Counseling: An Indian Approach

Contents: Preface. 1. Socio cultural Development of Persons in India. 2. Various Approaches to Counseling. 3. Definition and Practice of Counseling (With Special Emphasis to the Context of India). 4. Counseling Children. 5. Counseling Adolescents. 6. Counseling Families. 7. Counseling the Elderly. 8. Helping People with Disability. 9. Disaster and Crisis Management. 10. Counseling the Sick and Hospitalized. 11. Behaviour Therapy. Bibliography.

This book is an answer to a soul searching question of many counseling students as well as trainers as to what would it look like to practically execute the skill of counseling in Indian context. The book describes with examples and cases of counseling being translated to our contemporary socio-religious and cultural context. Here is a text book for people who are engaged in to the study of counseling systematically.