Advanced Diploma in Applied Psychology

The Guru Nanak Dev University's Faculty of Arts and Social Science offers Advanced Diploma in Applied Psychology course to its students. The course structure for it is as follows:

Paper- A
Unit I
Industrial Psychology: Personal Selection: Importance and methods of Personal
Selection (Interview, Testing and Application –Blanks)
Job – analysis: Essential elements and methods of Job – analysis.

Unit-II
Working Conditions and efficiency of the works: Determinates of efficiency (External
and Internal)

Unit-III
Morale in Industry: Definition, aspects & influence of characteristics of high Moral and low Moral
Moral Methods of measuring moral

Unit-IV
Statistics: Normal Probability Curve, Sampling Norms.

Paper- B
Unit-I
Mental Hygiene and Mental Health: Concepts, Definition, Criteria of Mental Hygiene.
Factors affecting mental health Preventive Measures

Unit-II
Adjustment, Frustration and Stress: Meaning, Process, Criteria and Methods of
Adjustment, Meaning and Sources & Reactions to frustration
Definition and types of stress, Stress- Coping strategies

Unit-III
Classification of Metal disorders: (DSM-IV) Brief introduction to Psychoneuroses and
Psychoses. Difference between Psychoneuroses and Psychoses

Unit-IV
Treatment of Mental Disorders: Brief introduction of hypnotism, Free – association.
Freudian Psychoanalysis, Client Centered Therapy
Rational Emotive Therapy, Behavioural Therapy.

Field Work
Project Work or Major Case Study – (50 Marks)
(To evaluated by External Subject Expert)
Five Practical are to be conducted in the form of Testing, Observation,
minor case-study, survey or interview & Report Writing, (25 Marks.)
Students should get the work experience Certificate from the concerned
institute and it will be submitted during practical examination
Internal assessment will be of (25 marks).