Importance Of Counselling

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4.3.1 The managers’ perspective All the managers agreed that there is a need for counselling in school as students are more vulnerable in today’s society. Because of lack of family quality time with parents and the internet, according to them students are constantly prone to behavioural, emotional and academic problems. Manager: The school wanted someone who can deal with behavioural problems and also reduce absenteeism and specially drop out. Being a private school if the population is decreased or is too little, government can close the schools I think. Manager: Well, personal problem and social problem is number one reason. Dealing with peer pressure, avoiding drop out and reducing absenteeism are the other reasons we believe counselling…show more content…
Absenteeism also is another reason. The students here are mostly from family who are dealing with divorce, battered, sexual abuse problems. We also have a few bullying cases. Manager: Our main aim is to have the school functioning as its best, with less or no students problems and to increase our rate of pass of course The importance of having counselling for choice of subjects exercise at Form 3 and again at Form 5 was also a reason for having a counselling service. All five managers stated they have problems making students understand the impact of their subjects’ choice for future career implication. Hence, having a counsellor to properly guide them was seen as crucial. Manager: Careers counselling is essential to make the students understand why they need to be cautious about choosing subjects, how this is linked to their future career, how a career affects the overall happiness of a person, job satisfaction. Manager: Choosing the subject only because the parents want them to or because their friends are choosing these subjects is another recurrent problem we have here. They don’t really understand the impact and importance of it…show more content…
It also assist parents and carers to make informed decisions about their child education 4.4 Planning of School Counselling Planning the school counselling service provide an essential framework for delivery of the service. This provides a structured response to the students personal, social and educational and career development needs. It includes all the guidance and counselling activities, classroom sessions with the students, individual counselling, meetings with the school administrators and parents. 4.4.1 The managers’ perspective The managers stated that they could not have a proper and solid planning for the school counselling service as there were many cases to attend to and the counsellor did not have much free time to come up and get involved in other counselling related activities. Manager: We don’t really have a plan. The counsellor introduces herself to each class at the beginning of the year and let the students know how she may help them. And then as cases are referred to her she attends to
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