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Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit 8: Personal and Group Guidance: Concept, Aims and Methods

Unit 8: Personal and Group Guidance: Concept, Notes
Aims and Methods

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
8.1 Personal Guidance Concept
8.2 Aims of Personal Guidance
8.3 Methods of Personal Guidance
8.4 Meaning of Group Guidance
8.5 Aim of Group Guidance
8.6 Method of Group Guidance
8.7 Summary
8.8 Keywords
8.9 Review Questions
8.10 Further Reading

Objectives

After reading this unit students will be able to:
• Explain the concept of personal guidance
• Discuss the aims of personal guidance.
• Explain the methods of personal guidance
• Explain the meaning of group guidance
• Discuss the aims of group guidance
• Explain the methods of group guidance

Introduction
Personal guidance includes personal psychological or emotional relationships which a person
develops himself. Paterson has includes social, emotional and leisuretime guidance in personal
guidance. In fact, the problems regarding health, emotional adjustment, social adjustment and leasure
and recreational problems are included in personal guidance for solution. Under social adjustment,
an individual’s economic problems are included. The aspects of the life’s character and spiritual
fields can also be included in the personal guidance. In other worlds, the problems which cannot be
included in educational and vocational guidance, we can include them in personal guidance.
In this way, the main aim of personal guidance is to establish balance between the individual’s
mental, social and physical apects, because it is often seen that a person sometimes is sorrounded by
abnormal behaviours and social demerits even though areas. Such persons lead neglected life among
their families, neighbourers and members of the community. Due to lack of balanced personalities
in the families and neighbourhood and due to vague identification of mental and emotional
deficiencies, the resultant conditions do not allow the person to imagine a peaceful and programme

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