Guidance

Assistance given by an expert person to an individual.

Counselling

It is scientific processes of assistance extend by an expert to a needy person in an individual.

Direction

It shows the path.

Educational guidance

It is mainly concerned with such problems of education as are faced by the students engaged in the study of different subjects for their vocational preparation.

Vocational guidance

It is a continuous process which begins in

the school and is needed throughout the working life of the individual.

Personal guidance

It is the assistance offered to a person to solve the personal problems.

Mental test

Mental test includes aptitude test interest inventories, personality test and even the achievement test.

Interview

Conversation with a definite purpose.

Case study

It is counsellers deal with problem students. Freud used case study method to assist his subject to solve his personality problems.

Family history

It includes information about the family, neighbor, person's rapport with his family members etc.

Personality information

Such information includes attitude of a person towards his family, social and emotional adjustment and other personality traits.

Educational history

It includes educational achievements of the pupils.

School history

It includes the facts about his previous employment, special qualifications, vocational interests and desires etc.

Social History

It includes a person's social backward, his social, cultural, political and religious participations etc.

Job analysis

It is related to task or activities which may be Psychomotor in nature.

Task analysis

It is very useful concept for developing the understanding and skills for teaching and training.

Preparatory service

It means preparation for entry into some vocation.

Placement programme

Placement is a service with the guidance programme designed to assist students in the selection of suitable courses.

Follow-up programme

it means the service used to assess a person's limit of adjustment or rate of adjustment in an occupation or in educational programme.

Aptitude test

It is designed to measure a person's potential ability in an activity of specialized kind and within a restricted range.

Anxiety

It is frustrated fear.

Nervousness

It means a large variety of reaction. The nervous students are restless and unable to concentrate on studies.

Stress

Frustration and anxiety produce tension within the individual and prolonged tension causes stress.

Neurosis

it is a milder form of mental ailment which generally origination from prolonged emotional strain and emotional conflict.

Group guidance

When more than one individual are put together in a group for educational, vocational or personal guidance is known as group guidance.