ROLE OF COUNSELLORS IN ADJUSTMENT OF SURVIVORS OF UNREPORTED RAPE

In any way acceptable. Rape is a type of recent times, been confronted with * sexual assault against mostly women. U is increasing vices such as insurgency, forced sex or engaging one in sex activity abduction, violence, armed robbery, and without the person's consent. Rape is not kidnap, among others, leaving women at just unwanted sex but also a highly the receiving end; rape. Women have been traumatic experience like other serious positioned as vulnerable to men’s violence traumas (Ayinde. 2010). It is according to and powerless to stop it (llcberle, 1996). Centre for Law Enforcement Education Rape is a horrific experience that most (CLEEN Foundation 2011), a form of women would not want to talk about hence, sexual violence with devastating resulting in several unreported rape psychological, social and economic impact instances in the country. Rape, according on the survivors who are predominantly to Akinade, Adewuyi and Sulainvan women. Peters and Olowa (2010) consider (2010), is a pandemic crime that is rape as an immoral act which is not characteristically underreported peculiar to any nation, race, creed or worldwide. It is however, known to have gender. The trend of recurrence of rape in high prevalence in Nigeria. This has been the Nigerian society today constitutes a variously attributed to the enduring culture serious phenomenal threat to human of male dominance, female social and existence and dignity (Babalola, 2013). economic disempowerment and poor or • Unfortunately, available statistics and records of rape across the country are not true representation of the actual rape incidences. Partly, because most rape survivors never report their experiences for