GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING FOR POVERTY REDUCTION AND PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE

Abstract

This paper discusses the role that Guidance and Counselling can play in the reduction of poverty within the populace and having a peaceful and harmonious society. Guidance and Counselling as pointed out in the paper is replete with contingencies of helping the society to resolve its numerous security challenges and reduction of poverty by employing the various techniques available in counselling. The paper identified education as a way to reduce poverty, where functional education is advocated. Peaceful coexistence can only be realized when majority of the populace have a means of livelihood. The paper concluded that if Guidance and Counselling is well established in our educational systems then solutions to our numerous problems is not far. Amongst recommendations of the paper is that, Nigerian educational system should focus on the societal expectations and addresses issues of functional education, religious and cultural perceptions.