Ethics and Value for National Development: Implication for Counselling

Ethics are codes of conducts designed to guide professionals, protect clients, safeguard their autonomy as a profession as well as enhance the status of the profession in general, while values are the treasure of life, making humans wealthy and rich morally, socially and value wise. A life filled with values is a life of selfrespect and dignity. The sole objective of counselling is to help individuals in making choices which will lead to lives which are individually satisfying and socially effective and function well in the society, hence, this paper which is a reviewed paper looked at the place of ethics and values in national development and the role which the counsellor can play in order to instil ethical values and morality in making a better citizen and how these can contribute to national development. After reviewing the works of other researchers, the author came to a conclusion that ethics and values are the virtue every Nigerian needs to contribute his or her quota to national development and this values and ethics can be done through the activities of counsellors. It was recommended among others that counselling services should be provided in every facet of our lives including churches, schools, homes etc to enable the original values and ethics which characterise societies be re-instated for sustainable national development.