Guidance and Counselling

• Guidance and counselling are essential in education, but are not synonymous
• Counselling is a part of guidance
• Guidance in education helps to indicate, point out, show the way, lead out, and direct
• Counselling is a specialized service that helps individuals understand themselves and their potential future to contribute significantly to society

Definition of Guidance

• Guidance helps individuals of any age to direct their own life, develop their own point of view, make their own decisions, and carry their own burdens, Hamrin & Erikson
• Guidance is a process that helps individuals discover and develop their potential for personal happiness and social usefulness, Ruth Strang

Definition of Counselling

• Counselling assists the counselee in interpreting facts related to choices, plans, or adjustments, Glenn F. Smith
• Counseling offers assistance in attitude and behavior changes through direct contact with the individual, Carl Rogers

Guidance vs Counselling

• Guidance is broader and more comprehensive, while counselling is in-depth and narrow
• Guidance helps a person understand alternative solutions, personality, and choosing the right solution with a mainly external approach
• Counseling helps individuals understand themselves through inward analysis with alternative solutions to understand the problem
• Counselling is remedial
• Intellectual attitudes are the raw material of guidance
• Decision-making happens at the intellectual level in guidance
• Guidance is generally education and career-related, also for personal problems
• Emotional attitudes are the raw material of the counselling process
• Counselling happens at an emotional level and is mostly for personal and social issues

Purposes of Guidance and Counselling

• Provides needed information and assistance
• Helps individuals make wise choices
• Improves self-understanding
• Facilitates adjustment
• Helps in adapting to changes or new environments
• Promotes self-sufficiency and independence
• Encouraging the efficient use of capabilities and talents.

More Purposes of Guidance and Counselling

• Promotes optimal personal and professional development
• Balances physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual growth
• Helps overall development and a productive life
• Provides optimum individual development and well-being
• Helps individuals adjust to themselves and society
• Helps people understand themselves in relation to the world
• Aids individuals in efficient decision-making
• Helps individuals plan for a productive life by focusing on their assets, skills, strengths and possibilities for further development
• Brings about changes in attitude

Characteristics of Guidance

• Guidance is a process and it is continuous
• Choice and problem points make up the focus of guidance
• Guidance assists an individual's development, not directing it
• Guidance is for all
• Guidance is both generalized and specialized
• Guidance isn't incidental, it's an organized school service
• Guidance isn't a branch of discipline and has limits
• Guidance is more of an art than a science
• Guidance has roots in the education system
• Guidance is centered around the needs and aspirations of students

Characteristics of Counselling

• Counselling involves two individuals: a help seeker and a professionally trained person who can help
• Mutual respect between the two individuals
• Counselling aims to bring about desired changes in the individual for self-realisation and providing guidance to solve problems through an intimate personal relationship
• The counselor helps the counselee discover their problems and help him to setup realistic goals
• Counselling helps students make a decision, make a choice, or find a direction in related matters

More Characteristics of Counselling

• It helps the counselees acquire independence and a sense of responsibility
• Counselling is more than just advice
• Involves offering assistance to find a solution to immediate problems
• Counselling is democratic and concerns attitudes

Scope Guidance and Counselling

• Designed for personal and educational needs/problems
• Helps to improve physical, emotional, social, moral & marital problems,
• Designed for vocational, occupational & professional needs/career advancement.
• Meant for holistic individual improvement.

Guidance and Counselling Needs

• Aids with personal & social aspects to encourage development of individual
• It will help individual adapt to stages of their development
• It offers the art of good living
• Assists with the appropriate use of leisure
• Promotes all holistic personality progress and improvement
• Encourage the effective development and use of self

The Need for Educational and Professional Counselling

• Promotes vocational and professional growth and development
• Facilitates an individual in the right education and profession
• Handle educational & professional situations
• Supports best use of human resources
• Helps adapting to the changing concept of education
• Prepares people to adopt in changing professional situations and emerging challenges
• It helps with making the best career choice

Functions of Guidance and Counselling

• Adjustmental
• Developmental
• Orientational

Principles of Guidance by Crow and Crow

• Promotes all-round development of individuals
• Values individual differences
• Related to every aspect of life and promotes cooperation among persons
• It is a continuous and lifelong process for all
• Involves principles of both elaboration and evaluation, and flexibility
• Responsibility of teachers & parents for trained persons

Principles of Guidelines by Hollies and Hollies

• The primary concern of guidance it the individual in the social setting
  • Dignity is supreme and each individual is different from every other individual
• The attitude and personal perceptions of thee individual are the best on which to ac
• Individuals must always have continuous guidance process from early childhood through adulthood

Guidance Services

• Personal Guidance
• Social Guidance
• Educational Guidance
• Career Guidance
• Vocational Guidance
• Health Guidance

Organization of Counselling Services

• Centralization: vests all responsibilities to a trained group in the guidance department
• Decentralization: vests responsibilities on teachers
• Combination: guidance and counselling services provided by teachers, the expert collectively.

Purposes of Organisation Counselling Services

• Support the individual from problems with development
• Offer help with a temporary crisis
• Recognise disturbed behaviour early, so can be managed
• Refer serious situations to get expert help
• Offer communication between nursing institution and their homes
• Back the nursing staff who want guidance

Core Parts of Guidance and Counseling Services

• The Admission Service: admitting the right candidates for a course, selecting those with a strong suitability
• The Orientation Service: a welcome service concerned with welcoming the freshers of the world
• The Student Information Service: providing the student with information of their abilities and their level of health ect. A picture of their personality basically
• The Information Service: which provides educational related information

More Parts to Guidelines

• Counselling (Help with decision making, and handle your difficulties in a rational way.)
• Placement Service: helping students and offering information on what trends are occurring
• Remedial Service: Helping students to learn with stress reduction
• Follow up Service: guidance with education
• Research Service: To go over the college program for guidance
• Evaluation Service: What could support teachers and students to get good marks.

Basic Counselling Services

• Organisation
• Requirements
• Tools
• Committee
• Centre

Organisational Setup

• At universities:
  • Deans are assisted by head of departments, psychologists, education workers and committee
• For affiliate colleges:
  • A counselling with vocational and guidance will be made if greater then 1000 students, a lession officer where less then 1000 students

Counselling Centre

• There should be a center headed by a trained psychologist with experience, that focuses on, selection, registration and orientation
• Personal support
• Remedial, Residence and Food Service
• Activities programme

Counselling Committee

• This committee covers all policies for recommendations and guidance

Members of the Guidance Advisory Committee

• Administrator
• Principal / Dean
• Counselling liaison
• Vocational officer
• Specialty teacher
• Warden
• Librarian/Student representation
• Parents

Tools for Counselling

• Nontesting tools
• Psychological tests

Non-Testing Tools

• Interview: interactions between the counsellor and student
• Observation: carefully looking after watchfully to counsellor with specific objective
• Checking to identity presence and absent
• Used to measure sociability
• Provides meaningful students information.

Psychological Tests

• Personality tests, such as the Rorschach
• Aptitude tests that specialise you
• Study the Inventory test, which helps people find what fits them best
• Test's that help you decide where to stand in college

Conditions to be met with Counselling Services

• There are rooms for furniture which are needed
• Personal information is kept private
• Trained personal
• Evaluation of instruments- Psychological etc'

Setting everything up

• Students data
• Information on Programmes
• Educational programmes

Other Kinds For Guidance Councilling

• Short term and long term (Time for it)
• One on one and Groups of student (based on number)
• Vocational and Educational ( For Profession and students too)

Roles for Good Councilling

• Orientation programmes
• Informational
• Advice
• Expert help
• Support

Qualities of a Counsellor

• Confidential
• Observant
• Patient
• Knowledgeable
• Obtaining knowledge