GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING

› Education without guidance and counseling is not complete and the person is unable to develop his personality fully and thus unable to serve society by his talents and abilities

A. GUIDANCE

› Skinner: “guidance is a process of helping young persons learn to adjust to self, to others and to circumstances”.

› JM Brewer: “Guidance as a process through which an individual is able to solve their problems and pursue a path suited to their abilities and aspirations”.

› Guidance is an educational service designed to help students make more effective use of the schools training programme

› Guidance refers to the process of assisting the individual:

o To find out his needs,

o Understand his problems,

o Asses his potentialities

o To formulate plans of action

o To maximize his potential development and adjustment

Educational guidance refers to organized group of services established at educational for the purpose of assisting each student attain his maximum potential development and adjustment with environment and set the desirable goal.

Nature and Characteristics

› It is a personal service

› Help and assistance to an individual to solve problems

› It is a planning for future

› It helps a person to decide where he wants to go, what he wants to do and how best he can reach goals

› It is promotion of growth of individual in self-direction

› Continues and dynamic

› Based on educational objectives

› It provide benefit both the individual and society

› For better future adjustment

› Overall these field- Educational, vocational and social

› Attainment of self-direction by an individual

› It is a process of learning, helping and effecting changes in an individual

› Process of assisting an individual to find his place

› It helps to establish an effective relationship between his total educational experiences and his personnel needs and potentialities

› It is a process of assisting to adjust

› It provides physical and mental health

› Well rounded social development

› Proper use of leisure time

› Mastery of fundamental school processes

› Guidance covers the whole extent of youth problems

› Appropriate social behavior

› Personal effectiveness in every day affairs

› Assimilation of right values and attitudes

› Guidance is remedial. Orientation and developmental

› It is both generalized and specialized service

Need for guidance in school

› Total development of the student

› For educational career development

› To recognize and use one’s inner potential

› For adjustment in school and home

› To minimize the incidence of indiscipline

› To help exceptional children in their optimal development

› It is needed to satisfy needs of all type of learners

› To develop healthy and balanced personality

Type of guidance

1. Personal guidance

According to Wilson, “personal guidance is the assistance given to an individual in his physical, emotional, social, moral and spiritual development and adjustment”.

Needs of Personal guidance

ü For personal adjustment

ü It is essential for developing individual competence

ü It is needed for avoiding interpersonal tensions and conflict

ü For family and vocational life

ü It help in taking decision with regard to personal problems

ü It brings happiness and satisfaction in the life of the individual

ü For integrated and balanced personality

Process of Personal guidance

1. Collection of data

· Physical, mental, intellectual, social, emotional, and academic, personality, interest and aptitude etc. are collected by using appropriate tool.

2. Diagnosis of the problem

· Analyze the problem and identifying the causes of the problem

3. Prognosis

· Based on diagnosis, the future course of development of the problem is judged by counselor.

· Detected possible causes, remedial measures etc.

4. Rendering guidance

· Establishing proper rapport, realize the main cause of the difficulty

5. Follow-up

Educational guidance

It is a process for helping an individual to plan a suitable educational programme and make progress in it.

Jones: “It is the assistance given to the pupils in their choices and adjustments with relation to schools, curriculum, courses and school life”.

Need of Educational guidance

ü Select right type of education

ü Reduce examination anxiety

ü For effective study habits

ü For meaningful educational experience

ü To reduce wastage and stagnation

ü Overcome educational problems

ü For selecting appropriate curricula and course

ü Educational growth and development

Vocational guidance

› National Vocational Guidance Association (USA): “Vocational guidance as the process of assisting the individual to choose an occupation, prepare for it, enter upon and progressing in it”.

Need of Vocational guidance

ü To assist student to make the best possible vocational choice

ü Provide information about occupational opportunities

ü Help student to understand the problem of unemployment and its cause

ü For vocational adjustment

ü For efficient use of Manpower and resources

ü To develop the potentialities of youngsters to the optimum level

ü For achieve vocational goal

Guidance	Counseling
General	Specific
It is broader than counseling	Is a part of guidance
Usually given normal individual	Abnormal individual
Personal or impersonal	Always personal
Personal centered	Problem centered
Lifelong process	Its service terminated after the problem solved

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