Global Advanced Research Journal of Educational Research and Review (ISSN: 2315-5132) Vol. 2(2) pp. 041-045, February, 2013 Available online http://garj.org/garjerr/index.htm Copyright © 2013 Global Advanced Research Journals Full Length Research Paper Menopause in women: implication for counselling Florence Undiyaundeye A Dept of ECCDE, Federal College of Education, Obudu, Cross River State Email: atube2001@yahoo.com Accepted 21 February, 2013 Menopause is a normal midlife transition for women. Sometimes is poorly understood particularly when proper information is not provided on time for the victim. This study examined the reaction of women to the issue of menopause. A total of 350 female married teachers formed the sample for the study. A modified attitude towards menopause checklist of married female academics was used for the study sample. The respondents responses who participated in the study were analyzed using percentages. The results showed that the respondents who participated in the study showed that most of them showed concern about how their spouses feel about them after menopause (98%), some feel that it is right to see a doctor at this time (91%), menopause seem to be seen as an unpleasant experience 83% in a varid way. This implied the findings for counseling and counselors discussion. The main issue weighed the major skills the counselor needs to adopt in assisting them adjust with menopause condition and provide enhancement to develop positive impression towards the condition. The counseling involves communication of information to assist a woman in the condition in making informed decisions about her health. A face to face encounter at this point is required to assist the woman in internalizing the information. She has received. The counseling session provide a woman’s medical history, family history, values, preferences and concern. Respondents are given a chance to ask questions for clarifications. The objective of counseling therefore addresses women’s questions and concerns, providing patient education, facilitating informed decision making and enhancing the patient’s confidence in the decision made and in her ability to carry it out or modify it over time. Keywords: menopause, Attitudes, Midlife, Aging, counseling Assertiveness Training, Cognitive Re-Structuring, Values Clarification. INTRODUCTION African society is much more permissive of aging in men. Most positive traits associated with masculinity actually increase with age e.g. competence, autonomy, self- control and power, whereas feminine characteristics such as sweetness, passivity, non-competitiveness and gentleness usually remain stable as women age. Again, women’s wisdom is considered to be age-old intuitive knowledge about the emotions therefore aging is believed to have added nothing to feminine knowledge. But men valued for their rational, intellectual minds, actually benefit from aging because experience tends to increase this type of knowledge. Schroots and Birren (1990) contend that aging may be regarded as a process of progressive “desynchronization” of the human system in its environment, nevertheless within this process, the striving for synchronization and order is maintained. Saucier (2004) also explained that problems related to a woman’s realization that she no longer conforms to society’s standards of youth and beauty include low selfesteem, depression and anxiety. These problems are basically because women seem to be more vulnerable than men to the pressure from society to conform to its expectations and as a result face more questions of self-worth as they enter the middle