Credible Future Leaders Production in a Depressed Economy: A Perception of counselors in Secondary School in Abia State.

Abstract

This study was designed to determine the possibility of using school counseling services for the production of trustworthy and acceptable leaders using innovative methods. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study Descriptive survey design was used for the study. A population of 330 guidance counselors in Abia State secondary schools were used for the study. A 20-item structured questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.74 using Cronbach Alpha was usedfor data collection. Data were analysed using mean and ztest conducted at 0.05 level of significance. Findings showed high perception of counselors that school counseling services can still produce trustworthy and generally accepted leaders for Nigeria using innovative methods. It was recommended that school counseling services should be strongly emphasized in secondary schools and also the list of social ills in Nigeria, their consequences and their boomeranging effects on the perpetrator should be used for general discussions during counseling sessions in order to rub them off the minds ofstudents as a way of life.