Ankur Counseling Center
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Our Goal:
To improve the quality of life of children through psychosocial care, training and education. The general purpose of ACC is to provide counseling services to children from the Nepalese Youth Opportunities Foundation [NYOF], Friends of Needy Children [FNC] and Happy House Foundation children [HHF].
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Our Objectives:
1. Providing a wide range of counseling services to NYOF, FNC and HHF children as well as children from the community or from other similar programs who would benefit from counseling.
2. Provide different trainings (psycho-therapeutic and general) and requested Orientations.
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Major Activities:
(i) Child and youth counseling
(ii) Trainings
(iii) Orientations
(iv) Internships
(v) Radio Show - Dark Side: Dare to Share
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Target Group for the counseling, trainings and orientation services:
1) FNC and NYOF funded children and adults as well as staff members
2) Children and adults from community
3) Teachers, House parents and support staff of Children Homes
4) Professionals and paraprofessionals of psychology
5) Individuals who might need trainings and orientation given below
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Services-
a) Counseling
………1) Child/Individual and Group
………2) Adult/Individual and group
………3) Community/Individual and Group
………4) Clinical Supervision
[In January of 2009, Ankur Counseling Center began incorporating clinical supervision in our counseling sessions. Using a Closed Circuit (CC) TV donated by NYOF, our senior counseler observes junior counselers during their sessions and provides feedback and suggestions for improvement. This not only enhances the attention and services that each of our clients receive, but it also improves our counselers in their skills and strategies.]
………5) Library Service
[Students of psychology, paraprofessionals and professions are encouraged to visit our institute and study psychology reference books, journals, magazines, treatment planners, and various audio and visual materials donated by Dr. Barbara Jones, many of which are not easily found in Nepal's colleges or libraries. We allow photocopying for reference purposes as well as internet services to enhance the studies of fellow pyschologists.]
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b) Training
………1) Basic Counseling Training
………2) Cognitive Behavior Therapy(CBT)
………3) Child parent relationship Therapy(CPRT)
………4) Positive Discipline
………5) Communication and
………6) so on……..
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c) Orientations Packages
………1) Stress Management(Creative Movement Therapy-CMT)
………2) Grief Management
………3) Positive Discipline
………4) Mothers Capacity Building Training
………5) Sex and Sexuality
………6) How to identity psychological problems among children
………7) Effective parenting
………8) Self esteem improvement
………9) Life skills
…….10) Adjustment
…….11) Need Based (on demand) packages
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d) School projects
………1) Observation project ( Behavioral, Emotional, physical and psychosocial aspects)
………2) How to identify psychological problems as a teacher and staff
………3) Dealing/or teacher students interpersonal relationship specially children with different challenges
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e) Major Attractions of ACC
………1) Sand play therapy (we have a portable sand tray as well as two sandplay rooms with sufficient miniatures)
………2) Play therapies
………3) Cognitive Behavior therapy
………4) Trainings
………5) Orientations