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Part - II (Year - II)
PAPER - I: Psychotherapy and Counseling
Unit - I: Introduction to Psychotherapy: Definitions, objectives, issues related to
training professional therapists; ethical and legal issues involved in
therapy work; rights and responsibilities in psychotherapy; issues related
to consent (assent in case of minors); planning and recording of therapy
sessions; structuring and setting goals; pre- and post-assessment;
practice of evidence-based therapies.
Unit - II: Therapeutic Relationship: Client and therapist characteristics; illness,
technique and other factors influencing the relationship.
Unit - III: Interviewing: Objectives of interview, interviewing techniques, types of
interview, characteristics of structured and unstructured interview,
interviewing skills (micro skills), open-ended questions, clarification,
reflection, facilitation and confrontation, silences in interviews, verbal
and non-verbal components.
Unit - IV: Affective psychotherapies: Origin, basis, formulation, procedures,
techniques, stages, process, outcome, indications, and research &
current status with respect to psychodynamic, brief psychotherapy,
humanistic, existential, gestalt, person-centered, Adlerian, transactional
analysis, reality therapy, supportive, clinical hypnotherapy, play
therapy, psychodrama, and oriental approaches such as yoga,
meditation, shavasana, pranic healing, reiki, tai chi etc.
Unit – V: Behavior therapies: Origin, foundations, principles & methodologies,
problems and criticisms, empirical status, behavioral assessment,
formulations and treatment goals, Desensitization - (imaginal, in-vivo,
enriched, assisted), Extinction - (graded exposure, flooding and response
prevention, implosion, covert extinction, negative practice, stimulus
satiation), Skill training - (assertiveness training, modeling, behavioral
rehearsal), Operant procedures - (token economy, contingency
management), Aversion - (faradic aversion therapy, covert sensitization,
aversion relief procedure, anxiety relief procedure and avoidance
conditioning), Self-control procedures - (thought stop, paradoxical
intention, stimulus satiation), Biofeedback – (EMG, GSR, EEG, Temp.,