Counsello

Kenya Association of Professional Counsellors
School of Counselling Studies

MA IN COUNSELLING STUDIES
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Student’s Name: Dorcas Adoyo Mwinda Date of Submission: 30th October 2009

Assignment: (please tick appropriate box) 1 2
Module 1‘Exploration in Counselling’
Module 2: ‘Understanding in Counselling’
Module 3: ‘Integration in Counselling’
Module 4: Practicum Video Evaluation
Module 5 ‘Research Methods’
Module 6 ‘Dissertation’

Title of Assignment: The Appropriateness of Person centered Approach in Sub-Saharan Africa
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First Internal Examiner Second External Examiner Second Internal Examiner External Examiner

Recommended Result: Percentage: Level (MA/PG Dip)

Name of Examiner: Elias Gikundi
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE Page No.
Introduction 2
What is person centred Approach 3
View of Human nature 3
Congruence 5
Unconditional Positive Regard 6
Empathic Understanding 6
Concepts exposed in person- centred Approach 7
Values exposed in person centred approach 9 Effectiveness of Person Centred Approach in Sub-Saharan Africa 11
Conclusion 13
References 14

INTRODUCTION

Counselling has been perceived as an advice in many sub- Saharan African countries and also the fact that there are many counselling approaches which are used; it has even become more confusing for people to understand.
But due to different experiences we face in African countries like tribal clashes, culture differences, Poverty, political instability, racism, unemployment, HIV/AIDS and many others counselling was introduced from the western culture to provide healing to the affected and infected people, and thus person centred approach was adopted because it helps deal with individual feelings, which would help the

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