Guidance and counseling services is a set of task and activities designed to assist students to cope with some problems and challenges as well as to adjust and improve their academic activities in schools. Guidance and counseling services create options for students to develop fully and emphasizes strategies which enhance their potentials.
School guidance and counseling program encourages equity and accountability through social development decision making skills, academic achievement and school success for students, collaboration with parents and the community provide students with career and educational opportunities to ensure success in diverse and technological society.
Consequently, guidance and counseling program is significant and indispensable in our education system, because with its new faced, revolutionized from the traditional curative, reaching out techniques, operational, presently, it offers, especially to students in different school level to an enormous opportunity to develop, realize their strength and weakness, as well as make personality adjustment wisely thereby leading to wise choices and productive decision.
Similarly, guidance and counseling services should not be only for students that are unhappy about their school life but it is for everybody, troubled and none troubled” Guidance services is purposeful and result oriented and since individual are self moving and striving to actualize, therefore education is the most effective instrument for such results orientation and mobility to actualize and in turn guidance and counseling services are fundamental.
The findings calls for guidance and counseling services to be mandatory in order to overcome these problem that were outlined as educational problem: this is a situation where students are unable to cope with school academics activities and other school related problem. Vocational problem. This is a condition where student experience difficulties or conflict in choosing a career as a result of their potentials, parent ego, economic constraints or religious perception. Social/ interpersonal problem also this is a situation where by a student fail to maintain social or interpersonal relationship with peers, friends or classmate and teachers as well.
