GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING OF

STUDENTS

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 INTRODUCTION

• Guidance and counseling: twin concepts

• Not synonymous
• Guidance in the educational context
• Counseling: specialized service of guidance

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 OBJECTIVES

• To establish the difference between guidance and counseling

• To identify some of the issues that students face.
• To come up with an effective way of how teachers, lecturers and
staff can effectively guide students in a collaborative way so as to
produce well rounded individuals.

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 DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS

• Guidance is a process of helping every individual, through his/her

own effort to discover and develop his/her potentialities for their
own personal happiness and social usefulness.
• Counseling is essentially a process in which the counselor assists
the counselee to make interpretations of facts relating to a choice,
plan or adjustment which he needs to make.

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUIDANCE AND
COUNSELLING
GUIDANCE COUNSELLING
Broader and In-depth and narrow
comprehensive
More external An internal analysis
Targets intellectual Works more with
attitudes emotional attitudes

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COMMON STUDENT ISSUES
• Background issues:
• Poor upbringing
• Poor families
• 1st generation: tertiary
• Abuse: sexual, physical, emotional, etc
• Relationships
• Finances, etc
PURPOSE OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
• Provides needed information and assistance
• Improves the understanding of self
• Helps in adapting to changes or new environment
• Provides efficient use of capabilities and talent
• Produces a well-rounded being

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GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING SKILLS
• Communication skills
• Active listening
• Clarification
• Reflection
• Effective questioning skills
• Rapport
• Empathy

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 FACTORS/THINGS TO WATCH OUT
FOR
• Transference
• Countertransference
• Being biased
• Attachment
• Sympathy

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 WAY FORWARD

•Collaboration: With Counsellors and Teachers

• Counseling unit at Schools and Colleges
• Student Officers
• Lecturers (different faculties)
• Staff

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GROUP WORK
• Get into groups according to your faculties/offices
• Identify the issues you face with your students as individuals and as
faculties/offices
• How can these issues be resolved or minimized for us to produce well
rounded graduates?
END!!!

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