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Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University Unit 3: Need for Guidance with Reference to India

Unit 3: Need for Guidance with Reference to India Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
3.1 Reasons for Need of Guidance with Reference to India
3.2 Types of Need in Guidance
3.3 Summary
3.4 Keywords
3.5 Review Questions
3.6 Further Readings

Objectives

After reading this unit students will be able to:
• Explain the reasons for need of guidance with reference to India
• Discuss the types of need in guidance

Introduction

Life-problems are becoming more and more complex. Traditional morals and personal convictions
concerning rightness and wrongness of attitude and behaviour are breaking down. The black-and-
white analyses of our Puritan ancestors in matters dealing with human relations are fast giving way
to neutral grays. No longer are we able to affirm, unchallenged, that one mode of conduct is completely
right and another wrong. Nor are thinking people willing to assert didactically that any person
must necessarily behave in the future in a manner similar to his past or present behaviour.
Many diverse factors inherent within our home, school, and social and occupational activities and
relationships pull us in different directions. We often find ourselves in such a state of confusion or
bewilderment that it is difficult to steer unaided the course of our conduct toward ends which will
be satisfying to ourselves and to those about us. Too often the recognized need for advice or guidance
leads us to become the victims of those who set themselves up as authorities in areas of guidance for
which they have little or no capacity beyond the power to speak convincingly in a ‘patter’ of glittering
generalities. These generalities may satisfy the listener for the moment, but they do little toward
building within him the power to face reality courageously or to gain strength to meet the problems
which arise in his life.

3.1 Reasons for Need of Guidance with Reference to India

Guidance and counseling services are becoming more and more important as the society and its
various institutions are growing in complexity. The society and all its institutions are built of
individuals as their units as a mansion is built of bricks. The strength and solidarity of the society
and its institutions are, therefore, contingent upon the strength of these individual units. Strength
and solidarity of these individual units constitute the foundation of a strong nation. Hence, the
optimum development of each of these individual units. Strength and solidarity of these individual
units constitute the foundation of a strong nation. Hence, the optimum development of each of these

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