Scope of Guidance and Counselling in Education PDF

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It is concerned with the assistance given to pupils in their choices and adjustments with relation to schools curriculum, courses and school life. suited to their abilities and needs. It serves to realize the aims and objectives of education and to check wastage and stagnation....

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Scope of Guidance and Counselling

1. Guidance and counselling for personal needs/problems. Guidance and counselling can assist an individual to adjust to his or her physical and social environment. It also solves the emotional and psychological problems underwent by a person or a child. To site an example, a child or a student who is experiencing family problems like being in a broken family or financial difficulties can be aided by a guidance counsellor by giving tips and support for such issues. The latter can also endorse a child’s parent to a social worker for him or her to be worked through the psychosocial side of financial management in order to support the child’s needs properly. 2. Guidance and counselling for educational needs/problems. Guidance and counselling helps a child or student have a satisfactory transition from home to the school. It is also the means to assess learning difficulties of basic skills as well as reduce learning disabilities. For example, a guidance counsellor can preserve a student’s emotional, educational and social needs by being an advocate for a child’s academic career and personalsocial development. Particularly, he/she can make partnership in a child’s learning and career planning, ensure academic planning and make access to school and community resources. 3. Guidance and counselling for physical, emotional, social, moral and motivational problems. As per my research, guidance and counselling include a major area of personal-social guidance and counselling. Guidance counsellors aim to also assist people or children when it comes to emotional, social and moral problems. For instance, young ones sometime involve themselves to delinquency in order to cope up with stressors in their lives. Guidance and counselling can be a solution to juvenile delinquency at school. Through guidance and counselling, students are able to develop problem solving skills which to an extent help them deal with particular issues surrounding their stressful lives. 4. Guidance and counselling for vocational, occupational and professional needs. Guidance and counselling assist people or students in their choices of career. Guidance counsellors can assist an individual to choose and prepare for an occupation that is compatible with his/her interests. By way of illustration, a counsellor can support a person by doing selfappraisal, decision making, goal setting, and career planning. It would be indeed beneficial to young individuals for them to make a good choice of career that will not only offer an effective job opportunity but it can allow a person embrace a satisfactory and respectful lifestyle. Furthermore, if a student is being guided to his/her desired career path, it engages the latter at work, which makes them more informed, confident, and dedicated.

5. Guidance and counselling for career advancements. One's career is considered to be one of the most important aspects of adulthood and taking on a new career can be a stressful event to a person. It is also a fact that when it comes to having a vocation, it is also crucial to take up career advancements. Career advancements aid a professional to further hone his/her skills as well as make him/her competent in a certain field. To give an instance, a guidance counsellor may give suggestions or advise an individual about upcoming trainings and seminars as well as further schoolings like taking up a masters or doctorate degree. 6. Guidance and counselling for holistic individual development. I have researched that there is a guidance and counselling approach called Holistic Counselling which helps clients to heal by taking the entire human being and their life experiences into consideration for assessment and treatment purposes. In other words , holistic counselling assesses and treats from physical and spiritual contexts--as well as a psychological or mental ones. To illustrate, Holistic counsellors observe a client’s presenting symptoms and issues and evaluate how the physical body is related and affected with the objective of facilitating a sense of physical well-being. They also recognize that the human spirit is directly involved in the healing of a person’s mind, body and soul. . 7. Guidance and counselling for situational problems. Guidance and counselling provide assessment, crisis intervention, individual counselling as well as referral to community to individuals in need of such assistance. Counsellors may make referrals for issues outside of their scope of practice or if a student needs a higher level of care. They also deal with situational problems, for example, a student who is involved in a conflict with another student during a class assembly, the guidance counsellor must assess and do an intervention to solve that problem. It is definitely a challenge for counsellors to handle situational problems because it will depend on the parties involved as well as several factors that might affect that certain situation, it can either affect negatively or have a positive outcome....