DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

DEPARTMENTS

COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a common type of talk therapy (psychotherapy). CBT helps become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so you can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way.CBT is a useful tool to address emotional challenges. It will help

  • Manage symptoms of mental illness
  • Prevent a relapse of mental illness symptoms
  • Treat a mental illness when medications aren’t a good option
  • Learn techniques for coping with stressful life situations
  • Identify ways to manage emotions
  • Resolve relationship conflicts and learn better ways to communicate
  • Cope with grief or loss
  • Overcome emotional trauma related to abuse or violence
  • Cope with a medical illness
  • Manage chronic physical symptoms

III BSc PSYCHOLOGY 

CBT- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy   is the department add on course provided to the third year BSc Psychology students by the department of psychology in association with Institute of Counselling and Transactional Analysis (ICTA), Kochi. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a common type of talk therapy (psychotherapy). CBT helps become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so you can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way.CBT is a useful tool to address emotional challenges. Dr. Assisssi Menachery from the same institution was the faculty in charge for the programme. It was a 40 hour programme, distributed as 3 hours/ week (first three hours of every Wednesday).the class was started on 21 August 2019. But it was dropped by faculty after completing 24 hours. The certificate provided for 38 students by ICTA, Kochi after evaluating their assignment works.

The feedback for completed classes obtained from students were satisfactory.

I MSC PSYCHOLOGY & I MSC CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 

CBT- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is the department add on course provided to the first year MSc Psychology and first year MSc clinical Psychology students by the department of psychology in association with Institute of Counselling and Transactional Analysis (ICTA), Kochi. CBT builds a set of skills that enables an individual to be aware of thoughts and emotions; identify how situations, thoughts, and behaviors influence emotions; and improve feelings by changing dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors. It is a 30 hour programme distributed as 3 hours/ week (last three hours of every Thursday). Mr. Sebastian Arakkal from the ICTA, Kochi was faculty in charge for the programme. And the same agency provided the certificate for the 43 students after conducting the assignments at the end of the class. The class was started on 23 January 2020 and completed 18 hours.

The feedback was taken from students, they expressed that it was helpful for them to understand the importance of reconstructing negative thoughts for modifying dysfunctional thoughts and behaviours.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is the department add on course provided to the second year BSc Psychology students by the department of psychology in association with Institute of Counselling and Transactional Analysis (ICTA), Kochi. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a common type of psychotherapy. CBT helps become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so individual can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way. CBT is a useful tool to address emotional challenges. Mr. Sebastian Arakal from the same institution was the faculty in charge for the programme. It is a 30 hour programme distributed as 3 hours/ week (first three hours of every Wednesday).  The class was started on 19th August 2020. The course completed on 9th December 2020. And the same agency distributed the certificate for the 42 students on March, 2021. It was provided for the students after evaluation of the mini project work at the end of the class.

The feedback was taken from students. Satisfactory report was mentioned by the students and reported that class was very helpful for them to understand cognitive behavior therapy.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is the  department add-on course provided to the second year BSc Psychology  by the department of psychology in association with Institute of Counselling and Transactional Analysis (ICTA), Kochi. Objectives includes to understand CBT and the process of Brief CBT , to identify key treatment considerations and problems most suitable for Brief CBT and to learn how to assess the patient’s suitability for Brief CBT.

It is a 30-hour programme, distributed as 3 hours/ week. And the same agency provides the certificate for the  students after conducting examination at the end of the class.