बच्चों का एवं किशोर-किशोरीओं का परामर्श Child And Adolescence Counselling Salient Features Services a School Counselor can Provide Audio clip of this class is also available at soundcloud.com

1. Child & Adolescent Counselling
Salient Features of Counselling for the First 18 Years of Life

2. Child and Adolescent Counselling
• Salient Features
• Problems
• Services a counselor can provide

3. The Family Life Cycle
• With single parenthood, divorce, separation and
remarriage as common events, a narrow and traditional
definition of the family is no longer useful for the
practicing clinical psychologist (Walsh, 1993)

4. Definition of the Child
• Definition of the Child: An International Treaty
the ‘Convention on the Rights of the Child’
incorporated the full range of human rights-civil,
cultural, economic, political and social – to the
children. According to Article 1 of the
‘Convention on the Rights of the Child’ a child
is a person below the age of 18 years unless,
under the law applicable to the child majority is
attained earlier.

6. Adolescent Problems
• Drug Abuse
Adolescents because of immaturity of impulse control and judgment are
especially prone to experimentation with drug & alcohol use
Novelty seeking, poor parental supervision and peer involvement
further reinforce use
• Mood Problems

7. Study counselling comprises many different functions:
counselling on choice of school
counselling on homework and study management
counselling on choice of courses
counselling students who have failed courses
counselling students who transfer between schools
counselling those who change to a new course
counselling on choice of higher education
counselling for career interest inventories
career counselling
counselling exchange students
counselling for learning difficulties.
Services a counselor can provide

8. Services a counselor can provide
• The student
counsellor shall,
among other things:
• organise and
implement
counselling on
studies and careers
in the school
• provide counselling
on study and career
options
• participate in
organising various
measures to
promote the greater
well-being of
students in the
school
• monitor the study performance of students who
consult him/her or are referred to him/her, and
propose improvements if necessary
• assist teachers with regard to study difficulties of
individual students, and assist them in the
organisation and supervision of student groups
• contact students’ parents/guardians when
necessary
• keep up with new developments in the field of
student counselling
prepare a report on work carried out at the end of
each academic year.

9. Various parties
• Teachers may refer students to a counsellor.
• School management may draw attention to a student’s
circumstances, followed by consultation on a referral.
• Students may contact the counsellor themselves. This is
the most usual course.
• Parents may draw attention to a student’s situation.
• Friends of the student may draw attention to problems.
• Outside parties may make contact with the counsellor.

10. Personal Counselling
• lack of family
communication
• loneliness
• suicide risk
• shyness and sense of
inferiority
• depression
• examination anxiety
• eating disorders
• rape
• abortion
• pregnancy
• incest and sexual abuse
• violence
• homosexuality
• illness of student
• illness of family or friends
• substance abuse
• financial difficulties
• psychological and emotional
trauma
• children at risk
• living alone.