Institute of Education, University of Nigeria

Mental Health Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Approaches

Content Overview Mental health and wellbeing: Basic concepts, common concerns, and cultural factors affecting help-seeking and stigma. Core helping skills: Active listening, questioning, reflection, paraphrasing, summarising, and structured role play. Introduction to helping approaches: Person-centred, cognitive behavioural, solution-focused, and Egan’s Skilled Helper approaches. Ethics, boundaries and self-care: Confidentiality, scope of practice, referrals, record keeping, burnout, and supervision. Crisis response: Risk recognition, de-escalation, psychological first aid, trauma-informed re…