Counselling Youths for National Healing

Abstract

This paper discusses the issues of counselling youths against restiveness, political participation, unemployment and drug & substance abuse. It explains how these affects the youths in Nigeria due to lack of properly giving them their proper place in the affairs of the country. It also stress the counselling roles in curtailing these problems such as giving proper information on career related areas, self-management and positive thinking on events around them through cognitively restructuring their thoughts. The paper suggest among others that youths should positively engage themselves in activities that will occupy them by being involved in skills acquisition that will make them economically viable.