It would be interesting to hear if there are any practical differences, if any, in how guidance and counselling are done at your university/school. How do you understand the differences between guidance and counselling?
How do you understand the differences between guidance and counselling?
Personally I find that counseling is helping a person from deviation back to right track whereas guidance is helping a person by providing him / her advice how to address or approach an issue i.e. not necessary from deviation back to right track. E.g. a student with smoking problem needs counseling & when a researcher stuck in his / her research needs guidance.
Hej,
Jag förstår det som skillnaden mellan kurator och skolpsykolog. Counselling är i mina öron någon som ägnar sig åt terapi och att guida någon kunde t.ex. vara att hjälpa någon med yrkesval. Dethär är inte nödvändigtvis korrekt.
How do you understand the differences between guidance and counselling?
Personally I find that counseling is helping a person from deviation back to right track whereas guidance is helping a person by providing him / her advice how to address or approach an issue i.e. not necessary from deviation back to right track. E.g. a student with smoking problem needs counseling & when a researcher stuck in his / her research needs guidance.
Hi Beatrice,
In case you wonder how I understand your answer in Swedish - I'd Google Translate into English.
Key message: counseling is related to therapy & guidance is pertaining to career choice.
Guidance refers to an advice or a relevant piece of information provided by a superior, to resolve a problem or overcome from difficulty. Counseling refers to a professional advice given by a counselor to an individual to help him in overcoming from personal or psychological problems.
Counseling is a process of empowering by building insight and self awareness and guidance is showing the way,giving the advice and explaining the solution of a problem in a direct manner.
Guidance, I believe, is more general such as answering a question or pointing out a mistake or redirecting someone on to the correct path. Counseling is a bit more involved. In other words you spend more time with that person, understand their needs, concerns and questions and formulate a plan so that they can acheive their goals. This may involve multiple meeting sessions.
Guidance is more career based and useful at educational institution. However, counseling is more therapy based and includes more psychosocial help
The concept of "guidance" comes before the concept of "counseling".
Conversely, the development of the concept of guidance is the concept of counseling.
Guidance" does not have an element of "listen to talk" which is the most important concept in "counseling".
That is the clear difference between counseling and guidance.
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