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Towards Professional Excellence at Kenyatta University
(Gideon Were Publications, 1994-01-17)This paper is written by two members of staff, each of whom has served no less than ten years in Kenyatta University and who have carefully watched the institution wax and wane. There is no doubt that Kenyatta University, ... -
Decision-Making Therapy in HIV/AIDS: The African Experience
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004)The challenge of providing relevant and sophisticated counseling interventions to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa has greatly intensified. The task has shifted from what it was deemed to entail at the first decade of the ... -
The Shattered Microcosm: Imperatives for Improved Family Therapy in Africa in the 21st Century
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 2004-06)This paper provides an in-depth socio-political analysis of the basis for the limits of family therapy in Africa in the last 40 years. The goal is to make more visible the economic, social, political, and cultural factors ... -
Memory Healing Processes and Community Intervention in Grief Work in Africa
(wiley, 2005-09)Western literatures on bereavement acknowledge the tendency to pathological grieving among some bereaved persons. The phenomenon of pathological mourning, however, is rare in Africa because of the presence of coherent and ... -
A Narrative Approach to Child and Family Therapy in Africa
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press, 2006-03)Professional family therapy in Africa is heavily influenced by theories and principles of Western family practice. Its practice structure and philosophies are however grounded on African family values and the principles ... -
“Remapping the Fabric of the African Self: A Synoptic Theory”
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006-03)A thorough knowledge of the synoptic structure and contents of the modern African self is essential for an improved understanding of the Africa of the 21st century. This lack has compelled practitioners to continue to use ... -
Theory and Method of Marriage Therapy in Contemporary Africa
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 2006-12)This paper describes the theory and practice of marriage therapy in use by the author in his marital therapy process across two regions of Africa. The approach is grounded on an inclusive theoretical perspective inspired ... -
The Practice of Interventive Polygamy in Two Regions of Africa: Background, Theory and Techniques
(Springer Netherlands, 2007)This paper draws attention to the crucial distinction that exists between affluent polygamy and interventive polygamy as practiced in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the therapeutic value of interventive polygamy in two ... -
Memory and Narrative Healing Processes in HIV Counseling: A View from Africa
(Springer US, 2008-03)The AIDS pandemic in Africa has wreaked pain on millions of people, particularly the youth. Beyond physical symptoms, the disease destroys the emotional and psychological well-being of its victims and their families. ... -
The Extent to which Selected Factors Contribute to Alcohol and Cigarettes among Male Students of Public Day Secondary Schools of Nakuru
(Academic Journals, 2009-06)The increase in alcohol and cigarettes use among young people than any population strata is of great concern. The use of alcohol that began in African traditional society as an activity for political, religious, cultural ... -
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) Use and Bullying among High School Students in Nakuru District, Kenya
(2010)The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs (ATOD) use among secondary school students in Nakuru District, Kenya, and its association with bullying. A total of 1000 ... -
Adolescents' Perceptions of Parental Behaviors: Emotional Interactions, Supervision/Monitoring and Disciplinary Measures In Relation To Their Manifest Aggression
(Journal for the Advancement of Educational research, 2010)Objectives of the study were to: (i) Assess adolescents' manifest aggression (MA), (ii) Establish the relationship between adolescent MA and parental emotional interactions, supervision/monitoring, disciplinary measures, ... -
Re-engineering African higher education to competence based education
(2011)The 21stcentury has been referred to as the knowledge society due to the propensity of the production of knowledge as a result of the learning revolution. As a consequence, focus has been drawn to the education models and ... -
The Psychosocial Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Development of Children
(McMaster University, 2011-10)This paper discusses the psychosocial impact of HIV/AIDS following the revelation that 1.5 million people have died of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, while another 1.3 million children have been orphaned. With HIV prevalence rate of ... -
Child Abuse in Kenyan slums: The good, the bad and the ugly
(2011-10-17)Child abuse depicts anything that individuals, institutions or processes do (or fail to do), which directly or indirectly harms the child or damages her/his prospects of safe growth and healthy development. At the apex of ... -
Building on the indigenous: theory and method of marriage therapy in contemporary Eastern and Western Africa
(2011-10-27)This paper highlights the distinctive approach to marriage therapy in use by therapists in two regions of Africa. It illustrates that marital therapy in these two regions is based on role theory framework and follows, ... -
Rehabilitation of Delinquent Adolescents in Kenya: Challenges and Implications for Counseling
(2013)The problem of delinquency in adolescence is a worldwide social phenomenon. Of most concern is the impact of delinquency on the adolescence, their families, and the society at large, and the relationship between delinquency ... -
Relationship between Functions of Counselor Supervision and Level of Burnout: The Case of Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Counselors in Selected Counties in Kenya
(The Cradle of Knowledge African Journal of Educational and Social Science Research, 2013)The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the functions of counsellor supervision and level of burnout among VCT counsellors in selected counties in Kenya. An expost facto correlational research ... -
Co-occurrence of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs Among secondary school students in Kiambu and Nairobi Counties Kenya
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2013-03-03)Secondary school students engage in behaviors like use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs that compromise their health and future potentials. However, these behaviors are preventable. The current study was designed to ... -
Effects of alcohol abuse on parental guidance of children
(International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR), 2014)Alcohol abuse and dependence can be disabling to the family functioning and especially nurturing of the children. However, information on the effect of alcohol abuse and dependence on the role of parents as nurturers in ...
