Counselling service itself has been offered in various ways throughout diverse professions. The main purpose of this study is to explore the provision of counselling services in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) and its value in the faithful’s spiritual and socio-psychological lives.
The study fully reviewed three categories namely: the effectiveness of the EOTC’s Spiritual-Based Counselling and its outcome, the faithful’s expectations, and the counsellors’ commitment. It offers a unique way in which to assess the EOTC’s Spiritual-Based Counselling services for the faithful. This study was designed to investigate the application of the EOTC’s Christian Counselling services in its practical aspects and to examine what the main hidden problems are.
In order to collect data the study also used both qualitative and qualitative methods by use of questionnaire and interview schedule.
For quantitative data analysis, Descriptive and inferential statistics methods were utilized such us percentages, frequencies, means and standard deviations.
Furthermore, the parametric tests (i.e. Chi-square test (X²), T-Test and Z-Test of significance) and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used in order to see significant differences among participants on given variable and real occurrence of the data. In addition, Predictive Analytics Software (PASW) version 18.0 was employed for data analysis.
