Abstract:
The study was motivated by the kinds and types of violent behaviours being
exhibited by students and the relentless quest for solutions to such problems.
Thus, it analyzed the effectiveness of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
(REBT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in remediating violent
behaviour among secondary school students in Katsina state. The research
design employed was pre-test post-test quasi-experimental classification
with three levels of treatment. A sample size of 360 subjects was
purposively drawn from a population of 102, 778 students from secondary
schools in Katsina State Ministry of Education. The instrument used for data
collection was an adapted version of the Violence Proneness Scale (VPS)
developed by Tarter, Kirisci, Vanyukov, Cornelius, Pajer, Shoal, and
Giancola, (2002).With the use of paired samples t-test, results revealed that
there is significant difference in the effects of CBT and REBT interventions
in remediating violent behaviour among all students with REBT emerging as
the best option. One of the counseling implications of this study is that
counsellors should use office disciplinary data to guide interventions,
because those data can show the frequency of violent behaviours, the
locations of problems, the types of violent problems, the students involved,
and the staff members who are making referrals. One of the
recommendations offered was, that Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
should be best utilized in remediating violent behaviours among both male
and female students, as it has proven most efficient over cognitive behaviour
therapy
