Scope and Nature of Guidance Services PDF

SCOPE AND NATURE OF

GUIDANCE SERVICES
NATURE OF GUIDANCE SERVICES
1. Guidance is education itself. Guidance aims at educating the individual for
understanding himself, unfolding his potentialities to their maximum so that
he may eventually prove himself to be an adjusted and pragmatic member
of the community. Guidance therefore is a significant education procedure.
It is in short education itself.

2. Guidance is a process. Guidance is a process that enables an individual in

discovering himself in the most satisfying and positive manner. It provides
direction to enable an individual harness his potentialities, abilities, interests
and aptitudes.
3. Guidance is a continuous process. Guidance is a dynamic and a non-stop

process. In this process, an individual understands himself, learns to use
maximum his own capacities, interests and other abilities. He continues his
struggle for adjustment in different situations. He develops his capacity of
decision-making.
4. Guidance is related with life. The process of guidance is related to life, its
problems and challenges and how to face them. Problems and challenges are the
building blocks of our personality. Guidance helps people to live a balanced and
tension free-life with full satisfaction under the circumstances.
5. Guidance is self-direction. The nature of Guidance is not to thrust itself on an

individual. It does not make choices for him. The ultimate purpose of guidance is
guide the individual to direct himself in the right direction, to make his own choices,
to fix his own life-goals and to carry his own burden.
6. Guidance is individual-centered. Whether given on individual or group basis, the

focus of all guidance programmers is the individual who need to manage himself for
a joyous today and a happy tomorrow by a healthy alignment of individual desires
and aspiration with socially desirable good.
7. Guidance is a qualified and complex and organised service. Guidance is given by
qualified and trained personnel. Hence guidance is a skill-involved process. The varied
and complex nature of human life leaves its imprint on the guidance programmes
which are a totality of experiences. Guidance depends on prior study of the individual,
his assessment, initial counseling, interview, case study and a host of other subsidiary
activities that qualifies Guidance as a complex process.
8. Guidance is based on individual differences. Individual differences or, the fact that
individuals differ significantly, forms the basis of Guidance. If all the individuals had
been alike, there was no scope for guidance. Individuals differ not only in their
appearances but in their mental and intellectual endowments, desires, aspirations,
and aptitudes.
9. Universality of guidance. Guidance is for all. Every person needs guidance at all the stages of
life situations from childhood to old age. He needs guidance for solving problems to adjust in the
family as well as in the society.
10. Guidance is making potential actual. Studies indicate that each person is born with more
potential than he uses. Guidance programme aid the individual in the discovery of a hidden
potential individual for his own benefit that that of the community. Thus guidance programme is
used as an aid to discover the talent and use it for the progress of the country.
11. Preparation for future. The process of guidance is helpful in preparing a person for his future.
Guidance helps in the choice of one’s career, one’s partner in life etc. Guidance helps the
individual to march towards the future with confidence.
12. Modification of Behavior. Guidance helps the persons in his adjustment in different situations
and to modify one’s behavior. Negative personality traits have been modified through skilful
guidance and counseling. According to Carter V. Good, “Guidance is a process of dynamic
interpersonal relationship designed to influence the attitudes and subsequent behaviour of a
person.”
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SCOPE AND NATURE OF

2. Guidance is a process. Guidance is a process that enables an individual in

3. Guidance is a continuous process. Guidance is a dynamic and a non-stop

5. Guidance is self-direction. The nature of Guidance is not to thrust itself on an

6. Guidance is individual-centered. Whether given on individual or group basis, the

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