Effective interventions to prevent and mitigate the rate of suicide in Nigeria
Having discussed extensively on the factors that cause and or aggravate the issue of suicide, all of the previous explanations about…
Spiritual/religious practices and their healing ingredients
As discussed in the previous article, healing ingredients explain those dimensions of the practices that can be related to the empirical…
Religion and psychology: Why mental health professionals must not ignore religiosity for effective practice
Introduction Therapy is simply defined as a treatment that helps restore a state of well-being and improves functioning of an…
Some interventions and recommendations to prevent psycho-social problems and suicide in society
Introduction The psychosocial problems are those problems that represent the influence of psychological factors and the surrounding social environment on…
Everyone is unique: Here is how to discover and embrace your uniqueness
It is indeed a beautiful thing to present this unique article to you who is a unique reader, a unique…
An insight into suicide according to diathesis-stress models
The biopsychosocial model is currently the foremost comprehensive and influential approach to explaining psychological disorders, especially as it applies to…
Understanding suicide from cognitive behavioural and strain theory perspective
Cognitive behavioural explanation Learned helplessness There has been a shift from behavioural to cognitive behavioural explanations of the emotional disorders.…
Biological, psychodynamic, socio-cultural and behavioural approaches to understanding the causes of suicide in Nigeria
Introduction This paper explores related literature (theories) and discusses suicide employing biological, psychodynamic and behavioural perspectives relevant to the understanding…
Scope and prevalence of suicide in Nigeria from a psychological perspective
Abstract The rate of suicide in Nigeria is alarming. There is comorbidity between suicide, personality disorders, depression and addiction. Suicide…
How locus of control and defence mechanisms impair our mental well-being and social functioning
Many a time, we wonder why we often fail at personal development, personal branding, social relationships (family, work romantic or…
How we acquire behaviours and habits without intentionally engaging in training
Sometimes we are curious about our habits, as to why we do somethings we do or how we behave the…
What your personality type says about your vulnerability to substance abuse
Abstract Through an examination of some relevant personality theories, this article will discuss the relationship between personality and substance use,…