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This content is regarding guidance and its types which will be useful for all health science related subject especially he B.Sc and DGNM students will get benefited.

1. GUIDANCE X. ARON CHRISTY M.Sc (N)., PROFESSOR, SRM TRICHY COLLEGE OF NURSING TRICHY

2. INTRODUCTION One of the most important areas in education which has acquired considerable importance and received much attention in recent years is guidance and counseling. We are social beings and, so in some way or other we need help and guidance of others.

3. Mother, father, grand parents, teachers and other elders, home, school and society guide youngsters for successful living. Due to explosion of knowledge, industrialization and changes in socio-economic set up the need of professional guidance is felt in the present day society.

4. DEFINITION “Guidance is process of helping individual through their own efforts to develop and discover their potentialities for personal happiness and social usefulness.” -Ben Monero

5. “Guidance is not giving directions. It is not the imposition of one person’s point of view upon another person. It is not making decisions for an individual which he should make for himself. It is not carrying the burden of another’s life. Rather, 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 active, development his own point of view, make this own decisions, and carry out his own burden”. —Crow and Crow

6. OBJECTIVES OF GUIDANCE 1. To develop competency to solve the problems related to individual adjustment and social process. 2. To assist individual to adjust adequately with the environment. 3. To provide information about educational and vocational opportunities or occupational information. 4. To provide the awareness of his potentialities and abilities. 5. To help him for developing potentialities and abilities. 6. To organise the follow-up programmes for the job placement and evaluation of its effectiveness

7. PRINCIPLES OF GUIDANCE Every aspect of an individual’s complex personality patterns constitutes a significant factor of his total display of attitude. Although all human beings are similar in many ways, individual differences must be recognised .

8. Guidance is a continuous process Guidance is not limited to few. Guidance is education, but not all education is guidance. Existing social economic and political unrest is giving rise to many maladaptive factors that require the cooperation of experienced guidance workers. Guidance is fundamentally the responsibility of parents in the home and teachers in the school. Continuous periodic appraisals should be made.

9. Programs of individual evaluation and research should be conducted and progress and achievement made accessible to guidance workers. The guidance program should be flexible in terms of individual and community needs or else it will lose its value. Guidance is preventive rather than curative.

10. AREAS OF GUIDANCE Every individual at sometime or other needs help to become happier, more creative and better adjusted in family and society. There are several areas, where a student requires assistance. These areas can be classified into education, vocational, personal, social, avocational , health, moral, religion and financial.

11.   EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE: The guidance is provided by the teacher to students for their educational problems, is known as educational guidance. It is based on student’s cumulative records. It is used in the following purposes: (a) In the choice of study subjects in school, and (b) In removing the specific deficiencies of students related to stud y

12. (c) In identifying the causes of their failure by using diagnostic tests in the study subjects. (d) In providing the remedial teaching for the learning weakness of the students.

13. VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE This type of guidance is given for choosing the job and problems of certain jobs. The following types of tests are used for their potentialities: (a) Differential aptitudes tests. (b) Intelligence tests and aptitude tests. (c) Personality and interest inventories, and (d) Achievement and scholastic aptitude tests

14. It is to give information about the different occupations, the nature and qualifications needed for each method of training and chances in the field. To improve the learner’s knowledge of his father’s occupation. Example: If farming is the main occupation of the people in the community, the child must learn new ideas about farming like the wise selection of seeds, the use of fertilizer and insecticides, and crop rotation.

15. PERSONAL GUIDANCE This type of guidance is provided for the personal problems of an individual or other than educational and vocational problems. These are: Family and home problems. Financial or economic problems.

16. Physical-disabilities of the individual. Emotional adjustment and anxiety or curiosities. Social relationship of the individual and husband wife relations problems. School and peers relation or classmates relation, may be isolated in the class.

17. The personal problems have wide range; therefore this type problem requires co-operative guidance of parents, teacher’s peers and other experts in the field. This also requires his cumulative record and case study of the individual. The individual is to be studied in depth to diagnose the causes of this weakness.

18. SOCIAL GUIDANCE To give information on correct attitudes in order to live a worthy adult life, right duties and responsibilities of citizens. To help children adjust themselves to the social environment so they may be worthy and interested participating members of society. To develop early manners and etiquette observed indifferent occasions so that the child is ready to face all situations without embarrassment.

19. HEALTH GUIDANCE Health guidance implies the assistance rendered to students for maintaining sound health. Sound health is prerequisites for participating in curricular and co curricular activities. This type of guidance focuses on enabling students to appreciate conditions for good health and take necessary steps for ensuring sound physical and mental.

20. FINANCIAL GUIDANCE The function of financial guidance is to help the needy students in determining the financial assistance they need in the light of the expected expenses and to get it from financial organizations after completing the formalities.

21. FUNCTIONS OF GUIDANCE Guidance is not a panacea or remedy for all types of problems but has some specific functions. It is a process of helping younger persons learns to adjust to self, to others and to circumstances. Some of the important functions are enumerated here: 1. Guidance helps in good adjustment in all situations.

22. 2. The task of guidance is to assist the individual learner to discover his unique personal resources, to develop them properly and to use them wisely in the pursuits of his goals that are satisfying to him and constructive for society. 3. It is a scientific procedure applied to develop the concept of guidance has been so richly productive that it is not inappropriate to refer to guidance in broad sense as a new dimension of creative teaching.

23. 4. In the rapid change and progress, growing persons need to help in learning to adjust to themselves, to other people to changing situations. Guidance may be regarded as the process of providing his type of help. 5. The task of guidance is to have accurate measurement and diagnostic procedure for scientific remedial assistance. 6. Guidance has a positive interest in both preparative and remedial assistance. 7. It has the uniqueness for the individual need for personalized assistance.

24. 8. The main function of guidance is to provide assistance when, where and when and to whom is needed. Thus it is very specific and individual procedure for helping the individual. 9. Guidance is not a trial and error method but it is well planned and well organized action that aims to provide many of the individual and group experiences that pupil for growing up in family and school. 10. The function of guidance is to help the child for maintaining relationship between his abilities and the demands of his environment with proper emphasis upon maturation of capacities for socialized self-direction.

25. 11. It has the contribution into the fact-  “Individual emerges in theory and disappears in practice.”  Guidance contributes in the emergence of an individual for adjusting in the class and society at large. Guidance is for all and for all stages, but not for a few. 12. Guidance is the key stone for the school progress. It makes teaching more effective and purposive.