Seminar on guidance and counselling

1. PRESENTED BY-
MS PINKI BARMAN
1ST YEAR MSC(N)
DEPT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
ARMY INSTITUTE OF NURSING

2. INTRODUCTION
Guidance and counseling have in all of places, been a vital aspect of
higher education. One of the purpose of education is to help the
individual in becoming a useful member of society. If an individual
receives education without proper guidance and counseling, he is not
able to develop his personality fully and thus is unable to serve his
society in terms of his abilities and talent.

3. DEFINATION OF GUIDANCE
1. Guidance is an assistance made available by professionally qualified and adequately
trained men or women to an individual of any age to help him to manage his own
life activities , develop his own point, make his own decisions and carry his own
burdens.
Lester D Crow and Alice Crow
2. Guidance is the process of helping young person learn to adjust self , to others
and to circumstances.
Jones
3. Guidance is a process through which an individual is able to solve their problem and
pursue a path suited to their abilities and aspirations.

4. DEFINITION OF GUIDANCE
4. Guidance is a process consist of a group of services to individuals to
assist them in securing the knowledge and skills needed in making
adequate choices, plans and interpretation essential to satisfactorily
adjustment in varieties of areas to solve his personal and other
problem.
Smith
5. Guidance is process of helping every individual through his own efforts
to discover and develop his potentialities for his personal happiness
and social usefulness.
Ruth Strang

5. CONCEPT OF GUIDANCE
 Guidance is one of the major application of psychology
in education. It enables or assist the individual to solve
educational , vocational and psychological problems.
It refers to a process of helping the individual to
discover himself which means his potentials and
capacities and capabilities , abilities and aptitudes,
interest and to help him in achieving maximum
development and using all potentialities to the
maximum development and using all potentialities to
the maximum advantage of individual and society.

6. MEANING OF GUIDANCE
Guidance is a systematic , organized phase of the
educational process which helps to improve their
powers and gain richer personal experiences while
making his own unique contribution to our
democratic society.

7. PRINCIPLES OF GUIDANCE
1. Guidance is holistic
2. All individual are unique
3. Guidance is for all students
4. Guidance should be regarded as a continuing process.
5. Guidance is counsel and compulsion.
6. Guidance involves using skills.
7. Guidance is based on individual needs.
8. Guidance is based on cooperation.
9. Guidance demand trained personnel

8. PRINCIPLES OF GUIDANCE cont……
10. Flexibility
11. Recognition of individual differences and dignity.

9. NEEDS FOR GUIDANCE
1.Complex nature of society.
2. Individual differences.
3. Welfare state and the individuals.
4. Change industrial and educational pattern of the
country.
5. Change economic pattern of the country.
6. Conservation of human energy.
7. Self understanding and self- direction
8. Optimum development of individual.

10. COUNSELING

11. DEFINITION OF COUNSELING
1. A form of interviewing in which the client is helped to understand
himself more accurately , in order that he may correct an
environment or adjustment difficulty .
Wolber
2. Counseling is a set of techniques, skills and attitudes to help people
manage their own problems using their own resources.
Micheal Reddy
3. Counseling is a one to one relationship between an individual troubled
by problems with which he cannot cope alone and professional
worker whose training and experience have qualified him to help
others reach solutions to various types of personal difficulties.
Halm and Mcheall (1955)

12. DEFINTION OF COUNSELING Conti……
4. Counseling is a dynamic and purposeful relationship
between two people , which approach a mutually
defined problem with mutual consideration of each
other to the end that troubled one or less mature is
aided to a self –determined resolution of his problem
Wren 1962
5. Counseling is a method that helps a client use a
problem solving process to recognize relationships
among client and health care team.

13. MEANING OF COUNSELING
 Counseling is a specialized service of guidance and it is
an enabling process designed to help an individual
with his life and grow to greater maturity through
learning to take responsibility and make decisions for
himself/herself

14. CONCEPT OF COUNSELLING
 The relationship between two personnel or interaction
between the counselor, i.e. one a professionally trained
worker and the counselee i.e. the person who seeks the
services or who can not cope up alone, who requires
help from the skilled personnel to resolve his problems
by finding new ways.

15. PRINCIPLES OF COUNSELING
 Face – to – face interaction.
 Emotional perspective than rather intellectual.
 More than just giving advice.
 Focus on solution of immediate problem.
 Warmth.
 Acceptance
 Genuineness
 Empathy
 Respect

16. NEED OF COUNSELING
 To encourage and develop special abilities and right
attitudes.
 To inspire successful endeavor towards attainment.
 To assist the students in planning for educational and
vocational choices.
 To help the students to workout and plan for solving
their difficulties.
 It helps in proper choice of course according to the
interest, aptitude and interest of the students.

17. NEED OF COUNSELING contd…
 To help the students to grow, explore, maintain and
develop their overall personality.
 To develop readiness for choices and changes to face
new challenges.
 To minimize the incidence of indiscipline that is
leading to destructive activity and social damage.
 To develop readiness in choices and changes to face
new challenges.
 To minimize the mismatching between education and
employment and help in efficient use of manpower.

18. NEED OF COUNSELING contd 2…
 To motivate the youth for self employment.
 To help fresher’s develop proper identity and face life
situations boldly.
 To help the student in their period of turmoil and
confusion.
 To help in checking wastage and stagnation.
 To identify and help students in need of special help.
 To bring out the special abilities from the handicapped
or physically disabled persons.

19. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUIDANCE AND
COUNSELING
GUIDANCE COUNSELING
Act of guiding, giving leadership,
supervision for future actions.
A psychological specialty dealing with
research applied work in career
development, health.
Guidance is broader and comprehensive
process
Counseling is in-depth narrowing down
the problem until the advisee
understand his or her problem
It is an organized service to identify and
develop the potentials of pupils.
It is specialized service offered to help
the individual to solve problem by them
Focus of the guidance is on finding
solution to the problem
Focus is not on solution to the problem
but the understanding of the problem
Guidance id generally education and
career related
Counseling is mostly on personal
problems and social issues.
Guidance is usually being used in
schools to guide the students
Counseling has a broader reach

20. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUIDANCE AND
COUNSELING contd……
GUIDANCE COUNSELING
It is preventive It is therapeutic
it may be given in any normal set-up It is given in special set up
It can be given in single meeting It requires several sessions to grasp the
individual’s situation in its totality
Decision making operates at
intellectual level
It operates at emotional level
It may be required by all normal
individual
It is required for the individual with
problems.

21. CURRENT TRENDS IN GUIDANCE NAD
COUNSELING
 Professional Title
 Evaluation
 Prevention versus Remediation
 Multiculturalism
 Cyber counseling or Web counseling

22. ISSUES FACEDBY NOVICE COUNSELORS
 Feelings of inadequacy and anxiety.
 Self – disclosure
 Tendency towards perfectionism.
 Being honest about limitations.
 Understanding Silence
 Demands from the client
 Clients who lack commitment
 Losing oneself in client
 Share responsibility with client
 Giving advice
 Develop a personal counseling style.

23. RELATED RESEARCH STUDY
TITLE: Effectiveness of guidance and counseling services in enhancing
student’s adjustment to school academic environment in public boarding
school in Kenya
DATE OF PUBLICATION: July,2017
JOURNAL: international journal for innovation education and research
ATHOUR: Dr Benjamin Mugambi Kanga
ABSTRACT:
INTODUCTION: school adjustment is the process of copying in a new
environment in order to attain the individual and school’s set goals and
aspiration. The government ,education and parents have expressed the
need to strengthen school guidance and counseling services in order
enhance student’s adjustment to the school. This study investigated the
effectiveness of guidance and counseling services in enhancing students
adjustment in public boarding secondary school in Kenya.

24. RELATED RESEARCH STUDY Contd……
 Objectives- the objectives of this study was establish the
effectiveness of guidance and counseling services in enhancing
student’s adjustment to school academic environment in public
boarding school in Kenya.
Research design- this study adopted a descriptive survey research
design. Data is collected from 3 students and their teacher using
questionniare that was both open and close ended.
Sample population and sample size-this study adopted
purposive as well as random sampling techniques. The target
population was 36671 comprising of 35659 from 3 students, 506
from 3 class teacher and 506 teacher in charge of guidance and
counseling from boarding school in Kitui, Nyeri, Narobi
countries in Kenya.

25. RELATED RESEARCH STUDY contd…..
 RESULT: information was sought from form 3 students and
triangulated with responses from their class teacher and teacher in
charge of guidance and counseling .responses student and teacher are
the majority (85.4%) of the students and 94.4% of the class teacher
identified time management as an issue. Response from teacher and
student whether guidance an counseling were effective in enabling
students to adjust in school environment are 88.3% agreed that
guidance and counseling were effective in adjustment in school
environment. Responses from teacher in charge are 88.9% pointed out
that guidance and counseling help to discover and work towards
achieving their full potential enable them to adjust in school academic
envrionment.

26. CONCLUSION
 Guidance and counseling received much attention in
the field of education. It has been generally agreed by
all that guidance and counseling must become an
integral component of educational process and the
responsibility implementing the rest to a large extent
or teachers and educational institutions.

27. THANK YOU