✦ LIBER ✦
Indigenous counselling techniques among the Yoruba and Igala people of Nigeria
✍ Scribed by Olu Makinde
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 745 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-0653
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✦ Synopsis
Guidance and counselling are now making a good beginning in Africa. This paper attempts to trace the historical foundations of Yornba and Igala counselling in Africa and examines what makes for success in traditional therapy -the words, phrases and aphorisms used, the climate set and the personality of the professional. Furthermore, since recent studies show that the training and methods of indigenous practitioners are sound and that their philosophy and practice have much in common with Western approaches, the paper also attempts to introduce their skills for fusion with Western mental health.