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As social beings, humans depend on one another to maintain their psychological and biological wel... more As social beings, humans depend on one another to maintain their psychological and biological well-being, which when threatened, they typically turn to others for help. Helping individuals with psychological challenges has been challenging for mental health professionals. Thus, psychotherapy comes into play. Psychotherapy connotes treatment or interaction between a trained professional and a client, family, patient, couple, or group. The addressed problems are psychological and can differ in their causes, influences, and potential solutions. Proper assessment of the problem and other variables relies on the practitioner’s ability acquired knowledge, experience and insight. Psychotherapy plays a significant role in helping people suffering from psychological and behavioural problems. Psychotherapy involves interactive processes between an individual or group and a certified professional. Its goal is the inquiry of feelings, thoughts, and behaviour to solve problems or obtain higher levels of functioning.
Psychotherapy aims to increase people’s sense of well-being. Psychotherapists use techniques centred on experiential relationship building, dialogue, communication and behaviour change designed to improve the client mental health or enhance group relationships. Psychotherapist functions and roles are performed by practitioners like clinical psychologist, psychiatric social workers, counsellors, and psychotherapists. It may be legally and voluntarily regulated or unregulated based on the jurisdiction. This article examines the concept of psychotherapy, the purpose of psychotherapy, theories/principles of psychotherapy and the factors that influence the outcomes of psychotherapeutic relationships.

Domestic violence is a severe phenomenon confronting human society by disturbing the peaceful coe... more Domestic violence is a severe phenomenon confronting human society by disturbing the peaceful coexistence of the home or family. According to the Office of Violence Against Women (2007), this act occurs to anyone regardless of race, age, sex, or religion. The term is also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence. Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behaviour displayed by one in an intimate relationship like dating, marriage, or family. This abusive behaviour takes various forms, such as physical assault, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, domineering intimidation, and resource deprivation (Seimeniuk et al., 2010). In Nigeria, women experience more domestic violence than men; this view is supported by Amnesty International (2007), which reported that two-thirds of women are subjected to sexual, physical and psychological violence performed by their husbands, partners and family members (Oluremi, 2015). This act is promoted by jealousy, social stress, and social learning, as it creates fear, insecurity and discomfort among family members. With these ills, domestic violence must be considered and dealt with as an amoral practice, which the church needs to respond to through pastoral care towards victims and perpetrators.

Special education is provided to persons living with a disability through a specially designed in... more Special education is provided to persons living with a disability through a specially
designed instruction to meet their needs and to enable them access the general curriculum of the school. Under these provisions, individuals with special needs is awarded the most suitable educational programme to fit their needs. Thus, teacher aid within the classroom, several approaches to teaching, use of technology, or even being moved to a private school should cater more specifically to the student’s needs and the student’s district must provide the means. Special education is having a unique and essential place within the field of education because of the students involved. Every student living with a disability needs a different form of educational techniques and practices as a way of educating a student may not work for another, even if they have similar disabilities. Therefore, to effectively educates persons living with disabilities there is need to understand the fundamental of special education, which is the focus or purpose of this paper.

Special education is provided to persons living with a disability through a specially designed i... more Special education is provided to persons living with a disability through a specially
designed instruction to meet their needs and to enable them access the general curriculum of the school. Under these provisions, individuals with special needs is awarded the most suitable educational programme to fit their needs. Thus, teacher aid within the classroom, several approaches to teaching, use of technology, or even being moved to a private school should cater more specifically to the student’s needs and the student’s district must provide the means. Special education is having a unique and essential place within the field of education because of the students involved. Every student living with a disability needs a different form of educational techniques and practices as a way of educating a student may not work for another, even if they have similar disabilities. Therefore, to effectively educates persons living with disabilities there is need to understand the fundamental of special education, which is the focus or purpose of this paper.

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This paper addressed pastoral care as a catalyst for alleviating crises during pandemics among me... more This paper addressed pastoral care as a catalyst for alleviating crises during pandemics among members of the Grace community, who are bona fide members of the body of Christ in the Christendom. The work established sufferings as inevitable during a pandemic. Moreover, a pandemic is controllable through psychological strategies of isolation, social restriction and distancing. Those procedures may bring physiological and psychological burdens of anxiety, loneliness, fear, hopelessness and depression to the populace; regardless of religion, culture, race or ethnicity, a pandemic outbreak poses health, economic, social and spiritual effects to members of the Grace community.
The crises experienced during pandemics make most victims dysfunctional; hence, a pastoral care approach or response is in need to alleviate the problem and enhance proper physiological and psychological growth and wellbeing. That is because enhancing wholeness and development, the primary goal of pastoral care is achievable through ministerial care functions of sustaining, educating, and guiding.

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Poverty among Nigerians is increasing, as it is visible across all regions of the nation. This in... more Poverty among Nigerians is increasing, as it is visible across all regions of the nation. This increasing rate of poverty among Nigerians cut across all age groups, including youth. It is believed that poverty is leading most Nigerian youth into irrational thinking towards making wealth as they engage in amoral activities like internet fraud (yahoo plus), money rituals, and many more. The factors believed to be leading to increased poverty in Nigeria are misappropriation of national resources, corruption, unemployment, and high rate of population growth. The highlighted psychosocial effects of poverty are irrational thinking, inability to participate in social activities, and inferior feelings. The Christian counselling responses considered effective are guiding, nurturing, and educating. This is because when youth are properly guided, nurtured and educated towards better means of creating wealth, irrational thinking toward getting rich illegally will be curtailed.

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This study centred on "counselling: a remedy for marital instability among Nigerians." Marital in... more This study centred on "counselling: a remedy for marital instability among Nigerians." Marital instability is a global issue that significantly harms marriage and family relationships. The objectives that guided this study are to examine the factors causing marital instability, identify the effects of marital instability, relevant pastoral counselling functions for building marital stability and investigate the counselling process to remediate marital instability among Nigerians. This study adopted a descriptive survey research design of ex post facto type. The study population comprised 100 married men and women within Akwanga local government area of Nasarawa state, who were picked through random sampling techniques. The instrument used for data collection is a researcher-designed questionnaire titled "Marital Instability among Nigerians Questionnaire" (MINQ) with a correlation coefficient of 0.79. The mean score was used for analysing the data collected. Factors causing marital instability, as revealed by the study, are fragility of marital bonds, childlessness, unplanned marital life, unsatisfactory sexual relationship, and absence of effective communication. The revealed effects of marital instability are separation and divorce, spouse beating, hostility and aggressive behaviours, anxiety disorder/depression, and it affects family functioning. The revealed relevant strategies to curtail marital instability are guidance, reconciliation, counselling, and helping couples constructively pass through their marital challenges. Premarital counselling, post-marital counselling, couple retreat, family enrichment programmes and seminars/teachings on marriage are the revealed counselling processes to remediate marital instability. Based on the findings, the following recommendations were made: counsellors should ensure that engaged couples undergo premarital counselling, engaged couples should be open-minded during premarital counselling, and couples should be open to family enrichment programmes.

Kotler and Levy proposed the possibility of marketing for politics for the first time in 1969, ar... more Kotler and Levy proposed the possibility of marketing for politics for the first time in 1969, arguing that businesses and commercial organisations could be extended to all organisations. The American Marketing Association (AMA) officially defines marketing (approved July 2019; www.ama.org) as set of institutions, the activity and processes for creating, delivering, communicating, and exchanging offerings that have value for clients, customers, partners, and society at large. Marketing is an organisational function and processes for creating, delivering and communicating their value to customers and managing customer relationships to benefit the organisation and its stakeholders (Hughes & Dann, 2009). According to Wring (2002) the first usage of the term political marketing is regularly attributed to Kelley (1956), who viewed political marketing as virtually synonymous with propaganda because its essential goal was persuasion (185). However, from the definition of traditional marketing, political marketing can be described as a set of activities, processes, or political institutions used by political organisations, candidates, and individuals to create, communicate, deliver, and exchange promises of value with voter consumers, political party stakeholders, and society at large (Hughes & Dann, 2009, 359). However, political marketing is a hybrid sub-discipline that draws on the parent disciplines of traditional marketing and political science. Butler and Collins (1994) stated that political marketing is marketing ideas and opinions related to public or political issues or specific candidates (19). Political marketing is designed to influence people's votes in elections. Lock and Harris (1996) said political marketing is concerned with communicating with party

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