Title: Lesson Twelve: Guidance and Counseling
Course: EPS 201: PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING (B)

Purpose of the topic/week/section:

The purpose of this topic is to equip you with skills and competences as a facilitator of learning to be able to help learners acquire desirable behaviour patterns and  handle problem situations more effectively through guidance and counselling.

Intended learning outcomes:

At the end of this topic, you will be able to:

1. Differentiate between the principles of guidance and counseling.
2. Summarize the key  areas of guidance and counseling in schools
3. Evaluate the role of guidance and counselling in schools

Over to you:

Guidance and counseling are terms that have been used differently and sometimes interchangeably. Basically, guidance is used more in educational settings while counseling is used when dealing with problems at intrapersonal, interpersonal and group levels. The term guidance is used to imply; advising, directing, helping or steering the individual in the right direction. For this reason guidance refers to broad area of educational activities and services that are aimed at assisting learners to carry out adequate plans, achieve satisfactory adjustment in school and achieve desired academic goals. On the other hand,  counseling which is  a professional helping service implies providing a learning situation, helping an individual to know himself, his present and possible future situations so as to make use of his potentialities in a way that is satisfying to him and beneficial to society.