School of Behavioural Sciences

School of Behavioural Sciences
Kannur University,

Raz Complex, South Bazar, Kannur-2
Tel : 0497 - 2761441

Year of Establishment

2006

Faculty of the Department
Dr. S.Vinod Kumar, M.A, M.Phil, Ph.D. (Course Director) Phone (Res): 0497-2701904 Mobile: 94474 51466
Dr. Ajilal. MA, Ph D (Guest Lecturer)	Mr. Prajeesh. MA, NET(Guest Lecturer)
Mr. Dilshad Bin Ashraf. MA, NET (Guest Lecturer)

Courses	Sanctioned Strength
M Sc in Clinical & Counselling Psychology	15
Ph.D. (Regular & Part-time)

M Sc Clinical and Counselling Psychology

Psychology encompasses a diversity of specialties. CLINICAL AND COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY is two of the largest and most popular fields in psychology. Clinical and counselling psychologists deal with the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of individuals with psychological problems. These problems vary considerably as to their degree of severity. Although very similar, clinical and counselling psychologists differ with respect to the disorders of the patients they treat. Typically, clinical psychologists treat more severe disorders, such as phobias, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. On the other hand, counselling psychologists work with patients suffering from everyday stresses, including career planning, academic performance, and marriage and family difficulties.

Clinical and counselling psychology has had a dynamic development in India in the last decade. Training in Clinical Psychology should reflect the vital link between a changing society and the broad therapeutic needs of a community. Reconciling the Indian context with international development is challenging. The content, method of teaching, and practical opportunities offered in this course hopefully reflects the intention to answer to these demands. The School of Behavioural Sciences aims to keep a balance between the various vantage points and our own strengths.

Aim of the course

The aim of the course is to train the students to function as professional clinical counselors in the area of mental health by developing competence in psycho diagnostics, psychotherapeutics and rehabilitation services.

Objectives

The course is designed as a two year, four semester programme with essential theoretical inputs and supervised clinical practice. On completion of the course the students are expected to

Maintain professional responsibility
Work with psychosocial dimensions of mental and physical diseases to undertake well-targeted clinical counseling
Learn to integrate and cooperate with colleagues of helping professionals in other disciplines
Develop skills in practice and research
Learn to adhere to professional ethics.

Course content

The School of Behavioural Sciences offers a full time M Sc in Clinical and counselling Psychology and is presented over a period of two years under the semester system:

• The first year involves full-time theoretical lectures as well as practical training.
• The second year involves an internship at an approved institution.
• A dissertation must also be completed.

The course comprises of 12 core papers, with 2 elective papers, practical, research dissertation, clinical practicum and institutional visits. The details are as follows.

Semester 1	Semester 2
Core paper 1: Psychological processes 1 – Perception and cognition Core paper 2: Personality and personal growth Core paper 3: Psychometric measurement Core paper 4: Biological psychology Practical 1 : Experiments, testing and field work	Core paper 5: Psychological process 2 – Motivation and learning Core paper 6: Advanced neuropsychology Core paper 7: Abnormal and clinical psychology Core paper 8: Life span development psychology Practical II : Experiments, Testing and Field work
Semester 3	Semester 4
Core paper 9: Research methodology and psychological statistics Core paper 10: Psychotherapeutics and Clinical practice Core paper 11: Counselling and guidance Elective paper 1: Practical III : Personal growth and self development practices Research Dissertation	Core paper 12: Advanced social psychology Elective paper 2: Research dissertation Placement ( for 2 months) Institutional visits Viva Voce:

Duration of the Course : Four semester (regular)

Eligibility for admission

Preference will be given to students who had completed and passed degree in Psychology ( 3 years) from any universities in India or abroad based on the aggregate marks in qualifying examinations. Minimum marks for eligibility is 50% in optional main.
A candidate having a degree in any subject is also eligible for admission. Selection will be made from a rank list prepared on adding the aggregate percentage in degree ( aggregate in part III) including subsidiary and weightage of 5 marks for psychology papers studied in the basic qualifying degree or in any other additional degree the candidate holds subjected to a maximum of 40 marks.

Fee structure

Fee particulars

Semester 1

Semester 2

Semester 3

Semester 4

Total

4985

3620

4085

3620

Selection

The selection shall be from the rank list prepared on the basis of the following

1. Aggregate percentage in degree (aggregate in part III) including subsidiary

2. Marks from entrance test (80 marks for written test and 20 marks for interview)

3. Weightage of 5 marks each for Psychology papers studied in the basic qualifying degree or in any other additional degree the candidate holds subjected to a maximum of 40 marks.

Candidates are to undergo a one hour written test consisting of 40 objective type questions for 80 marks (30 questions of general mental ability / intelligence and 10 questions on general knowledge of social awareness carrying 2 marks for each item) and an interview for 20 marks (Total 100)