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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, ... -
African Indigenous Guidance and Counselling & Child Socialization Agents: Evaluating Aembu peoples’ Perception in the Redeemed Gospel Church, Embu County, Kenya
(Jumuga Journal of Education, Oral Studies & Human Sciences (JJEOHS), 2020)The aim of this article is to evaluate the perception of Pentecostal Christians in regard to the importance of the indigenous guidance and counselling among the Aembu indigenous society. In the latter, they socialized their ... -
African Perspective of Sources of an Individual’s Motivation to Behaviour and its Implications on Multicultural Counselling: Case of Kenyan Universities
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publication, 2019-05)Cultural perspectives of individuals motivation are not clearly understood and this presents a challenge in effective conceptualization and contextualization of clients’ problems in therapy. To understand this behaviour ... -
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 ... -
Analysis of Psychological Well-Being of Secondary School Teachers; A Review of Literature
(IPRJB, 2022)Purpose: The goal of the study was to conduct an investigation into the psychological wellbeing of teachers in secondary schools. Methodology: The research strategy used was a desktop review. Google Scholar was used ... -
Assessment of Attitudes towards Crime among Male Sexual Offenders: The Case of Nairobi West Prison, Nairobi City County
(Journal of Forensic Psychology, 2021-01-30)The rising cases of sexual offending suggest that justice and correctional mechanisms need to explore the attitude of the offenders to inform on additional rehabilitation strategies for the offenders. The question, however, ... -
Blood Pressure Parameters and the Development of Congestive Heart Failure among Hypertensive Patients at Kiambu County Hospital, Kenya
(The East and Central Africa Medical Journal, 2020-11)Introduction: Global incidence of heart failure is on increase. Heart failure has been shown to be on the increase with 1-3% admission rates globally and a 3-7% admission rate in the African hospitals. Hypertension ... -
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, ... -
Caregivers’ Perceptions of Compassion Ability Among Paediatric Healthcare Providers in Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
(Contemporary Research Center CRC Publications, 2020)INTRODUCTION: Compassion fatigue has the potential to impair compassion ability among paediatric health care providers (PHCPs). Despite the increased number of paediatric patients in the public hospitals occasioned by ... -
Catholic Church’s Pastoral Counseling Role in Addressing Domestic Violence against Women in Marriage in Muranga County, Kenya
(African Research Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2018)The main purpose of this study was to examine the role of pastoral counseling by the Catholic Church in addressing domestic violence against women in marriage, in Maragua Parish, Murang’a County. Survey research design ... -
Centering Decriminalization of Suicide in Low–And Middle–Income Countries on Effective Suicide Prevention Strategies.
(Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022)Globally, over 800,000 people die by suicide every year. For every one completed suicide, 20 more attempts have been made. As previous attempts are one of the strongest predictors of future suicide, help-seeking in ... -
Challenges Among Cancer Patients That May Influence Recovery Outcomes in Palliative Care Units in Nairobi and Nyeri Counties
(International Peer Reviewed Journals and Books Publishing, 2021)Purpose: This study sought to establish challenges among cancer patients that may influence recovery outcomes in palliative care units in Nairobi and Nyeri Counties. Methodology: The study adopted a correlation research ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Comparative Study on HIV-Related Attitude and HIV High Risk Behavior among Kenyan and American University Students
(Kenyatta University, 2015)The purpose of conducting this research was to investigate the relationship between attitude toward HIV/AIDS and the degree of sexual behavior among university students in Kenya and the United States of America. The ... -
Conducting global mental health research: lessons learned from Kenya
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-02-08)Mental health disorders are prevalent among youth and adolescents in low- and middleincome countries, and access to evidence-based treatments is poor. Although there is a great need for high-quality research to serve young ... -
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 ... -
Demographic factors associated with non-completion among postgraduate student in selected public universities in Kenya
(Kessinger Publishing, 2021-12-01)Non-completion among university students is a common phenomenon in many parts of the world. Many causes of this problem have been advanced and among them are institutional and individual reasons like financial ability, ... -
Does Family Structure Predispose Youth to Drug Use: the Case of Kajiado County, Kenya
(Nacada, 2021)There is evidence suggesting that drug use among the youth is common and has extensive effects on their social, health and economic lives. It is critical that this issue be addressed by understanding the factors that are ... -
Education and Skill formation for economic development in Kenya
(Contemporary Research Center, 2014)The government of Kenya concern with the mismatch between education outcomes and the economic needs has led to several curriculum reviews but with little success. This article examines the factors that shape skill formation ...
