Guidance Services

Guidance Services may be defined, Therefore, as a group of services to individuals to assist them in securing knowledge and skills needed in making plans and devices in interpreting life.

They include facilities ,procedures, and tools. They provide comprehensive information

about opportunities, personality development, effective studying and learning.

They set up adjustment in the classrooms, community activities and they provide adequate personnel.

Services pertaining to evaluation of services- Follow-up, making result available , surveys , securing operation of parents and community ,and conducting research for further improve guidance services.

Guidance Services include the following:• Services rendered to an individual and

his/her NEEDS. (such as Infos., counseling for all

students, follow-up studies and assisting of teachers in case studies.)

• Services to all staff members in providing for leadership, in securing cooperation to the staff members, in assisting teachers in utilizing information ,in organizing and conducting in-service training.

HISTORY Frank Parsons The father of the Guidance

movement for his group testing to Merril when he

made guidance more systematic.

Adolf Meyer When he focused attention on

mental hygiene.

Several factors which led to the growth of Guidance services are the following:

•Secondary Schools became less selective

•Individual differences were recognized

•Rise of industrialism•Changing educational objectives •Effect of World War I

Guidance Services CHARACTERISTICS

i. Are identifiable aids to assist individualii. Are involved in achieving goals of educationiii. Provide for competent leadership iv. Are supported by functional preparation of teachers in

guidance activitiesv. Are based on knowledge of the needs of students upon

competencies of the staff membersvi. Are services made available to all vii. Need the cooperation of parents and communityviii. Are more preventive than curativeix. Are founded on the concept of the totality of the

individualx. Should be evaluated constantly.

Forms(There are two forms of Guidance Services)

Group Guidance Individual Guidance

Group GuidancePurposes To discuss problems common to the group

and to develop awareness that problems are also shared by others.

To enable each individual to understand how others have met and solved the same problems that comfort him/her.

To broaden the horizon of pupils with reference to occupations available to them.

Group Guidance Provide opportunities to observes students

at regular intervals thus facilitating the use of a preventive problem-solving approach.

Also enable students to study and learn from others.

Provide easy solution of problems involving group opinion and serve also as a mean of integrating school subjects.

This is classified as therapeutic treatment towards student self-discovery and self development.

Individual Guidance A misnomer in the sense that all guidance

is aimed at the self-development of the individual who studies, plays, and behaves in a group.

According to Dr. Ordonez, the most common cases brought to the clinic or to a counselor or trained guidance worker concerned the following problems of individuals:

(Ambition, Choice of School, Failing grades, Personality adjustment, Choice of a vocation, Employment and Physical Handicaps.)

TYPES OF PROBLEMSCOVERED BY GUIDANCE

Health and Physical Developmenta) Physical defects – sight , hearing ,

speechb) Inability to athleticsc) Lack of physical coordinationd) Lack of Physical strengthe) Malnutritionf) Physical unattractivenessg) Illnessh) Oversize/Undersize

Home and Family Relationshipsa) Dominance of Parentsb) Lack of control by parentsc) Lack of home fellowshipd) Broken homese) Home choresf) Jealousyg) Unwholesome home conditionh) Disapproving familyi) Lack of cooperation of school

Leisure Timea) Lack of interest in, or

overenthusiasm for sports, games, music and art

b) Inability to engage in sport because of poor health or physical handicaps

c) Limited meansd) Lack of interest in readinge) Lack of skills in handicrafts

Personalitya) Sensitivenessb) Shynessc) Lack of aggressivenessd) Strong aversione) Lack of self confidencef) Conceitg) Carelessnessh) Inability to get along with othersi) Illusionj) Lack of sportsmanshipk) Inferiority/superiorityl) Lack of social-mindednessm) Emotional instability

Religious Life

a) Religious doubtb) Attitude of parentsc) Conversiond) Religious activitye) Conflict between science and religion

Schoola) Ineffective study and health habitsb) Defective budgeting in timec) Lack of independenced) Lack of applicatione) Too much/little help from teacherf) Lack of interest in schoolg) Feeling of boredomh) Inability to see the value of some subjectsi) Fear of failurej) Unwillingness for effortk) Dislike teacherl) Too long assignmentm) Impatience with slower studentsn) Very rigid ruleso) Poor study conditions

Sociala) Cheating. Lying, stealingb) Low standard of moralityc) Lack of mannersd) Anti-social abilitye) Biasf) Unwise use of leisureg) Smoking/drinkingh) Discourtesyi) Flirtingj) Sex perversion

Vocational

a) Inability to choose proper vocationb) Unfitness to workc) Unwise choice of vocationd) Poor public relation