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Item Psychosocial and cultural analysis of childlessness and its implications on women emancipation in South Western Nigeria: the counselling perspective(2014) Ofole, N. M.Studies show that the stereotype that childlessness is solely considered a woman's problem makes infertility a major disaster for childless women in Nigeria. This study adopted a cross sectional survey design to explore the extent to which Psychosocial and cultural factors correlate with perception of childlessness among women in South Western Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was utilized to draw out five hundred and fifty-four males and seven hundred females with age range of 20-45 (X =30.4; SD=8.6) from South Western Nigeria. A synchronized instrument with three sub- sections titled Psycho socio-cultural assessment of childlessness (r=0.75) was utilized for data collection. Two Research questions were answered and six null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive Statistics, Multiple Regression Analysis, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and t-test for independent samples were used for data analysis. Results show that Nigerians irrespective of tribe, gender, age, educational status, self-esteem and religion consider childlessness a taboo and hold women solely responsible. This outcome has implications for improved sexual and reproductive health policy with respect to gender mainstreaming and counselling interventions for childless women.Item Social support and counselling as determinants of quality of life among secondary school adolescents with hearing impairment in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria(John Archers (Publishers) LTD., 2023) Isaiah, O. O.; Amaize, S. O.Adolescents with hearing impairment experience grievous psychological and emotional problems due to their hearing defect, culminating in their poor quality of life. Earlier studies in this direction have not done much. This study, therefore, examined the influence of social support and counselling on the quality of life among secondary school adolescents with hearing impairment in Ibadan, utilising the descriptive survey research design of correlational type for carrying out the study, while the purposive sampling technique was used to select sixty (60) respondents. The instruments used were structured questionnaire tagged ‘Social Support and Counselling Questionnaire (r = 0.64) and Students with Hearing Impairment Quality of Life Questionnaire (0.86) while four research questions were answered. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation, Multiple Regression Analysis. Social support (r = 906*, p <0.05) and counselling (r = 368*, p < 0.05) were positively correlated with the quality of life of adolescents with hearing impairment. Social support and counselling predicted improved quality of life of adolescents with hearing impairment (F(2 57) = 226.583, p < 0.05) and accounted for about 89% of the total variance to the dependent variable. The relative contributions of the independent variables to the quality of life of adolescents with hearing impairment are as follows: social support (b = 0.874), and counselling (b = 0.261). Social support and counselling are important factors that influence the quality of life of adolescents with hearing impairment. Therefore, parents, teachers, government at all levels and other relevant stakeholders are enjoined to ensure adequate provision of social support and counselling to improve the quality of life of adolescents with hearing impairment.Item Counselling high achieving and creatively gifted children(KamlA'Raj Enterprises, 2011-07) Adelodun, G. A.Psychologists and educators have expressed widely divergent views on the nature of high achievers and the characteristics of creative and gifted children. This study sheds light on the nature and concept of high achievers as well as the creative and gifted children. Effort has also been made in this study to enumerate the characteristics of the gifted and creative persons. Finally, in this study, the counselling strategies to be employed to ensure that these Intellectual Wizards achieve higher in different areas of life and become more creatively gifted have been stated.Item Counselling intervention for parents of special needs children(2010) Adelodun, G. A.Over the years, increased awareness of difficulties facing parents of special needs children has been the concern of professionals. Parents are usually disturbed and psychologically maladjusted with the arrival of such children in the family. The arrival in the family obviously affects financial, social, educational and emotional state of such families. As a result of the devastating effect of having special needs children in the family, counselling intervention for parents of such children become inevitable. This paper examines the reaction of parents to the arrival of a child with disability in the family, practical counselling for parents with special needs children which include: counselling parents with gifted and talented children, counselling parents of children with visual impairment, counselling parents of children with learning disabilities, counselling parents of children with hearing impairment, counselling parents with mentally retarded children as well as counselling parents of children with} speech and language disorder. It is recommended that parents should seek early medical attention as soon as they suspect any problem or disability in any of their children. It is also recommended that once the medical doctor confirms the disability, professional Guidance Counsellor must be consulted to counsel the parents on the next line of action.