ROLE OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING IN WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN ADO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE

📄 Project Abstract

Guidance and counselling is a process whereby a troubled person is helped to feel and behave in a more personally satisfying manner through interaction with an uninvolved person who provides information and reactions which stimulate which stimulate the client to develop behaviour which enables him to deal more effectively with himself and his environment (Lewis, 1970). Counselling is an essential part of any educational process. It helps to bring about positive change in behaviour which in turn helps the counselee to live a productive and self-satisfying life. In addition, it helps the counselee to understand himself and the world better. It also helps the recipient to have the necessary information he needs for decision-making and to achieve adjustment and fulfilment in major decisions of life. Empowerment is the process of enhancing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes. Central to this process are a...