Introducing group counselling into Nigerian secondary schools: Report of a three-year experience

Abstract

This paper presents a progress of the efforts by a department in a Nigerian University to introduce group counselling into near-by secondary schools. Fkst, it reviews the traditional concept of guidance and counselling in Nigeria and compares this with the western concept, with emphasis on providing guidance/counselling to one individual at a time. The paper then discusses at length the group counselling programme that is used in various schools, mentioning findings on problems that adolescents are faced with. In a section devoted to evaluation, it was shown that Nigerian schools do need guidance counsellors. The last sectio~a discusses counselling techniques. Here is emphasised that, as counselling goes into Nigerian schools, there is a need to devise culturally viable techniques of handling issues and problems that are culturally peculiar to Africans.

Perception of undergraduates on study habit strategies for overcoming examination anxiety in Kwara, Nigeria

“…The study showed that the respondents perceived that study habits strategies for overcoming examination anxiety are: reviewing what they learned in school that day, having adequate time for studying, testing themselves periodically, having time for a study session, creating a pre-study checklist, finding a good reading spot, creating and following study plan, among other strategies. This finding supports Ipaye's (2005) study, which noted that students must have a study time schedule and know when to study. The finding also aligns with Bentil et al (2020), who asserted that not having good study habits and skills was the dominant examination anxiety among in-school adolescents.…”