Personal guidance is needed in case
of personal problems. It aims at social and emotional well-being of the pupils.
Hence, it is need is rooted in the emotional disturbance or emotional imbalance
of the pupils.
Just as the focus of educational problems and educational
guidance is the matters related to
students’ education, the focus of vocational problems and vocational guidance
is the matters related to individual’s vocation, the focus of personal problems
and personal guidance is the matters related to his person, his inner life and
own behaviours. These ;problems’ particularly pertain to his behaviours which are unwanted and undesirable from the
point of view of his adjustment in any field, his home, school, health, social,
etc.
Personal guidance may
be defined as helping students with psychological difficulties, conflicts and
problems of daily life, understanding their behaviour and the factors
underlying them and understanding the students needs which determined the kind
and the nature of the problem. All these from the very basis and rationale of
the personal guidance service.
Nature
of personal guidance
v Personal
guidance is the help given to the individual to solve is personal problems. In
every school are found quite a few students who are emotionally maladjusted and
are unable to make satisfactory social adjustment. They, for that reason, fail
to make full use of their potentialities. Some may have developed un-desirable
habits so as to become a problem to their parents and teachers.
v Personal
guidance services make an effort to spot out these maladjusted and the problem
children in the school. Through the diagnostic psychological testing and the
sociological information from the home and the school an attempt is made to
find out the root cause of the treble.
v In
less severe cases the counsellor arranges counselling interviews with the
individual and tries to rehabilitate him.
v In case the cause of the problem lays with the
home environment the counsellor of the parents and tries to change their
attitudes towards the child.
v Counselling
of the parents, sometimes, becomes inevitable. Suggestions are made to them as
to how they can themselves help the child.
v If the cause of the problem is found to lie
with the classroom factors, the counsellor works with the teachers and suggests
to them how they can help the child. Difficult and serious cases are, however,
referred to professional clinical psychologists or psychiatrists in the
hospitals.
v Personal
guidance is the assistance given to any individual to sol e his emotional
problems and to assist him to control his emotions. Controlled emotion is the
most significant characteristic of a mentally healthy individual. An individual
having control over his emotions when threatened with conflicts and frustration
is able to maintain a mental balance by working against stress.
v The
students who are in the adolescent period of their growth and development
exhibit heightened emotionality. At times they lose their control over very
trivial matters. They become extremely emotional went the situation causes
intense feelings. Several factors like failure in love, unsatisfactory academic
performance, maladjustment at home and wit peers cause emotional problems.
v Anxiety
and frustration in students also result in emotional tensions. These may be
accompanied by irritability and tendency for emotional outbursts. Their
heightened emotionality may be due to environmental and social factors.
Students at this stage feel the urgency of breaking down old habit of tout and
action. They are upset during the period of adjustment. Once they explore
certain copying mechanisms of adjustment, the excessive emotionally usually
disappears. Students greatly need assistance in understanding the various
copying mechanisms of adjustment.
Objectives
of personal guidance:
A well organised emotional guidance
programme tin institutions may serve the following purpose;
-
To assist to understand and resolve
their emotional problems.
-
To assist students in exploring various
mechanisms of adjustment.
-
To assist students to get control over
emotions.
PERSONAL
GUIDANCE FOR PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND HIGHER SECONDARY LEVELS.
PRIMARY
STAGE
1.
Good health through well balanced diet
2.
Proper sleep and rest
3.
Desire for friends and social
acceptance.
4.
Feeling of security and recognition of
home and school.
5.
Development of self-discipline.
6.
Distinguishing right from wrong.
7.
Knowledge of fundamental skills.
8.
Good leisure time activities.
9.
Love for healthy games.
SECONDARY
STAGE (ADOLESCENT AGE)
Ø Efforts
should be made at this stage for offering personal guidance for all kinds of adjustment
at school and at home.
Ø During adolescence, awkward physical canes
take place. Hence personal guidance is required for young boys and girls to
adopt themselves to these changes.
Ø Young
boys and girls should be helped to develop interest in healthy recreational
activities and games.
Ø Adolescents
should be given assistance an acquiring qualities of leadership.
Ø Adolescents
develop interest in opposite sex and this interest should be properly guided.
Necessary sex education should be given to adolescents by teachers and guidance
workers.
Ø Adolescents
should be guided to be able to earn their livelihood after passing secondary
stage.
Ø
Adolescents should be helped to
develop the spirit of service for mankind. This spirit also includes the
service of the country.
Higher secondary level
ü Aware of the sex problems.
ü The teacher must
give the moral advice.
ü The teacher helps
the students in solving the personal and social adjustment problems at this
level
ü The teacher gives
the vocational guidance.
PERSONAL GUIDANCE
AND ITS OBJECTIVES
Primary level
·
To make the children aware of their health.
·
To develop their ability to learn and understand.
·
To acquaint them with vocational skills.
·
To assist them in the utilization of leisure time.
·
The awareness towards discipline.
Secondary level
1.
To assist the student in adjustment with their environment
2.
To assist the student in adjustment with teachers, friends
etc.
3.
To assist the student in the development of moral and
social qualities
4.
To acquaint the students with their abilities and
interests.
5.
To assist the students in developing the creative traits.
Higher secondary
level
1.
To assist the student in the initial study of different
occupations
2.
To guide the students for healthy recreation
3.
To assist the students in inculcating self confidence and
necessary qualities for becoming able citizens
4.
To assist the students in inculcating healthy social and
religious outlook
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