Guidance and counselling - meaning, definition, principles, scope, nature, characteristics, need in school, limitations, difference between guidance and counseling.....
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Guidance and counselling
1. S U R E S H B A B U . G
A S S I S T A N T P R O F E S S O R
C T E C P A S P A I P P A D
Guidance and Counseling
2. Contents
• Guidance – meaning
• Definition of guidance
• Need and Characteristics of guidance
• Objectives of guidance
• Aims of guidance
• Basic Principles of guidance
• Scope of guidance
• Need of guidance in school
• Limitations of guidance
• Counseling – Meaning
• Definition of Counseling
• Objectives of Counseling
• Basic components of Counseling
• Characteristics of Counseling
• Principles of Counseling
• Significance of Counseling
• Benefits of Counseling
• Difference between Guidance and Counseling
3. Guidance - Meaning
Guidance is the process of helping an individual to help
himself and to develop his potentialities to the fullest by
utilizing the maximum opportunities provided by the
environment.
Guidance is referred to a process of assisting or helping
the students by properly trained teachers, career
masters or special guidance personnel their own future
wisely and in developing their potentialities to the
maximum for them to solve their immediate or future
problems and to lead a successful personal and social
life.
4. Crow and Crow, “Guidance is assistance made
available by personality qualified and adequately
trained men or women to an individual of any age to
help manage his own life activities, develop his
points of view, make his own decisions and carry his
own burdens”.
Skinner, “Guidance is a process of helping young
persons learns to adjust to self, to others, and to
circumstances”.
Jones, “Guidance is the help given by one person to
another in making choices and adjustments and in
solving problems”.
5. Nature and Characteristics of Guidance
It is a Process.
It is a Continuous Process.
It is apart from Instruction.
Guidance is a process of Development rather
than Direction.
Guidance fulfils some aims of Education.
It is an organized service.
It is always goal oriented.
It is based on individual difference.
It is life related.
6. OBJECTIVES OF GUIDANCE
To help individual to understand and accept the
positive and negative aspects of his personality,
interests, aptitudes, attitudes etc.
Provide a wide choice and opportunities.
Help make adjustment in the new life situation.
Help in facing the challenges of life and manage
tensions by realizing and accepting the facts.
Help in solving social and personal problems and
be able to adjust with oneself and the
environment.
7. Principle of All-Round Development of the Individual
Principle of Human Uniqueness
Principle of Holistic Development
Principle of Cooperation
Principle of Continuity
Principle of Adjustment
Principle of Individual Needs
Principle of Expert Opinion
Principle of Evaluation
Principle of Responsibility
Principle of Periodic Appraisal
8. AIMS OF GUIDANCE
Exploring Self
Determining Values
Setting Goals
Improving Efficiency
Building Relationship
Accepting Responsibility for the Future
9. Scope of Guidance
Physical health
Home problems
Personality problems
School or educational problems
Vocational problems
Religious and moral problems
Democratic and political problems
Marital and sexual problems
Old age problems
10. Need for Guidance in schools
To help in the total development of the student.
To make proper choices at various stages of their
education career.
To help the child to recognize and use his inner
resources to set goal.
To help students choose, prepare, enter upon and
progress in a career.
To help students make the best possible adjustments
in school and home.
It is needed to check wastage
and stagnation.
To help the exceptional children.
To tackle emotional problems.
11. Limitations of Guidance
Its service are not well organized.
Lack of personnel and other facilities.
In it there is an overdoing of psychological
tests.
Conditions of life are too complex for any
person to solve the problems of other through
guidance.
Unqualified guidance personnel may do more
harm.
13. Counseling
Counseling is a scientific process of assistance
extended by an expert in an individual situation
to a needy person.
Counseling involves relationship between two
persons in which one of them (counselor)
attempts to assists the other (counselee or
client) in so organizing himself as to attain a
particular form of happiness, adjusting to a
life situation, or in short,
self- actualization.
14. Definition of Counseling
According to Rogers ,“ Counseling is a series
of direct contacts with the individual which aim
to offer him assistance in changing the
attitudes and behavior”
Wolberg considers counseling as a form of
interview in which the client is helped to
understand himself more completely in order
to correct an environment or adjustment
difficulty.
15. Objectives of counseling
To give students information to his success.
To get information to student in problem solving.
To establish mutual understanding between students
and teachers.
To help student to work out a plan for solving his
difficulties.
To help the student to know his interest, abilities,
attitudes etc.
To encourage and develop special abilities and right
attitudes.
To assist the student in planning
educational and vocational choices.
16. BASIC COMPONENT OF COUNSELLING
1.Rapport
2.Communication
3.Understanding
4.Change in feeling and expressions
5.Planning of counselling interview
17. CHARACTERISTICS OF COUNSELLING
It is a purposeful learning experience for the
counsellee.
It is the purposeful oriented and private interview
between the counsellor and counsellee
Based on mutual confidence satisfactory
relationship will be establish
Counselling process is structured around the felt
needs of the counsellee.
Main emphasis in the counselling process is on
the counsellee’s self-direction and self
acceptance.
It is only one aspect of guidance
18. Principles of counseling
Self-directed and self- realization of client.
Its approach is scientific.
The client must be accepted as a whole person, as a
human being.
It believes that the client has strength as well as
capacity to solve problems.
It varies according to the needs of client.
It is primarily a preventive and remedial process.
It is voluntary for the student.
It should be a structured
learning situation.
Based on democratic value.
19. Significance of counseling
Give information on important matters leading
to his success.
Helps for problem solving.
Makes mutual understanding
Helps to understand himself.
Helps to take steps to solve problems