In Zambia today, marriage can be perceived to be a union of man and woman and this means the two families unite to become one bigger family. However, despite traditional marriage counselling taking a leading role in resolving marital problems in marriages, most communities have a different...
Download PDF ↓Background- Psychiatric co-morbidities, particularly mood and anxiety disorders, occur more frequently in patients with epilepsy compared to the general population and tend to worsen morbidity and mortality in this group of patients via suicide among other causes. Treatment of these disorders is...
Download PDF ↓This study was set in five secondary schools in Choma District of Southern Province of Zambia. The study sought to explore the benefits of workplace counseling secondary schools. Participating schools included four co-education schools and one single sex school which comprised two grant aided...
Download PDF ↓Though schools are supposed to be safe places for caring for pupils, most often they are not, because of sexual harassment, especially of female pupils. Sexual harassment is a global phenomenon recorded across various settings all over the world including Zambia. Sexual harassment may include...
Download PDF ↓Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a problem in many countries in the world including Zambia with various studies pegging the prevalence at 3 to 17% for boys and 8 to 31% for girls (Barth, Bermetz, Heim, Trelle & Tonia, 2013). The effects of CSA are both physical (genital trauma, contraction of...
This study was designed to establish pupils’ perceptions of guidance and counselling services provided in selected secondary schools in Mazabuka district. It was guided by the following objectives: to identify the types of guidance and counselling services provided in secondary schools, to...
The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between phonological awareness knowledge and reading ability in a transparent orthography. A sample comprising of 105 participants (15 teachers and 90 pupils) was drawn from three schools in Solwezi District, North Western Province. The...
Download PDF ↓The study investigated the role of counselling in academic achievement of pupils in selected secondary schools in Kabwe District of Zambia. The objectives of the study were; to investigate the role counselling plays in pupils' academic achievement, to determine types of counselling offered to...
Download PDF ↓Residential Care (RC) is frequently used despite it being the last resort in the continuum of care for children and adolescents and evidence of its detrimental effects on the psychological well-being of children. RC is a type of care arrangement involving a group of more than ten children that is...
Download PDF ↓The problem for this study emerged from the fact that little was known on the nature of counselling offered to sexually abused children in Victim Support Units. The study therefore, focused on four objectives namely: to investigate the nature of counselling services offered to sexually abused...