Counselling as an Instrument for Reconstruction, Social Re-Orientation and Improved Quality of Life of Patients in the Hospitals

Abstract

The strife for survival and desire to attain a state of socio-economic
equilibrium impacts negatively on the mental health of most Nigerians.
This calls for the effective use of counselling to impact positively on the
lives of people. However a broad range of competencies are required for
use by counselling psychologist to enable counselling to be used to
enhance good quality of life considering the fact that the world in which
we live is full of problems of different dimensions and intensity. This
implies that counselling is a vital instrument that could be used to
facilitate the attainment of positive mental well-being and good quality
of life of patients in hospitals. However, in Nigeria the use of Psychotherapy
in treatment of patients in hospitals is not well utilised presently. Thus,
this work examines the contextual use of counselling for reconstruction,
social re-orientation and improved quality of life in hospital community
in Nigeria.