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Guidance and Counseling

Notes (ii) The second category of agencies may be broadly classified as private number of voluntary
organizations on the lines of the Parsi Panchayat, Bombay, have come to be established to
provide vocational guidance. The Vocational Guidance Society at Calcutta, the United
Christian Mission of North India at Jullundur.
(iii) The third category includes university and college-run agencies. The guidance bureaux at
St. Xavier’s college in Bombay, and M.S. University, Baroda, were the earliest agencies
rendering guidance and counseling. In recent times guidance services as well as counseling
have come to be offered by the departments of psychology of several universities.
• The functions of the guidance bureau vary with the type of bureaux. The functions are well
defined in the well established bureaux like the Bureau of Psychology, Allahabad. This
bureau provides educational and vocational guidance based on psychometric data.
11.7 Keywords

Counseling : Professional advice about a problem
Psychology : The Scientific study of mind
Resolution : The act of solving or setting a problem, dispute etc.

Modification : The act or process of chaning something in order to improve it.
11.8 Review Questions

1. Give the definition of Counseling.
2. Describe the need of Counseling in different human problems.
3. Explain Counseling as helping relationship.
4. Discuss different Counseling goals.
5. How does counseling helps in achieve of positive mental health ?

Answers: Self Assessment
1. (i) teaching learning process (ii) situation
(iii) Counseling (iv) client
2. (i)T (ii)T (iii)F
3. (i) a (ii) b (iii) c
11.9 Further Readings

1. Guidance & Counseling: S. Nageshwara Rao, Discovery Publishing House
2. Guidance & Counselince: B.G. Barki, B.Kukh, Opadhyay, Sterling Publishers
Pvt. Ltd.
3. Guidance & Counseling : Suzanne E. Wade. Pam Schuctz, Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.

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