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Unit 9: Personal Guidance at School Level

Thus, at school, the pupil must be helped to make appropriate vocational choices. Leisure-time Notes
activities also help develop appropriate attitudes and interests towards suitable occupational avenues
besides providing recreation and opportunities to rejuvenate the mind. Every individual is a
wholesome, unique personality and satisfaction in life for him/her would be holistic.

9.7 Process of Personal Guidance Programme

The following steps are involved in a personal guidance programme.
(1) Collection of all the Information or Data: First of all, the essential information or data
concerning the individual, who needs personal or psychological guidance, should be collected.
It may be concerned with his physical, intellectual, social and emotional development, academic
or scholastic achievement; personality characteristics, interests and aptitudes, family and school
background and other environmental conditions. Thus an adequate picture of the background
and personality make-up of an individual should be drawn in the mind for the solution of the
problems, faced by individual.
(2) Diagnosis of the causes of the problems: Now the Problem of the individual is analysed in
the relations with the collected information. The causes lying within the individual or his
environment are detected. For haying a correct diagnosis, a personal interview or other
techniques may also be adopted and more information if needed may also be acquired.
(3) Thinking about the Remedial Measures: In view of the detected possible causes the remedial
measures are chalked out. The Guidance worker now thinks about the personal guidance that
may be provided for the individual in gelling rid of his trouble.
(4) Rendering Personal Guidance: By establishing proper rapport, the Guidance personnel makes
the individual realize the main cause of-his difficulty or trouble sometimes, on this bases he is
made to realise or even think about the possible change in his behavior or attitude. For this
purpose so many valuable techniques like suggestion, initiation, sympathetic, affectionate
advice, sublimation or catharsis, psychoanalysis or other psychological theory can be adopted.
The sole purpose of such guidance is to help or assist the individual in getting rid of his
difficulty either by modifying his behavior or bringing some changes in his environment.
(5) Follow-up Service: After rendering personal guidance to an individual, it is essential to evaluate
the progress, or outcome of such guidance through personal interview, contact or any other
suitable technique. It is such follow up programme that helps in knowing the strength and
weakness of the administered personal guidance. It may also suggest the need of further
guidance to him or any alternation in the proposed guidance.
The knowledge about the above mentioned process of personal guidance is not only needed by the
guidance personnel specially appointed in the school, but the head-master and teachers also make
themselves acquainted with it teachers with their unique position in the school, are able to develop
close contacts with children and may be able to know the real cause of a trouble. With a little
training, they learn the art of rendering personal guidance to their students.
Therefore our schools are acquired to play their due role in this direction. In every school, the head
of the institution should try to organise a personal guidance programme with the active help of his
staff and co-operation of the parent and state guidance services.

Self Assessment
2. Fill in the blanks
(i) The purpose of ...................... service is to provide the basis for the effective Councelling.
(ii) ...................... aid the individual to make preparation as practicable to get a good start by
entering that education and vocation advantageously.

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