Definition of Guidance and Counselling by Different Authors
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Meaning of Guidance
The guidance refers to the advice given by an experienced person to solve a problem.
Guidance Definition by Different Authors
“To guide means to indicate, to point out, to show the way. It means more than to assist.”
Jones
“Guidance is all those activities which promote an individual’s self-realization.”
Bernard and Fullmer
“Emphasized the goal of guidance as helping people become purposeful, not merely to pursue purposeful activity.”
D.V. Tiedeman
“Guidance means helping John to see through himself in order that he may see himself through.”
Honarins
“Views guidance as educative and developmental with emphasis on systematic learning process.”
R.H. Mathewson
Meaning of Counselling
Counselling is the process of talking therapy provided by a professional counselor to a counseled.
Counselling Definition by Different Authors
“Counselling is a face-to-face relationship in which growth takes place in the counselor as well as the counsellee.”
Ruth Strang
Hamphery 2 Traxler
“Counselling is the application of the personal resources of the school or other institution to the solution of the problems that individuals have.”
Hamphery 2 Traxler
“Counselling means consultation, mutual interchange of opinion, deliberating together.”
Webster’s Dictionary
“Counselling is the psychotherapeutic relationship in which an individual receives direct help from an adviser or finds an opportunity to release negative feelings and thus clear the way for positive growth in personality.”
Harriman
