DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUIDANCE

&COUNSELINGPresented By Sami Arif

Preston University Islamabad

INTRODUCTION Guidance & counseling are twin concepts &

have emerged as essential elements of every educational activity.

Guidance & counseling are not synonymous terms counseling is a part of guidance.

Guidance in educational context means to indicate, point out, show the way, lead out & direct.

Counseling is a specialized service of Guidance. It is the process of helping individuals learn more about, themselves &their present & possible future situation to make a substantial contribution to the society.

GUIDANCE

ACCORDING TO RUTH STRANG:

Guidance is the process of helping every individual, through his own efforts, to discover and develop his potentialities for his personal happiness and social usefulness.

2. ACCORDING TO CROW & CROW.

Guidance is 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.

3. ACCORDING TO UNITED STATES OFFICE OF EDUCATION. Guidance is the process of acquainting the individual with the various ways including special training in which he may discover his natural endowments so that he makes a living to his own best advantage and that of society.

TYPES OF GUIDANCE

Group guidance

Educational

guidance

Vocational

guidance

Personalguidance

Recreational guidance

guidance

Guidance is pre-problem, there is no specific problem that is identified in an individual.

Guidance program is a system of services designed to improve the adjustment of each and every person for whom it was organized.

Guidance is the act of making decisions for another person to help them get somewhere or help them to have a better future by showing them how to do it themselves.

COUNSELIN

G

Counseling is an interactive process conjoining the counselee who need assistance and the counselor who trained and educated to give this assistance.

ACCORDING TO PEREZ(1965)

ACCORDING TO PEPINSKY AND PEPINSKY(1954)Counseling is that interaction which

Occurs between two individuals called counselor and clients.

Takes place in professional setting and

Is initiated and maintained to facilitate changes in the behavior of a client.

ACCORDING TO PATTERSON Counseling is the process involving interpersonal relationships between a therapist and one or more clients by which the former employs psychological methods based on systematic knowledge of the human personality in attempting to improve the mental health of the late

TYPES OF COUNSELLING

Counseling.

Directive counseling Non Directive

Counseling.

Eclectic Counseling:

Counseling is post-problem, meaning a problem has already been identified and therefore the counselor helps to address the problem but not to solve it. 

Counseling is the act of steering another's thoughts till they come up with the correct answer or behavior themselves. Neither is foolproof

The Heart of the Guidance Program.

SCOPE OF GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING

PURPOSES OF GUIDANCE & COUNSELING Providing the needed information &

assistance. Helping in individual to make wise

choices. Improve the understanding of self. Facilitate the adjustment. Helps in adapting to the change or new

environment Making self sufficient & independent Efficient use of capabilities & talent

PURPOSES OF GUIDANCE & COUNSELING

Promote the optimal personal & professional development

Balanced physical, psychological, emotional, social & spiritual growth

Helps in overall development & to live productive life

To bring changes in the attitude & behavior of individuals

To aid individuals in efficient decision making

DIFFERENCES

BETWEEN COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GUIDANCE & COUNSELING

Guidance CounselingGuidance is broader & comprehensive .

Counseling is in-depth & narrow

Guidance is preventive, and developmental.

Counseling is curative or therapeutic, developmental and remedial.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GUIDANCE & COUNSELING

Guidance CounselingGuidance may be given in any normal set up.

Counseling requires special set up a room (clinic) to conduct.

Guidance is an integral part of education & assists it in fulfilling its aims.

Counseling is needed in all the fields .

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GUIDANCE & COUNSELINGGuidance CounselingGuidance may be done by any guidance worker, teachers, parents, etc.

Counseling requires a high level skill as well as special professional training.

Intellectual attitudes are the raw material of guidance .

Emotional attitudes are raw material of the counseling process.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GUIDANCE & COUNSELINGGuidance CounselingIn guidance decision-making operates at intellectual levels.

In counseling decision-making operates at emotional levels.

guidance is generally education & career related &personal problems.

Counseling is mostly offered for personal & social issues.

CONCLUSION The guidance is just helping

someone along, but still letting that person do a big portion of the work, while counseling is more of an intervention and helps the person pretty much all the way through the work because they could not do it themselves, or would have failed doing it without an intervention to help the person.

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