Counselling as Social Work for Women Empowerment in Akwa Ibom State: A Case Study of Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area. Implications for Counsellors

The research titled: Counselling as Social Work for Women Empowerment in Akwa Ibom State: A case Study of Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area. Implications for Counsellors was conducted. The background to the study was fully researched. Problems to the study were discussed. Two aims and objectives as well as two research questions were set. Significances of the study were ascertained, the scope measured and terms defined as used in the study. Conceptual, theoretical and Empirical Literature were reviewed. Feminist theory was used. Survey and descriptive research design were used. Three hundred and seventy-four (374) was the samples. Data was collected with the use of questionnaire after their validity and reliability had been tested by experts and proven as acceptable coefficient. Data collected were analyzed using Frequencies and percentages and the results present in table-by-table formula and their results discussed as well. Thereafter, the study was summarized and concluded. Some recommendations were made among which are: In order to assist Women in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area become Empowered, Counsellors should conduct in Ibiono Ibom Local intensive Counselling sessions as social work for women themselves, Philanthropists from that area and it environ, Chairman and his Cabinets(both formal and informal), Stakeholders, Community Leaders, Chairman’s wife and kindhearted well placed females on different ways for which they can contribute in supporting, encouraging, projecting and even promoting Women Empowerment in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area.

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