Assessment, Benefits and factors that affect Guidance, Counselling Services in Secondary Schools in Owo Local Government, Ondo State.

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BACKGROUND: Guidance and counselling services is one important component of the school healthcare curricular activities. OBJECTIVE: This study assessed guidance and counselling services, identified the benefits and factors, as well as the effectiveness of guidance counselling. Researchers also developed two hypotheses as thus: relationship between and attitude towards guidance counselling; relationship between guidance counselling services to secondary school students and academic performance METHODOLOGY: Both the theoretical and empirical literature were reviewed in line with the three study objectives/hypotheses. The study adopted a quantitative design using a descriptive approach, simple random sampling technique and Taro Yamane’s framework were utilized as technique and 192 sample size determinants from a 368 population respectively. Data were collected with a self-structured questionnaire and were analyzed using frequency count, percentages and bar charts. Pearson Chi-Square was used to test the hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. FINDINGS: The assessment of guidance counselling facilities revealed inadequate funds, lack of counselling materials and resources, lack of good ICT equipment, unconducive counsellor’s office, unfavorable school policy, parental factors, and recruitment of unqualified school counsellors as factors hindering effective guidance and counselling services in secondary schools. However, researchers identified some respondents benefited positively from school guidance and counselling services; a significant relationship between the effectiveness of guidance and counselling services and students’ performance; which encouraged positive attitude towards school attendance, promotes academic performance and enhanced self-esteem as well as improved decision-making skills as benefits of guidance and counselling services. RECOMMENDATION/CONCLUSION: Based on the findings of the study, the researchers recommend that guidance counsellors in secondary schools should make use of effective guidance counselling approaches that will enable them to meet the needs of all stakeholders (teachers, students & counsellors) in schools, and the government must also be actively involved in providing their support where necessary towards the effectiveness of school guidance and counselling services.

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