Therapeutic Counselling 
                                Intervention 
            
            
                                                                        
            
                            Dr. Laveena D’ Mello 
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            THERAPEUTIC 
              COUNSELING 
          INTERVENTION 
                                   
         
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                     Dr.Laveena D’Mello 
                                   
                    Faculty, MSW Department, 
                  Srinivas University, City campus, 
             Pandeshwar, Mangalore, Karnataka, India 
                               2018 
                                   
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                                          Forward 
             
            Dr.  Laveena  D’Mello’s  book  on  “  Therapeutic  counseling 
            intervention”,  which  guides  people    with  basic  counseling 
            skills while dealing with the people with various challenges 
            from  the  young  to  old  and  problems  of  the  children  to 
            geriatrics.    Therapeutic      counseling      has    five    aspects; 
            Counseling,Approaches  to  counseling,  Counseling  children 
            and  adolescents,  Counseling  for  Couples  and  Therapeutic 
            counseling in various areas. The chapters are planed as per the 
            syllabus, given in simple format to make people to understand 
            like guide. The chapters are sub divided and given in detail 
            explanation. This book is very rare among the books which go 
            under  the  title,  counseling,  psychiatric  counseling,  Medical 
            social work etc. 
             
            I congratulate the author on texting such a structured book and 
            also congratulate the publisher. I am very certain that this will 
            prove  very  useful  to  our  students,  the  social  workers, 
            researchers and those who want to gain knowledge about their 
            problems and to overcome from their difficulties.  
             
             
             
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
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                                          Preface 
            The book on Therapeutic Counseling intervention, is training 
            and instructional material prepared for the Graduates and Post 
            Graduate  Courses.  The  subject  ‘Therapeutic  counseling’  is 
            included  in  almost  all  universities  who  conduct  Master  of 
            Social  Work  (MSW)  courses,  Health  Science  and  allied 
            coursers.  The  Therapeutic  Counseling  book  covers  five 
            chapters of the second year MSW course with Medical and 
            Psychiatric  Social  Work  Specialization.  The  chapters  cover 
            information  regarding  the  basics  of  counseling,  skills, 
            qualities  and  multiple  areas  of  counseling.  This  can  be  not 
            only the guide for the students, but it also useful for those who 
            work  at  Government  as  well  as  Non  Government 
            Organizations.  The  persons  who  are  interested  in  higher 
            education  are  also  can  conduct  further  studies.  The 
            professionals who work for various projects and specialized 
            areas like children, adolescents, career guidance clinics, crises 
            intervention groups, alcoholics, drug edicts, marital and pre 
            marital counseling, senior citizen, geriatric centers, and also 
            the chronic illness groups etc can use as guidelines. It is hoped 
            that    the   social    service     minded  people,  counselors, 
            professionalize will enrich their knowledge through referring 
            several  sources  and  through  self-study.  There  is  ocean  of 
            knowledge and there is no boundary. While dealing with the 
            clients, each case will be new and unique. Students in helping 
            professions should be persistent and continuous and in quest 
            of knowledge.  
             
            Mangalore, Karnataka, India. 
                   
                                                           Dr.  Laveena D’Mello 
                                                 
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