A Diachronic History of the Scopes of Practice of Counselling Psychology in Three Sub-Saharan African Countries

Abstract

In 2016 a landmark article was published in the Counselling Psychology Quarterly aimed at providing a global portrait of the discipline of counselling psychology. Unfortunately, only experiences and histories of counselling psychology in eight countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) were represented. Similarly, in 2019 another important article was published in the Counseling Psychologist, aimed at highlighting the factors that influence counselling practice in four countries (Iceland, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey). Unfortunately, again, the history of Counselling Psychology in the whole of Africa apart from South Africa remained omitted in these publications. The present article is an attempt to close this gap. Its principal objective is to let our foreign partners who plan to spend their sabbatical or other such experiences in any of the three African countries highlighted in this study be aware of what goes on in the field of counselling psychology in these countries and how they will be able to fit in when teaching or practicing counselling psychology in any one of them.