RELEVANCE OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING SERVICES IN ALLEVIATING THE PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL CRISES OF VICTIMS OF INSURGENCY IN KANO STATE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

This study intends to explore the relevance of guidance and counselling services in alleviating the Psychoeducational crisis of the victims of insurgency in Kano State Tertiary institutions. It was very common that many students of Kano State tertiary institutions fall victims of insurgent attacks that resulted into destabilizing educational and psychological conditions of most of the students. Some of the institutions that experienced attacks from the insurgents are: Bayero University, Kano, Federal College of Education, Aminu Kano College of Islamic and Legal Studies. The population of this study therefore includes all the students that reported their cases to Murtala Muhammad Foundation trauma and Counselling Centre. A sample size of thirty students from the three institutions was drawn using cluster sampling technique where each institution was regarded as a cluster and ten students were picked each. Quasi experimental method was used for conducting the study where the experimental group was based on the sample of thirty students being treated using various counselling services like group counselling, behaviour modification techniques like learning theories and collaborative approach for a period six weeks while thirty (30)participants as control group were randomly sampled out of the victims in the schools who were not exposed to counselling services were compared in respect of the Psychoeducational wellbeing of the experimental group. Some of the findings reveal that: Guidance and counselling services facilitate students Psychoeducational wellbeing, students that were not exposed to guidance and counselling services find it difficult to resolve their psycho educational crises easily. It was recommended that, tertiary institutions should attach relevance to the guidance and counselling centres in their institutions to alleviate students’ sufferings due to various crises in the current global realities.