Psychological Counselling Centre

Establishment of the Cell:
The Counselling Cell of the college was established in October 2009, with an aim to benefit the students with mental and other life problems.

The cell started working actively through continuous student counselling.

Keeping in mind the overall profile of the students (ageing 18-22 years) commuting from both urban and rural areas, the cell and its professionally skilled counsellors continuously try to maintain a holistic communication pattern with these adolescent girl students.

Certificate Course on Psychological Counselling: A Best Practice to Improve Life Skills

Commencement of Basic Certificate Course:
Considering the vulnerabilities of adolescent development, the cell introduced a certificate course (UGC Sponsored) on "Stress Management & Life Skill Development".
Aims of the Basic Course:
Why the Course?

• Adolescence is a transitional period of development from childhood to adulthood.
• Adolescence is replete with anxiety, emotionality, aggressiveness, curiosity & sexuality.
• The increase in mental health problems and awareness mandates to increase mental health professionals.
• Increased trend of anxiety and depression among youth presently reflect an extensive need to improve inter-personal and intra-personal communication.

Some Instances of Students' Translations:

• "A workshop on Stress Management was held in our college on 4th May, 2011. Undoubtedly, stress is a part of our daily life and through the workshop this idea was more deeply established. There are times when I myself experience some symptoms of stress which are usually found. But I used to think that these symptoms are not right and can lead me to go abnormal. But, through this workshop, I came to know that, these symptoms are not abnormal and found in most of the people now a days. The work shop also led to a more detailed and informal discussion amongst us. Now, after experiencing the interactive session of the workshop, I have developed this belief that, stress is a common phenomenon that comes with today's fast life and got an exposure about how to deal with problems related to stress".
  -- Parnita Banerjee, Ex. Student Representative and Ex. Student, Dept. of History
• "Khub bhalo lagchchey, nijer madhye ekta change anubhav korte parchchiy. An individual always feels happy to put forward his or her needs and demands in front of elders, youngers and same aged people. But many a times there remains a confusion whether we ourselves are capable to fulfill others' demands and expectations. Through the course I have learned to realize my demands better than before and to understand others' expectations in a more realistic way and I think that this capacity also increases more and more we get to interact during counselling experience. It also helps to create effective and transparent communication in group exposure and to be in a group is better than remaining single".
  -- Arfa Akbar, Student, 2nd Year

Increase in Student Enrolment:
Outcomes of the Course:

• Boosting up confidence level.
• Learning skills for resolving emotional and other problems.
• Self development in terms of learning effective communication skills.
• Basic orientations about the process of counselling for the future counsellors.

Seminar / Workshop / Webinar: