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The Fountain College
For Training Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Approved by Periyar University, Salem under University Industry Collaborative Programme
(UICP) for M.Sc. Counselling and Psychotherapy
Vidivelli, Sundampatti, Sadhanapalli Post, Krishnagiri Dt., Tamil Nadu, India, 635 108.
Basic – First Unit
1st to 26th
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Subjects
Knowledge of Counselling
Knowledge of Counselling Skills
Theory of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
(NLP) (Basic)
Theory of Transactional Analysis (T.A)
(Basic)
Theory of Gestalt Therapy
Theory of Rational Emotive Behaviour
Therapy (REBT)
Theory and demonstration of Body Language
Practice
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September 2015
Counselling skills practice in smaller groups
under supervision and evaluation by the
staff and peers.
Practice of Gestalt Therapy
Practice of NLP Therapies
Practice of REBT
Practice of T.A. Therapy
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Major Tests
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (Personality
Test)
Fundamental Interpersonal Relations
Orientations – Feeling (FIRO – F)
Fundamental Interpersonal Relations
Orientations – Behaviour (FIRO – B)
Inventory of Self-Actualizing Characteristics
(ISSAC Test)
Requirements
Fieldwork in the Hospitals
Five Verbatim Reports from the hospital visits
Three Reading Reaction Reports (R.R.R)
Being a Counsellor Thrice
Being a Counsellee Thrice
Weekly Evaluation on Personal Growth,
Professional Growth, and Community Growth
Log of the Significant Learning
Final Evaluation by Presenting a Collage
Examinations
1. Counselling Format
2. Body Language
3. Counselling Skills
4. Principles and Practice of Counselling
5. Situational Crises and Counselling
6. Basic Psychotherapies
7. Basic Psychopathology
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Class Schedule
Day/
Date
Tue
1st
Wed
2nd
Thu
3rd
Fri
4th
Sat
5th
09.00 - 10.30 Hrs
11.00 – 12.15 Hrs
15.15 - 16.15 Hrs
Inauguration of the
course.
Icebreaker exercises.
Goal Setting,
Expectation sharing,
Guidelines for group
member behaviour,
Housekeeping
(Participants can go through
1st and 2nd steps privately.
Classes start with 3rd step)
Step 3: Role play demo,
Physical Attending, Exercises
of physical attending in twos
or threes.
Listening exercises of
threes.
Helping Skills PreTest.
Step 5: Reflect the
Content, EISPU,
EIPSU Test
Ego-state analysis
(TA), Egogram, Ego
State reaction quiz.
Transactional Analysis(TA),
Identifying responses in
terms of EISPU/
NP,CP,A,FC,AC
Step 7: Pinpoint the
problem and ask for
a recent event
connected with the
problem.
Faulty situation,
faulty thinking, faulty
feeling, faulty
behavior.
Feedback on hospital
visit. Leads.
Reframing. Skills:
1) Genuineness,
2) Respect,
3) Basic empathy,
4) Advanced
empathy.
Step 8: Personalize
the client’s
deficiency.
Step 9: Find out
alternative frames of
reference.
Hospital visit role
play, Direction for
visiting patients/
Counselling the
Physically Ill.
Counselling Skills
Practice Demo.
(If needed, in
smaller groups by
the staff members)
Field Placement &
Supervision in the hospital.
Step 11: Insights.
Musical Evening.
Community
Building.
Counselling
skills
practice.
Integration Day
Step 10: Employ
problem solving
techniques,
behaviour strategies,
and action
programmes.
Recreation in
common.
Community
Building.
Step 6:
Deal with
the feelings
of the
Client,
Categories
of feelings.
Games
Analysis
(TA)
Skills:
5) Concreteness,
6) Challenging,
7) Self-disclosure, and
8) Immediacy.
20.3021.00
hrs
Assessment of strengths, Assessment of problems, Checklist for a potential helper
(Given as homework)
Weekly evaluation on 1) Personal growth, 2) Professional growth, 3) Community
growth and 4) Plan of action for the next week.
Sun
6th
Mon
7th
18.0019.00
hrs
Step – 4:
Let the
client tell
the story.
Listening
role play,
Listening.
Counselling Skills
Practice
Fieldwork in the hospital.
(Submitting 1st Verbatim
report and 1st R.R. Report
on pp. 24-154 of
Principles and practice of
Counselling)
Exam on
Eight
counselling
skills
3
Tue
8th
Wed
9th
Community Building - Picnic
Body Language
Counselling Skills
Practice
Thu
10th
Step 12: Define and
operationalize the goal.
Step 13: Make Contracts
and Evaluate.
Counselling Skills
Practice
Fri
11th
Introduction to NLP,
NLP Epistemology,
Counselling Skills
Practice
Sat
12th
Sun
13th
Mon
14th
Visual and Kinesthetic
Dissociation. (V.K.D.)
Tue
15th
Wed
16th
Thu
17th
Fri
18th
Sat
19th
Sun
20th
Mon
21st
Tue
22nd
Wed
23rd
Thu
24th
Fri
25th
Sat
26th
Keirsey Temperament
Sorter Test and
Explanation
CRAVE Analysis,
Force Field Analysis,
Decision Making
Three Minutes Text.
Theoretical basis of
Gestalt Therapy.
Dealing with anger,
grief and guilt
Exam on
Musical Evening.
Counselling
Community
format
Building.
Weekly evaluation (Submitting 2nd and 3rd Verbatim reports and 2nd R.R. Report on
pp. 226-312 of Principles and Practice of Counselling)
Integration Day
Anchoring (NLP)
FIRO – B Test
Counselling Skills
Practice
Submodalities, Swish
(NLP)
Conflict Management &
Feedback )
Counselling Skills
Practice
FIRO – F Test
Gestalt Therapy
practice. Dealing
with anger, grief &
guilt
Counselling Skills
Practice
Fieldwork in the
hospital
(Last day of
hospital visit)
Counselling Skills
Practice
Counselling the
dying & the
bereaved.
Inventory of SelfActualizing
Characteristics (ISAC)
Test
Theoretical Basis of
Rational Emotive
Behaviour Therapy
(REBT). Ten Irrational
Belief.
Four Basic Positions (TA).
Monitoring PAC (TA).
Meta-Model Questions
(NLP)
Counselling
Skills
Practice
Fieldwork in the
hospital
Counselling
Skills Practice
Exam on Body
language
Recreation in
common.
(Community Day Celebration: Sports at
16.30 hrs)
Counselling
Skills Practice
Exam on Basic
Psychotherapies
Principles and
practice of
Counselling
Musical Evening.
Community Building
Weekly Evaluation. (Submitting 4th and 5th verbatim reports and 3rd R.R. Report on
pp. 175-205, 236-264 of Types of Counselling[2011])
Integration Day
Counselling Skills
Practice
Strokes Analysis
Self-Actualizing
Individuals,
Counselling Skills
VKD & Swish
Self-Actualizing Variables Practice
Practice
Clinical Psychology. (Last day to submit the log and to return the
library books)
Counselling
Skills Practice
Exam on
Situational
crises and
Counselling
Recreation in
common.
Community
Building.
Basic Psychopathology
Synthesis Day/Collage Presentation and Strength Bombardment
Synthesis Day/Collage Presentation and Strength Bombardment
Feedback at 09.00 hrs, Re-Entry at 09.30 hrs and convocation at 10.30 hrs
Cultural Items. Community Building.