ISSN 2348-3156 (Print) International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research ISSN 2348-3164 (online) Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp: (1-12), Month: July - September 2022, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
THE PROVISION OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING AMONG SENIOR HIGH STUDENTS OF THE MADINA-ADENTAN MUNICIPALITY 1
JUDITH LARTELEY BOYE-LARYEA DEPARTMENT: EDUCATION DEPARTMENT UNIT: GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6788026
Published Date: 01-July-2022
Abstract: This study therefore seeks to explore the role of guidance and counselling in the life of students, in the Madina-Adenta Municipality in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. It is specifically seeks to assess the extent to which senior high schools in the Madina-Adenta Municipality have adopted guidance and counselling and evaluate the effect of guidance and counselling services on the students in the Madina-Adenta Municipality. The study used purposive sampling to select both private and a government school, who have form 3 students. A simply random sampling is employed in getting the students to responses to the survey questions. It became clear from the result that females sought counselling more than the male students. The students do not usually seek counselling from their teachers or dedicated staff but relied more on their peers. These negative forces of peer pressure drive them into most of the undisciplined behaviours that largely can affect their academic performance and gradually wade away their desire for a good future career. It is recommended that students are trained as peer counselling. More peer counselling programmes in the SHS schools. Keywords: Counselling, Guidance, Evaluate, Dedicated, Peer.
1. INTRODUCTION It is often an overlooked fact that basic and Senior High School Guidance and Counselling can significantly influence student achievement, retention and behavior in schools. Research conducted by Borders and Drury (1992) found that school counselling interventions have a substantial impact on student’s educational and personal development. Studies of a five-year dropout prevention by Kaufman, Klein and Frase (1999) showed that counselling services were one of the key elements encouraging pupils and students to stay in school. Afande (2015) points to the fact that many other studies lead to similar relationships between effective school counselling programs and student success. School guidance and counselling programs have therefore been introduced to assist students to overcome and adjust to a host of social and emotional challenges they experience at home and at school. According to Gatua (2014), virtually all countries have established channels to intensify and improve guidance and counselling services in their respective learning institutions in an attempt to address tenets of students’ behaviours. The history of guidance and counselling around the world varies greatly based on how different countries and local communities have chosen to provide personal, academic, social and emotional adjustment among the senior high school students (Weiten, 2007). Kaminer (2004) contends that in the United States, the school counselling profession began as a vocational guidance movement at the beginning of the 20th century when a systematic school guidance program was
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