Guidance is helping individual to develop his/her potentialities for all round development whereas counselling helps individual to deal with complex problem situations and make adjustment/adaptations if necessary to lead useful life. Guidance is promotive and preventive whereas counselling is therapeutic.
The Terms guidance and counselling, in some way or the other are related to each other. They are similar in some ways and dissimilar in some other ways. Their relationship is drawn as under. 5 3 1. Guidance is an organized service to identify and develop the potentialities of pupils. Comprehensive information about every (all the) pupil is collected with the help of different tests/tools, resources, which are recorded and interpreted. The findings are communicated to the individual to help them to understand themselves. Pupils are also given information about educational and vocational opportunities available to them and are helped in their career planning and development. In counselling more often than not the informations are collected and shared related to problem situations faced by the pupils. The individual is encouraged to talk about her/his problem(s). The counsellor may also ask questions, seek his/ her views, and make observations. Information sought through guidance makes the basis for counselling sessions. Based on the findings the individual is encouraged to make suitable decisions and take actions to solve the problem(s). Thus, information’s are gathered and shared in both the process but two are no same