Problems that Kenyans face that may require counseling in schools

  

Date Posted: 11/29/2012 5:05:42 AM

Posted By: vann  Membership Level: Gold  Total Points: 1015

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With a lot of people being engrossed in different activities and other stressful living, there are more than enough problems that Kenyans face in this daily life. Some of these problems are always very serious or tasking that need to be solved. A counselor may come in to help in such situations.
These problems that may require counseling include:

1. The challenging and highly competitive education system which has placed other learners at the back of the system. This has always been a problem to both the students and the parents at large and there is need to sometimes approach a counselor who can guide such people facing this problem to come up with better ways of highlighting and understanding these needs.

2. Inefficient school systems with inadequate facilities and/or poor facilities. This may affect learners’ ability to do their best thereby causing them to be stressed or have psychological problems that may require a counselor to come in and help guiding them.

3. Harsh examination systems that eliminate or discourage some students. This may sometimes make some students feel that they are not as others in the same class.

4. Rapid urbanization and breakdown in family values. Students are always affected by others who have different social backgrounds. Those from indifferent backgrounds may instill bad image behaviors in others leading them into finding wrong ways of coping up with family values.

5. Poverty is also a major cause of stress. Learners who come from poor backgrounds seem to be stressed and counseling need to be done on them.

6. Culture of drug abuse. The youths in school are influenced by others to get into drug abuse and this should not take place in any learning institution. Counseling such students should help them change.

7. Moral and religious decay in the society has led to upbringing of morally bent children who should be guided

back to the right path.

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