IIS University - International College for Girls - ICG Courses

M.A. (Psychology)

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Duration: 2 Years

Eligibility: Graduation

Course Structure

Course Code	Course Title
Semester  I
PSY 121	Cognitive PsychologyI
PSY 122	Statistics in Behavioural Sciences
PSY 123	Research Methods in Psychology
PSY 124	NeuropsychologyI
PSY 125	(Group A)  Psychopathology
PSY 125	(Group B)  Guidance and Counselling Psychology
PSY 125	(Group C)  Principles of Organizational Behaviour
PSY 126	Practicals
PSY 127	Seminar
Semester  II
PSY 221	Cognitive PsychologyII
PSY 222	Experimental Designs
PSY 223	Psychometrics
PSY 224	NeuropsychologyII
PSY 225	(Group A )  Psycho diagnostics and Assessment
PSY 225	(Group B)  Special Areas of Counselling
PSY 225	(Group C) Organizational Dynamics
PSY 226	Practicals
PSY 227	Seminar
Semester  III
PSY 321	Psychology of Social Behaviour
PSY 322	Applications of PsychologyI
PSY 323	Personality
PSY 324	Systems and Skills Interventions in PsychologyI
PSY 325	(Group A) Perspectives in Mental Health
PSY 325	(Group B)  Therapeutics in Counselling
PSY 325	(Group C)  Engineering Psychology
PSY 326	Synopsis
Semester  IV
PSY 421	Dynamics of Interpersonal Behaviour
PSY 422	Applications of PsychologyII
PSY 423	Self and Positive Psychology
PSY 424	Systems and Skills Interventions in PsychologyII
PSY 425	(Group A) Psychological Treatment of Mental Disorders
PSY 425	(Group B)  Assessment in Counselling and Guidance
PSY 425	(Group C)  Issues in Industrial Psychology

 

Course Syllabus

Semester – I

PSY 121 -Cognitive Psychology-I

Objectives :

To acquaint students with the processes involved in cognition and to develop critical understanding about cognitive processes.

Unit I

Introduction : Historical Background : Emergence of modern cognitive Psychology : Place of Cognitive Psychology in cognitive science. Approaches : Information Processing, Ecological, Connectionist and evolutionary perspective.

Unit II

Attention : Selective Attention : Filter theory, Attenuation theory, late selection theory, multimode theory; Attention Capacity and Mental effort, Nueropsychological studies of attention; automaticity and effect of practice; divided attention.

Unit III

Perceptual Processes : Perceptual learning and development; perception of shape, space and movement; Implicit perception and Intersensory integration, Motivational and Attitudinal determinants.

Unit IV

Signal Detection Theory : Sensitivity v/s response criteria; Optimal criteria; ROC curves; Applications of signal detection theory; Imagery : properties of mental images; Representation of images, cognitive maps.

Unit V

Language: Structure of language and its acquisition, speech perception, factors affecting comprehension.

 

PSY 122 : Statistics in Behavioural Sciences

Objectives :

To develop an understanding of various statistical techniques in terms of their assumptions, applications and limitations.

Unit I

Definition and Purpose of Statistics : Cumulative distribution, Normal distribution, its nature, divergence from normality : Kurtosis and Skewness; Application of normal probability curve.

Unit II

Special Correlational Methods : Biserial, point biserial, phico- efficient, Tetra choric; Regression and prediction analysis; Least Square Solution : Linear.

Unit III

Inferential Statistics : Significance of : mean, S.D. coefficient of correlation; Testing experimental  hypothesis : Z test, t test, Chi-square, rho.

Unit IV

Analysis of Variance : one way and two way, general uses and limitations.

Unit V

Non-Parametric Statistics : Median Test; Mann-whitney ‘U’ Test; Friedman two-way analysis of Variance.

 

PSY 123 : Research Methods in Psychology

Objectives :

• To provide an overview of scientific approaches to psychological research in terms of sampling techniques, scientific method and experimental designs.
• To acquaint the students with various psychometric approaches.

Unit I

Introduction to Research Methodology : Science and Scientific approach; Meaning purpose of Research, Steps in research with special emphasis on concepts like problem, Hypothesis, Constructs and variables; Applied and Basic Research; Rationale of Research in Psychology.

Unit II

Sampling : Principles and methods, Representative sampling plans.

Unit III

Methods of Research : Single case study method; survey methods; ex-post facto; field studies.

Unit IV

Tools of data collection : observation; interview schedules; questionnaire; semantic differential, Q-methodology.

Unit V Application of computer in psychological research.

 

PSY 124 – Neuropsychology-I

Objectives :

• To help students to understand neuropsychology of human behavior.
• To develop understanding about the linkage between cognition and neuropsychology.

Unit I

• Introduction to Neuropsychology
• Definition; history and scope; methods.

Unit II

Neuroanotomy :

Structure and functions : Neurons, CNS, PNS and Neurotransmitters; Development of brain : Prenatal, Postnatal.

Unit III

Neuropsychology of Attention : Subcortical structure influencing attention; Cerebral Cortex and attention; Disorders of attention.

Unit IV

Neuropsychology of Sensory and Perceptual Processes Sensory and perceptual processes : visual, auditory, chemical and somatorsensory; Neuropsychology of motor skills; Disorders of sensory and perceptual processes.

Unit V Neuropsychology of Memory : Neuropsychological basis of LTM, STM and Working Memory; Disorders of Memory.

 

PSY 125 (Group A) : Psychopathology

Objectives :

• To impart knowledge about the normality and abnormality of behaviour.
• To make students understand the nature and course of variousabnormal conditions.

Unit I

Nature and Problems of Clinical Psychology : Brief history of clinical psychology; The nature and status of clinical psychology; Role of Clinical Psychologist; Professional ethics Training, Responsibilities of a Clinical Psychologist, Future of Clinical Psychology.

Unit II Genesis of Psychopathology : Clinical manifestations of neurotic, psychotic and psychosomatic disorders.

Unit III Clinical manifestation of organic disorders : Neurological disorder, cerebral palsy, spasticity, organic brain syndromes and mental retardation.

Unit IV Personality Disorders : Types and their clinical manifestation.

Unit V Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, eating, sleeping disorders, impulse control disorder; Substance abuse disorders.

 

PSY 125 (Group B) – Guidance and Counselling Psychology

Objectives :

To acquaint the students with the recent trends in Counselling and Guidance.

Unit I Counselling Psychology : Definition, nature and scope, historical development and current status.

Unit II Guidance : Meaning and definition of guidance; Aims and importance of guidance, basic principles of guidance, types of guidance, group guidance.

Unit III Guidance Services in Schools : Importance, scope and problems, educational and vocational guidance. Organization of guidance services, follow up services in guidance, evaluation of guidance services.

Unit IV Counselling Process : Counselling process and content, characteristics of the counselor and the counselee.

Unit V Approaches and Techniques of counselling; Expectancy and goals of counselling.

 

PSY 125 (Group C) - Principles of Organizational Behaviour

Objectives :

To understand the concepts, nature and principles of organizational behavior.

Unit I The Foundation For Organizational Behavior: The Challenges facing management today; Introduction to Organizational Behavior; Cognitive Framework; Behavior Framework; Social learning framework and Organizational Behavior framework, History of Organizational Behavior.

Unit II Organizational Theories : Classical, Modern Theory, Theory X, Y, Z.

Unit III Nature of Organizational Culture : Definition, uniformity, types, Creating and maintaining a culture, Changing organizational Culture, Organization Climate.

Unit IV Communication : Model, Functions, Channels, Communication fundamentals : Direction of communication, formal v/s informal network, Non-verbal communication, barriers to effective communication, Key communication skills : Active listening and feedback, Effective communication management.

Unit V Decision Making: Nature of decision making, Behavioral decision-making : decision rationality, Models, decision making techniques : Traditional Participative technique and Modern Participative Technique.

 

PSY 126 - Practicals

Note : Semester I. Each student has to do at least 5 problems from the list of experiment given below :

Section I

• Psychophysics
• Attention
• Perceptional Processes
• Signal Detection

Section II (A) : Practical based on paper 125 (Group A)

• TAT
• Rorshach
• EPQ (R)
• 16 PF
• Field Visit

Section II (B) : Practical based on paper 125 (Group B)

Each student will have to take a group of at least 5 cases from standard IX or X and administered the following tests.

• Aptitude and Interest
• Intelligence
• Personality
• Attitude
• Field Visit

Based on the results a detailed report should be prepared. Educational and career Counselling should be provided at group level and personal Counselling at the individual level.

Section II (C) : Practical based on paper 125 (Group C)

• Decision Making
• Organizational Culture Profile
• Organizational Climate Scale
• Delegation Assessment Questionnaire
• Field Visit

 

PSY 127 - Seminar

Assessment to be done during the semester.

 

Semester – II

PSY 221 -Cognitive Psychology-II

Objectives :

This paper aims at developing an understanding of the processes of learning, memory and problem solving, creativity and reasoning and their various applications.

Unit I

Learning: Major types of learning : Classical conditioning; Instrumental learning; Verbal learning; Human Performance; Theoretical issues in learning.

Unit II

Memory: Sensory memory; Short-term memory; Long-term memory; Working Memory; Metamemory; Semantic and episodic memories; Eyewitness memory; Implicit and explicit memory; Models of semantic knowledge; The procedural – declarative distinction Forgetting: Theories of forgetting; Mnemonics.

Unit III

Creativity and Human Intelligence : Creative process, creativity and functional fixity, Investment theory of creativity, Judging creativity, Problems of definition of intelligence, Cognitive theories of intelligence, Neuro cognition and intelligence, Artificial intelligence.

Unit IV Thinking : Concept formation and categorization; Judgment and decision making; Logical reasoning : types and errors in reasoning processes; deductive and inductive hypothesis testing and conditional reasoning theories of thought processes.

Unit V Problem Solving: Classification of problems; Problems space theory, Problems solving approaches; Means-end Heuristics, analogy approach and other strategies.

PSY 222 - Experimental Designs

Objectives :

To develop an understanding of various experimental designs in terms of their assumption, applications and limitations.

Unit I

Experimental Design : Experimental design as variance control; Randomized group design; Randomized block design.

Unit II

Nested Design, (Two factors only) Latin square design (with one observation in each cell) Crossover design (replication with the same square).

Unit III

Repeated Measure Design: Single factor, Two factors (with repeated measure on one factor) No trend analysis].

Unit IV

Comparison Among Treatment Means : Dunnett, Duncan, Tukey.

Unit V

Simple Analysis of Covariance. (Only theory and steps)

 

PSY 223 - Psychometrics

Objectives :

To acquaint the students with various psychometric approaches.

Unit I

Measurement in Psychometry : Concept of observed, true and error scores. Errors of measurement.

Unit II

Reliability and validity : factors affecting them.

Unit III

Construction of Tests Scales: Item analysis; scoring problems; establishment of norms.

Unit IV

Standardization : response biases; statistical criterion for parallel tests.

Unit V

General Introduction to multivariate techniques; multiple regression; multidimensional scaling; factor analysis (Theoretical concepts only, no numericals).

 

PSY 224 – Neuropsychology-II

Objectives :

• To help students to understand neuropsychology of human behavior.
• To develop understanding about the linkage between cognition and neuropsychology.

Unit I

Language : Hemispheric specialization. Brain mechanisms of speech comprehensions and  production. Disorders.

Unit II Neuropsychological Correlates of Motivation and Emotion : Emotion : Hypothalamus, Limbic system, amygdala, neocortex; Motivation : Ingestive Behaviors

Unit III Psychological and neurobiological aspects of sleep and awaking.

Unit IV Hormones and Behavior : Mechanism of Hormone Action, main endocrine glands and their Hormones, Effects of Hormones on learning and memory.

Unit V Applications of Neuropsychology : Neuropsychological  Assessment; Rehabilitation.

 

PSY 225 (Group A ) : Psycho diagnostics and Assessment

Objectives :

• To train students in psycho diagnosis and psychological assessment.
• To impart knowledge and skills required for psychological assessment and diagnostic testing.

Unit I

Classification of Psychiatric disorders : with special reference to International Classification ICD, and DSM IV (R) ; Problems of differential diagnoses.

Unit II

Major Stages of Development : Family history, Mental status examination and observation of the mental and physical status of the patient.

Unit III

Clinical Assessment: Nature and Purpose; Formal Assessment: Interview, Case History; Use of Psychological tests in clinical settings (Foreign and Indian) : Neurological tests, intelligence tests, personality tests : Writing case reports.

Unit IV

Ethics : Issues in assessment of mental disorders.

Unit V

Childhood Psychiatric disorders : diagnostic formulation and treatment; Organization and establishing Child Guidance Clinics; Role of Clinical Psychologist.

 

PSY 225 (Group B) – Special Areas of Counselling

Objectives :

To appraise students with the different areas in counselling.

Unit I

Counselling Children and Adolescents: Emotionally disturbed; Learning disability; Children with academic

problems socially disadvantaged; Multi-cultural counselling.

Unit II Psycho-Social Problems : Identification of Psychosocial Problems; Counselling for Attempted Suicides, Drug Addicts and Alcoholics.

Unit III Mentally and Physically Challenged : Psycho-social and  vocational evaluation, counselling, rehabilitation.

Unit IV Terminal Diseases/Chronic Illness : Cancer, HIV/AIDS etc., Evaluation and counselling, counselling caretakers.

Unit V` Counselling for the Aged: Identification of Psychological problems and counselling.

 

PSY 225 (Group C)– Organizational Dynamics

Objectives :

To introduce behavioral science principles and practices in organizational psychology.

Unit I

Organizational Development : Change; Managing change; Organizational development; Theoretical approaches to Organizational Development; Traditional Organizational Development technique. Transactional analysis.

Unit II

Job Design : Background, Characteristics, job achievement, practical guidance for redesigning jobs, quality of work life and sociotechnical design; goal setting.

Unit III

Job Stress : Meaning, background, causes, effects of job stress : physical, psychological and behavioral problems due to stress; Coping strategies.

Unit IV

Leadership : Definition, History of Leadership studies Process and Performance; Emerging framework for Leaderships : Charismatic Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Substitute for Leadership. Leadership styles : classic studies, modern theories, Managerial grid style, Hersey and Blanchard’s life cycle or situational approach, Likert’s four systems of management, Vroom – Yetton Leadership model.

Unit V Motivation Theory and Process : Meaning; types of motives; work motivation approaches : content, process and contemporary theories; Job Satisfaction –Influence and outcomes.

 

PSY 226 - Practicals

Section I Experiments common for all the students of MA/M.Sc (Prev.)

• Learning
• Memory
• Forgetting
• Creativity
• Thinking and Problem Solving

Section II (A) : Based on paper 225 (Group A)

• Assessment of Development Progress
• Cognitive Assessment of Children
• Cognitive Assessment of Adults
• Neuro Psychological Assessment
• Clinical Scales

Section II (B) : Based on paper 225 (Group B)

• Assessment of Learning Disability
• Assessment of Emotional Maturity
• Assessment of Study Habit
• Vocational Interest
• Assessment of Environment

Section II (C) : Based on paper 225 (Group C)

• Occupational Stress Index
• Work Motivation Test
• Leadership
• Job Satisfaction
• Organizational Development

 

PSY 227 - Seminar

Assessment to be done during the semester.

 

Semester – III

PSY 321– Psychology of Social Behaviour

Objectives :

To acquaint students with the theoretical concepts in the field of social psychology.

Unit I

Historical Background : Growth of Social Psychology as a Modern Discipline; Tradition of Social Psychology  Psychological, Sociological, societal and applied; culture and social psychology : relationship with other social sciences.

Unit II

Theoretical Perspectives : Cognitive Dissonance, Social comparison, reactance, Social identity; Field; Psychodynamic; Social constructionism; Social representation; Sociobiology.

Unit III

Self in Social World : Social cognition; Schemes and prototypes, heuristics; Potential errors in cognitions; Self concept; Perceived self control, Self efficacy; lo us of control; Learned helplessness; Resilience; self-serving bias, Self-identity, Gender identity and stereotypes based on gender sex-typing.

Unit IV Understanding the Social World : Social Motivation; prosocial behavior; Attitudes : specificity, strength, accessibility and other factors, Formation, Change : Factors, Theories.

Unit V Leadership Behavior : Classical and behavioral approaches to leadership; Contingency theories of leadership; Transformational leadership; Leadership effectiveness in Indian context.

 

Paper 322 - Applications of Psychology-I

Objectives :

To provide an understanding about the applications of psychology and provide an interface between society and psychology.

Unit I

Introduction : Making Psychology relevant, Research methods used in applied settings : Designing research, Single case and Small n Designs, multiple variable designs, correlation designs.

Unit II

Health Psychology : Health and nutrition; mental health and Clinical Field; Characteristics features and typical problem encountered in these areas.

Unit III

Consumer Psychology : Advertising and media, market research, consumer behaviour.

Unit IV

Sports Psychology : Introduction, History of sports psychology, Behavioural intervention in sports and social psychological dimension.

Unit V

Community Psychology : Psychology applied to social issues, political problems, administration and related areas.

 

PSY 323 – Personality

Objectives :

This course helps the students to understand the diverse psychological approaches used for analysis of Personality.

Unit I

Introduction : Concept, definitions and determinants of personality.

Unit II

Personality Assessment : Research Methods : Observational Methods, Rating Scales, Q Sort, Interview, Semantic Differential; Tools : Personality Inventories : Big five factors, type A & B. Projective Techniques : Rorschach, TAT.

Unit III

Psychoanalytic Approach : Personality theories by Freud, Horney, Fromm, Sullivan.

Unit IV

Organismic Theories : Allport, Roger and Maslow.

Unit V

Factor Theories : Cattell and Eysenck.

 

PSY 324 : Systems and Skills Interventions in Psychology-I

Objectives :

• To acquaint students with various systems of psychotherapy.
• To train students in skills for intervention in psychology.

Unit I Therapy System Emphasizing Background and Content : I Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis.

Unit II Therapy System Emphasizing Background and Content : II Carl Jung and Jungian Analytic Psychology; Alfred Adler and Individual Psychology.

Unit III Therapy Systems Emphasizing Background and Content: III Development of Psychodynamic Theories, Transactional Analysis , Brief Psychodynamic Therapy.

Unit IV Therapy Systems Emphasizing Emotions and Sensations : I Carl Rogers and Person-Centered Counselling, Existential Therapy.

Unit V Therapy Systems Emphasizing Emotions and Sensations : II Gestalt Therapy, Emerging Approaches emphasizing Emotions and Sensations.

 

PSY 325 (Group A) : Perspectives in Mental Health

Objectives

• To acquaint the students with the nature and significance of the emerging area of mental health psychology within a life-span perspective.
• To highlight the importance of social and psychological processes in the experience of health and illness.
• To focus on the behavioral risk factors vis-à-vis disease prevention and health promotion.

Unit I

Social and Historical Contexts of Community psychology, Current issues in community Mental Health.

Unit II

Mental Health in relation to Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology and Community Mental Health, Positive mental health and Personal growth.

Unit III

Trends in the evolution of mental health practices and mental health institution for psychiatric care in Western countries and India; The mental health legislation and its implications.

Unit IV

Preventions in Mental Health (primary, secondary and tertiary) : Crisis intervention, competence building, mental  health consultation : The role of NGOs in Community Mental Health : Self help groups; Half way homes.

Unit V

Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) : Issues, principles and programmes.; Research and Evaluation of CBR

 

PSY 325 (Group B) – Therapeutics in Counselling

Objectives :

• To familiarize students with the theoretical standpoints in therapeutic intervention.
• To train them in skills of therapy.

Unit I

The Therapeutic Relationship : The process of helping; counsellor characteristics and values, professional issues and skills (listening, reflecting, summarizing, confronting, interpreting and informing). Issues faced by the therapist : Dealing with anxiety, disclosing oneself, avoiding perfectionism, being honest with client, understanding silence, dealing with demanding and uncommunicative clients, accepts slow results, learning our limits, avoiding losing oneself in our clients, establishing realistic goals.

Unit II

Psychodynamic Approach to Counselling : Freudian, Neo-Freudian.

Unit III

Behavioral and Cognitive Approach Operant Conditioning : Behaviour Modification, Social skills training, Rational Emotive Therapy, Transactional Analysis.

Unit IV

Humanistic and Existential Approach : Client centered, Logotherapy.

Unit V

Indian Perspective : Yoga, Meditation.

 

PSY 325 (Group C) – Engineering Psychology

Objectives :

To understand the concepts, nature and principles of industrial psychology.

Unit I

Industrial Psychology : Definition of Industrial Psychology; Role of Industrial Psychologist. Roots and history of Industrial Psychology

Unit II

Human Engineering : Scope and origin of engineering psychology; work and fatigue; work schedule; methods design; monotony and boredom.

Unit III

Working Condition : Illumination atmospheric condition, noise, music, rest periods.

Unit IV

Human Factors in Equipment Design : Man-machine systems, display problems, Control problems, Problems of spatial configuration and arrangement.

Unit V

Accidents and Safety : Definition, human and economic costs of accidents causes, situational and individual factors related to accident reduction.

 

PSY 326 - Synopsis

 

Semester – IV

PSY 421– Dynamics of Interpersonal Behaviour

Objectives :

• To acquaint the students with the theoretical concepts in the field of social psychology.
• To make student aware of the various social problems and study their applied aspects.

Unit I

Social Structure and Behavior : Individuals vs group; Social facilitation; Evaluative apprehension; conformity and group performance; Cohesiveness and performance; Group Polarization; Group problem solving; Minority influence : Social loafing. De individuation.

Unit II

Social Communication : Social Psychological Models of Interpersonal Communication; Principles of persuasion; Resistance to persuasion; Impression Management; Attribution: theories of attribution; Prejudiced communication.

Unit III

Social Emotions : Aggression and social violence; Management and control of aggression. Prejudices: nature and power of prejudice. Social inequality, conformity, identity; The scape-goat theory; cognitive interventions : techniques that can help. Altruism : internal and external factors that influence altruistic behavior; Interpersonal attraction. 

Unit IV

Conflict, Conflict Management and Peace : Concept of peace and non violence; Conflicts in groups; Conflict resolution; Conflict management

Unit V

Social Psychology of Action : Social psychology of environment, personal space and psychology of crowding. Social psychology in the court; Jurors as individual and jury as a group. The influence of judgment.

 

PSY 422 : Applications of Psychology-II

Objectives :

To provide an understanding about the applications of psychology and provide an interface between society and psychology.

Unit I

Psychology and Law : Psychology and Judicial Process, Psychological Factors in anti-social behavior. Role of Psychologists in criminal justice system. Policy formation and development of laws.

Unit II

Psychology and Crime : Introduction; determinants of criminal behaviour, schools of thoughts and theories of crime; prevention.

Unit III

Psychology of Education : Role of Psychologists in the school system, Educational technology, behavioural modification in class rooms, early childhood education.

Unit IV

Environmental Psychology : Theories of environment and behaviour relationships, disasters, toxic hazards and pollution, effects of urban life and solutions to urban problems, changing behaviour to save the environment.

Unit V

Indian Psychology – Self and Identity, Indian, perspective of emotion, application of Indian psychology: Yoga, Meditation, Vipassana.

 

PSY 423 – Self and Positive Psychology

Objectives : This course seeks to help the students in understanding the emergence of self from developmental, experimental, humanistic and Indian perspectives, with the goal to enhance their personal growth & well-being and that of others in their contact.

Unit I

Introduction : Concept of self and personal growth. Sources of self knowledge, positive psychology. 

Unit II

Subjective well being : The science of Happiness and life satisfaction.

Unit III

Resilience in Development : History, conceptual models of resilience, Fostering resilience, future directions for resilience research.

Unit IV

The Social Construction of Self esteem : The conventional view, Deconstructing self esteem, cultural emphasis and the discourse of self esteem; experience of self esteem; social import of mood; mood, self esteem and discourse.

Unit V

Self Efficacy : Introduction, source of self efficacy, importance of self efficacy, collective efficacy, enhancement of self efficacy.

 

PSY 424 : Systems and Skills Interventions in Psychology-II

Objectives :

• To acquaint students with various systems of psychotherapy.
• To train students in skills for intervention in psychology.

Unit I

Therapy Systems Emphasizing Thoughts : I Aaron Beck and Cognitive Therapy, Emerging Approaches Emphasizing Thoughts

Unit II

Therapy Systems Emphasizing Thoughts : II Albert Ellis and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

Unit III

Therapy Systems Emphasizing Actions : Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Reality Therapy, Solution Based Brief Therapy

Unit IV

Integrated and Elective Treatment System : I Overview , Theories of Integrated and Elective Treatment

Unit V

Integrated and Elective Treatment System : II Maximizing Treatment Effectiveness : Therapeutic Alliance, Problems and Diagnosis, Treatment Setting, Skills Development.

 

PSY 425 (Group A) : Psychological Treatment of Mental Disorders

Objectives :

To familiarize students with the therapeutic intervention and train them in skills of therapy.

Unit I

Introduction to Psychological Treatment : Concept, definition, nature and scope of psychotherapies and counselling, goals and effectiveness of psychotherapies and counselling.

Unit II

Individual Therapy : Psychoanalytic psychotherapy; client centered therapy, cognitive therapy; logo therapy, gestalt therapy.

Unit III

Group Therapy : Group psychotherapy, psychodrama and Transactional analysis.

Unit IV

Behavior Modification Techniques : Systematic desensitization, Flooding and Implosive therapy, contingency management, Token economy, Aversion, Modelling.

Unit V

Cross Cultural Therapies: Zen, Buddhism and indigenous system in India : use of yoga, meditation, hypnosis, bio-feed back and autogenic training.

 

PSY 425 (Group B) – Assessment in Counselling and Guidance

Objectives :

• To equip students with various standardized and non-standardized techniques of assessment in the field of counselling and guidance.
• To train the students for administration of tests and interpretation of scores.

Unit I

Nature of Psychological Assessment : Interview and observation, taking case history, selection of tests, implications of psychological test results, ethics of psychological testing.

Unit II

Assessment of Aptitude: Differential Aptitude Test, General Aptitude Test Battery; Assessment of Interests: Chatterjee’s Non Language Preference Record. Intelligence : Wechsler’s Adult Intelligence Scale- Revised, Bhatia’s Performance Test of Intelligence.

Unit III

The Objective Assessment of Personality – High School Personality Questionnaire, 16 Personality Factors, Eysenck’s Personality Inventory. The projective assessment of personality Thematic Apperception Test, Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Study, Sentence Completion Test.

Unit IV

Behavioral Techniques and Tests : Behavioral Questionnaires, self monitoring, problem checklist observation in natural environment.

Unit V

Report Writing : Writing case study reports preparing a profile of individual and group career guidance in the report form.

 

PSY 425 (Group C) – Issues in Industrial Psychology

Objectives :

To understand the concepts, nature and principles of industrial psychology.

Unit I

Recruitment and Selection : Recruitment factors; Theories, steps  of recruitment process and policy. Sources of recruitment. Recruitment in organization, selection procedure and policy. Steps in selection procedure : Application Blank, weighted application blank, biodata, Biographical inventory, physical examination and reference checks.

Unit II

Development and Training : Nature and scope of industrial training; distinction between training and development; Need and importance of training; Training methods – on-job, off- job; Developing a training program; improving effectiveness of training.

Unit III

Industrial Morale : Definition, determinants, Measurement, methods of increasing industrial morale. Groups and group dynamics.

Unit IV

Issues in Human Resources Management : Promotion, Demotion, Transfer, Separation, Absenteeism and Turnover.

Unit V

Rewards and Incentives : Meaning, features, types of reward. Wage Incentives, objectives, merits of incentives, incentive plans for Blue-collar workers. Incentive plans for White-collar workmen. Incentive for management employees. Guidelines for effective incentive plans.