International Journal of
Psychology and Counselling

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Psychol. Couns.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2499
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJPC
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 221

Table of Content: March 2011; 3(3)

March 2011

Attitude of counsellors towards undergoing HIV voluntary counselling and testing in Ado-Odo/Ota, Nigeria

  This study was an investigation into the attitude of counsellors who offer HIV pre and post counselling. Sixteen counsellors who offer HIV pre-post-test counselling were identified from the preliminary field work, of these, 9 counsellors who reported they had not presented for HIV/AIDS testing were identified and 7 eventually participated in the study. The participants were active counsellors, 27 through 46...

Author(s):   Adekeye Olujide A.    

March 2011

Risk behaviours and early warning signals for ODL dropout students in Nigeria: Implications for counselling

  This research was to identify the risk behaviours and early warning signals for dropping out of students in Nigeria with particular reference to National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). The research design used for this study was a descriptive survey via causal comparative technique to describe the current status of risk behaviour and early warning signals among NOUN students. The sample of 1,440...

Author(s):   Fidel O. Okopi    

March 2011

Effect of homogenous and heterogeneous ability grouping class teaching on student’s interest, attitude and achievement in integrated science

  The study investigated the effect of homogeneous ability level grouping class teaching and heterogeneous ability class teaching on students’ learning outcome in Integrated Science. The sample comprised 60 students in the junior secondary school class 3 randomly selected from 2 schools. In each school, 30 students comprising 15 males and 15 females were selected through stratified random sampling...

Author(s):   Adodo S. O. and Agbayewa J. O.    

March 2011

Relationship trauma: Assessing the criteria of trauma in adult intimate abusive relationships

  The present study analyzed the factor structure of items related to trauma experienced in the context of an abusive intimate adult relationship. One hundred and twenty male and female participants who experienced an abusive traumatic relationship completed the post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTRS) questionnaire, a 40-item scale, measuring several dimensions of relationship trauma. The scale was shown to have...

Author(s):   Tricia L. Orzeck, and Ami Rokach,