Counseling and guidance
Counseling
and guidance can present a good basis for a broader education for life.
It can be used as psychoanalysis for persons with specific personal problems,
or it can be the foundation of a more general life skills training programmer for the student who, though not suffering from
any particular problem, should be assisted in building up his/her personal
resources in order to cope effectively with their future lives .
Guidance
and counseling service in schools is to assist the student in fulfilling his /
her basic physiological needs, understanding themselves and
developing associations with peers, balancing between permissiveness and
controls in the school setting, realizing successful achievement, and providing
opportunities to gain independence.
Guidance
and counseling program is to bring about the maximum development and
self-realization of human potential for the benefit of the individual and
society .School counsellor is concerned with facilitating
the optimum development of students. This program is supposed to develop the
learner’s intellectual abilities, develop a balanced personality and to have
complete person intellectually, spiritually, morally and socially. Guidance and
counseling programme is therefore aimed at assisting students to harmonize
their abilities, interests and values, thereby enabling them to develop their
potential fully. Self-knowledge helps one to formulate life goals and plans
which are realistic
It is the role of guidance and
counseling programme to provide the students with the necessary information
about the courses availability and the qualifications required for each course
In schools, there is need for students to make proper subject and career
choices after the four-year course in the Universities, Six education programs
in both Primary and Secondary as it relates to Nigeria education system.. Such
information will assist students develop realistic self-concept according to
their academic capabilities.
WEAKNESS
Guidance
and counseling lacks implication in school to the students since in school
taking the information in all student or pupils needs research about the
certain matter so as to be familiar with that problem encounter,
Guidance
and counseling the counselor is usually perceived as someone who performs magic
to change the client, and also as a rival in the societal or institutional system.
In other words, from all indications, guidance activities are seen as negating
virtues held tenaciously within the cultural setting.
Guidance and counseling is very
limited since thus it involves professional criteria a like intelligence and
interests and other ways that many counselors they not involve all of them when
giving advice about the certain matter,
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