Writing as a Process of Counselling

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Counselling in Nigeria, as in most of West Africa, is still in its beginning stages of development. Indeed, one of the complaints found among the few psychologists in Nigeria is the lack of recognition of the field. And yet Nigerian adolescents have much need for the services of a sound guidance and counselling programme. They, like most adolescents everywhere, derive benefit from assistance with developmental concerns such as career choices, identity problems, self-image and self-confidence, and ambivalent feelings toward adult authorities. These problems, common to most young people, are compounded in a developing society where students are under considerable stress from competition for access to higher education and job opportunities. In many cases, they are also leading double lives an intellectual life of western ideas and values and a family life of traditional attitudes and expectations representative of rural and often functionally illiterate settings.

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