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Guidance and Counseling

Notes (1) To acquaint the new comers with the new institution, its philosophy, rules and regulations,
etc., so that they may adjust adequately and live a happy group life.
(2) To guide the new comers to reconsider their goals and purposes in relation to their increased
self-knowledge and newly available opportunities.

• Aim of Group Guidance: Kitch and Mc Creasy have listed the following objectives of group
guidance:
(1) To assist in the identification of common problem.
(2) To provide information useful in the solution of adjustment problem.
(3) To provide opportunities for experiences that promote self-understanding.
(4) To lay the foundation of individual counseling.
• At different levels of education different kinds of group activities are organized. A stagewise
discussion is presented as follows :
• At the elementary stage orientation programmes can be organized before admission of students
and after admission.
• At the secondary stage much of the group guidance work has to be done as part of classroom
activities by the teachers. If the teachers are properly oriented they can contribute much through
classroom activities to develop realistic self-concepts, to recognise and deal with students
strengths and weaknesses effectively and intelligently, to recognising and understanding
emotional responses and learning how to deal with them and face some of the problems.
• Group guidance activities may be of either longitudinal nautre or of cross-sectional nature. In
case of longitude activities the process extends over a long period with a view to develop a
comprehensive awareness of various aspects of the world of work concerne with long range
vocational and educational planning.
• Cross-sectional group guidance activities, generaly, take the form of group counseling or
multiple counseling, their objective being to bring about a change in the attitudes of the
individuals and to help them in making better and stable adjustments. The aims and objectives
of group counseling are similar to those of individual counseling.

8.8 Keywords

Personal : Connected with individual people, especially their fealings, character and
relationships.
Group : A number of people or things that are together in the same place or that are
Connected in some way.
Orientational : Training or information that you are given before starting a new job, course
etc.
Therapeutic : designed to help treat an illness.

8.9 Review Questions

1. Explain the term “Personal guidance”.
2. What are the aims of personal guidance ?
3. Discuss the methods of group guidance.
4. What do you mean by group guidance ?
5. Give the aims of group guidance.
6. What are the methods of group guidance ?

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