Effect of Adlerian Therapy on the Psychosocial Challenges of Secondary School Adolescents (Published)
This study examined the effect of Adlerian therapy on the psychosocial challenges of adolescence. Two research hypotheses were made to guide the study. The sample consisted of seventy (71) senior secondary school students. A 40 item self-developed questionnaire was designed for data collection. The study adopted a quasi-experimental control group design. Analysis of data was achieved using the Analysis of Co-variance (ANCOVA) at the level of significance of 0.05. The result of the findings showed that there is a significant effect of Adlerian therapy on the psychosocial challenges of adolescents and that age do not affect the psychosocial challenges of secondary school adolescent. Conclusions were made and some counselling implications were highlighted.
Keywords: ANCOVA, Adlerian therapy, Adolescents, Secondary School, psychosocial challenges