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Demographic Influence on the Perception of E-Psychotherapy among Clinical Psychologists in South-East Nigeria
₦3,000.00 Add to cartDemographic Influence on the Perception of E-Psychotherapy among Clinical Psychologists in South-East Nigeria
Abstract
This study examined the influences of age, gender and years of experience on the perception
of e-psychotherapy among clinical psychologists within South Eastern Nigeria. 51 practicing
clinical psychologists (26 males and 25 females) within the age range of 28 to 56 years (M =
42.37, SD= 5.56) were used for the study. An e-psychotherapy scale was employed to elicit
data for the study. The survey research design, independent sample t-test and Analysis of
Variance were used for data collations and analysis. The findings revealed that South-East
clinical psychologists significantly have a positive perception of e-psychotherapy and gender
and years of practice have significant influence on e-Psychotherapy. However, age influence
on e-psychotherapy did not reach a statistical significance. It is, therefore, recommended
that clinical psychologists in Nigeria would perform more effectively using e-psychotherapy.Authors:
Nkwam C. Uwaoma
nkwams@yahoo.com
Lois Chioma Uhiara
uhokalois@yahoo.com
Richards E. Ebeh
richebeh@gmail.com
Department of Psychology, Imo State University, Owerri
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Effect of Behaviour Intervention on Adolescents’ Sexual Risk-Behaviour in Anambra State, Nigeria
₦3,000.00 Add to cartEffect of Behaviour Intervention on Adolescents’ Sexual Risk-Behaviour in Anambra State, Nigeria
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The study examined the effect of Behaviour Intervention on adolescents’ sexual risk-behaviour. 120 adolescents comprising ( males 56, mean age = 19 years ) and (females 64, mean age= 18.6 years) were selected purposely from a population of 1168 SS11 students in the eight public schools in Awka urban using a survey study . The participants that had high mean score of sexual risk – behaviour, in the survey study, from a sexual risk-behaviour test (males’ mean score =47, females’ mean score = 42) were selected for intervention training. The test has a validity of .94 and a reliability of .82. The subjects were randomly assigned into the three treatment groups, namely: Assertive group, self control group and control group, with 40 adolescents in each group. A random group design with three independent variables and a Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) were used for the study. The result of the data analysis showed that participants’ scores on the test for those that participated in intervention training in assertive and self-control groups differed significantly from those participants in the control group (P =.03).However, the Scheffe pair-wise comparison test indicates that those in assertive training group had greater change (P=.017).The study concludes that Behaviour Intervention (assertive training and self-control training) had significant effect on adolescents’ sexual behaviour .
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Fantasy Behavior Scale: The Psychometric Properties
₦3,000.00 Add to cartFantasy Behavior Scale: The Psychometric Properties
Abstract
The development of a 24-item self-report scale for measuring fantasy behavior in populations
is described, the concept was elucidated, theories and the previous studies that are
applicable to fantasy behavior were applied and reviewed. The study also established the
psychometric qualities and properties of the Fantasy Behavior Scale (FBS). Series of
analyses was used to reduce the item pool from an initial 30 items to 24 items. The result of
the factor loading for fantasy scale shows that the items loaded into seven (7) components,
but most of the items loaded highest on five (5) factors or components which were named as
follows: component one (fantasy behavior),loaded 17 items (8.56); component two (control
over fantasy behavior), loaded 3 items (2.134); component three (attitude towards fantasy
behavior), loaded 1 item (1.71); component four (loss of touch with reality), loaded 2 items
(1.48) and component five (defense mechanism), loaded 1 item (1.44). The resulting (FBS) is
a 24–item scale that showed high internal consistency (α = .910) and a subsequent
reliability of (α = .881). It also showed external validity of r = .766 (2-tailed) when
correlated with fantasy proneness scale.Author: Paschal Kandilichukwu Officha
School of Psychotherapy and Health Sciences, Okija Campus
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Psychometric Properties of Thinking Style Inventory in Nigeria: A Preliminary Investigations
₦3,000.00 Add to cartPsychometric Properties of Thinking Style Inventory in Nigeria: A Preliminary Investigations
Abstract
The present study was on the investigations of the psychometric properties of Sternberg
Thinking Style Inventory (TSI) in Nigeria. Eight hundred and seventy eight (878) adult
participants recruited from 3 cardinal regions representing 3 major ethnic groups in Nigeria
were involved in the study. They included 587 males and 291 females from diverse
occupations including teaching, civil service, military, police, clergy and university
undergraduates. TSI by Sternberg and Wagner (1991) was administered to the participants
to determine the construct validity of the 13 different subscales of the instrument in Nigerian
participants. Exploratory factor analysis, reliability statistics and 2 WAY MANOVA statistics
were used for data analysis. The result of the study showed one factor extraction using the
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) at eigen value greater than 1.However when the
method of percentile of variance extracted was used (Pett, Lackey & Sullivan, 2003) 6
components were extracted. Conversely moderate positive correlations existed among the
various subscale of the TSI. On the other hand significant occupation differences were found
among various occupations on TSI suggesting good level of discriminatory validity based on
occupation. However, TSI did not correlate with measure of cognitive mental task called
puzzle game. Overall, TSI showed to be a promising inventory for Nigeria population but
more research works are needed to position the inventory for Nigerian use.Authors:
Valentine A. Ucheagwu
Department of Psychology, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Igbariam Campus
Bernard Chine
Department of Psychology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka
Rita N. Ugokwe-Ossai
Department of Psychology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka
Jesse P. Ossai
Department of Psychology, Imo State University, Owerri
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Psychotherapeutic Values of Igbo Healing Practices: The ‘Umunna Psychotherapy’
₦3,000.00 Add to cartPsychotherapeutic Values of Igbo Healing Practices: The ‘Umunna Psychotherapy’
Abstract
It had been observed by some researchers that psychotherapy should include effective emotional
healing activities of African traditional healers, religious faith healers, and African originated
forms of psychotherapy. This has not been achieved. To this effect, this study investigated how the
Igbo healing practices can be harnessed into psychotherapy interventions and techniques. The
main argument here is that Igbo traditional healing practices both the cultural and religious,
have definable psychotherapeutic values; hence, the need to provide some theoretical and
practical bases for recognition and adaptation of these practices into general and specific forms
of psychotherapy.
The research adopted a qualitative approach based on key informant interview (KII) of
four purposively selected native doctors, four spiritual kings and four clergy men: two Catholic
priests and two Protestant pastors from a purposively selected local government area in Anambra
State, Idemili North, in the Southeast Nigeria. Intensive structured interview method, where seven
specific questions were used to elicit information as concerned both the spiritual and traditional
‘psychotherapeutic practices of the Igbo people’ was adopted. The information gathered were
thematically analyzed based on the information of the participants, principles of Gestalt
psychology and macro ethical categorizations, and the general Igbo philosophy and world-view,
especially as express in idioms, names and proverbs; and in comparison to euro-western views of
psychotherapy.
The results revealed that ‘psychotherapy’ had been in existence in Igbo cultural traditions
for a very long time; having diagnosis (includes listening, questioning, examinations,
consultations, divination) and interventions (involves sacrifices and ikpu alu, among others) as its
major procedural parts. It also revealed the Igbo Concept and Sources of Psychopathology, and
Some Qualities that are Common to Most Igbo ‘Psychotherapists’. It also revealed that the most
popular technique in use is the ‘Umunna’-centered technique. Cultural aptness, acceptability,
affordability, availability, effectiveness, low cost, inclusivity, wholesome restoration, zero percent
chance of relapse and adoptability were found as some major advantages of Umunna
‘psychotherapy’. It was also observed to provide high levels of psychological, spiritual and social
supports for the clients, and these in turn, lead to high restoration of eudemonia within a
calculated period, both of the client and his/her umunna. Though simple and unique, it covers a
wide range of psychotherapeuticism. However, the issue of confidentiality is of no interest to the
Umunna psychotherapy.
Based on the values found, the study recommends Umunna ‘psychotherapy’ to all
psychotherapists, both as a type and a technique, and both within and outside the Igbo cultural
regions.Author:
Innocent U.O. Ejiofo,
Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Email: udobuchinno@yahoo.com
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Psychotherapy And Traditional Healing
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Abstract
Multicultural advocates within professional psychology routinely call for “culturally
competent” counseling interventions. Such advocates frequently cite and celebrate
traditional healing practices as an important resource for developing novel integrative forms
of psychotherapy that are distinctively tailored for diverse populations. Despite this interest,
substantive descriptions of specific forms of traditional healing vis-à-vis psychotherapy have
appeared infrequently in the psychology literature. This article explores the prospects for
therapeutic integration between traditional healing and contemporary psychotherapy. There
is a growing trend to seek alternative, complementary and traditional healing not only as a
reaction to Western biomedicine but also to the mindset of ‘‘talking heads’’ in
psychotherapy. Traditional healing aims to restore harmony and balance within the
individual through a symbiosis of the body, mind and spirit. Through this process traditional
healing offers a holistic conceptualization of wellness and wellbeing, both within the
individual, and between the individual and his or her environment. Comparative studies on
alternative healing practices indicate that many patients/clients often see a mental health
professional and a traditional healer concurrently. This paper considers the use of
traditional healing alongside Western counselling psychology as a process of dual
interventions for clients who engage traditional healing practices alongside psychotherapy.Authors:
Francis Bala Aku Akwash
akwash03@yahoo.com
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Psychotherapy in a Hospital
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This paper examines the nature of Psychotherapy, determining its role in the hospital
settings, and presents the case of the role of counseling intervention among discordant
couples in NAUTH prep demonstration project. Four couples, who tested positive to HIV
due to pre-wedding investigation (three females, one male,) and two others, a male and a
female who tested positive following community HIV awareness, were followed for three
months: March – June 2016. The objective was to access the behavioural changes of these
clients in the process of enrolment to Prep. These clients were interviewed on four issues:
their concerns about positive status, feeling of guilt and stigma, suicidal thoughts and what
helped them to resolve their worries. One of the males was concerned about his health, three
of the females were concerned about their marriages, and one male had no worry. All of
them expressed feeling bad because of the stigmatization associated with the virus. Three of
them had suicidal thoughts, but were reassured of hope after counseling. All said counseling
helped them resolve their worries. Counseling /psychotherapy have been identified as sine
qua non for patients on HAART to achieve effective viral suppression and act as immune
boaster for patients on Positive Living.Author: Okpaleke Uche Victoria
Department of Psychology
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam Campus,
ucheokpaleke1@yahoo.com 08136006928
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Psychotherapy Training in Nigeria
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The scarcity of properly trained psychotherapists in Nigeria, on the one hand, and the increasing incidence of emotional problems resulting from poverty and underdevelopment, child abuse and neglect, trauma resulting from different forms of crime and abuse of human dignity, insecurity problems like terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping and hijacking, increasing stress-provoking lifestyles, tribal and national wars and conflicts, westernization and globalisation, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, different forms of cancer, and all sorts of abuse of human dignity on the other hand, call for urgent need for establishment of institutions for formal psychotherapy training in Nigeria. This paper highlights not only the above lacuna but also describes the important aspects of psychotherapy training in the Western world. It went further to describe current efforts being made in Nigeria to establish a world-class tertiary institution, the School of Psychotherapy and Health Sciences (SPHS), which takes it lead from modern psychotherapy training programmes in Austria.
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Speech and Language Therapy Publications: Are They Adequate?
₦3,000.00 Add to cartSpeech and Language Therapy Publications: Are They Adequate?
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Scientific publications in the area of speech and language therapy are meant to communicate
to the scientific and practice community and policy-makers new developments (in theories,
research and practice). Where there is a dearth of publication, teaching, research, and policy
development in the field of study suffer. The aim of this paper is to find out whether
publications in the area of speech and language therapy are adequate. A computer-aided
electronic search was made using Ebscohost database. Scientific articles published within
2011 and 2016 in the area of speech and language therapy were sought in three
representative developed as well as three developing countries. Results show that
publications in the area of speech and language therapy are not adequate. It is therefore
recommended that speech and language therapists should endeavour to not only practice but
also spare time for publications of their experiences for proper teaching, research and policy
making.Author: Bridget Ngozi Madu
Department of English, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University,
Igbariam Campus, Nigeria
Email: madubridget@gmail.com
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Speech and Language Therapy Techniques Reported from Developing and Developed Countries
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Speech and language therapy publications are meant to communicate to the scientific and
practice community as well as policy-makers new developments (in theories, research and
practice). The aim of this paper is to find out the speech and language therapy techniques
used in the developed and developing worlds. The information will throw light on the kinds of
techniques used and advice on future development in the area. A computer-aided electronic
search was made using Ebscohost database. Scientific articles published within 2011 and
2016 in the area of speech and language therapy were sought in three representative
developed as well as three developing countries. Results show that from the publications
from the developing countries, it is apparent that those dealing with the speech and language
problems are more occupied with issues of assessment than with therapy. In the developed
countries, they are concerned with therapy techniques that will suit their present realities
(and not just assessment alone). It is therefore recommended that those dealing with speech
and language problems in the developing countries should be properly trained in the art of
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The Application of Psychotherapy in the Nigerian Armed Forces
₦3,000.00 Add to cartThe Application of Psychotherapy in the Nigerian Armed Forces
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The military personnel whose duty is to undertake operational duties are often exposed to trauma and stress; and some develop psychological distress as a result. The burden of mental health distress related to military occupational life is substantial as some military personnel and families flourish while others are not able to cope. Overtime, deployed military personnel and families become psychologically dysfunctional as a result of trauma and acute stress syndrome which result to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety and emotional burn-out. Although, little attempt has been made to assess and meet the mental health needs of the military community holistically. This negligence is costly considering that the psychological health of the military family has been found to be directly related to the readiness, well-being and retention of service members. More so, the impact of negative attachment reactions on the cognitive development of children as a result of separations related to military deployment and postings have been observed. But at the moment, the government and NGO’s have focused mainly on the physical welfare needs of the wounded military personnel only, while the mental wellbeing of their families who are victims of counter-insurgency operations have been overlooked. The study therefore examined the application of psychotherapy in the Nigerian Armed Forces. The researchers also discussed common psychotherapeutic techniques relevant to the treatment of military personnel and families with the need to adopt a preventive approach to mental health promotion.
Authors: Philemon A. Agashua, Jonathan I. Ugese, Funke T. Olofin
Department of Psychology Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna
Email: philagash@gmail.com Mobile number: +23408057972305
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The Efficacy of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) in the Management of Stress in Military Personnel
₦3,000.00 Add to cartThe Efficacy of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) in the Management of Stress in Military Personnel
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This study examines the efficacy (effectiveness) of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
(REBT) in the management of stress in military personnel. Forty Five (45) out of Sixty (60)
military personnel drawn from Army, Navy, and Air Force who obtained high scores on SCL-
90 and MSI were randomly placed into experimental, placebo, and control groups consisting
of 15 participants each. The pretreatment scores of the three groups were taken. The
experimental group received 10 REBT sessions, the placebo group had 10 sessions but only
discussed professionalization in the Nigerian military. The control group received no
treatment. The results showed that pos-treatment scores of the experimental group were
lower than their pretreatment scores as that of the placebo and control groups. Using
ANOVA to determine the significant difference in the three groups, it was found that the
experimental group showed significant differences in all 11 measures. The results were
discussed in terms of the efficacy of REBT in the management of stress in military personnel.Author: Damian D. Osa-Afiana
Department of Psychology
Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna
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