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Unit 32 : Problems of Guidance and Counseling in India and their Solutions

Self Assessment Notes

3. Multiple Choice Questions
Choose the correct option
(i) ............. is one of the commonly used drug.
(a) Sedative (b) antibiotic (c) antidrug (d) pain Killer
(ii) ............. is not a drug.
(a) marijuana (b) salt (c) heroine (d) brown sugar
(iii) The Indian population ranks among the highest in the world.
(a) first (b) second (c) third (d) fourth
32.10 Summary

• The home and the family comprise the most important and informal agencies of education.
The family serves as the primary model for personality development. The family is considered
by several authorities as an extension of the individual personality. Therefore, it is rightly held
that “family systems of behaviour become individual systems of personality”.
• Family group consultation is a method of counseling that begins with an analysis of the self-
defining processes in each one of the four families in the group. This method was introduced
by Counseling Centre, for Adults and the Medical School, Psychiatric Division of the Oregon
State System of Higher Education in the 1960s.
• Family counseling is concerned with the family system and changes that can be made in that
system.
• In clinical work with individual patients it became increasingly obvious that there was more to
the problem than what the patient was apparently reporting. The fact that the relationship
between the patient and his family is of importance was recognized a long time ago. It was
seen that communication between the individual and the rest of the members in a family was
in most cases muffled and barriers seemed to be erected.
• The family is the primary group of society. Its characteristic feature is the affective bonds
among the members in the family and a concern for each other. Counseling cannot afford to
ignore such an important aspect of human life. Family relations are broadly of two types–the
parent-child relations and the husband-wife relations. When the members of the family are
disunited, tension, distress and misery are the natural outcomes.
• Most problem children are products of problem homes. The disturbing features in a home
affect the harmonious development of the children. The incalculable harm which parents do to
their children is usually not grasped by most parents. Parent counseling is aimed at helping
parents become sensitive to the possible adverse effect of their behaviour on their children.
• Parent-teacher meetings are becoming more common in schools. A parent may visit a teacher
at the latter’s request or a parent may want to know why his/her child has not done well in a
particular subject handled by the teacher or ask the teacher for an explanation regarding a
punishment to pupil.
• Parents understandably are indulgent and so they see their children in a different light. On the
other hand, for the teacher, the child of a particular parent is one of the several hundred pupils
he may be seeing daily.
• Some parents have difficulty in expressing themselves. A parent may be reluctant to talk. The
counselor has to first establish a warm relationship to open up lines of free communication by
talking about the positive aspects.
• In most PTA meetings, group sessions can be organized to use the group approach to resolve
problems.

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