Type of Guidance Services

Type of Guidance Services

The Guidance Services promote the holistic development of pupils and students by providing on-going prevention and intervention services and offering necessary helps towards achieving goals and objective in school.

In an attempt to achieve the above stated goals, guidance offers the following services;

Orientation Service

This is the service given to the students to make them emotionally secured and better adjusted in a new environment “especially during the critical transition period from one class to another and from one school to the other”, Oladele (1996). It also enable student to get a academic information easily and get used to their new social surrounding.

Information Service

Anagbogu (1988), Uba (1990) and Lanna (1992) all agree that information services are aimed at providing student with better knowledge of education, vocational and personal social opportunities so that they may make better information and realistic choice and design about educational and vocational plan. According to Anagbogu (1987) “A good information service help people to meet the challenge of today and tomorrow:”

Counselling Service

Uba (1990) describe counselling as the lord of the entire guidance world. The objective of counselling according to Arbuckle (1970) is to help an individual to clear away his entanglement and hamper tentacles so that he can be what he really is and contributes more both to himself and followers. In the same vain, Perz, (1965) says that counseling help the counselee to deal more effectively with himself and in relation of his environment.

Placement Service

This refers to putting people into various jobs, school, class or courses where they are most suitable considering their ability, aptitude and interest.

Appraisal Service

This is the provision of satisfying educational vocational and social programme for student through the adequate data collected on them through intelligent attitude and achievement test and also through the use of non-test means such as stating scale, interview, observation autobiographic e.t.c.

Referral Service

This is the act of referring or transferring problem which the counselor could not effectively handle to expert who can proffer service or solution to them. This could be within or outside the school system such could be referring student to medical Doctor, Dentist, Optician, Psychologies, Physiotherapist, Principal e.t.c.

Follow Up Service

This is the act of probing into the progress of client or student after guidance- and counselling interview to approach the effectiveness or others.