Counseling Psychology

Course Duration: 4 Terms

Credits: 24 contact hours per unit and an average of 7 units per term

Counseling Psychology is a programme that is specially designed to fulfil the demand for knowledge and skills in counseling psychology that will enable students to actively participate in counseling activities in a diverse, socio-economic, cultural, political, religious, and educational world.  Counseling Psychology focuses on providing therapeutic treatments to clients who experience a wide variety of symptoms of emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental and organizational nature. The objectives of the programme are to ensure an advanced level of knowledge about major approaches to counseling psychology; to provide training in counseling practice and develop skills for application in workplace, health, education; and to advance research, ethical and professional issues in counseling as a profession.

Programme Goals:

1. To develop skills of working better with different kinds of clients.
2. To enable students to identify their strengths and weakness that requires working through for them to be more whole some and relate better with people.
3. To help the trainee to identify ways of working with core theoretical models.
4. To sensitize practitioners in on ways of working with clients using eclectic integrated approach to counseling