GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING SERVICES AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OBUDU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA - Dr. Pauline U. Ekpang, Beshel F. Unimna

 GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING SERVICES AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OBUDU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA - Dr. Pauline U. Ekpang, Beshel F. Unimna

JOURNAL:

ARCHIVE FOR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND COUNSELING - PSYCHOTHERAPHY, VOLUME 4, NUMBER 1, June, 2022

ARTICLE TITLE: 

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING SERVICES AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OBUDU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA

AUTHOR: 

Dr. Pauline U. Ekpang 

Department of Guidance & Counseling University of Calabar

 Beshel F. Unimna 

Department of Guidance & Counseling University of Calabar

ABSTRACT 

The study examines the role of guidance and counseling services on secondary school students with deviant behavior's in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. The survey research design was used as a framework for data collection. A simple random sampling technique was adopted in selecting ten (10) secondary schools for the study. The reliability of the instrument was established by test-retest reliability with a coefficient 0.78 and 0.80. This was done by administering the test twice allowing the interval of two weeks between them. The questionnaire administered showed that, there is a significant relationship between rationales for guidance and counseling services in schools and students' deviant behaviour. Guidance and counseling services in schools has a significant influence on student's behaviour in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State. The study recommends that, the state Government through Local Education Authority should take proactive steps towards the recruitment, re-training and deployment of guidance counselors to all the public secondary schools in Obudu Local Government Area in order to help in curbing student's deviant behaviour and reduce the menace caused by such bahaviour in the society. 

KEYWORDS: Deviant Behaviour, Para-Counselors, Behaviour Modification, Re-training. 

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