EDU 300 – ORGANIZATION, ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION OF GUIDANCE AND

COUNSELING SERVICES

Jurelie S. Labus Ivy C. Acar, MAEd, RGC

Discussant Professor

Guidance Programs and Services according to the Nature

and Purpose

NATURE
1. Identifiable aids to assist individuals.
2. Involved in achieving goals of education.
3. Provide for competent leadership.
4. Supported by functional reparations for teachers in guidance
services.
5. Based on the knowledge of the needs of the pupils and upon
competencies of the staff members.
6. Services made available to all.
7. Needs the cooperation of parents and community.
8. More preventive than curative.
9. Founded on the concept of the totality of the individual.
10. Should be evaluated constantly.

PURPOSE
 Help students recognize, accept and develop their potential,
adjust to the school, and develop the skills needed to cope
with the problems they meet.
 Help young people come to know and accept themselves, their
aptitudes and interests.
 Teach pupils/students learn to use their interests and
capabilities.
 Teach pupils/students develop the skills to cope with the
problems they meet both inside and outside the school.

REFERENCES
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Kahayon et al , General Psychology. Fourth Edition, 1999

www.yourarticlelibrary.com/education/guidance/nature-of-guidance-
which-are-cited-by-various-educationists/63665, retrieved August
15, 2019