PRINCIPLE - PRINCIPLE GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING

By : AMAR FARUQ, S.Pd

(Teacher Guidance and Counseling Ministry of Religious MIS Gresik regency of East
Java)


According to Dra. Siti Rahayu Hadotono (1967) in his guiding principle of Guidance
and Counselling suggested 12 principles of guidance and counseling (counseling) as
follows:
1. Guidance and counseling is intended for children, adults and people who are old.
2. Every aspect of determining a person's personality rather than behavior that person.
So that the guidance effort that aims to promote adjustment of individuals, individuals
should try to also promote it in all aspects of it.
3. Efforts must be comprehensive guidance in principle to everyone, because everyone
would have the problems that needed help.
4. Guidance to the principle of no. 2, then all teachers in schools should be a coach,
because all students need guidance.
5. We recommend that all business education is the guidance, so the tools and teaching
techniques should also contain a basic view of the guidance.
6. In providing some guidance should be remembered, that all people though mostly
the same in nature, namaun have individual differences. And differences is what we
must pay attention.
7. So that guidance can be successful, dibutuhkanlah insights about the man who
guided it. It is therefore necessary to hold the programs evaluation (assessment) and the
individual's quest-investigation. Both memerlukankumpulan records (cumulative
records) on the progress and state of the person or child who had been mentored.
8. It must be remembered that the social upheavals, economic, political and can cause
behavior that is difficult or incorrect adjustment (maladjustment). Associated with it
also needed guidance baikanatara cooperation with agencies or foundations in the
community who have business relationships with guidance
9. For children we must remember, bahwasikap parents and the home atmosphere
greatly affects the child's behavior. Associated with this sometimes for some much
needed difficulty understanding, willingness and good cooperation with the parents.
10. Function than the guidance is to help people so brave and can take responsibility
for themselves in overcoming difficulties, so the result can be either personal
advancement rather than a whole person.
11. Business guidance should be flexible (flexible) in accordance with the needs and
circumstances and the needs of individual communities.
12. Finally, should not be forgotten, that the success or failure of a guidance largely
depends on the people who ask for help themselves, the ability and willingness of the
processes that occur within the person itself.

According to the Handbook Implementation Guidance and Counseling in 1994 that the
ministry of guidance services and activities based on a number of principles, namely:
1. Principles relating to service targets:
a. Guidance and counseling service all indvidu regardless of age sex, race, religion, and
socioeconomic status.
b. Guidance and counseling to deal with personal and individual behavior that is
unique and dynamic.
c. Guidance and counseling take fully into account the stage and various aspects of
individual development.
d. Guidance and counseling to give major attention to individual differences in the
orientation of the principal services.
2. Principles relating to individual problems
a. Guidance and counseling to deal with matters concerning the influence of the
physical condition / mental adjustment of the individual against himself at home, at
school, as well as in connection with social contacts and work, and conversely the
effect of environment on mental state and the individual disik.
b. Social inequalities, economic. And culture is a factor of problems on the individual
and all guidance services become a major concern.
3. Principles relating to program services:
a. Guidance and counseling is an integral part of education and individual
development, therefore iru mentoring programs should be tailored and integrated with
educational programs and development of learners.
b. Guidance and counseling programs should be flexible, tailored to the needs of
individuals, communities, and state institutions.
c. Guidance and counseling program developed in a sustainable manner and level of
education the lowest to the highest.
d. The content and implementation of guidance and counseling program is necessary to
an orderly and purposeful assessment.
4. Principles relating to the exercise of service:
a. Guidance and counseling should be geared to individual development that ultimately
capable of guiding themselves in the face permasalahnnya.
b. In the process of guidance and counseling and was about decisions taken by
individuals should be the individual's own volition, not because of the willingness or
the insistence of the supervisor or other parties.
c. Individual problems should be handled by experts in fields relevant to the problems
faced
d. Cooperation between mentors, teachers and parents was crucial result of guidance
services
e. Development of guidance and counseling service program pursued through the
maximum utilization of measurement results and an assessment of the individuals
involved in the process of care and guidance and counseling program itself.
According to author Tim Guidebook Implementation Guidance and Counselling
Service (2004) principles of Guidance and Counselling include:
1. Principles relating to service targets:
a. Guidance and Counseling serves all individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity,
religion, and socioeconomic status.
b. Guidance and Counseling to deal with personal and individual behavior that is
unique and dynamic.
c. Guidance and Counseling mindful of the stage and various aspects of individual
development.
d. Guidance and counseling to give primary attention to the individual differences that
became the subject of service orientation.
2. Principles with respect to individual problems:
a. Guidance and counseling to deal with matters concerning the influence of mental /
physical adjustment of the individual against himself at home, at school, as well as in
relation to social contacts and work, and conversely the effect of environment on
mental and physical condition of individuals.
b. Social inequalities, economic, and cultural factor for the emergence of problems in
individuals who all mark a major concern of guidance and counseling services.
3. Principles relating to program services:
a. Guidance and Counseling is an integral part of education and individual
development efforts, hence the program guidance and konselingharus aligned and
integrated with educational programs and development of learners.
b. Guidance and Counseling Program must be flexible, tailored to the needs of
individuals, communities, and state institutions.
c. Bimbingandan Counseling program compiled on an ongoing basis of the lowest
education level to the highest.
d. The content and services guidance and counseling programs need to hold a regular
assessment and directional
4. Principles relating to the objectives and implementation services:
a. Guidance and counseling should be directed to the development of individuals who
were finally able to guide myself in the face of the problem.
b. In the process of guidance and counseling decisions taken and will be done by
individuals should be the individual's own volition, not because of the willingness or
the insistence of the supervisor or other party
c. Individual problems should be handled by experts in fields relevant to problems
encountered.
d. Cooperation between teacher mentor other teachers, and parents are very aware hasi
guidance services.
e. Development of guidance and counseling service program pursued through the
maximum utilization of measurement results and an assessment of the individuals
involved in the process of care and guidance and counseling program itself.

The Principle of Guidance

Sequence
If I were asked which of all the spiritual principles I ranked first, I should feel inclined
to say the Principle of Guidance, not in the sense of being more essential that the others
for every portion is equally essential to the completeness of a perfect whole but
in the sense of being first in order of sequence and giving value to all our other powers
by placing them in their due relation to one another. "Giving value to our other
powers", I say, because this also is one of our powers. It is that which, judged from the
standpoint of personal self-consciousness, is above us; but which, realised from the
point of view of the unity of all Spirit, is part and parcel of ourselves, because it is that
Infinite Mind which is of necessity identified with all its manifestations.

Infinite Mind Is Internal
Looking to this Infinite Mind as a Superior Intelligence from which we may receive
guidance does not therefore imply looking to an external source. On the contrary, it is
looking to the innermost spring of our own being, with a confidence in its action which
enables us to proceed to the execution of our plans with a firmness and assurance that
are in themselves the very guarantee of our success.

Understanding
The action of the spiritual principles in us follows the order which we impose upon
them by our thought; therefore the order of realisation will reproduce the order of
desire; and if we neglect this first principle of right order and guidance, we shall find
ourselves beginning to put forth other great powers, which are at present latent within
us, without knowing how to find suitable employment for them. This would be a very
perilous condition: for without having before us objects worthy of the powers to which
we awaken, we should waste them on petty purposes dictated only by the narrow range
of our unilluminated intellect. Therefore the ancient wisdom says, "With all thy getting,
get understanding".
The awakening to consciousness of our mysterious interior powers will sooner or later
take place, and will result in our using them whether or not we understand the law of
their development. The interior powers are natural powers as much as the exterior ones.
We can direct their use by a knowledge of their laws; and it is therefore of the highest
importance to have some sound principles of guidance in the use of these higher
faculties as they begin to manifest themselves.

Will
If, therefore, we would safely and profitably enter upon the possession of the great
inheritance of power that is opening out before us, we must before all things seek to
realise in ourselves that Superior Intelligence which will become an unfailing principle
of guidance if we will only recognise it as such. Everything depends on our
recognition. Thoughts are things, and therefore as we will our thoughts to be, so we
will the thing to be. If, then, we will to use the Infinite Spirit as a spirit of guidance, we
shall find that the fact is as we have willed it, and in doing this we are still making use
of our own supreme principle. And this is the true "understanding" which, by placing
all the other powers in their correct order, creates one grand unity of power directed to
clearly defined and worthy aims, in place of the dispersion of our powers, by which
they only neutralise each other and effect nothing.

Truth
This is that Spirit of Truth which shall guide us into all Truth. It is the sincere Desire in
us to reach out after Truth. Truth first and Power afterwards is the reasonable order,
which we cannot invert without injury to ourselves and others; but if we follow this
order we shall always find scope for our powers in developing into present realities the
continually growing glory of our vision of the ideal.

From Ideal to Real
The ideal is the true real, but it must be brought into manifestation before it can be
shown to be so, and it is in this that the practical nature of our mental studies consists.
It is the practical mystic who is the man of power: the man who, realising the mystical
powers within, fits his outward action to this knowledge, and so shows his faith by his
works; and assuredly the first step is to make use of that power of infallible guidance
which he can call to his aid simply by desiring to be led by it.