Essential Aspects of Counselling Programs and Their Need in Educational Institutions with Special Reference to India

A Qualitative Study

Exposé Écrit pour un Séminaire / Cours , 2020 , 8 Pages

Sociologie - Travail, Education, Organisation

This research paper is aimed at studying the essential aspects of counselling programs and analysing their needs from an Indian perspective specifically. The paper uses secondary data wherever required to accomplish the objectives. Counselling can basically be defined as an individualized process for helping the person in future adjustments, taking care of mental health, better planning, self-clarification and self-determination etc.

The procedure of counselling has been described as per its implications in various fields such as medical, educational, vocational etc. Our key focus has been on educational counselling. From an educational perspective, the procedure of counselling involves the stages of Readiness, Counter Will, Case History, Rapport, Transference and Resistance. In India, educational counselling programs are very much needed in order to resolve the conflicts of the students related to examination, career, mental health issues, and proper advisory in growth age, especially adolescent age because the level of awareness is low in India. Further counselling also helps in better decision-making, developing life skills, better time management, and finding out his/her inner potential. But while analyzing the state of counselling programs, we found that there is a huge lack of a number of counsellors in India.

In the draft of NPE 2019, there is a mention of at least one counsellor per school complex. There is a lack of national-level licensing bodies for counsellors. Further, the training programs do not serve their practical purposes. Thus, the training remains insufficient. Private and public higher education institutions need to restructure the curriculum of their respective diploma courses and postgraduate programs related to educational guidance and counselling. A positive attitude towards this profession is also much needed. If these and some other intensive issues are well addressed, only then counselling programs will be able to serve their complete purpose.

1. INTRODUCTION

The changing educational and social patterns demands better adjustment capabilities from a person which many times may not be fulfilled by the person itself. He/she requires the supportive structures to tackle with his/her personal, professional or academic problems. Counselling programs are aimed at the same. This study analyzes the different aspects of counselling programs with reference to educational/academic programs in particular. Though, counselling is needed everywhere beyond the boundaries of education. But educational counselling covers the methodologies of the other fields to very much extent. In this study, we have first introduced the concept of counselling, then procedure and need of counselling. Our main goal has been to find the drawbacks of current counselling system in India and give relevant recommendations for the same described in the final stages of the paper.

2. OBJECTIVE:

To study the essential aspects of counselling programs and analyze their need in Indian perspective.

3. RESEARCH QUESTIONS:

a)What is the concept of Counselling?

b)What is the procedure of counselling?

c)Why are counselling programs needed?

d)What are the drawbacks in the formulation and execution of counselling programs in educational institutions of India?

e) What recommendations may be given in order to achieve better and efficient formulation and execution of counselling programs?

4. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:

The required information was collected from secondary sources-

4.1. Secondary Sources:

The major secondary sources are listed below:

· Indira Gandhi National Open University Books

· Guidance and Counselling by Dr Shipra Gupta (Book)

· IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science

· Guidance and Counselling published by NCERT (Book)

· International Journal of Advanced Educational Research

· The International Journal of Indian Psychology

· JSTOR (Journal)

These resources were used due to their comprehensive approach, good standard and easy availability. These resources gave a required approach to the idea about the concept of counselling, its need in India and problems in implementation of the counselling programs, on the basis of which necessary recommendations could be given. [...]

• Cours: B.A. B.Ed. Integrated
• Auteurs: Anand Prakash Sharma (Auteur), Lovish Raheja (Auteur)
• Année de publication: 2020
• Pages: 8
• N° de catalogue: V1263309
• ISBN (PDF): 9783346714275
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: Counselling, Educational Institutions, Need of Counselling, Drawbacks