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Guidance involves helping individuals understand themselves and make their own decisions. It is a continuous process of self-discovery and adjustment. The goal is to guide individuals towards self-direction by developing their potential and preparing them for different stages of life.

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Guidance involves helping individuals understand themselves and make their own decisions. It is a continuous process of self-discovery and adjustment. The goal is to guide individuals towards self-direction by developing their potential and preparing them for different stages of life.

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What is Guidance?

Literally, guidance means “to direct”, “to point out”, “to show the
path”. But guidance is not exactly the process of directing while
directing one imposes his opinion on others. Rather guidance means
providing some help or assistance to somebody by somebody. If we
accept this meaning, guidance will be as old as mankind. Because man
at each and every stage or sphere of life needs guidance from others. If
this will be the meaning of guidance then this treatment will come
under the purview of a very broader and general meaning of guidance
which will also convey the modern meaning of guidance.

But in narrower view and perspective, guidance is interpreted as a


specialized service to help the individual to solve certain major
problems—personal, educational, vocational and the like. In fact, the
term guidance interpreted so far is not properly defined and accepted.
The reason is that for some it is a concept, a point of view, for others it
is a process and for others it is a group of services and for some it is a
field of study. So guidance is accepted as both a concept and a process
and must be interpreted accordingly in the educational process.

As a concept, guidance is concerned with the maximum development


of the individual to make his own decisions. As a process, it makes the
individual aware of his abilities and potentialities. The purpose is to
make him confident in selecting appropriate course of action for
adjustment in various walks of life and helping the individual for
balanced development. To have a clear cut picture and better
understanding of the term guidance, let us have a look on the
definitions given by some experts in the concerned field or area.

Definitions of Guidance:
“Guidance involves personal help given by someone; it is designed to
assist the individual to decide where he wants to go, what he wants to
do and how best he can accomplish his purpose”. —Jones

“Guidance is a term with many meanings. It is a point of view a group


of services, a field of study which we should be required to choose one
of the emphasized service would pre- dominate”. —Moser and Moser

“Guidance is a process of enabling each individual to understand his


abilities and interest to develop them as well as possible and to relate
them to life goals and finally to reach a state of complete and matured
self-guidance as a desirable human element of the social order.” —
Traxler

“Guidance is the process of helping a person to develop and accept an


integrated and adequate picture of himself and of his role in the world
of work, to test this concept against reality and to convert it into reality
with satisfaction to himself and benefit to the society”. —National
Vocational Guidance Association (USA)

“Guidance is a means of helping individuals to understand and use


wisely the educational, vocational and personal opportunities they
have or can develop and as a form of systematic assistance whereby
students are aided in achieving satisfactory adjustment to school and
in life”. —Dunsmoor and Miller

“Guidance is assistance made available by professionally qualified and


adequately trained men and women to an individual of any age to help
him manage his own life activities, develop his own decisions and
carry his own burdons”. —Crow and Crow

“The elements of guidance are learning about the individual student,


helping him to understand himself, effecting changes in him and in his
environment which will help him to grow and develop as much as
possible.” —Knapp

Nature of Guidance
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-centred. Whether given on individual or group basis,


the focus of all guidance programmes 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 counselling, 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 Behaviour. Guidance helps the persons in his adjustment in


different situations and to modify one’s behaviour. Negative personality traits
have been modified through skilful guidance and counselling. 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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