Guidance


Introduction
Guidance is an aspect of educational programme which is concerned especially with helping the pupils to become adjusted to her present situation and to plan his future in line with her interest, ability and social needs (Mujibu, 2008).
The role of guidance counselor at school is to work both students and in conjunction other school staff as a part of whole school approaches to guidance (Mujibu, 2008).
Strengths of the book
His book is arranged and organized well in terms of chapters that help an individual to gain knowledge easily because someone wants to read something concerns with either guidance or counseling he or she will get it faster without being confused. For example when someone wants to gain knowledge about effective personal guidance he/ she go directly to chapter two page numbers 48 and read it (Mujibu, 2008).
Also author explains the function of guidance services; that will help an individual to know how guidance is important in real life and encouraged to find different guiders and counselors so as to allow those functions to function among them. This is experienced on the book Guidance and Counseling written by (Mujibu, 2008).
The book also shows the role of teachers in guidance like to help student in making the possible adjustment to a current situation in the home and community and to assist students in the problem of cancer planning educational programming and direction towards long term personal aims and values as a result many students reaches their goals (Mujibu, 2008).
Also the author explains on the principles of educational guidance; such as every aspect person’s complex personality patterns constitutes a significant factor of his total displayed attitudes and form of behavior and parents and teachers have a guidance appointed responsibilities (Mujibu, 2008).
The book also show us on how, where and when to get school counseling services whereby it helps students to develop appropriate social skills and refer student to outside sources for tradition assistance, also it has been suggested that the overall function of the school counselors remains the same regardless of what level that’s primary level or secondary level (Mujibu, 2008).
Also the book shows the reference or sources where we can get more knowledge about guidance and counseling as a service to those who needs to be counseled. For example page number 184 of the book shows the reference as follows Hall, Scott E; Rueth, Thomas W. counselors in the classroom; A Developmental Approach o Student Wellbeing, NASSP Bulletin, January 1999, pg. 27-33 (Malibu, pg. 183-184.
Author also explains on the modern methods of delivering career information such as computerized job listing, job scan, career fairs, job market films, job finding clubs, local cable televisions, interactive video and automated career selection tools this may help career to get a job that help him or her to get something for survive (Mujibu, 2008).
Weaknesses of the book
Author failed to explain how guidance and counseling are conducted at least by taking even a single country or continent as a case study and tell us how we can learn from reality as a result we study still study his book without a real evidences and examples.
Also the book does not explain what kind of goals will be reached by an individual after being guided and counseled even we know that there is three common categories of goals that’s immediate goals, longer-range goals, and process goals so after reading the whole book we cannot expect to reach any goals among of these three.
Also author does not explain source of indiscipline in the society that needs intensive guidance and counseling so as to change and to travel in right way and these indiscipline are not explained so as to make a society aware about problems.
Also this book is based much explaining roles of guidance and counseling to school environments and forget that there are other organizations and group that needs a service of guidance and counseling. For instance on page number 173 the author explains on school counseling services and on page number 176 he explains on benefits of school counseling (Mujibu, 2008).
Also author does not explains counseling methods that will guide a counselor to counsel a client well even the stages that used in counseling process so for that case the book guide a counselor to counsel randomly as he or she wants (Mujibu, 2008).
Conclusion
Guidance and counseling are two terms that are related and work together but they differ in one way or another although both aimed at solving problems of the client whereby the participation of both and the experts should be there.


REFERENCES
Mujibu, H. S. ( 2008). Guidance and Counseling. S. B. Nanga. A. P. H Publishing Cooperation






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