Introducing a new interdisciplinary subfield of counseling studies incident to the education of African descent students: Centered African mental health on campus

ABSTRACT

Containing 55 mental disorders derived from the centered African framework of personality and drawing on the works of 22 mental health scholars spanning over 60 years, the Azibo Nosology II (Azibo, D. 2014a). The Azibo Nosology II: Epexegesis and 25th anniversary update: 55 culture-focused mental disorders suffered by African descent people. The Journal of Pan African Studies applied to college students of African descent is suggested for a new interdisciplinary subfield of educational and psychological studies. The subfield is defined as employing theory, research and practice that is expressly epistemologically located in African-centered deep thought pertaining to the mental health and behavioral functioning and well-being of students from any group of continental or Diaspora Africans having implications for academic adjustment, achievement and processes, including counseling and student support services. The argument for this proposed subfield is supported with an empirical study that exemplifies its purview. The subfield might enhance educator and mental health worker effectiveness thereby improving campus environment for African descent students.

KEYWORDS:

• Azibo Nosology II
• psychological misorientation
• self-destructive disorders
• cultural misorientation scale

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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