General News of Sunday, 3 February 2019Source: ghananewsagency.orgCounselling students of UEW sensitises Effutuman on Juvenile RecidivismFile photoThe Department of Psychology and Education of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has appealed to the Government to promote guidance and counselling in all institutions. The seminar was part of the Group’s academic requirement aimed at sensitising the public, especially students in Effutuman, on the negative effects of Juvenile Recidivism. Asare indicated that if guidance and counselling were promoted, professional counsellors would use their rich expertise to guide the youth, which would contribute to efforts at resolving juvenile recidivism in the society. He said government spent huge sums of monies on prisoners adding that recidivism increased the financial burden on government in the bid to reform the offenders. He appealed to the authorities of UEW to put in place measures to ensure that Guidance and Counselling students had their attachments with the Prison Service to help in the reformation and rehabilitation of inmates.

Source: GhanaWeb February 02, 2019 16:41 UTC