Nature of Counselling

 What is Counselling ?

Cambridge dictionary defines counseling as “listening to someone and giving that person advice about their problems”.

Guidance and counseling is the process which helps the students to know their skills, interests, personality that will help students in further career selection.

With Guidance you are able to know your ability, interest, a capacity that will help you  face problems and deal with them effectively.

The objective of Guidance is to help students in making available desirable qualifications and skills rather than achieving the goals of educational programs.

Counseling is the sharing of thoughts, reciprocal logic and guidance between groups or two.

Guidance and counseling are related to college going students.

Students are very much focused on academic performances but they never estimate themselves. They choose/plan their studies/ career not understanding them. They make choices with the influence of others. 

It is quite obvious that if I am an Engineer, definitely I will suggest for engineering because I have expertise in this field only. Same is applicable for Doctor, Lawyer, designer etc. Here, students made mistakes during the selection of streams and career. Due to this reason, self-assessment is very important.

Modern time, most of the students depressed related to a career decision. The simple and straight reason is lack of knowledge of current trends and developments, available streams, unable to know themselves. I have observed personally, students good in academics may be a topper in his/her respective classes but when the matter comes to a career decision, they are often failed to take the right decision.

Hence, guidance and counseling come into the existence and trend is increasing day by day. The counselors/experts have wide knowledge about current trends and developments, available streams and factors that have a major influence on career decision-making/planning. 

Counselors will be able to provide guidance and counseling to the students for all problems related to career and update them related to current trends and developments, available streams. By guidance and counseling, students will be able to know about themselves better and easily face problems in day to day life. 

This is most important for their bright and successful career. The identification of Interest, abilities, personality will help students to recognize their strengths and that is their strong zone, easier to sharpen. It is psychologically proven, the area, in which individuals are strong, find interest to explore that area and easy to build their career in the same field.

So, in the current trend, guidance and counseling are very much required for school/college going students to identify their strength, weakness and at the same time work on their strength and area of interest to do wonders in future.

To sum up, the counsellor helps you to address your problems in a positive way by helping you to clarify the issues, explore options, develop strategies and increase self-awareness.