Page 15 - DEDU502_GUIDANCE_AND_COUNSELING_ENGLISH

Unit 1: Guidance: Meaning, Nature and Scope

• Guidance does not occupy independent place. The chief aim of this process is to assist in the Notes
development of an individual keeping in view the social needs.
• Guidance is a process. Here, it is important to point out that the process of guidance never
ceases. It remains dynamic.

• The process of guidance is related to life. This guidance contributes formally or informally to
life because life experiences both formal and in-formal occasions.
• During the process of guidance the individual is assisted in such a way that he makes himself
enabled to develop his capacities maximum from all angles.
• Providing guidance is not the function of all persons because various techniques and skill are
to be used in it. Everybody does not possess the knowledge of the same.
• Goals of Guidance: 1. Providing the psychological support; 2. Adjustment and resourse
provision; 3. Problem solving and decision making; 4. Improving personal effectiveness;
5. Insight and understanding; 6. Self actualization; 7. Achievement of positive mental health.
• The scope of guidance is all pervading. Its scope is very vast in the light of modernisation and
industrialisation and is ever increasing. As the life is getting complex day by day, the problems
for which expert help is needed are rapidly increasing. The scope of guidance is extending
horizontally to much of the social context, to matters of prestige in occupations, to the broad.
• It is possible to classify an individual’s problems broadly into educational, vocational and
personal.
(1) Educational Guidance: It is a process concerned with bringing about a favourable setting for
the individual’s education and includes the assistance in the choice of subjects, use of libraries,
laboratories.
(2) Vocational Guidance: It is the assistance rendered in meeting the problems: (i) relating to the
choice of vocation (ii) preparing for it (iii) entering the job, and (iv) achieving adjustment to
it.
(3) Personal Guidance: Personal guidance deals with the problems of personal adjustment in
different spheres of life. Mainly it works for the individuals adjustment to his social and
emotional problems.

1.5 Keywords

Guidance : Help or advise that is given to somebody especially by somebody older or with
more experience.

Nature : The basic qualities of a thing.
Scope : The range of things that a subject.
Civilisation : A society, its culture and its way of life during a particular time.

1.6 Review Questions

1. What is the meaning of guidance ?
2. Give the nature of Guidance ?
3. Explain the scope of Guidance in India ?
4. In which specific areas vocational guidance does help ?

LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY 9