PROGRAMME
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Topics
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Behavior Acquisition and Modification
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- What is behavior?
- How behavior is acquired
- Behavior modification
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The Self-concept: Who am I?
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- Self-esteem
- Development of the social self
- Success and Failure experiences
- Other people’s judgments
- Explaining our behavior
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Youth Development and Sexuality
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- Psychological and emotional responses to Adolescent changes
- Management of masturbation, homo-sexuality, and lesbianism
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Psycho-social problems in schools (bullying)
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- Induction to secondary school
- How best to prepare for form ones
- Changing trends of receiving form ones
- Students violence and unrest
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Psychological changes in adolescence
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- Rebelliousness
- Indiscipline
- Self-consciousness
- Shyness
- Personality complexes
- Sibling rivalry
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Peer Influence
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- Positive and negative peer pressure
- Group dynamics
- To conform or to reform
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Boarding school Factors
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- Dealing with home sickness
- Student adjustment
- “the wrong school” frustrations, confusion, and disappointment
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Character building and development
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- Personality types
- Values
- Self-esteem
- Self-efficacy
- Self-actualization
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Human Development
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- Cognitive
- Moral
- Psychosexual
- Developmental stages and tasks
- Consequences of positive and negative resolutions
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Effects of Parenting and Performance in Schools
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- Effects of parenting styles
- The role of mother and father
- How parents can encourage cognitive development
- Factors affecting academic achievements
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STI’s and HIV/AIDs
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- Statistics
- Role of VCT in prevention and management
- Impact
- Prevention and management
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Peer Education/Support training
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- Communication skills
- Life skills
- Drug and substance abuse
- Conflict management skills
- Career choice and guidance
- Basic Professional Counseling Skills
- What is professional counseling?
- Qualities of a professional counselor
- Professional Counseling skills
- Confidentiality as an ethical issue in professional counseling
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Drugs, Substance abuse and addiction
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- Why youth abuse drugs and substance
- Signs of drugs and substance abuse
- Drugs and substance dependency
- Drug tolerance
- Symptoms of drugs withdrawal/intoxication
- How to overcome drug use
- Consequences and implications of addiction
- Types of drinkers
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Life Skills Education and Core Values
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- What are values?
- Core living values
- Objectives of life skills education in schools
- Life skills of living with oneself
- Life skills of living with others
- Skills in making effective decisions
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Conflict Management and Resolutions
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- Types of conflicts: constructive and destructive
- Sources of conflicts
- Conflict management styles
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Guidance in Schools
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- Personal guidance
- Educational guidance
- Health guidance
- Career guidance
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Interpersonal Relationships
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- Types of relationships
- Factors affecting relationships
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Media Influence on the young people
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- Positive media
- the role of guidance and counseling in dealing with influence of mass media
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Discipline and Deviant Behaviour
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- Discipline styles
- Causes of indiscipline
- Deviate behavior
- Discipline or punishment
- Management of indiscipline and deviant behavior
- Psychological effects of harsh punishment
- Effective punishment
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Time Management
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- Importance of time management
- Time robbers
- Time management skills
- Goal setting
- Managing leisure time
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Loss and grief
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- Types of loss
- Phases of grief
- Symptoms associated with grief
- Signs of pathological grief
- Children and grief
- Suicide as a loss
- major causes of suicide in adolescence
- signs of imminent suicide
- counseling adolescence manifesting suicidal thoughts and tendencies
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Spiritual Growth and Development
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- introduction to cultic movements
- types of cults
- how cults recruit members
- why adolescents join cults
- common characteristics of cults
- counseling a cult member
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Disaster Preparedness and Trauma Management
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- Types of disaster
- Causes of trauma
- Symptoms of trauma
- How to help traumatized children
- Disaster preparedness
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Aggression
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- Factors affecting aggression (family, modeling, television, peers, cognitive factors, displacement, projection, etc)
- Working with the aggressive child
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Child Abuse
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- Physical abuse
- Emotional abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Causes of child abuse
- Preventing child abuse
- Symptoms of abuse and neglects
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Relationships
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- Family based relationships
- Parent relationship
- Teachers/student relationship
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Stress management
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- Youth stressors
- How to manage stress
- Conflict with friends
- Conflict with parents
- Social conflicts
- Dealing with depression and loneliness
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