Counseling

A counselor is trained to be able to listen to

people and to encourage them to explore their
thoughts and emotions freely and openly. They
will ask probing, pertinent questions that will
enable the client to be able to consider things
that perhaps they had never thought of before
A counselor will also, through exploring, be able
to help the client see things in a different
perspective and to be able to come to terms
with whatever is affecting them.
The purpose of counseling is not to tell people
how to live their lives, or what to do next, but to
let people see for themselves what the options
are so they can work things through themselves.
Obviously, some people have issues that cannot
be resolved; perhaps something has happened
in their lives that they find extremely difficult to
deal with, and counseling will give them
strategies so that they can cope, and so that it
will not have too great an adverse effect.


Guidance
Guidance, on the other hand,
will do lots of things that
counseling will do, but there
is an extra element to it in as
much as the person who is
doing the guiding will advise,
and guide.
This means that the person
doing the guidance must not
have any agenda in relation
to the person they are
guiding, and should be
completely neutral in the
whole matter.
Options that are available
need to be explored so that
the person can be sure that
they are making the right
decision for them.

 The guidance and

counseling of students is an
integral component of the
educational mission of the
school.
Guidance and counseling
services and programs
promote the
personal/social,
educational, and career
development of all students

 Both Guidance and Counseling are process

used to solve problems of life.
The basic difference is in the approach.
- In the process of guidance, the client's
problems are listened carefully and
readymade solutions are provided by the
expert.
- in the process of counseling the client's
problems are discussed and relevant
information are provided in-between. In the
end of the counseling process, the client
himself/herself have a insight to the problem
and he/she become empowered to take own
decision.

 Since readymade solutions (taking decision for

others) were provided in guidance, the client
may or may not follow it but most often
decision taken in the process of counseling are
followed sincerely.
The set of decisions comes out from guidance
and counseling process may be same but in
the first process the decision is taken by the
guide where as the client take own his/her
own decisions in the later process.

 Guidance is giving leadership, supervision,

direction, or professional guidance for future
actions.
Counseling is not giving opinion, instruction or
advice, it is using facilitative listening and
questioning to allow the client to choose the best
solution for a problem.
Counseling is based on a wellness model rather
than a medical model; authors such as
Hershenson and Strein (1991); and Palmo, Shosh
and Weikel (2001) emphasized that counselors
are concerned about the client's environment
with a more global view than other professionals
as well as a concern that goes beyond treating
dysfunction or pathology and dealing with the
clients' self-awareness, personal growth, and
wellness

 A common goal of Guidance and Counselling is

to promote employability
to support career management and personal development of social
skills
to reduce dropout through activation, motivation and
empowerment of participants/ learners/ users

Guidance and Counselling services should be based on a

holistic approach, i.e. guidance and counselling regarded as a
lifelong process should
recognise all clients need
focus not only on their career development and labour market
integration but
focus also on the social and psychological needs and deal with them
in the manner appropriate to the skills, experience and role of the
counsellor and the needs and wishes of the individual