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.
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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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