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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Counselling and Guidance 3rd Edition by Rao and Sahajpal

About the book
The third extensively revised and updated edition of this widely popular book –Counselling and Guidance provides an introduction to the philosophy and principles of guidance. This new enlarged edition covers all the important aspects of this highly dynamic field of counselling. It discusses the counselling process at length while considering the representative theories and their essential outlines without subjecting the reader to polemics.
  • There is a new reformed chapter on mental health—Counselling across human life-span: A mental-health perspective
  • A new chapter on Counselling for marriage and family
  • Keeping vulnerability of adolescent and young adults, two new chapters have been added—Guidance and Counselling in Educational Setting and Career Guidance and Counselling
  • There is new chapter on special areas in counselling covering—Counselling for legal offenders and juvenile delinquents, minorities and weaker sections, alcoholics and substance abusers, victims of abuse and violence, and a topic on Crisis Intervention strategies.                                                                                                                       
About the authors                                                                                   
The late S Narayana Rao, former Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychology, Dean, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Principal, Sri Venkateswara University College, Tirupati, taught postgraduate students for more than 35 years. A Ph. D. in Educational Psychology and Counselling, he visited the University of Minnesota (USA), as a Fulbright Scholar.
Prem Sahajpal obtained her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Delhi. She served as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology of Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, from 1970 to 1972 and of Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, from 1972 to 2009. She is also working with NGOs like Muskan, SAHAN, Federation for Welfare of Mentally Retarded (India), OSTOMY Society, INDIA, as a Counsellor.

Contents  
Part I: Introduction to Counselling and Guidance
Chapter 1 Emergence and growth of guidance and counselling
Chapter 2 Counselling: Nature, related fi elds and scope
Chapter 3 Counselling and Guidance: Expectations, goals, issues, ethics and legalities
Chapter 4 Education and training of professional counsellors
Part II: Counselling Process and Techniques
Chapter 5 Counselling: The process, relationship and skills
Chapter 6 Assessment in counselling: Psychological testing and diagnosis
Chapter 7 Counselling interview
Part III: Theoretical Approaches to Counselling
Chapter 8 Approaches to counselling
Chapter 9 The individual versus group methods of counselling
Part IV: Counselling Applications
Chapter 10 Counselling across human life-span: A mental-health perspective
Chapter 11 Guidance and counselling in the educational setting
Chapter 12 Career guidance and counselling
Chapter 13 Counselling for family and marriage
Chapter 14 Special areas in counselling
Part V: Present Status of Counselling and Guidance
Chapter 15 Evaluation in counselling
Chapter 16 Modern trends in counselling
Chapter 17 The status of the guidance and counselling movement in India



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