Sem - II (First Year)

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1.   Understanding the concept and techniques of guidance and counselling.

CO2.   Describing various testing techniques.

CO3.   Analysing various guidance services available in India.

CO4.   Evaluating the skills of collecting, compiling and disseminating career information.

COURSE CONTENT

UNIT- I: Nature of Guidance

·         Concept, importance and areas of guidance –educational guidance, vocational guidance and personal guidance.

·         Organization of guidance services in schools-need, principles and mechanism of organizing guidance functions, ethical and legal guidance.

·         Occupational information- meaning and need, method of imparting occupational information, sources of occupational material in India.

UNIT- II Planning and Organizing Guidance Programme

·         Group Guidance: Meaning, Scope, Principles, Types.

·         Guidance for promoting self-discipline in a school: Causes for indiscipline, Anger Control, Yoga and Meditation for Self-Discipline, Self-Management.

·         Understanding Programme Management: Personal, Finance and Facilities.

·         Developing Guidance programme at Primary level, Middle level and Secondary & Senior Secondary level.

·         Guidance for Human Development and Adjustment.

UNIT-III: Career Development and Vocational Guidance

·         Theories of Career Choice and Development (Trait Theory, Theory of Occupational Choice). Career Development of Women: Current Status, educational Needs and problems, factors, process.

·         Assessment and appraisal for Career development: Meaning, Purpose, Principles and Process.

·         Job Analysis: Meaning, types and purposes of job Analysis.

·         Placement Services: Meaning, functions and principles

·         Follow up Service: Meaning, purposes and characteristics.

UNIT -IV: Counselling-Meaning, Tools and Techniques of Assessment

·         Counselling-Meaning, Need and Principles

·         Directive Counselling: Concept, Procedure, advantages and limitations.

·         Non-Directive Counselling: Concept, Procedure, advantages and limitations.

·         Eclectic Counselling: Concept, Procedure, advantages and limitations.

·         Study of the individual, data collecting techniques of information

·         Standard and Non-standardized Techniques, Biographies, Rating Scale, Case Study, Questionnaire, Observation, Interview and Cumulative Records.

Sessional Work: The students may undertake any one of the following activities:

·         Identification of the cases for counseling

·         Exploring the possibilities for peer counseling in the institutions

·         Having with the counselor related to the process of counseling, clients and writing a report on this.

SUGGESTED READINGS

Ø  Bhatnagar, Asha and Gupta, Nirmala (Eds) ( 1999). Guidance and Counseling, Vol. I: A Theoretical Perspective, New Delhi: Vikas.

Ø  Bhatnagar, Asha and Gupta, Nirmala (Eds) ( 1999). Guidance and Counseling, Vol. II: A Practical Approach. New Delhi: Vikas.

Ø  Cormier, L. & Hackney, H. (1987). The Professional Counsellor. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Ø  Corey, G. (1986). Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, 3rd Ed. Belment: Calif-Brooks Cole.