1. Journeying to Understand and Embrace the Within and the Without
2. Re-learning How to ‘Be’ in order to Live Fully and Help Effectively

1. Self-Esteem: Basic Need or Learned Way of Being? Fixed Quality or Ongoing Experience? Components of Self-Esteem.
   
   
2. Self-Actualization: Human Need or Option? Process or Destination? Pre-requisites for Self-Actualization.
   
   
3. The Human Condition: Creation of Free Will or Play of Destiny? The Realm of Human Control; Responsibility for Choice and Consequences.
   
   
4. Character and Identity: Fixed Entity or Ongoing Choice? Identity as Consciously or Unconsciously Chosen Values; Character as Values in Action.
   
   
5. Intra-Psychic Conflict: Aspects of Self and Their Conflicting Values/Needs; Conflict Resolution.
   
   
6. Motive and Intention: Impact on Actions and Outcomes.
   
   
7. Grit and Grace: Having, Doing and Being; Making Things Happen and Allowing Things to Unfold.
   
   
8. Self-Motivation: Discovering and Sustaining the Inner Drive for Everyday Excellence
   
   
9. Gratitude: Creating the Space for Intentions to Manifest and for Prayers to be answered.
   
   
10. Meditation: Developing, Practicing and Strengthening Self-Awareness.

1. History and Rationale of Counselling
   
   
2. The Need for Counselling and Therapy
   
   
3. Counsellors’ Role in a Changing Society
   
   
4. Recognising and Creating Opportunities for Counselling
   
   
5. Professional Standards and Ethics of Counselling

1. Overview of Lifespan including Prenatal Development
   
   
2. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
   
   
3. Erickson’s Theory of Psycho-social Development
   
   
4. Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

1. Function of Theory in Counselling
   
   
2. Freud’s Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic School
   
   
3. Jungian Approach
   
   
4. Behavioral School
   
   
5. Cognitive School
   
   
6. Humanistic Approach
   
   
7. Transactional Analysis
   
   
8. Existential School
   
   
9. Gestalt Approach
   
   
10. Transpersonal Approach

1. Introduction to Helping; Overview of the Helping Model
   
   
2. The Helping Relationship; Introduction to Communication
   
   
3. Active Listening; Empathy; Probing and Summarising
   
   
4. Helping Clients Tell Their Stories; Reluctant and Resistant Clients
   
   
5. The Nature of Challenging; Specific Challenging Skills
   
   
6. The Wisdom of Challenging; Developing Leverage
   
   
7. Goal Setting; Possibilities for a Better Future
   
   
8. Moving from Possibility to Choices; Commitment
   
   
9. Action Strategies; Best-Fit Strategies
   
   
10. Making Plans; Making it all Happen

Socio-Cultural Aspects of Health and Illness

1. Normalcy and Deviation
   
   
2. Culture-Specific Beliefs and Syndromes with Special Reference to India
   
   
3. Multi-Cultural Counseling

1. Overview and General Concepts
   
   
2. Diagnostic and Classificatory Systems
   
   
3. Common Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
   
   
4. Common Disorders of Adulthood
   
   
5. Personality Disorders
   
   
6. Sexual Dysfunctions and Gender Identity Disorders
   
   
7. Substance Use Disorders

1. Ayurveda: The Science of Rectifying Energic Imbalance and Restoring Health
   
   
2. Yoga: The Holistic Way of Healing and Sustaining Complete Well-Being
   
   
3. Meditation: The Practice of Perceiving Reality Accurately.