DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

GUIDANCE AND
COUNSELING
Srimalathi R
I Year MSc Nursing
Psg College of Nursing
 GUIDANCE
DEFINITION:
Guidance is an assistance made available by
personally, qualified and adequately trained men or
women to an individual of any age to help him manage
his own life activities, develop his own points of view,
make his own decisions and carry his own burdens.

- Crow and Crow

 COUNSELING

DEFINITION:
Counseling is a purposeful reciprocal
relationship between two people in which one
trained person helps the other person to change
himself or his environment.

- Shostrom and Brammer(1952)

 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUIDANCE AND
COUNSELING

GUIDANCE COUNSELING

1. Guidance is 1. Counseling is
broader and in- depth
comprehensive
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GUIDANCE COUNSELING

2. Raw materials: 2. Raw materials:

Intellectual attitudes Emotion

3. It is preventive 3. It is therapeutic
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4. Any one can give 4. Counseling requires

guidance higher level of skill as
well as special
professional training
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5. Given in normal 5. Requires a special

setup setup

6. It is an integral 6. Counseling is
part of education needed in all fields
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7. In guidance, 7. In guidance,
decision- making decision- making
operates at an operates at an
intellectual level emotional level
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8. Guidance is not 8. Counseling is not

counseling guidance

9. Guidance is not 9. Counseling is very

specific, it is specific
generalized
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10. Helps in 10. Helps in

promoting individual preventing future
development problems
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11. Generally verbal 11. Counselling gives

communication and importance for non-
written documents verbal expressions
are involved also
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12. Guidance does not 12. Counseling as steps:

involves any specific steps or • Establishing relationship
process • Assessment

• Setting goal

• Intervention

• Termination and follow up

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13. No need of 13. Confidentiality is

maintaining maintained strictly
confidentiality 14. Mostly offend to
14. Related to personal and social
education and career issues