The role of counseling in developing countries

✍ Scribed by Abdalla M. Soliman

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 766 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-0653
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00116712

✦ Synopsis

Development is an important goal for developing countries. This goal cannot be achieved without the growth of human potential. Counseling is one of the effective means for developing human potential. Yet counseling has been evolving slowly in developing countries. Reports show that counseling and guidance have been started in the schools in some of these countries; they rarely show that counseling has been implemented in other settings. The purpose of this paper was to examine the obstacles for implementing counseling services in developing countries, to discuss a working definition of counseling and to propose the settings in which counseling may be implemented.