Abstract

Healthy mental state is an essential component which maintains overall health of both, children and adults. In many cases of adults, who suffer from mental problems, early symptoms were evident, when the person was a kid or adolescent; nevertheless, they were frequently ignored or not recognised. The responsibility of assisting students with their varied needs across a variety of environments falls on the shoulders of teachers who are specialised in guidance and counselling. In fact, there is no exception, when it comes to supporting gifted individuals in academic and non-academic interaction, and teachers are required to be conscious of the subtle variances in cognitive, affective, and behavioural aspects that are demonstrated by their students who are above and beyond the norm. This research makes use of counselling outcome reports and archival data of student-clients, in addition to an auto ethnography study of the researcher's counselling process, in order to propose a "Single-Session Developmental Counselling", as a proof indigenous model, for counselling Indian school kids. The analysed data reveals a variety of aspects relating to the setting as well as the procedure of counselling along with a number of effective counselling methods.

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