According to WHO, Mental Health is the right of every human being. Mental and emotional well-being
enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and
contribute to their community. It has intrinsic and instrumental value and is integral to our overall
well-being.
Counseling is a highly professional service which is provided to support and promote emotional and
mental wellness of individuals and Mayo College Girls' School believes in the concept of holistic growth
of students with overall well-being including sound mental, emotional and physical health.
Comprehensive Counselling program at MCGS:
Counsellor plays an important role in making students self-reliant, confident and self-decisive
individuals maximize their learning outcomes. Counsellors take care of mental and emotional well-being
of the students so that their academic life remains unaffected due to unpleasant circumstances and
events in their lives.
Counselling department at MCGS comprises of well qualified, trained and experienced counsellors as per
the professional norms of counselling. Counsellors are available on the campus during and after school
hours. The students are encouraged to reach out to the counsellors for individual helps sessions. The
school also conducts numerous emotional wellness sessions for students to be able identify and accept if
they are having trouble in any aspect of their school life.
The counsellor also visits the students in their houses to conduct group sessions, where issues ranging
from positive friendships; teasing; acceptance into groups; bullying; hygiene and health; homesickness;
low performance; etc are taken up regularly.
The School Counselling department mainly functions in a scientific manner keeping in mind the principles
of counselling namely, Confidentiality, Empathy, Understanding, Active listening and being
Non-Judgement. There is a guaranteed assurance in terms of maintaining confidentiality regarding the
cases with other members of the school. Session summary notes and records are maintained with
confidentiality in a code language with a purpose to help students in future and for following up the
step by step process of counselling which involves five sessions as follows:
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Relationship Building
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Problem Assessment
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Goal Setting
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Counselling Intervention
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Evaluation or Referral
Counselling process involves various techniques and tools of assessment which are situation and need
based. MCGS has adopted school counselling program based upon ASCA National Model which follows the
guidelines set by American School Counselling Association. The ASCA national model is a tool created for
school counsellors by the American School Counsellors Association. It is a set of comprehensive
guidelines that helps a school counsellor to implement an effective and professional counselling program
that has been tailored to the individual school's mission statement and vision statement. When students
are provided with effective school counselling, they are equally enabled to grow academically and
achieve their personal and career goals.
Every year school appoints two student officials for counselling who assist counsellor during workshops,
group talks and they also play an important role in encouraging students to overcome the taboo to visit
counsellor to take help when they face personal , social, emotional and academic related issues with
courage and confidence. These students also run a society by the students and for the students name
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