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    Psychological attributes mentoring, and self-employment of vocational graduates of Kano State Tertiary Institutions, Nigeria
    (Kampala International University, School of Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology, 2016-03) Gambo Umar, Mustapha
    This study investigated and identified the role counseling play in mentoring vocational graduates towards self-employment. The objectives of the study were; to determine the availability of the counseling services, to evaluate the vocational training graduates’ attitudes on the skills and training acquired; to investigate the uptake of self-employment by the vocational training graduates of the tertiary institutions; to offer counseling services to vocational graduates who are ready and available to participate, using appropriate counseling strategies; to determine the most preferred counseling strategy among the graduates; and to establish the effectiveness of counseling strategies in raising their self awareness, self efficacy, and self motivation; which could lead to vocational practice among the vocational graduates. The design is a comparative study and also a mixture of positivists and interpretative paradigms.354 samples were randomly selected from the target population of 4,559 using simple random sampling. Frequency and percentages as well as T-test were used to analyze the quantitative data, while qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data. The findings of the study indicated that the vocational graduates were fully aware of counseling services in their schools, but due to inadequacy of counselors, they do not patronize the centers adequately.62. 1% of them indicated availability of the services. They also confirmed that they have acquired the necessary knowledge and skills during their training and 84.1% were satisfied with it. In terms of vocational uptake after graduation, out of the 354 samples 63.6% males and 36.4% females, only 101 (28.5%) have started practicing their vocations and the remaining 253 (71.4 %) were yet to start practicing their vocations instead. After giving to the experimental group counseling intervention, a t test was run and the result shows that counseling strategies significantly raises the self efficacy, self motivation, and self awareness of the vocational graduates. This i5 so because the experimental group has higher self efficacy, self motivation, and self awareness over the control group. The researcher also found out that among the four strategies employed~ group counseling was the most preferred among the sample with 53% and psycho education was the least preferred with 7% preference. The researcher recommends that adequate and professional school counselors and facilities should be provided to every school, Resource mobilization to assist the vocational graduates, and also group counseling should be adopted by school counselors to raise the self-efficacy, self-motivation, and self-awareness of their student which are personality attributes which could help in making them become self employed instead of waiting for white collar jobs which is not readily available for them.
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    Contingency management, rational emotive therapy and drug abuse treatment among teacher trainees of Kano State, Nigeria
    (Kampala International University, Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology, 2016-12) Bashir, Sani
    This study investigates the prevalence of drug abuse, and the efficacy of contingency management, and rational emotive therapy, in the treatment of drug abuse, among students of teacher training institutions in Kano State, Nigeria. The study approach was Quasi experimenta4 and sequential mixed method (the data collected separately and integrated at the analysis). The designs are descriptive, pretest-posttest, posttest only. The target population was all students studying teacher training courses at Bayero University (BUK) and Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kumbotso (SRCOE). And the sampled population was 24515 students from Bayero University Kano (5000) and Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kumbotso (19515). The sample size was 394 obtain using Slovene’s formula. The sampling techniques were purposive (only teacher trainees are involved), cluster (homogeneous groups were used) and proportional sampling (the clusters are of different size). Questionnaires, interview and observation were use in the collection of data. Mean, Percentage and response from the interview were used to determine the prevalence of drug abuse. Paired sample t-test, interview response and observation rating scale were used to examine the efficacy of Contingency Management (CM) and Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). And posttest mean, interview response and observation rating scale were used to compare the effectiveness of the two therapies. The descriptive finding indicates high prevalence of drug abuse among students in the study area, (29.6%). Paired sample test shows that, both therapies are effective, (CM-sig (2tailed=.019), RET-sig (2tailed=. 025), and the responses of the interview complimented. The finding of posttest reveals that Contingency Management treatment exerted more effect, (Mean3. 7694) as compared with Rational Emotive Therapy treatment (Mean=3. 1467) on drug abuse treatment. However, the finding from the observation revealed no difference on the effectiveness of the two therapies (CMI. 70 and REThI. 71). Also, the responses of the interview were both high. The study concluded that, prevalence of drug abuse is high in the study area, and both Contingency Management and Rational Emotive Therapy are effective in the treatment. Based on the findings, the study made the following recommendations; there is a need to introduce student enlightens programs on drug abuse, and parent should be considerate in dealing with their children among others. Key words: Drug abuse, contingency management, rational emotive therapy, abstinence.
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    Psychological attributes mentoring, and self-employment of vocational graduates of Kano State Tertiary Institutions, Nigeria
    (Kampala International University,PHD of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology, 2016-03) Gambo Umar, Mustapha
    This study investigated and identified the role counseling play in mentoring vocational graduates towards self-employment. The objectives of the study were; to determine the availability of the counseling services, to evaluate the vocational training graduates’ attitudes on the skills and training acquired; to investigate the uptake of self-employment by the vocational training graduates of the tertiary institutions; to offer counseling services to vocational graduates who are ready and available to participate, using appropriate counseling strategies; to determine the most preferred counseling strategy among the graduates; and to establish the effectiveness of counseling strategies in raising their self-awareness, self-efficacy, and self-motivation; which could lead to vocational practice among the vocational graduates. The design is a comparative study and also a mixture of positivists and interpretative paradigms.354 samples were randomly selected from the target population of 4,559 using simple random sampling. Frequency and percentages as well as T-test were used to analyze the quantitative data, while qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data. The findings of the study indicated that the vocational graduates were fully aware of counseling services in their schools, but due to inadequacy of counselors, they do not patronize the centers adequately.62. 1% of them indicated availability of the services. They also confirmed that they have acquired the necessary knowledge and skills during their training and 84.1% were satisfied with it. In terms of vocational uptake after graduation, out of the 354 samples 63.6% males and 36.4% females, only 101 (28.5%) have started practicing their vocations and the remaining 253 (71.4 %) were yet to start practicing their vocations instead. After giving to the experimental group counseling intervention, a t test was run and the result shows that counseling strategies significantly raises the self-efficacy, self-motivation, and self-awareness of the vocational graduates. This i5 so because the experimental group has higher self-efficacy, self-motivation, and self-awareness over the control group. The researcher also found out that among the four strategies employed~ group counseling was the most preferred among the sample with 53% and psycho education was the least preferred with 7% preference. The researcher recommends that adequate and professional school counselors and facilities should be provided to every school, Resource mobilization to assist the vocational graduates, and also group counseling should be adopted by school counselors to raise the self-efficacy, self-motivation, and self-awareness of their student which are personality attributes which could help in making them become self-employed instead of waiting for white collar jobs which is not readily available for them. Keywords; Counseling, strategies, vocational practice, vocational graduates, self-employment
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    Contingency Management, Rational Emotive Therapy and Drug Abuse Treatment among Teacher Trainees of Kano State, Nigeria
    (Kampala International University,PHD of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology, 2016-12) Bashir, Sani; Bashir, Sani
    This study investigate the prevalence of drug abuse, and the efficacy of contingency management, and rational emotive therapy, in the treatment of drug abuse, among students of teacher training institutions in Kano State, Nigeria. The study approach was Quasi experimenta4 and sequential mixed method (the data collected separately and integrated at the analysis). The designs are descriptive, pretest-posttest, posttest only. The target population was all students studying teacher training courses at Bayero University (BUK) and Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kumbotso (SRCOE). And the sampled population was 24515 students from Bayero University Kano (5000) and Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kumbotso (19515). The sample size was 394 obtain using Slovene’s formula. The sampling techniques were purposive (only teacher trainees are involved), cluster (homogeneous groups were used) and proportional sampling (the clusters are of different size).Questionnaires, interview and observation were use in the collection of data. Mean, Percentage and response from the interview were used to determine the prevalence of drug abuse. Paired sample t-test, interview response and observation rating scale were used to examine the efficacy of Contingency Management (CM) and Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). And posttest mean, interview response and observation rating scale were used to compare the effectiveness of the two therapies. The descriptive finding indicates high prevalence of drug abuse among students in the study area, (29.6%). Paired sample test shows that, both therapies are effective, (CM-sig (2tailed=.019), RET-sig (2tailed=. 025), and the responses of the interview complimented. The finding of posttest reveals that Contingency Management treatment exerted more effect, (Mean3. 7694) as compared with Rational Emotive Therapy treatment (Mean=3. 1467) on drug abuse treatment. However, the finding from the observation revealed no difference on the effectiveness of the therapies (CMI. 70 and REThI. 71). Also, the responses of the interview were both high. The study concluded that, prevalence of drug abuse is high in the study area, and both Contingency Management and Rational Emotive Therapy are effective in the treatment. Based on the findings, the study made the following recommendations; there is a need to introduce student enlightens programs on drug abuse, and parent should be considerate in dealing with their children among others. Key words: Drug abuse, contingency management, rational emotive therapy, abstinence.
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    Psychological attribute mentoring and self employment of vocational graduates of Kano State Tertiary Institution, Nigeria
    (Kampala International University, 2016) Gambo, Umar Mustapha
    The study investigated and identified the role of conseling play in mentoring vocational graduates towards self employment