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Guidance and Counseling

Notes Aims of Personal Guidance at Secondary Stage
The nature of personal guidance at the secondary stage can be understood keeping in mind the
basic needs and interests of secondary school students. This is the most critical stage of individual’s
development. It is the stage of stress and strain, storm and strife, heightened emotionality and
hyper-suggestibility, anxieties and worries, conflicts and frustrations. Purposes of personal guidance
at this stage are:
(i) To help the students to solve the problems concerning physical health.
(ii) To help the pupils to solve problems concerning sex, emotionality and mental health.
(iii) To help the adolescents in making family adjustments.
(iv) To help the school children in making social adjustment including adjustment with the school.
(v) To organise wholesome recreational activities in the school.
(vi) To provide the opportunity for community service.
Aims of Personal Guidance at College and University Stage
The students at this stage need personal guidance to enable them have a satisfactory personal and
social adjustment in their new environment. The following are the aims of personal guidance at this
stage :
(a) To help the pupils in solving all types of emotional problems, and other personal problems.
(b) To help the pupils in making adjustments with the new environment i.e. with the changing
environment, college environment and environment of the society at large.
(c) To help the students in developing healthy ideas and building a new philosophy of life.
(d) To help the students in participating in social activities and community services.
(e) To help the students in their ethical and moral development and inculcate right type of values.
(f) To enable the pupils to have mutual respect and regard for people belonging to different
faiths.
Self Assessment
1. Fill in the blanks
(i) ......................... is the help given to the individual to solve his personal problems.
(ii) Personal guidance at the ......................... can be described keeping in view the basic needs of
children.
(iii) The ......................... is the most critical stage of individual’s development.
(iv) The students at college and university stage need personal guidance to enable them have a
satisfactory ......................... and ......................... adjustment in their now environment.

Personal guidance at the college and university level is a continuation of the personal
guidance at the secondary stage. But, its scope is widened with a view to develop in
young adults a sense of social service, social responsibility, patriotism and tolerance.

8.3 Methods of Personal Guidance

Children come into the world genetically endowed with all their human potential for growing,
developing and learning. You, as a parent or teacher have an exciting opportunity as you become

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