Adolescent Quick Money-Making Tendencies and the Burden on Counselling

In recent times, there has been noticeable increase in the desire by adolescents to make money and while this in itself should not be a problem, their tendency towards usurious returns primarily for ostentation, and their willingness to engage in almost anything including diabolic and fraudulent engagements, have made it a challenge to societal cohesion, progress and development. This article discusses how counselling can be used to address these challenges by looking at the causes of this quick money-making tendencies among adolescents, manifestations of these tendencies and how counselling can be used to address the situation/challenge. The article identifies hardship, parental deficiencies, gangsterism and globalization among others, as some of the causes of this tendency among adolescents. It discusses internet fraud, political thuggery and criminality among others as the manifestations of this tendency. It is argued in the article that, it will be useless for counseIling to try to dissuade these tendencies. Instead, the approach of counseIling in tackling these challenges should be to encourage the adolescent to pursue this tendency with something legal that has high returns. It is concluded in the article that, to be effective in this kind of counselling, counsellors must make concerted efforts at appreciating the causes of this tendency before proffering solution. Hence, it was recommended that counsellors should make concerted efforts at knowing the various quick money-making schemes adolescents embrace and that counsellors should disabuse their minds of the orientation that every online work is illegal.