With increasing pressures owing to globalization and technological revolution in every sphere of life, the incidence of personal, emotional, family and social problems are steadily rising, affecting various segments of our population. Individuals and institutions require specialized counselling services from trained counselling professionals to deal with variety of problems. However, on the other hand with the increase in demand for such specialized services, there is a great dearth of trained professionals in the country.
Counselling Psychology is a specialized area in the discipline of Psychology that provides professional help to individuals to enhance their personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan with a focus on emotional, social, vocational, educational, health, developmental and organizational issues. Counsellors facilitate individuals and groups to improve and adjust to demanding situation in highly effective way.
The M.A. Programme in Counselling Psychology being offered by RGNIYD has strong roots in theory and contemporary practice commensurate to the profession. The programme will enable the students to diagnose the problems of the clients scientifically and employ the therapeutic techniques and counselling skills during the counselling process besides with ethical considerations. This cutting edge programme allows the students to choose their areas of specialization with inbuilt theory-practice nexus. The students are provided with opportunities for field practicum, internships, case works, institutional visits and supervised skill training in each domain of specialization in counselling viz., School, adolescent, career, family and work place.
The students are nurtured by providing emphasis on personal growth and awareness as well as skills training. In addition they are provided with opportunities to improve their professional competencies through skill labs, workshops, seminars, mentoring, remedial programmes and personal counselling services. The students could secure lucrative employment openings in educational institutions, corporates/industries, hospitals, adolescent and adult rehabilitation centers, NGOs, family and child care centres, legal sectors besides embarking on private practice, and as consultants to various organizations besides careers in teaching and research.
This programme would also benefit the professionals such as doctors, paramedics, mental health professionals, teachers, human resource managers, social workers, corporate mentors to acquire specialized skills for value addition in their careers.
Objectives of the Programme
- To provide a comprehensive theoretical knowledge and to develop counselling skills
- To equip the students with diagnostic methods and psychological assessments specific to each specialized area of counselling
- To provide hands on training on various therapeutic techniques in counselling
- To promote the ability to render professional services to individuals, groups and multi-cultural/diverse/special population
- Promote optimum human development for effective functioning
- To hone the research skills for undertaking scientific studies
- To develop values and ethics appropriate to the profession of counselling
