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Guidance and Counseling

Notes the resultant conditions do not allow the person to imagine a peaceful and programme life. In such
condition, personal guidance can prove helpful in solving such problems.
Hence, the solution of the following types of problems is possible in personal guidance;
(i) Problems related to the health and physical development.
(ii) Problems related to emotional behaviour.
(iii) Problems related to home and family relationship.
(iv) Problems related to sex, courstship and marriage.

(v) Problems related to religion, morals, ideals and values.
(vi) Economic Problems.
(vii) Problems related to social relationship.
Many problems faced by school pupils are of personal, social nature. These are problems which
relate to an individual’s self. Problems of educational and vocational guidance are concerned with
things which occur in the environment apart from the self of the individual. Personal problems are
concerned with something which occurs within the individual. These are personality-related and
behaviour&related problems. Determinants of these problems may be environmental, external factors,
but the phenomens of problems are internal appearing in the form for the feelings, emotion, attitudes
and expressed quite often in the forms of behaviours, such as deviant behaviours. Personal guidance
focuses on such types of problems and is concerned with the personal behaviour and personal
adjustment of pupils.

8.1 Personal Guidance Concept

Concept
Personal guidance is the help given to the individual to solve his personal problems. In every school
are found quite a few students who are emotionally maladjusted and are unable to make satisfactory
social adjustement. They, for that reason, fail to make full use of their potentialities. Some may have
developed undesirable habits so as to become a problem to their parents and teachers. Personal
guidance services make an effort to spot out these maladjusted and the problem-children in the
school. Through the diagnositc psychological testing and the sociological information from the
home and the school an attempt is made to find out the root cause of the trouble. In less severel cases
the counselor arranges counseling interviews with the individual and tries to rehabilitate him. In
case the cause of the problem lies with the home environment the counselor works with the parents
and tries to change their attitudes towards the child. Counseling of the parents, sometimes, becomes
inevitable. Suggestions are made to them as to how they can themselves help the child. If the cause
of the problem is found to lie with the class-room factors, the counselor works with the teachers and
suggestes to them how they can help the child. Difficult and serious cases are, however, referred to
them how they can help the child. Difficult and serious cases are, however, referred to professional
clinical psychologists or psychiatrists in the hospitals.
Personal guidance is the assistance given to any individual to solve his emotional problems and to
assist him to control his emotions. Controlled emotion is the most significant characteristic of a
mentally healthy individual. An individual having control over his emotions when treatened with
conflicts and frustrations is able to maintain a mental balance by working against stress.
The students who are in the adolescent period of their growth and development exhibit hightened
emotionality. At times they lose their control over very trivial matters. They become extremely
emotional when the situation causes intense feeling. Several factors like failure in love, unsatisfactory
academic performance. maladjustment at home and with peers cause emotional problems.

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