Non-Academic Counselling in Distance Learner Support

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Olugbenga David OJO

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Counselling purposefully helps the clients to improve their well-being, alleviate distress, resolve crises, and increase their ability to be creative, innovative and make success- focused decisions wherever they find themselves. This study advances Multimodal Therapy as a therapeutic counseling approach for the learners support services provider with the sole aim of helping the ODL students to overcome the hydra-headed problems that could be encountered during their studentship period in an open and distance learning institution.

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OJO , O. D. (2010). Non-Academic Counselling in Distance Learner Support . Asian Journal of Distance Education, 8(1), 119-126. Retrieved from https://asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/187
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