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WHY STUDENTS SEEK COUNSELING?
(Problems affecting young people
nowadays)
• Neglect: parents tend to focus more on
economy than on children and family.
• Massive unemployment & poverty: children
struggle when they lack food, clothing and
shelter. They become ridiculed at school and
laughing stock when their financial hardships
can clearly be seen in public.
Why students seek counselling?
(Cont….)
• Anxiety, shyness, anger, guilt, shame, stress,
depression, suicide
• TV watching: Excessive and unmonitored
• Boredom
• Casual sex : Fake intimacy, ignorant of
psychological effects of sex outside marriage
• Drugs, alcohol, substance abuse
• Unhealthy food: junk food is addictive,
Why students seek counselling?
[Cont…]
• Peer pressure
• Identity confusion in relation to dress styles,
health habits, hobbies and entertainment.
Some become obese due to lack of regular
physical exercise, some develop low self-
esteem and depression
• Anxiety, shyness, anger, guilt, shame, stress,
depression,
Why students seek counselling?
[Cont…]
• Schools are joyless places: more or less like
military barracks with corporal punishment
being practised.
• TV watching: excessive and unmonitored.
• Boredom
• Casual sex: fake intimacy, ignorant of
psychological effects of sex outside marriage
• Drugs, alcohol, substance abuse
Why students seek counselling?
[Cont…]
• Unhealthy food: junk food is addictive, and it is
harmful
• Pornography: addictive
• Dating
• Suicide: rejection
• Unplanned pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy
• Sexual harassment, rape
• Divorce
• Single parent families: infidelity, promiscuity by
parents
Why students seek counselling?
[Cont…]
• Orphanages: child headed families
• Grief, bereavement, death
• HIV: infected, affected
• College adjustment issues
E.g. homesickness, academic problems, long-
distance relationships
• Interpersonal difficulties include...roommate
conflicts, family problems, romantic relationship
concerns

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problems affecting young people today

  • 1. WHY STUDENTS SEEK COUNSELING? (Problems affecting young people nowadays) • Neglect: parents tend to focus more on economy than on children and family. • Massive unemployment & poverty: children struggle when they lack food, clothing and shelter. They become ridiculed at school and laughing stock when their financial hardships can clearly be seen in public.
  • 2. Why students seek counselling? (Cont….) • Anxiety, shyness, anger, guilt, shame, stress, depression, suicide • TV watching: Excessive and unmonitored • Boredom • Casual sex : Fake intimacy, ignorant of psychological effects of sex outside marriage • Drugs, alcohol, substance abuse • Unhealthy food: junk food is addictive,
  • 3. Why students seek counselling? [Cont…] • Peer pressure • Identity confusion in relation to dress styles, health habits, hobbies and entertainment. Some become obese due to lack of regular physical exercise, some develop low self- esteem and depression • Anxiety, shyness, anger, guilt, shame, stress, depression,
  • 4. Why students seek counselling? [Cont…] • Schools are joyless places: more or less like military barracks with corporal punishment being practised. • TV watching: excessive and unmonitored. • Boredom • Casual sex: fake intimacy, ignorant of psychological effects of sex outside marriage • Drugs, alcohol, substance abuse
  • 5. Why students seek counselling? [Cont…] • Unhealthy food: junk food is addictive, and it is harmful • Pornography: addictive • Dating • Suicide: rejection • Unplanned pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy • Sexual harassment, rape • Divorce • Single parent families: infidelity, promiscuity by parents
  • 6. Why students seek counselling? [Cont…] • Orphanages: child headed families • Grief, bereavement, death • HIV: infected, affected • College adjustment issues E.g. homesickness, academic problems, long- distance relationships • Interpersonal difficulties include...roommate conflicts, family problems, romantic relationship concerns