Counselling psychology case study

Mental Health has always been a matter of stigma in society. Any physical health issue or injury is treated with concern and immediate medical attention is sought for the same. But it is considered a shame and stigma to talk about mental health or seek help for the same. Mental health has become a matter of concern present days and it affects all irrespective of age. Counseling has served as one of those professions that has proved its effectiveness and has been highly attached to the arena of education. Yet, despite its significance, the inculcation of the qualities of counselors in the teaching profession, importance of counseling as a teacher and the role of teacher as a counselor have been spoken at length in scarce occasions.

Space and Culture, India, 2015

Counselling is a purposeful understanding of a person so as to promote self-understanding in that person. There is an urgent need of introducing and strengthening the counselling service in the schools and colleges to meet the various needs of the students. Along with the intellectual development, proper motivation and clarification of goals and ideas to pupils in conformity with their basic potentialities and social tendencies are important for the total development of the student. Professional counsellors in educational settings ought to develop and deliver comprehensive counselling programme supporting and promoting student achievement, which should include a systematic and planned programme delivery involving all students and enhancing the learning process. This study is based on the review of secondary literature in an attempt to highlight the utmost relevance of counselling services in an educational setting.

Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy Revue Canadienne De Counseling Et De Psychotherapie, 2012

counseling is gaining relevance in educational settings owing to the emotional and mental stress exerted by educational practices. This paper gives some basic ideas of educational counseling

Counselling and Education: An integrated approach The need for counselling in schools has gained much attention in the past few years. An increasing number of students experiencing problems and challenges in different facets of life make it imperative that teachers also start assuming the role of counselor. This paper highlights some of the major developments in counselling programmes in India. An attempt has also been made to stress the important linkages between teaching and counselling. Counselling is the skilled and principled use of a relationship to facilitate self knowledge, emotional acceptance and growth, and the optimal development of personal resources. The overall aim is to provide an opportunity to work towards living more satisfyingly and resourcefully (British Association of Counselling, 1991). This definition is in accord with the way counselling should be used in schools. The goals identified in the definition are the one's which are encompassed by the overall aims of education. Schools aim to facilitate their students' self knowledge and emotional acceptance. They also aim to promote personal growth and optimal development of each student's potential, the ultimate aim of education being to produce contented, productive and resourceful citizen. In schools, the relationship referred to in the definition is typically not one counselor to client but that of teacher to pupil.

Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy

Over the past 30 years, the field of counselling psychology has experienced many new insights and shifting practices into counsellor education, practitioner and faculty scholarship, and larger systems including post-secondary institutions, accreditation councils, and regulatory bodies. One of the central contributions to this expanding landscape is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). In this introduction to the present special issue of Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, the authors outline the trends and developments in SoTL and discuss current applications of SoTL to the field of counselling psychology. They highlight the importance of these applications for moving the field of counselling forward. Each of the four articles within this special issue is described briefly through the lens of its contributions to SoTL within counselling psychology.

Counselling is a purposeful understanding of a person so as to promote self-understanding in that person. There is an urgent need of introducing and strengthening the counselling service in the schools and colleges to meet the various needs of the students. Along with the intellectual development, proper motivation and clarification of goals and ideas to pupils in conformity with their basic potentialities and social tendencies are important for the total development of the student. Professional counsellors in educational settings ought to develop and deliver comprehensive counselling programme supporting and promoting student achievement, which should include a systematic and planned programme delivery involving all students and enhancing the learning process. This study is based on the review of secondary literature in an attempt to highlight the utmost relevance of counselling services in an educational setting.

Mamluk Cairo, A Crossroads for Embassies: Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics, 2019

This article discusses diplomatic relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus during a period when the Cypriot Kingdom had been reduced to tributary status following the Mamluk invasion of Cyprus in 1426 and the defeat of King Janus at the battle of Khirokitia. The social status of the envoys exchanged, their nationality, their treatment and the means of communication they emploed are discussed, as are some of the specific issues they dealt with, such as the transfer of power on Cyprus from the Lusignan dynasty to the venetains and the Mamluk acceptance of this. The main souce materials are the accounts of the Castilian nobleman Pero Tafur, the Chronicle of the Cypriot Georgios Boustronios and the writings of the Mamluk historian Ibn Taghri Birdi. All three authors lived in the fifteenth century and so are contemporary to the events they recounted.