ELEVATE Foundations: All Ten Courses

Courses included

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   ELEVATE Foundations: Psychological First Aid: Supporting People in Distress

   Best for: Best for: UG Year 2 onwards and PG Year 1, once students have taken an introductory abnormal or health psychology paper. For psychology students who volunteer, or plan to volunteer, with NGOs, helplines, campus wellness cells or disaster relief, and who want a clear, safe way to support people in the hours and days after a distressing event.

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   ELEVATE Foundations: Counselling Micro-Skills: Listening, Reflecting, Structuring a Session

   Best for: Best for: UG Year 3 and 4 and PG Year 1, in the semester before practicum or a first counselling internship. For psychology students who have studied counselling theory and want to practise the core helping skills with a classmate before they meet real clients under supervision. You will need a practice partner from your course for the practice tasks and the portfolio.

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   ELEVATE Foundations: Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training

   Best for: Best for: any year from UG Year 1. No prerequisites. For psychology students at undergraduate and postgraduate level who want to know what to do when someone they know may be thinking about suicide. Students of other subjects who support peers, such as hostel volunteers and student wellness cell members, will also find it useful.

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   ELEVATE Foundations: Child Protection and POCSO for Helping Professionals

   Best for: Best for: UG Year 2 onwards. Students should complete it before any internship or volunteering with children. For psychology students preparing for placements in schools, hospitals, clinics, NGOs, shelters and community programmes, and for other students in helping roles who will work near children. No prior training needed.

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   ELEVATE Foundations: School Counselling Foundations

   Best for: Best for: UG final year and PG Year 1 and 2, timed for school internship season and placement applications. For psychology students who want to work as school counsellors, or who are about to start a school internship, and want to know what the job involves day to day, where it ends, and how to work safely under supervision. No prior counselling experience needed.

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   ELEVATE Foundations: Neurodiversity in the Classroom: ADHD, Autism and Learning Disabilities

   Best for: Best for: UG Year 2 onwards, after the developmental psychology paper, and PG students on a child or educational track. For psychology students aiming at school counselling, special education, shadow teaching or child development roles, including those starting a school placement or internship. No prior experience with neurodivergent children is needed.

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   ELEVATE Foundations: Workplace Psychology: POSH, Psychological Safety and Employee Wellbeing

   Best for: Best for: UG Year 3 and 4 and PG students on an industrial or organisational track, ahead of campus placements. For psychology students who expect to work in HR, learning and development, organisational development or an Employee Assistance Programme, and who want to understand POSH, psychological safety and employee wellbeing from the practitioner side before their first internship or job. No prior work experience needed.

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   ELEVATE Foundations: Digital Mental Health: Tele-counselling, Ethics and Data Privacy

   Best for: Best for: UG Year 3 and 4 and PG Year 1 and 2, ahead of helpline or platform internships. For psychology students heading into online counselling platforms, helplines or mental health startups as interns or volunteers, working under supervision. No prior tele-counselling experience needed.

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   ELEVATE Foundations: Psychological Testing in Practice: Administering, Scoring and Report Writing

   Best for: Best for: UG Year 2 and 3, after the psychological testing or psychometrics paper, and PG Year 1. For psychology students preparing for internships and placements in schools, colleges, clinics, NGOs and assessment centres, where they will help with testing under supervision. It assumes you have met reliability, validity and the normal curve in class; Module 4 refreshes the arithmetic.

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    ELEVATE Foundations: Research and Data Analysis for Psychology Dissertations (jamovi and JASP)

    Best for: Best for: UG Year 3 and 4 (honours with research) and PG Year 2, the semester before the dissertation starts. For psychology students in India who will collect and analyse their own data for a dissertation or research project and want a clear, step-by-step route through the analysis in free software. No prior experience of jamovi or JASP is needed; a first statistics course (mean, standard deviation, what a p value is) helps.