Pratheeksha Bhavan - Mentally Retarded Children, Thodupuzha, Idukki, Kerala - Special School for Mentally Retarded Children (MR)

Couselling Services

Counselling is a process in which one person helps another by having a focused conversation in a supportive environment.Counselling is a two-way process in which the counsellor and the client work together.
Counselling is a professional relationship that helps individuals, families, and groups to achieve their mental health, wellness, education, and career goals.In counselling two persons meet to explore personal problems and to identify solutions.
It provides more self-awareness as well as insight and understanding of oneself.It aids in the development of self-management skills and capacities.

Educational Counselling

The role of a Educational counsellor is to hel students special needs, to achieve their full potential. Introducing an appropriate individualized education programme (IEP) an early age can make all the difference, not only in these children’s academic learning but in their emotional health and social adjustment and ultimately in their ability to become productive, contributing member of society.

Pastoral Councelling

Pastoral counseling,is a clinical practice that integrates both psychological and theological concepts into its framework, is not unlike other modes of therapy when it comes to the therapeutic process. What sets it apart is the way faith, spirituality, and theology are incorporated. Pastoral counselors believe this incorporation can foster wholeness, healing, and growth of special need children.

Rehabilitation Counselling

Rehabilitation of children with special needs means to integrate or re-integrate physically, mentally and/or psychologically impaired people into as full and as normal life roles as is possible. Rehabilitation counselors help people with disabilities develop strategies to live with their disability and transition to employment. Rehabilitation counselors help people with physical, mental, developmental, or emotional disabilities live independently.

Special Counselling

Special education counselors work with special needs students in elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools, to ensure they have the support services they need in order to achieve their highest potential in the areas of academics, personal and social growth, and career development. This is accomplished by working with students with social, emotional, behavioral, and physical disabilities in a variety of settings, including in one-on-one counseling, group counseling, in special education classrooms, as well as in regular education classrooms.

Family Counselling

Parenting is a difficult task and being a parent of child with disability is challenging. Parents may face many challenges because of child disability and lack of Awareness about disease. It has great psychological effect on parent’s life. Family Counselling can help such parents to become aware of what is happening, how it is impacting the rest of the family and also to look deeply at their own feelings and needs. Parents may be experiencing a great range of difficult emotions and also be facing further challenges.

Spiritual Counselling

Spiritual Healing gives individual healing sessions to children with complex special needs and moderate to severe learning difficulties.Spirituality has the power to foster the holistic development of children with disabilities and to give them a sense of identify and purpose in life. Individual healing sessions with children with a variety of special needs demonstrate the part that spiritual healing can play in calming emotional disturbance, and helping to restore harmony to body, soul and spirit: a marked improvement in the ability to relate to both peers and adults was noticed by carers and teacher.'