Effects of Domestic Violence on the Academic Achievements of Secondary School Adolescents in Jos Metropolis: Implication for Counselling

Abstract

This research investigated the causes of domestic violence in relation to secondary school adolescents in Jos Metropolis. It studied the effects it has on their academic achievement, with counselling as a remedy to underachievement. A randomized sample of250 respondents in Jos Metropolis of Plateau State was sampled. To achieve the purpose of this study, three research questions and hypothesis were raised, using mean and chi-square. The research adopted tht comparative research design. Major findings of this study revealed that the eflectiveness 0} counselling in remedying the effect of domestic violence academic achievements of secondar} school adolescents can be improved upon ifproperly counseled. The implication to this study, entails that professional counselors must be eagerly mindful of developing and implementing well structured domestic violence counselling programme for secondary school adolescent. Recommendations were made which include that Government should decisively show interest into the eflect of domestic violence by passing into law, a bill that will effectively address the issue of domestic violence as a social ill and crime, to reduce its proliferation. It was concluded that counselling undoubtedly will go a long way to remedy as well as reduce it eflects onto the future generation as earlier identified by Ogbuka (2003). It is the view of the researchers that domestic violence inhibits school adolescents from attaining their dreams and aspiration and only proper counselling can remedy these effects.