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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: This is a theoretical paper that ex-rayed the precarious state of the counsellor and counselling in Nigeria. The Nigerian counsellor is compelled to engage in roles that are diametrically opposed to each other. Rendering counseling service and membership of the School Disciplinary Committee, for example, are antithetical as the counsellor cannot be humanizing and punishing concurrently. In order to redress these unsatisfactory job conditions of the counsellor, he/she needs the psychological buffer provided by cognitive dissonance dimensions. Dimensions that could be mobilised by the counsellor in order to restore cognitive equilibrium, as enunciated in the work are psychological tension, motivation to reduce tension, level of reward accruing from the behaviour, forced compliance and phoney. The import of this paper is brought to the fore in that although the physical and psychological environment may not motivate the counsellor to self-actualization the counsellor cannot afford to betray confidence reposed in him by the numerous clients that are beneficiaries of guidance services in the school system. |
| Keywords: coping; counselling; Nigeria; school; cognitive; dissonance. |
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