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Functions and Scope of Guidance

Guidance serves three main functions: development, adjustment, and leadership. It aims to help students achieve developmental tasks, adapt to their educational environment, and develop leadership skills. The scope of guidance is wide, touching every aspect of a person's development. It has expanded due to increasing complexity in personality, occupations, training needs, areas of life requiring guidance, migration, education expansion, and the various areas that require guidance support. Overall, guidance provides a continuous, dynamic process to support individuals' educational, vocational, personal, social, and health-related development needs.

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Functions and Scope of Guidance

Guidance serves three main functions: development, adjustment, and leadership. It aims to help students achieve developmental tasks, adapt to their educational environment, and develop leadership skills. The scope of guidance is wide, touching every aspect of a person's development. It has expanded due to increasing complexity in personality, occupations, training needs, areas of life requiring guidance, migration, education expansion, and the various areas that require guidance support. Overall, guidance provides a continuous, dynamic process to support individuals' educational, vocational, personal, social, and health-related development needs.

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FUNCTIONS AND

SCOPE OF
GUIDANCE
BY: SAMMY C. MAYBANTING
GUIDANCE HAS A SPECIAL FUNCTION,

1. DEVELOPMENT

• The counselor constantly strives to create a conducive learning


environment that facilitates student development. counselors
and other school personnel work together to formulate and
implement a systematic and continuous guidance program in
order to help students achieve their developmental tasks.
Guidance techniques that can be used here are information
services, tutorials, group discussions or brainstorming (brain
storming), home room, and field trip.
2. ADJUSTMENT

• The function of natural guidance helps the


individual (students) to adapt dynamically and
constructively to educational programs, school
rules, or religious norms.
3. LEADERSHIP

• .To enable a child to create good leadership qualities.


• To enable the child to know about the subject and courses
offered by schools.
• o help the child in building of a good social relationship.
THE SCOPE OF GUIDANCE

• The scope of guidance is too wide. In the words of Crow and


Crow, “Guidance touches every aspect of an individual’s
personality- physical, mental, emotional and social. It is
concerned with all aspects of an individual’s attitudes and
behavior patterns. It seeks to help the individual to integrate all
of his activities in terms of his basic potentialities and
environmental opportunities.” Any needy person can be guided.
• This can include the persons of different age, different
interests, various characteristics and persons of different
nature. Hence, we cannot draw boundaries around the
process of guidance. 
THE FOLLOWING FACTORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
EXPANSION OF THE SCOPE OF GUIDANCE:

1. COMPLEX NATURE OF PERSONALITY.

• Industrialization brings with it a number of tensions such


as adjustment with the job, with the place of work, with
the physical and social environment, and also with the
advancements of technology and modernization. To cope
with all these, guidance is essential. So, the scope of
guidance in the field of adjustment with almost all
spheres of life has increased.
2. COMPLEXITY OF OCCUPATION

• In the process of industrialization, automation and cybernetics,


many new occupations are coming up and a few old occupations
are dying. In U.S.A., an average man changes seven occupation
through his life. The trend is bound to effect as the process of
development will need very complex sophisticated and complicated
occupations for which higher educational background and intensive
training will be necessary. This complexity is bound to increase the
scope of guidance in so many ways.
3. COMPLEXITY OF TRAINING

• For the new jobs, new type of training, new courses of studies,
use of new types of machines and above all to prepare oneself
for employment in the changing world are some of the problems
which will have to be tackled in an effective way, with the help
of guidance. The scope of guidance will be to put right man in
the right job.
4. INCREASING AREAS

• With the passing of time and complexity of circumstances, scholars


like Brewer have prepared about 10 areas of guidance i.e.,
educational, vocational, religious, home relationship, citizenship,
leisure time and recreation, personal well-being, right doing,
cooperation and cultural action. The fact remain that more complex
the society, more will be the need for guidance.
5. MIGRATION

• Because of industrialization process, people move from one state to


other states. In India, the states are quite different in their religion,
culture, mode of living, dress, eating habits and marriages. When they
move from one social set up to another one, the problem of
adjustment becomes serious for which guidance is needed. The
similar types of adjustment problems are found when the people from
one country migrate to another country for employment, education or
training, for which guidance if required.
6. THE EXPANSION OF EDUCATION

• The days are gone when only a few privileged were to


be educated. Now, education has become asset for the
nation and right placement of persons need a lot of
guidance.
7. AREAS OF GUIDANCE.

• The Scope of guidance is classified into several areas and individual


needs guidance. These areas can be classified into educational guidance,
vocational guidance, personal guidance, social guidance, a vocational
guidance and Health guidance. Thus, guidance is a continuous,
complex, dynamic and comprehensive process. Guidance is concerned
with educational, vocational and other problems along with personal
problems. Guidance work can occur anywhere and can be provided
even through magazines, books and correspondence.
SOME BENEFITS OF GUIDANCE

• *It helps young people to pursue the right type of education.


• *It facilitates the smooth transition for children from home to school, from
primary to secondary school, from secondary to higher educational institutions,
and to the world of work.
• *It helps students to cope with examination anxiety. *It helps students to
develop effective study habits.
• *It provides students with meaningful educational experiences.
• *Educational guidance checks wastage and stagnation in education.
• “No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to
surrender our destiny to,The only way in which anyone can
lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”

― Henry Miller
THE END

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