Course Contents

GDS – 601: Counseling Skills and Communication Skills 1. Introduction 1.1. Introduction to Counseling 1.2. Difference between therapy and Counseling 1.3. Ethical principles and responsibilities of counselors 1.4. Confidentiality 1.5. Legal issues 2. Counseling skills 2.1. The counseling relationship –core conditions 2.2. Stage 1- Attending Skills 2.3. Stage 2- Exploration Skills 2.4. Stage 3- understanding 2.5. Stage 4- Action 2.6. Stage 5- Termination 2.7. Guidelines for counseling with women 2.8. Diversity, Social context, and Power 2.9. Professional Responsibility 2.10. Best Practices 3. Situations requiring counseling 3.1. Crisis management 3.2. Depression 3.3. Stress 3.4. Anxiety 3.5. Phobia 3.6. Trauma 3.7. Postpartum depression 4. Assessing and Counseling women 4.1. Psychosocial issues and their interventions 4.2. Physical issues 4.3. Battered women & separation abuse 4.4. Guidelines for clinical interventions 4.5. Adjustment to illness 4.6. Depressive disorders 4.7. Women’s vulnerability to depression 4.8. Biological Vulnerability factors 4.9. Genetic Vulnerability 4.10. Social Vulnerability factors 4.11. Familial Vulnerability factors 4.12. Psychological Factors 4.13. Interpersonal Factors 4.14. Cultural Factors 4.15. Assessment of depressive disorders 4.16. Treatment of depressive disorders 5. Abuse and Disability Counselling 5.1. Interpretive Abuse 5.2. Preventing band Treating Interpersonal Abuse 5.3. Interpersonal Abuse 5.4. The Nature of Disabilities 5.5. Working with People with Disabilities 6. Approaches to counseling 6.1. Psychoanalytic approach 6.2. Humanistic approach 6.3. Behaviorist approach to counseling 6.4. The eclectic approach 6.5. The existential point of view 6.6. Group Counseling 7. Stress Management 7.1. Meaning of Stress 7.2. Stress reaction and the body 7.3. Common Symptoms of Stress 7.4. Causes of Stress 7.5. Effects of stress on the body 7.6. Types of Stress 7.7. Eustress & distress 7.8. Characteristics to the description of stress 7.9. Type A & Type B personalities 7.10. Type C personality 7.11. Relationship between perceived level of stress & performance 7.12. Ways to manage Stress 7.13. Stress Management plan 7.14. Prevention and Wellness 8. Family Counseling 8.1. Marital Counseling 8.2. Family counseling techniques 8.3. Need of family Counseling 8.4. Career and lifestyle counseling 8.5. Career counseling Strategies 8.6. Issues & trends in career counseling 8.7. School and University counseling

Course Synopsis

This course is structured to provide an understanding of the basic counseling skills, ethical consideration in counseling and assessment of the women suffering in the society. This course makes students to understand how to establish counseling relationship and significance of this relationship in healing clients. Different psychological approaches to counseling are also explained in order to establish understanding of psychological issues in women. Nature of issues in women will also be discussed in detail. Objectives of course: Introducing basic counseling skills and their usage for the counseling purposes of women facing different issues like domestic violence, harassment, rape, refuges and IDPs.

Course Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to • understand stages of counseling process. • describe ethical issues for counselors and ways of committing to ethical professional practice • demonstrate purposeful and effective counseling skills in a counseling interview. • make intervention plan for women facing different issues.