FACTORS INHIBITING TRAUMA INFORMED COUNSELLING IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS AS PERCEIVED BY COUNSELLOR EDUCATORS AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS IN NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI.

Abstract

Trauma-informed counselling is a counselling intervention that ensures individual mental wellness and emotional well-being, especially the ability to cope with life challenges. The Researchers, therefore, deem it necessary to beam light on the Case study on the factors inhibiting Trauma-Informed counselling in Nigeria’s Tertiary Institutions, as perceived by post Graduate students of Counselling Psychology and Counsellor Educators in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. Fifty- five postgraduate students and nine counsellor educators were the population and sample size used for the study in Nasarawa State University, Keffi. The instrument employed to generate data for the study was a questionnaire. The Questionnaire was tested using Criterion Mean and standard
Deviation. To give direction to the study, two research questions were raised. It was found that lack of Experts in Trauma counselling, nonchalant attitude of counsellors in Advocating for Trauma- informed counselling, management of Counsellors' Trauma experience and mental wellness among others were the factors inhibiting Trauma Counselling in Tertiary Institutions. It was, therefore,
recommended that Trauma Counselling should be included in the Curriculum of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria and also Trauma counselling should be incorporated into the services rendered in Nigeria's tertiary institutions.