Effects of Bibliotherapy on Student Counsellors’ Knowledge of and Preference for Telephone Counselling

Abstract

This study is on effects of bibliotherapy on student counsellors’ knowledge of and preference for telephone counselling. Two null hypotheses were generated to guide it. A researchers’ designed instrument was used for both   pre-test and post-test. It used 47 trainee-counsellors as sample for the study. Bibliotherapy was the counselling strategy applied in the study. The data collected were subjected to t-test analysis. The result revealed thus:

1. That there is significant mean difference between the pre-test and post-test knowledge scores of subjects exposed to telephone counselling using bibliotherapy.
2. That there is significant mean difference between the pre-test and post-test preference scores of subjects exposed to telephone counselling using bibliotherapy. Based on the findings, some implications of the results were highlighted.

Keywords: Bibliotherapy, Counselling, Telephone counselling, Internet Counselling.