Guidance is the process of helping individuals to understand themselves and their world. Counselling is a process that assists individuals to learn about themselves, their environment, and ways to handle their roles and relationships. There are several types of guidance.
They are:
- Individual inventory and record service
- Provision of information service
- Group guidance service
- Counselling service
- Placement service
- Drug abuse prevention service
- Consultancy and referral service
- Resource coordination service
- Dialogue with parents service
- 10.Evaluation service.
Types of counseling include; individual, group, and family. Guidance and Counselling, therefore, recognize the worth and dignity of the individual and are designed to enhance, the total development of mental, vocational, emotional, intellectual and social personal aspects of the clients.
Who is a counsellor?
The counsellor is a professional who through diagnosing, planning, predicting, interpreting and evaluating provides educational, personal, social and vocational assistance to the clients in such a way that it would reflect their interests, objectives, potentialities and needs for effective adjustment. The counsellor must be able to predict and understand human behaviour. He must be able to understand realities of the time and be able to apply same in helping the clients and mankind. He must have interest of his client in mind