COUNSELLING FOR NATIONAL STABILITY: THE PANACEA FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION, PEACE-BUILDING AND INTEGRATION.

The paper argues that counselling psychological service has not been applied in negotiating national stability and or conflict resolution and peace-building as well as regional integration. It noted that through ignorance, nation states generally but specifically, Nigeria, over the years have neglected the evolvement and application of counselling services in articulating and facilitating national soccour in the Nigeria polity. Prominently applying the Emotional Dimensional Screening scale (EDSS) subsumed in the Counselling Behavioural Model (CBM), it found that 76.7% of the participants as against another 13.3% (who disagreed) reasoned that should political aspirants get subjected to psychological and behavioural screening test before appointments, the pace of corruption and other related national vices would have been mitigated. Furthermore, it found that despite thefact that 77.2% alluded that, though, they have had professional counselling psychological training and tutelage, their professional experience was atypical to political administration; and that additional training was needed to contribute to national orientation of governance and tofacilitate political transformation comprehensively. Prominent in the recommendation was that leadership emotional screening and audition in guiding behavioural outcome should become the vogue. It also iterated thatfunctional regional equanimity should be the biproduct of membership Psycho-emotional Screening in modifying collective behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]