COVID-19 EXPERIENCE IN NIGERIAN FAMILY SETTINGS: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCHERS AND FAMILY COUNSELLORS

Abstract

It has become very important to clarify the pandemic era following different waves of COVID 19 in different places. This is also important because the pandemic does not seem to be over yet. Therefore, this paper focuses on the experiences of the pandemic in Nigerian family settings and how such experiences have implications for researchers and family counsellors. To briefly understand how the pandemic has been experienced with associated levels of stress in the family system demands a deep appreciation of how different individual members of families expressed their beliefs concerningCOVID-19, which reflected in their compliance or noncompliance to COVID-19restrictions in their families. In this case, the general system theory could become an important lens for researchers and family counsellors who may wish to understand how the beliefs of some individual family members and their willingness to comply or not to comply with restrictions could become sources of increased levels of stress in the entire family system.