Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy for Reducing Aggressiveness among Children with Hearing Impairment in Nigeria
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2017-11
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Unilorin Journal of Lifelong Education
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Children often exhibit aggression which can take a variety of forms. It can be expressed physically, communicated verbally and/or non-verbally, whichever forms it takes, aggressive is harmful to both academic environment and social interaction. It is, therefore, important to assist children because of the incessant displaying of aggression in the school, at home and in the society. Series of psychological tools have been propounded and used by different scholars. These include but are not limited to Behaviuor Modification which has the strength of modifying the behaviours of the clients This focus of this paper is to discuss Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapyas one of the therapeutic tools for handling aggression among children with hearing-impairment in Nigeria. It also suggests that counsellors should apply the therapeutic procedure of REBT to assist children with hearing-impairment to appreciate the need for them to have positive thinking and feelings in order to decree aggression among them
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Aggression, Aggressiveness, Bullying and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT)