Unfavourable govt policies, inadequate funding affects guidance

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A Professor of Counselling Psychology at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), Anambra State, Prof Nnamdi Josephat Obikeze, has attributed inadequate funding, dearth of qualified and experienced Counsellors, incompetence among Counsellors, non-functioning professional bodies, proliferation and use of quasi-counsellors, and inadequate sensitization of citizens about Counselling Unfavourable government policies, over-dependence on government for support and non-uniformity of Counselling programmes in Universities are factors affecting Guidance and Counselling practice in Nigeria.

He said the situation has also discouraged many young Nigerians from enrolling in the…



Source: Nigerian Tribune