1. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT of Albert Ellis)
2. Introduction and history of REBT
3. Understanding rational and irrational beliefs
4. Irrational demands
5. Irrational conclusions
6. Primary, Secondary, and Meta emotions and their impact on cognition
7. ABC Model of Diagnosing
8. Cognitive Behaviour (CBT of Aaron Beck)
9. Introduction and history of CBT
10. Negative Automatic Thoughts
11. Cognitive Distortions
12. Cognitive Restructuring
13. Therapeutic Technique

Time duration: 40 Hours

Supervised practice sessions: 20 Hours