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Chapter 11
Counseling Strategies for Children and Families Impacted by Incarceration
Counseling is a professional relationship that could help individual to achieve mental health, fitness, education, and career goals. It is also a process of helping an individual to behave in a more personally satisfying way to foster appropriate adaptation in his/her environmental contexts. In this chapter, counseling was particularly perceived as a therapeutic relationship between the counselor and learners to assist the latter to develop adaptive skills or competences to be able to resist juvenile delinquency or crimes.
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Mitigating Juvenile Incarceration in Nigeria Through the Lens of Counseling
Abel Ebiega Enokela (Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9209-0.ch011
Abstract
This chapter critically examines juvenile incarceration in Nigeria with emphasis on pupils and students of basic and post basic education schools that are not up to the age of 18. Juvenile incarceration has a lot of implications for children and young persons like trauma reaction and behavioral and emotional challenges. Cases of prison congestion with children and young persons staying with adults and hardened criminals in hazardous and dehumanizing conditions imposed on them by ‘endless' incarceration continue to thrive in our society, particularly in Nigeria. This chapter, in proffering solutions to juvenile incarceration considered the roles of school counselors as pivotal to mitigating behaviors that could be precursors to incarceration. Sutherland's differential association theory and Bandura's social learning theory provided the theoretical direction for this effort.
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Chapter 3
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Persons in Quarantine and Isolation Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Namibia: A Multi-Sectoral Response
A process in which two people meet to explore personal problems and to identify solutions through meaningful discussions and well-informed choices.
Published in Chapter: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Persons in Quarantine and Isolation Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Namibia: A Multi-Sectoral Response; From: Epidemiological Research Applications for Public Health Measurement and Intervention
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Chapter 8
Treatment of Internet Addiction and Internet Gaming Disorder in Adolescence: A Systematic Review
A professional help and advice to someone to resolve personal or psychological problems.
Published in Chapter: Treatment of Internet Addiction and Internet Gaming Disorder in Adolescence: A Systematic Review; From: Multifaceted Approach to Digital Addiction and Its Treatment
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Chapter 27
Complexity of Breastfeeding on Child/Maternal Health and Counseling Intervention
In this work is a process of helping breastfeeding mother to appreciate the benefits of breastfeeding to their health and that of their baby so as to encourage them to breastfeed appropriately.
Published in Chapter: Complexity of Breastfeeding on Child/Maternal Health and Counseling Intervention; From: Handbook of Research on Chaos and Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences
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Chapter 12
Digital Mental Health Support for Students in Higher Institutions in Nigeria During Pandemics
Counseling refers to a professional therapeutic relationship aimed at helping individuals, families, and groups to have access to mental health to able to boost their resilience to cope with life’s challenges. The term, like many other psychological constructs, does not have a consensus definition. However, the overall aim of counseling is to help individuals to realize themselves, so that they can take appropriate decisions that enhance emotional and psychological adjustments.
Published in Chapter: Digital Mental Health Support for Students in Higher Institutions in Nigeria During Pandemics; From: Digital Innovations for Mental Health Support
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Chapter 42
Counseling in an Andragogical Approach
The act of helping (admonishing, advising, instructing) another person to consider, reflect, and possibly adopt a plan of action or appropriate behavior.
Published in Chapter: Counseling in an Andragogical Approach; From: Encyclopedia of E-Leadership, Counseling and Training
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Chapter 17
Complexity of Breastfeeding on Child/Maternal Health and Counseling Intervention
In this work is a process of helping breastfeeding mother to appreciate the benefits of breastfeeding to their health and that of their baby so as to encourage them to breastfeed appropriately.
Published in Chapter: Complexity of Breastfeeding on Child/Maternal Health and Counseling Intervention; From: Innovations in Global Maternal Health: Improving Prenatal and Postnatal Care Practices
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Chapter 14
Improving Listening and Spoken Language Through Family Coaching and Distance Intervention/Telepractice
The interventionist usually provides informal counseling to the family regarding the nature and potential impact of their child’s hearing loss, the options for communication and education and provide supports for the family’s experiences with their child. More formal counseling would be referred to a specialist, such as a behavioral specialist, psychologist, or pediatric specialist.
Published in Chapter: Improving Listening and Spoken Language Through Family Coaching and Distance Intervention/Telepractice; From: Meaningful and Active Family Engagement: IEP, Transition and Technology Integration in Special Education
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Chapter 10
Challenges and Dilemmas in the Education of Children With Special Needs in Romania
Action whereby certain persons are oriented, directed in specific areas by a person prepared for this purpose.
Published in Chapter: Challenges and Dilemmas in the Education of Children With Special Needs in Romania; From: Analyzing Paradigms Used in Education and Educational Psychology
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Chapter 4
Important Factors in Vocational Decision-Making Process
Helping people professionally and based on their needs.
Published in Chapter: Important Factors in Vocational Decision-Making Process; From: Vocational Identity and Career Construction in Education
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