Qualitative Study on Integration of Counseling Interventions: A Panacea for Effective Parenting among Couples in Nigeria
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64348/zije.2026386Abstract
Parenting nowadays has become a difficult task because many untrained or poorly trained children have become parents with a lot of conduct disorder and anti-social behaviour. This has defeated the purpose of parenting which is the process of promoting and supporting good and healthy physical, emotional, social and cognitive development of a child from birth to adulthood. However, lack of emotional intelligence, substance abuse, family conflict and divorce, inadequate parental skills, lack of parental involvement in children’s activities and mental health issues of parents are contributing issues to poor parenting. emotional intelligent training, cognitive restructuring therapy, parent-child interaction therapy, proper education of parents on developmental stages of children, regular family therapy and establishment of university of Counselling were recommended as a counselling tip to help parenting effectiveness in our society.
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