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: November 2011; 3(8)

November 2011

Study of some environmental and genetic determinants of autism in Egyptian children

  Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder of unknown cause. Both genetic and environmental influences are claimed to contribute to the etiology of autism. Several studies were done to determine the factors that contribute to the expression of the symptoms. We studied genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors that may influence the neurodevelopmental alteration that can cause vulnerability to autism. We did...

Author(s):   El Sawy MA, Awadalla HI, Mohamed RR, Zaki OK and Mohamed OA

November 2011

Development and validation of crime behaviour factor battery

  This research examined the systematic processes utilized in the development and validation of the Crime Behaviour Factor Battery (CBFB) for measuring crime behaviours and factors responsible for such. The intended sample was 900 Nigerian adolescents, youths and adults, popularly believed to be prone to committing crime; but only 548 of them finally participated in the research. Their ages ranged between 16...

Author(s):   R. A.  Animasahun      

November 2011

Influence of the knowledge of HIV/AIDS on behaviour change among adolescents in Anambra State, Nigeria

  HIV/AIDS prevalence had become a global issue in the whole continent today. The study examined the influence of the knowledge of HIV/AIDS on behaviour change among adolescents in Anambra State, Nigeria. A sample of 960 adolescents were used for the study. Three research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study was a descriptive survey on adolescents in Anambra State. The instrument was a...

Author(s):   Ada Anyamene, Chinyelu Nwokolo, Ebele Anyachebelu and Ifeoma Obum-Okeke      

November 2011

Science management in modern organization

  Applying modern methods, new processing technology in modern organizations depends on a number of facts: One of them is efficient human resources management and wisely utilized human intelligent resources capital. Providing such demand needs appropriate management knowledge tools. Knowledge and intelligence always have been issues throughout the nations and human norms. But today for first decade of 3rd...

Author(s):   Tahereh Bagherpour, Ramzan Jahanian and Hairul A. Hashim