Higher Diploma in Counselling
OUR OBJECTIVES
- A GOOD COUNSELLING PRACTITIONER WITH PROFESSIONALISM.
- A HEALTHY PERSON.
- TO BE A STRENGTH FOR FUTURE JOB
OUR LECTURERS
- UNIVERSITY TEACHERS
- PSYCHOLOGISTS
- MEDICAL DOCTORS
- SENIOR PRACTICING COUNSELLORS
- LAWYERS
Course Structure
- Total No. of Credits: 60
- SLQF – Level 04
- NVQ – Level 06
- Approved by TVEC
Research Methodology
Socio-cultural Roots of Behavioral Issues
Pathological Behaviors in a Consumer Society
Parapsychological Application in Counselling
Educational and Career Counselling
Child Psychopathology
Research Methodology
- Introduction
- Sample statistical models
- Frequency distribution
- My population vs. my sample
- Correlation
- Categorical data
- Psychometric assessments
- Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
- VARK Learning Style Test
- Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS21)
Socio-cultural Roots of Behavioral Issues
- Socio-cultural basis of behavior
- Poverty and anti-social behavior
- Alcoholism and liquor culture
- Social basis of neurotic and psychotic disorders
- Culture and child rearing patterns
- Gender and female psychopathology
- Social capital: Sri Lankan case studies
Pathological Behaviors in a Consumer Society
- Introduction
- Pathological nature of present society
- Cyber world
- IAD
- FBD
- IGD
- CSA
- Morbid Jealousy
- Educational stress & children’s stress related disorders
– Somatoform
– Writing cramps
– Suicidal ideation
- Child harassments other than sexual
- Public neuscience behaviors
Parapsychological Application in Counselling
- Introduction, definition, and scope
- History
- Methodology
- Extrasensory perception (ESP),: Research on ESP, Researches on psychokinesis,
- Prophetic vision: telepathy and dream telepathy,
- Shamanism & psychic healing, researches on shamanism, types of healing, researches on healing,
- Apparition, types of apparition
- Encounter experiences
- Sleep paralysis
- OBE, astral body and OBE, Researches on OBE
- NDE, Theoretical explanation on NDE
- Rebirth, Ian Stevenson’s research and explanations of rebirth
Educational and Career Counselling
- Interrelation between education and career: Sri Lankan crisis
- Educational counselling issues in Sri Lanka
- Educational counselling techniques
- Psychology of career concepts
- Theories of career developments
- Career techniques
Child Psychopathology
- Introduction
- Fundamental of child development
- Institutional factors of pathological behaviors
- Behavioral problems
- Mental retardation
- Learning disorders
- ADHD
- Conduct disorder
- Eating disorders
- Elimination disorders
- Autism
- Communication disorders
- Childhood anxiety
- Childhood schizophrenia
- Factors to be considered in CMH issues
- Management of CMH
- Role of the counsellor
Family Counselling and Family Therapies
Sex Counselling
Psychotherapeutic Counselling
Clinical Record Keeping
Law, Ethics, and Human Rights
Family Counselling and Family Therapies
- Basic psychological approaches to family counselling: Psychoanalytic, behavioral,
Adlerian, and existential
- Family System Therapy (FST)
- Family Life Circle Therapy (FCT)
- Family Communication therapy(FCT)
- Strategic Family Therapy(SFT)
- Family Counselling: Sri Lankan expetrience
Sex Counselling
- Physiology and psychology of sex behavior
- Myths of sex behavior
- Sex hygiene
- Common sexual disorders
- Principle techniques of sex therapy: sex taboo, exploring the interests, negotiating demands and difficulties, attitude changing
- Sex education
- Relaxation and fantasization
- Art of Sex
Psychotherapeutic Counselling
- Origin and history of psychotherapy
- Ethics in application
- Psychotherapy and physiological and biochemical changes
- Relaxation therapies
- Modern experiments on relaxation therapies
- Application of analytic, cognitive, and existential psychotherapy
- CBT
- Mindfulness based therapies
Clinical Record Keeping
- Introduction
- Need of record keeping
- Counsellor as a clinician
- Essential clinical data (General, specific – based on problems and disorders)
- History taking
- Nature of different clinical settings
- Methods of record keeping
- Ethics and law related to record keeping
Law, Ethics, and Human Rights
- Introduction
- Relationship between law, ethics, psychology, and counselling
- Legal framework of marital and family counselling
- Legal marriage, legally recognized family, divorce, separation, maintenance, law relating to sex
- Child Rights
- Educational rights
- Rights to maintenance
- Matrimonial rights
- Other fundamental rights
- Adoption
- Child abuse
- Punishment
- Legal issues involving in family counselling
1. Divorce and secondary marriage
2. Separation
3. Promise to marry
4. Property rights - Rape
1. Marital Rape
2. Statutory rape - Spouse rights
1. Relevant institutions
a. Police station
b. Child protection authority
c. Court system
d.NGOs - Legal issues involving in family counselling
1. General ethics
2. Specific ethics - Human rights
- HR in international scenario
- HR related to counselling
