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