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The Need For Guidance And Counseling Services Among Nigeria University Students
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background to the Study
Guidance and counselling services in the university promote the personal
social planning and programming for students with special learning
needs.
The students need to prepare themselves not only
academically but also socially in order for them to gain acceptance into
the new community.
It’s also good to know that, the
undergraduates, even though a good number of them are adults, there is
the need to guide them if the purpose which they are in the university
is to be achieved.
Also, majority of students in the
University are faced with anxiety and stress, to be able to handle
situation like this, they need counselling.
The services of
guidance and counselling in tertiary institution is to bring about well
guided and properly counselled among university undergraduates who will
be leaders of tomorrow because the role of guidance and counselling
cannot be over emphasized.
Most university administrators in
Nigeria are searching for stability as a way out of crises and a means
to restore some lasting tranquility on campuses. Recently, dramatic
increase in violence and revolutionary behaviour among students has
almost attained a high proportion throughout the world. Guidance and
counselling services are needed in order to find lasting solutions to
some problems that have plagued institutions of learning for a very long
time.
Students need counselling programme as a result of
these unruly behaviours. In order words, university undergraduates need
help to resolve their home, social, academics, health, emotional,
vocational, financial and religious problems. The undergraduates at this
level are made to understand the nature and complexity of their
problems and better means of solving the problems.
Fresh
students appear to be plagued by the questions self-defined by their
present status within the community, by their position within their peer
group and by their academic performances in secondary school. Without
counselling programme/support, they will feel inferior and be defeated
of their social identities. Difficulties may come the way of new
students trying to adjust to the new environment and they will find it
painful and hectic. This may be due to the differences they encounter in
life when in secondary schools.
Values espoused by other
students are social climate, course of study, study conditions and
degree of freedom and adjustment to these differences often result in
crises of some sort. The crises can be averted if guidance and
counselling services are made available to this category of students at
the point of entering into the university.
Since counselling
aims at the total development of the individual persons, it also helps
students to find spiritual and ethical measuring in life and help them
to live in harmony within the other members of the university community.
The inculcation of ethnical values through guidance and counselling
services will go a long way in curbing irrational behaviours among
university undergraduates. Effective counselling services in the
university will constrain students from rebellion against the
established rules of their schools organization and destruction of
school properties.
The student is aspiration should be
brought into balance with the goals of their educational institutions
and those of their surrounding community will be maintained.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated the need for guidance and counseling among Nigerian University Students, a case study of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State. The participants were sixteen thousand, eight hundred and fifty one (16,851) students of Ambrose Alli University drawn from the ten faculties of the school. To address the problem of study, five research questions were raised. The researcher adopted a survey research design. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled†... Continue reading---
