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Guidance and Counselling

WHAT’S INSIDE

This chapter will cover the following important topics:

1. Guidance and its Types

2. Counselling and its Types

INTRODUCTION

Guidance and counselling is related to all types of education—formal, non-formal, career, etc., wherein the aim is to help the individual to adjust with their environment in an effective way. It helps an individual in making appropriate adjustments and choices.

Guidance

Guidance covers the whole process of education, which starts from the birth of a child and it is right to say that guidance is needed from cradle to grave. The literal meaning of guidance is to guide, to point out, and to show the way.

Need for Guidance

• For education, employment purpose and to help the educated ...