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Item Behaviour Pattern and Predisposition toward Bullying among Secondary School Students in Kwara State, Nigeria: Implication for Counselling(Journal of Professional Counselling, 2020) Ogungbade, O. K.; Yahaya, L. A.; Robert, M. M.Bullying is a global phenomenon with devastating consequences for the victims, their families, and the societies at large. This study therefore investigated the behaviour patterns and predisposition toward bullying among secondary school students in Kwara State. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all SS 1 to SS 3 students in private and public schools in Kwara State which was estimated at 100,000 students. A total of 420 students (SS 1 – SS 3) were randomly selected from the population of secondary school students in Kwara State and they constituted the respondents. An instrument entitled “Behaviour Patterns and Predisposition to Bullying Questionnaire (BPPBQ)” was used to obtain relevant data. Content validity was used to ascertain the validity of the instrument while test retest method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument and coefficient value of 0.76 was obtained. Two research questions were raised and four hypotheses were analyzed using t-test. The study revealed that the majority of the respondents indicated Type A behaviour pattern. The behaviour patterns of the respondents include striving to achieve their goals in any situation; performing well in every activity they are involved and always conscious of time among others. The predisposition of the students towards bullying was low. Two hypotheses were not rejected while two others were rejected. Based on the findings, it was recommended that professional counsellors should provide early intervention to bullied and their victims in order to keep bullying behaviour in check; Professional counsellors should train students on the use of Assertive Training to provide assistance to the students, who are predisposed to bullying in the schools. Since students of public schools are more prone to bullying than students of private schools, it was recommended that the Kwara State Government should sensitize the public school teachers on the need to properly identify cases of bullying and make referral to professional counsellors.Item Reality Therapy for reducing aggressive behaviours among students with hearing-impairment in Nigeria(Department of Educational Management and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Al-Hikmah University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 2021) Robert, M. M.; Ogungbade, O. K.; Ajokpaniovo, M.; Prof. Fajonyomi, M. G.Aggressive behaviours are common among adolescents, hearing impaired students are not exempted; these behaviours affect students with hearing-impairment in the school and other social interactions. Counsellors are worried about its influence on the behaviours of the students. It is, therefore, important to reduce the behaviours to the barest minimum because of the effect in the schools, at home and in the society at large. This paper, therefore, examined the concept of aggression, aggressive behaviours and how Reality Therapy (RT) can be used to reduce aggressive behaviours among students with hearing-impairment in Nigeria. It was suggested that counsellors should assist the students change their behaviours, feelings and thoughts from negative to positive behaviours. The counsellors should also apply the therapeutic procedure of reality therapy to assist students with hearing-impairment reduce the aggressive behaviours.