SMC

Guidance and Counseling

  • Counseling forum is designed to help all students to develop and enhance their academic, social, economic and personal strengths in order to become responsible and positive citizens.
  • Objectives:

  • Setting proper, realistic goals that produce measurable results for the students.
  • Facilitating the behavior change.
  • Improving the students’ ability to accept the changes.
  • Enhancing the effectiveness and ability of the students to cope up their problem.
  • Promoting the decision making skill.
  • Self development and improving family and interpersonal relationships.
  • Activities Undertaken:

  • Entry Counseling - Counseling for all the first year UG and PG students for accepting and adjusting to the new environment positively.
  • Exit Counseling – Counseling for all the final year UG and PG students to face their life challenges in a healthy way
  • Group Counseling – Counseling for students expressing difficulties in dealing with relationships, personal concerns or normal developmental task.
  • Sports Counseling – Given to sports students for overcoming mental barriers and to increase confidence. Motivation is given before and after every match to handle their emotional barriers with positive and sportive attitude.
  • Individual Counseling – Help the student to uncover their own insight and understanding their self.
  • Personal Counseling – The space and freedom is given to the student to explore their thoughts with an unbiased party.
  • Crisis Counseling – Counseling, comfort and support are provided to students and families facing traumatic situations.
  • Referrals – Counsellors use referral sources to address concerns such as suicidal idea's , violence, abuse, depression, anxiety and family difficulties etc.
  • Therapy – Therapies like VKD, SWISH are adopted according to the need of the student.
  • Program and operations – Includes planning and management tasks needed to support the students mental barriers.
  • Data Analysis - Counsellors analyse students achievement and Counseling program – related data to evaluate the Counseling program, to conduct research on activity outcomes and to discover gaps that exist among different groups of students that need to be addressed.
  • Professional Development – Counsellors will involve regularly in updating, participating and sharing their professional knowledge and skills.