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Counselling, and in particular school counselling, is evolving very slowly in developing countries because of failure to place it in the mainstream of the school curriculum. If counselling is to perform any role in the social and economic development of these nations it must be able to influence the goals and priorities of schooling as well as suggest new methods of teaching. In this way, counselling would lead to adoption of school curriculum promoting not only intellectual development but also personal and psychological development. By so doing all the perceived “obstacles” to counselling's growth would disappear.
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Bojuwoye, O. The role of counselling in developing countries: A reply to Soliman. Int J Adv Counselling 15, 3–16 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00117736
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