Sahayam
skills: A helping skills workshop is a training program for teachers from
undergraduate colleges of Osmania University. This workshop is meant to impart
helping or Sahayam skills for teachers to help their students with normal
psychological and academic problems.
Developing
Sahayam skills is not giving advice or fixing problems, instead, it is helping
the person help themselves by providing them the environment and understanding
necessary to solve their problems.
This
two day workshop covered the basics of adolescent development and is an
intensive training in Sahayam skills. The participants learnt new skills were
provided opportunity to practice these skills through experiential learning,
role plays and lecture/presentations.
The
objective of this workshop was to enable participants to help students cope
with problematic situations in college life and equip students with strategies
and life skills.
So
far we had 3 batches of Training in the year 2011. This programme was organized by Sahayam, Osmania University's Psychological Counseling Center, Osmania University, Hyderabad.
The participants were given a certificate by Dr C
Beena, Coordinator Sahayam, OU’s Psychological counseling centre, Osmania
University, Hyderabad; the workshop was facilitated by Dr Diana Monteiro PhD, Counseling
Psychologist and Team. Some
of the comments from the participants were as follows:
“The
Session was interesting, and I got to learn a lot of things, would recommend
these sessions in our college”
“I
got to learn things and break my older assumptions about counseling; now I
think, I will be able to help my students”
“I
got more knowledge from the presentation, if given opportunity; I would like to
attend the next programme”
G Angela
