IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical (PGDRPC): Intervention Cases and Viva

IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical for PGDRPC: five real cases, then a viva

The IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical is Practical II: Intervention, an 8-credit course in the Post Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Psychology (PGDRPC) of the School of Social Sciences. You build two behaviour modification cases and three counselling cases under the Academic Counsellor of your allotted Work Centre, write them in the handbook’s formats, and then face an external examiner.

Across practical courses, learners tell us the practical side worries them far more than the theory papers, and people who clear their term-end papers with ease often stall here. MPCL-076 alone carries 8 of the 32 PGDRPC credits.

Many learners also tell us they learnt about a practical component only late in the session. PGDRPC has two, MPCL-075 and MPCL-076, listed with 8 credits each beside the four MPC theory courses.

A question that reaches our desk often is whether this practical ends in a viva. For MPCL-076 the answer is printed in the handbook: the viva-voce is the Term-end Examination, it is taken by an external examiner, and it holds 70 of the 100 marks.

IGNOU PGDRPC is recognised by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI), runs in English, admits in the July session through an entrance test with 200 seats, and takes 1 year and 6 months at the least and 3 years at the most, for a programme fee of Rs 22,000 in the July 2026 Common Prospectus. The Work Centre the University allots is final.

Where the 100 marks sit: 30 at the Work Centre, 70 in the viva

Marking for the IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical is set out in section 4.0 of the Handbook on Intervention, and the internal criteria are repeated in Appendix III. Actual conduction of the cases and reporting them in the practical file in the prescribed format is internal assessment with 30 percent weightage. The viva-voce, which the handbook calls the Term-end Examination, carries 70 percent weightage.

The handbook states the minimum passing marks as 40. The handbook gives the MPCL-076 total out of 100 (30 internal plus 70 viva); it does not say how the grade card shows or converts these marks, so check the grade card itself before using any IGNOU percentage calculator with practical marks.

In the practical work we see, the written record is where learners lose the most marks, and it is also the part they can repair fastest. Three of the four MPCL-076 internal criteria (case presentation, the practical notebook and the attached documents) judge what you write and attach.

Many learners treat a viva as a formality, yet a neat file does little for someone who cannot explain the aim, the steps taken or what changed during the sessions. The learners who ran their own cases answer with the most confidence, and in MPCL-076 the viva is the larger share at 70 marks.

Eight three-hour sessions: attendance, schedule and the supervisor

The IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical runs as counselling sessions at the allotted Work Centre (WC). The handbook counts 8 sessions of 3 hours each, a total of 24 hours, and says attendance at these counselling sessions is compulsory for the practical course. The July 2026 prospectus also states, as a general rule, that attendance at practical sessions is compulsory.

For the schedule, the handbook sends you to the WC Coordinator or In-charge of your own Work Centre. In the sessions the Academic Counsellor explains the behaviour modification and counselling process, introduces the formats, presents case examples, gives demonstrations and shows how to read and administer behavioural assessment tests from their manuals.

Most learners who write to us are working, running a home, or both, and some miss practical sessions they took to be optional. In many practical courses that is where a whole session is lost. For MPCL-076 the handbook makes attendance compulsory, and Appendix I is a certificate of attendance at the Work Centre signed by your Academic Counsellor.

Practical batches tend to meet on set dates, now and then at a centre a long way from home, and a learner who stops checking the schedule can lose a batch and sit out until the next one. The MPCL-076 handbook names the person to ask: the WC Coordinator or In-charge of the Work Centre allotted to you.

We also meet learners who followed a friend’s advice from a different centre and then found their own centre works differently. The MPCL-076 handbook fixes the five cases, the marks and the supervisor qualification for everyone; session dates come from your own Work Centre.

MPC-071 to MPC-074 guides for the PGDRPC theory papers

The practical sits beside four IGNOU PGDRPC theory courses of 4 credits each, and those are the papers our printed guides cover. We publish no MPCL-076 case report, case file or practical file; the five cases have to come from your own sessions.

Ask which PGDRPC guides you need

Which clinic, hospital or school can host your cases?

For the IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical, the counselling cases are documented from an approved centre, and the handbook names the kinds: a clinic, rehabilitation centre, hospital, special school or inclusive school. The centre has to give adequate case follow-up and a suitable setting for observation and documentation. If your Work Centre has no clinical facility, the handbook says the Work Centre will provide a centre, clinic, hospital, special school or inclusive school for the hands-on work.

Before any session, the Academic Counsellor is to have you take informed consent from the person, explaining the objectives and keeping the information confidential, and to obtain permission before any session is recorded.

Across programmes we see learners begin under a supervisor who does not hold the qualification the course asks for, and the work is later not accepted. For MPCL-076 the Work Centre Head or Coordinator is to make sure the supervisor at the centre is a qualified Rehabilitation Psychologist or Clinical Psychologist with at least a 2-year M.Phil. in Rehabilitation or Clinical Psychology, as per RCI guidelines.

Some learners start work at a clinic or school before it has been confirmed for them, and find those days do not count. The MPCL-076 handbook asks for the three counselling cases to come from an approved centre, so settle the centre with your Academic Counsellor before the first interaction.

Some centres insist on a set count of face-to-face meetings with the supervisor. In MPCL-076 the handbook sets no count; it asks the Academic Counsellor to see that each learner keeps regular contact through scheduled visits or consultations during practical sessions.

MPCL 076 Intervention Part I: the two behaviour modification cases

Part I of the IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical is the Behaviour Modification Plan: 2 cases, given 4 credits in the handbook. Each case report carries the case history and assessment findings, and follows the blank Behaviour Modification format printed on handbook pages 64 to 69. Section 7.1 lists nine steps, and the later part headed How to write behaviour modification case report works them through with a nine-year-old child’s toileting problem.

The techniques you pick come from section 7.2: restructuring the environment, extinction, time out, response cost, overcorrection and differential reinforcement to decrease a behaviour; positive reinforcement, token economy, shaping, chaining, prompting, fading and cueing to increase one; modelling, generalisation and social skills training for new adaptive behaviour. The handbook also lists punishment and aversion, and itself says punishment is generally not considered the most effective approach.

Reports that leave out one part of the expected sequence lose marks. For MPCL-076 that sequence is the nine steps above, from naming the problem behaviours to follow-up, and the second internal criterion marks cases written step-wise.

In test-based practicals we often see a wrong score, the wrong norms table, or a conclusion the scores do not support. Step I in MPCL-076 asks for a standardised tool, such as BASIC-MR or BASAL-MR where intellectual disability is present, or the CBCL, so read the scoring rules in the test manual before you write the finding.

We have seen reports built on data nobody actually collected. In MPCL-076 the handbook’s baseline example is a frequency count by date and time, and follow-up keeps recording that frequency, so the figures have to come from your own observation of the person.

Part II: three counselling cases under 14 headings

Part II of the IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical is 3 counselling cases, also given 4 credits. The handbook prints a full sample counselling case (a real case with the names and details changed) and a blank format with these headings:

The approaches the handbook teaches for these sessions are Egan’s skilled helper model with the SOLER listening skills, Rogers’ client-centred therapy, family counselling skills and individual counselling skills. Its sample uses CBT with the parents and a separate session with the sibling.

Session write-ups that only say the client was counselled come up often. The MPCL-076 sample shows the link to method: Session 3 names the CBT thought record and slow breathing, and the summary records how the parents responded.

A rough notebook written up in one sitting shows itself through repeated sentences, entries dated on Sundays or holidays, and no change from the first session to the last. The MPCL-076 handbook wants observations noted in a rough notebook during the sessions and organised into the practical file later, and a separate 8-mark criterion judges the practical notebook’s quality and completeness.

Learners often hold three versions of a format: the handbook’s, one from a counsellor and one from a senior. The MPCL-076 handbook prints its own blank behaviour modification and counselling formats, so where versions differ, ask your Academic Counsellor which one your Work Centre marks against.

Why the IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical accepts only your own cases

The strictest instruction in section 1.0 is about authenticity. All cases must be actual and unique, must not be copied or previously submitted by another learner, and any case found to be plagiarised or sourced from elsewhere will be rejected. The Academic Counsellor is to ensure that the cases are authentic and prepared solely by the learner, and the cases are to be interacted by the learner under the counsellor’s observation.

Ready-made practical files circulate online, and some reach a centre after a change of name and enrolment number only. Several identical files from one centre are easy to spot, and the learner is exposed in the viva when the case cannot be explained. The MPCL-076 handbook rejects any case found to be plagiarised or taken from elsewhere.

Some learners paste an AI-written case, or text lifted from the internet, into the file without checking it for plagiarism. In MPCL-076 that runs straight into the handbook’s rule that each of the five cases must be actual and unique, and the Academic Counsellor checks each case for authenticity.

Papers that travel with each case

The fourth internal criterion of the IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical, worth 6 marks, looks for supportive documents attached to each case. The handbook also tells the Academic Counsellor to have you keep the signed consent forms in the practical file, and the sample case’s supervisor note asks for counselling notes, structured counselling formats and assessment reports.

Files come back when a required paper is missing. For MPCL-076 the list is short and printed: assessment reports or formats, the behaviour modification or counselling format and the consent letter, for each of the five cases.

Two gaps we see often are a supervisor or counsellor certificate left unsigned and an attendance record without a countersignature. Both MPCL-076 case formats end with a supervisor’s signature line, and Appendix I is the attendance certificate your Academic Counsellor signs.

Handing the file to your Work Centre

The IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical file goes to your Work Centre: the handbook tells the learner to submit high-quality, professional work to the WC, and Appendix II is the acknowledgement that the Practical File (MPCL-076 Intervention) has been submitted, with your enrolment number, Work Centre, Regional Centre, place and date. The handbook prints no last date, no number of copies, no binding and no page length for the file, so take those from your Work Centre.

Some learners email a practical file in place of the course’s route. The MPCL-076 route is the Work Centre, and the handbook’s acknowledgement in Appendix II is the record that the file reached it.

Learners who keep no receipt have nothing to show if marks go missing later. Have the Appendix II acknowledgement of your MPCL-076 file signed at the Work Centre, and keep a copy of that signed page.

A wrong enrolment number or Work Centre name on the opening pages is a common slip. The MPCL-076 appendices ask for your name, enrolment number, Work Centre and Regional Centre more than once, so keep them identical on each page.

Rs 500, the exam form and the viva date

The IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical is an 8-credit practical, so it takes the prospectus slab for practical examinations above 4 credits: Rs 500, paid with the Term-End Examination form, which is filled online afresh for each June or December examination. The four theory courses take Rs 200 each. The prospectus says examination fee once paid is neither refundable nor adjustable, and hall tickets are uploaded on the IGNOU website 7 to 10 days before the examinations; carry your IGNOU Student ID card.

The December 2026 date sheet of 30 October 2026 lists MPC-071 on 4 December, MPC-072 on 8 December, MPC-073 on 11 December and MPC-074 on 14 December 2026. It has no MPCL-075 or MPCL-076 row, so ask your Work Centre or Regional Centre for the viva date.

Learners often confuse the Rs 300 and Rs 500 amounts. MPCL-076 carries 8 credits, which places it in the above-4-credit slab of Rs 500 in the July 2026 prospectus.

In our records, 70 to 80 percent of learners start moving only when a submission date is about a month away. MPCL-076 gives no printed date to count back from, since the handbook sets none for the file, so plan around the date your Work Centre announces.

Check the MPC-073 guide before the December papers

Questions learners ask about the IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical

Six slips in the October 2025 handbook

We read the October 2025 Handbook on Intervention page by page, and six points in it can confuse a learner writing the IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical file:

1. The course heading on printed page 4 reads “MPCL 075 PRACTICAL II: INTERVENTION”, though the text below it and the rest of the handbook are about MPCL 076.
2. Section 7.1 names the operant conditioning psychologist as B.K. Skinner in one paragraph and B.F. Skinner in the next; B.F. Skinner is correct, which matters if a viva question turns to theory.
3. The blank behaviour modification format asks for any five problem behaviours and any three targets, while Step III says at most three targets at a time and allows one. Listing five and targeting one to three fits both.
4. The counselling format and the sample number two items as 14: Recommendation, and the supervisor’s suggestions.
5. The certificate of completion in Appendix IV prints the programme as PGDRP, while the evaluation scheme in Appendix III prints PGDRPC, the code on your enrolment.
6. The blank counselling format heads item 8 as Support Available (Emotional/Social/Family), while the sample also lists financial support.

Raise any of these with your Academic Counsellor before you write, since the counsellor’s reading is the one your internal marks follow.

Three causes come up across programmes: information reaches learners late and varies by centre, practical work assumes time and physical presence that distance learners find hard to give, and the file gets treated as formatting when it should show applied learning. MPCL-076 packs each of the three into 24 hours of sessions and five case files.

Across practical courses, the learners who do well start early and keep their records as they go. For MPCL-076 that means confirming dates with your own Work Centre, getting the hosting centre approved before the first session, noting each session the same day, gathering each signature at the time, and knowing each case well enough to talk it through with the external examiner.

The IGNOU MPCL 076 Practical rewards learners who run their own five cases and can explain each one in the viva; our books cover the four theory papers, and the cases stay yours.

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