US. History of Guidance and Counselling

HISTORY OF

CAREER GUIDANCE
AND COUNSELING
Rachel Samson
IV- 25 BSE Values Ed
Career Development and
Counseling

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

The school is a nurturing environment where a person is

cultivated and molded in preparation for adulthood.
But the life of a student is not all that its cracked up to be.
Especially that of a teenager. With raging hormones
matched with a sea of seemingly grave dilemmas, who else
can you turn to when no one seems to listen?
Pre- problem
Preparation
The process of helping

individuals discover and
develop their
educational, vocational,
and psychological
potentialities and
thereby to achieve an
optimal level of personal
happiness and social
usefulness
Post problem
Intervention
1)
2)
3)
4)
To help in the proper

choices of courses
To help in the proper
choice of careers
To help the students in
vocational development
To motivate the youth for
self employment
Guidance does not solve the

problems for and individual,
rather, it helps the individual
solve his problems This is made
possible by making available to
the individual all possible
means, opportunities, avenues
of value to him.
1. To help in the total development of the

student
2. To develop readiness for choices and
changes to face new challenges
3. To minimize the mismatching between
education and employment and help in
the efficient use of manpower.
4. To help students establish proper
identity
To increased awareness in
themselves which results to
self knowledge, self appraisal
and self understanding
increase student
academic, career, college,
and personal/social
competencies including
reduce achievement and
opportunity gaps for all
students
New professional and

New Legislation
1960
2006present
1957
Established Guidance and
Personnel Services
Sections
Counseling
and Guidance
Grew
Jesse B.
Davis
1907
1908
1950
1940
1920s
1930s
Frank
Parsons
National School
Counseling Week
Soviet Union
launched Sputnik
Select, recruit,
and train military
personnel
Considered the first to provide a

systematic school guidance program.
In 1907, he became the principal of a high
school and encouraged the school English
teachers to use compositions and lessons
to relates career interests, develop
character, and avoid behavioral problems.
FATHER OF VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE

Established the Bureau of Vocational
Guidance to assist young people in
making the transition from school to work
Born in 1854, died in 1908

Trained in Civil Engineering at Cornell
Later taught Mathematics, History and
French in public school
Was a Faculty at Kansas State University
Later on Faculty at Boston University
1908 opened the Vocational Bureau of

Boston with the purpose of helping people
learn careers.
Wrote book called Choosing a Vocation.
First published in 1909, New York Agatha
Press
Grew: there was a rise of progressive

education in schools
Declined: many schools reacted to this
movement as ANTI-EDUCATIONAL (said
that the fundamentals of education should
be the only thing taught) + GREAT
DEPRESSION
The Great Depression was a severe

worldwide economic depression in the
decade preceding World War II. The timing
of the Great Depression varied across
nations, but in most countries it started in
1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or
middle 1940s. It was the longest, most
widespread, and deepest depression of the
20th century.
Government established the

Guidance and Personnel Service
Section in the Division of State and
Local School Systems
The American government passed

the National Defense Act, which
spurred a huge growth in vocational
guidance through large amounts of
funding.
New legislation
New professional developments
From vocational/career development
purpose, its focus shifted on
STUDENTS PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
ISSUES
Congress officially declared

February 6- 10 as national
School Counseling Week
most recent version of

ASCA National Model
was published
Confucius
Choose a job
you love and
you will
never have to
work a day in
your life. -

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HISTORY OF

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

The school is a nurturing environment where a person is

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

The process of helping

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

To help in the proper

Guidance does not solve the

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

1. To help in the total development of the

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

New professional and

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

Considered the first to provide a

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

FATHER OF VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

Born in 1854, died in 1908

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

1908 opened the Vocational Bureau of

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

Grew: there was a rise of progressive

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

The Great Depression was a severe

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

Government established the

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

The American government passed

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

Congress officially declared

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

most recent version of

History of Career Guidance and Counseling

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