Basic

Principles of
Guidance

Arthur Jones
Merle
Ohlsen
FranklinZera

1.Guidance is essentially an
educational process and is inherent
in all education.
2.The chief concern of guidance is
the development of the whole
individual.
3.Guidance must be founded upon a
true concept of individuals, and be
based upon the recognition of their

4. Guidance seeks to help the

students attain a
clearer
understanding of themselves and the
world in which they live in order that
they may plan intelligently a full and
purposeful life.
5. Guidance seeks to develop
initiative, responsibility, selfunderstanding and self-direction, for

6. Guidance takes into account both

the immediate and remote objectives
of the students.
7. Guidance is oriented about
cooperation rather than coercion.
8. Guidance is concerned with the
students efforts, attitudes, and will
to succeed as well as with the data
derived from measurements.

9. Guidance is for all students, not

merely for the problem or special or
maladjusted students.
10. Guidance is concerned with
choices, decisions, and adjustments to
be made by the student.
11. Guidance is counsel, not
compulsion.
12. Guidance is necessarily a

13. Guidance consists of a series of

supplementary services based upon
mutual confidence and understanding
in order to meet the real needs of
students.
14. An effective guidance program
needs to have personnel who have
had special preparation and adequate
training for the work.

15. Guidance considers most

individuals as
average, normal persons.

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1. Every aspect of the individuals
personality patterns constitutes a
significant factor of their total
display of attitudes and behavior.
2. Individual differences should be
recognized, although human beings

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3. The function of guidance is to help
persons formulate goals of behavior
which can be achieved.
4. Existing economic, social, and
political unrest is giving rise to many
maladjustive factors that require the

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workers.
5. Guidance is a continuous process.
6. Guidance is not limited to a few.
7. Guidance is education.
8. Generally accepted areas of
guidance include concern with the

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physical and mental health interferes
with their adjustment to home, school,
and vocational demands.
9. Guidance is fundamentally the
responsibility of parents in the home
and of teachers in the school.

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to persons trained to deal with
particular areas of adjustment.
11. Programs of individual evaluation
and research should be evaluated,
and progress and achievement be
made accessible to guidance workers.

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12. The guidance program should be
flexible in terms of individual and
community needs or else it will lose
its value.
13. The responsibility for the
administration of the guidance

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14. Continuous or periodic
appraisals should be made.

Thank You!

Reported by:
Maria Andrea D.
Garcia