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Guidance and Counseling

Notes (viii) Is there any budgetary provision for the guidance programme ?
(ix) Is cooperation of other community/agencies available ?
Once answers to these and many other such questions are obtained, a guidance committee can be
formulated.
The guidance committee in an average secondary or higher secondary school can have the following
members :
• Principal : He will be the Director of the guidance committee.
• Trained counselor : He will be the Secretary of the committee.
• Members : All the class teachers of the different classes will be the members. Chief-warden,
Sports Officer, Guardian’s representatives, community representative can also be members of
the committee. The committee will offer help students adjust in school and society.

9.5 Types of Guidance Services

A comprehensive programme of educational, vocational and personal guidance services in the
secondary school will be concerned with eight types of different services. If we want the programme
to be effective, provision should be made not only for all of these services but also each service be
performed in an efficient manner.
Let us discuss each type of guidance services in brief.
(i) Information services : This service is concerned with aiding the individual to obtain needed
information concerning education and occupation. For example information needed to choose
a career for engineering.
(ii) Self-inventory services : This type of service is concerned with aiding the individuals to obtain
equally needed information pertaining to their ability, aptitude, limitation and personality
characteristics, their personal assets and liabilities. For example selecting a line of occupation
which is very special like the Fine Arts or the Defence Services.
(iii) Personal data collecting services : The purpose of this service to provide the basis for the
effective counseling.
(iv) Counselling services : This service is concerned with helping the individuals to weigh and
evaluate personal assets and liabilities in relation to the opportunity and requirements of
education and occupations that interest them, and to make plans that are based on resulting
decisions.
(v) Preparatory services : This service is based on the assumption that choice of course and
occupations have been reached, at least tentatively.
The problem now confronting the individual is that of making such preparation as is desirable,
either before or after actually entering upon the education and occupation chosen. Success in
educational and occupational life depends upon the preparatory service performed.
(vi) Placement services : The function of this service is to aid the individuals to make such
preparation as seems practicable to get a good start by entering that education and vocation
advantageously.
Assistance is needed in finding out a suitable place to start work at a wisely chosen education
and occupation. These days there are good placement services for professionals courses.
(vii) Follow-up services : This service is concerned with aiding the individuals to make necessary
or desirable readjustment after entering in their education and occupation.
(viii)Research services : This service is essential to the success of comprehensive educational and
vocational guidance. This service is concerned with checking upon the effectiveness of the
other services and with discovering their strong and weak points with a view to strengthening
the programme.

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