STRATEGIES TO RESOLVE MOTIVATION- RELATED CONSTRAINTS FOR EFFECTIVE COUNSELLING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ENUGU STATE

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to determine strategies to resolve motivation- related constraints for effective counselling in secondary schools in Enugu State. Two research questions and four null hypotheses were formulated and tested at .05 level of significance. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The entire population of 113 secondary school Guidance counsellors in the 295 public secondary schools in Enugu State, was used for the study. A structured questionnaire developed by the researcher was used for data collection. The questionnaire was validated by three experts. Two experts were from the Department of Guidance and Counselling while the other expert was in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Education, all from Faculty of Education, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha Reliability Coefficient. The overall reliability coefficient was .77, indicating that the instrument is reliable and suitable for the study. Data collected with the questionnaire were analyzed using Mean (x̅) and Standard Deviation (SD) to answer the two research questions. From the result of the findings, it was concluded among others that collaborative counselling strategy and token economy counselling strategy, to a great extent resolve motivation-related constraints for effective counselling in secondary schools in Enugu State. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended among others that deliberate efforts should be made at motivating and strengthening the activities of counselling in secondary schools in Enugu State