Childhood and Developmental Disorders

Phenomenological and psychopathological etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders, intellectual disabilities, and various other emotional and behavioural disorders of children

Disorders of Adulthood

Continuum of normality and abnormality from the perspective of different neurotic and psychotic disorders, viz., anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, etc.

Personality Disorders

Different dimensions of personality highlighting the different problems associated with it, special emphasis on the causal factors, and other disorders associated with personality problems

Sexual Dysfunction

Different types of sexual dysfunctions along with their signs and etiology

Disorders of Substance Use

Concepts of use, harmful use, dependence, tolerance and withdrawal; and the detrimental impacts of psychotropic and psychoactive substances, mainly focusing on the consequences in the domains of emotion, behaviour, thought and perception

Counselling Skills and Ethics

Counselling skills – to cognise and integrate the possibilities and limitations of therapeutic work, inculcate respect, and maintain confidentiality and ethical guidelines.

Basics of Psychotherapy processes

Different schools of psychotherapy, namely, psychodynamic, existential, behavioural (BT), cognitive, cognitive-behavioural (CBT), and third-wave behaviour therapy, along with their techniques, stages, strategies, tools, applications, limitations, indications, and contraindications.

Disorder-specific psychotherapy techniques and Strategies

Different evidence-based psychotherapeutic approaches (BT, CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, Family and Couple therapy) of the treatment of various anxiety disorders, mood disorders and schizophrenia-related disorders.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation

Impairment (structural and functional), handicap and disability and about primary, secondary and tertiary health care systems, their importance and efficacy in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with physical disability and/or psychiatric illnesses.

Standardised objective measures of intellectual functioning and personality

Assessment, including, but not limited to, theoretical background, administration, scoring and interpretation using standardised tests of intelligence such as Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – IVth edition (WAIS-IV) and that of personality, such as Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and Neuroticism, Extroversion, Openness to Experience Scale (NEO- PI and NEO-FFI)

Projective techniques and tools

Assessment, including, but not limited to, theoretical background, administration, scoring, and interpretation using standardised projective measures of personality, like, the Rorschach Inkblot Test (RIBT) and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and emotional and behavioural traits, such as Rosenswig Picture-Frustration Test

Symptoms and Disorder-specific rating scales

Various symptom and syndrome-specific scales of psychopathology, such as evaluation of mood, anxiety, disruptive behaviours, thought, perception etc.

Application of rating scales on outdoor clients

Application of the aforementioned scales on outdoor clients

Organised and systematic ways of finding evidence for psychological and psychosocial phenomena, using both quantitative and qualitative methodology, various statistical implications including those required for the description of data, drawing inference and predicting for population, and integrative learning of scale construction through appropriate psychometric methods