Assessing Counselling Needs of Students With Emotional Disorders in Public Secondary Schools in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria
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Counselling needs, emotional disorders and counsellingAbstract
The study assessed the counselling needs of students with emotional disorders in public secondary schools in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. A sample of 89 emotionally disordered students were drawn through purposive sampling method in public secondary schools in the area were used for the study. Two instruments titled “Students Needs Assessment Questionnaire” (SNAQ) and Students Disorders Questionnaire” (SDQ) were used for data collection. Face and content validities of the instruments were ensured by experts. Test-retest method was used to establish the reliability of the instrument and the reliability coefficient of (SNAQ) was 0.81 and (SDQ) was 0.79 respectively. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation for the research questions while independent t-test and one way ANOVA which were tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance were used to test the hypotheses. It is found that female students are more emotionally disordered and also need counselling than their male counterparts. Male and female students do not differ significantly in the counselling needs with different emotional disorders including depression, anxiety, trauma and stress. Based on the findings, conclusions and recommendations were made.a
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