GUIDANCE

• DIRECT

• PILOT

• MANAGE
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• STEER

GUIDE
 “Guidance is a
Arthur Jones personal help
that is designed
to assist a
person to go
somewhere and
do something”.
 “Guidance
Emery Stoops is the
continuous process of
helping individual to
develop the maximum
of his capacity in the
direction of most
beneficial to himself
and to society”.
NEED AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GUIDANCE
I. EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

 Guidance as an Instrument for the Qualitative

Improvement Education
 Expanding Educational Objectives
 Solution of Educational Problems

Solving Discipline Problems

 II. VOCATIONAL NEEDS

• Vocationalisation of Education and Guidance

• Guidance as an Instrument of National

Development

• Expanding Complexity of the World of Work

•
Increasing need for Man-power Planning
and Utilization

Occupational Awareness

Changes in the Conditions of Industry and

Labour
 III. PERSONAL / PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS

 Guidance is the Basic Need of Man

 Educational and Social Aspirations

 Psychological Problems

 Satisfactory Adjustment

 Proper Development of Personality

IV. SOCIAL NEEDS

Complex Nature of Society

Changed Family Contexts

Explosion of Population and Expansion in Human

Resources

Political Change and Extension of Democracy

Change in the Concept of Education

 EDUCATIONAL

VOCATIONAL

PSYCHOLOGICAL

SOCIAL
 OBJECTIVES OF GUIDANCE

• To help individual to understand and accept the

positive and negative aspects of his personality,

interests, aptitudes, attitudes etc.

• Provide a wide choice and opportunities

• Help make adjustment in the new life situation.

• Help in facing the challenges of life and
manage tensions by realizing and accepting
the facts.
• Help in solving social and personal
problems and be able to adjust with oneself
and the environment.
 AIMS OF GUIDANCE

• Exploring Self

• Determining Values

• Setting Goals

• Improving Efficiency

• Building Relationship

• Accepting Responsibility for the Future

 PURPOSE OF GUIDANCE

• To enable the individual or person to be matured,

socially responsible, economically self-sufficient and
ultimately to be self-directing citizen, for that
necessary programmes are undertaken for his best
development.

• It enables the individual/person to take right

decision in each and every stage of his life by
overcoming the necessities and incorporating
the necessities.
To achieve of self-sufficiency in each and every
aspects of life, the individual/person is helped to
analyze his self clearly i.e. his strength, limitation,
interests, aptitudes, abilities, potentialities etc.

Guidance is organized with the help of different

services to provide realistic information about
potentialities of the individual and the opening of
the world of work in which he is best fitted for.
 NATURE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF
GUIDANCE

It is a Process

It is a Continuous Process

It is apart from Instruction

Guidance is a process of Development rather than

Direction

Guidance fulfills some aims of Education

 BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF GUIDANCE

Race, colour and sex have little as no relation

to aptitude and abilities.

Many crises cannot be successfully met by

student without assistance.

The school is in a strategic position to give the

assistance needed.
• Variations within the individual are

significant.

• Abilities already existing in individual are

not usually specialized

 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GUIDANCE

• Principle of All-Round Development of the

Individual

• Principle of Human Uniqueness

• Principle of Holistic Development

• Principle of Cooperation

• Principle of Continuity

• Principle of Adjustment

• Principle of Individual Needs

• Principle of Expert Opinion

• Principle of Evaluation

• Principle of Responsibility

• Principle of Periodic Appraisal

• The focus of guidance is the individual and not his
problem.
• Guidance is not a direction. At the same time, it is
not thrusting somebody’s views on others.
Guidance is also not taking decisions for others.
Guidance is, in fact, an integrated, organized and
creative process.
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Delhi: Shipra Publications.
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Delhi: Rajendra Ravindra Pvt.Ltd.
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Psychology Evaluation & Statistics. Meerut: Raj
Printers.
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Noida: Dorling Kindersley Pvt.Ltd.