HOME BACKGROUND AND ADOLESCENTS’ MALADJUSTED BEHAVIOURS: THE NEED FOR VALUE RE-ORIENTATION COUNSELLING

HOME BACKGROUND AND ADOLESCENTS’ MALADJUSTED BEHAVIOURS: THE NEED FOR VALUE RE-ORIENTATION COUNSELLING

Authors

  • Joel DOGO
  • Luka GAYUS
  • Roseline EZEKIEL

Abstract

This paper reviews home background and its influence on adolescents’ maladjusted behaviours and the need for counselling remediation. Some variables that forms home background were saliently reviewed. Other variables like socio-economic status, home location, life style, kinds of family and their practices are also mirrored in this discourse. More importantly, the concept of adolescents and their characteristics were also deliberated. Not only that, the developmental tasks of the adolescents and its effects on their psychosocial adjustment were also reviewed. Above all, the issue of counselling implications in containing with the adolescents’ maladjusted behaviours are also considered in this discourse. As a way forward, the review submitted that parents should provide good home background to their children, by not only providing comfortable accommodation and their basic needs, but also creating good family psychosocial climate that can ethically promote the acquisition and exhibition of good morals that are conforming to societal norms and values. Also, parents, guardians or care givers at home to always endeavor to show good examples because the home is the children’s first learning environment. It is also suggested that good house location should be one of the determinants of a good home background. Hence, residential homes should not be built too close to hotels, hospitals, market areas or event centers where children can easily have access to. To that effect, the review suggested the need for counselling remediation especially among the maladjusted adolescents and their families as a whole. Finally, the review concluded that because of the sensitivity of the adolescence stage of growth, good home background should be promoted as an antidote of maladjustment during their developmental task experiences

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Published

2024-10-28

How to Cite

DOGO, J., Luka GAYUS, & EZEKIEL, R. (2024). HOME BACKGROUND AND ADOLESCENTS’ MALADJUSTED BEHAVIOURS: THE NEED FOR VALUE RE-ORIENTATION COUNSELLING. Journal of Professional Counseling, 7(1), 33–42. Retrieved from https://jpc.aprocon.org.ng/index.php/jpc/article/view/89
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