1. EDU 303: Guidance and Counselling
Christian Bwaya
Mwenge Catholic University

2. Course Outline
Contact Hours 45 hours (30 hours Lecture, 15 hours Seminar) Lecture/Seminar Hours Monday, Wednesday, Friday (12:15-21:15) Tue & Thu (15:00-18:00) Saturday (11:30-14:30) Students BEd (Science) 3rd Years (March in take)

3. Course Outline cont…
Course Description: The course is designed to equip students with knowledge, understanding and skills of guidance and counselling to enable them to effectively guide and counsel secondary school students

4. Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
Analyze basic counselling theories
Explain the goals of guidance and counselling
Demonstrate understanding of basic guidance and counselling skills and strategies

5. Learning Outcomes cont…
At the end of this course students will be able to:
Apply guidance and counselling skills and strategies to one on one, small group and whole class situations
Compare and contrast positive strategies for helping students’ functions more productively.

6. Learning Outcomes cont…
At the end of this course students will be able to:
Critically assess guidance and counselling services and programmes in Tanzania programmes in Tanzanian secondary schools
Develop and implement school guidance and counselling programmes to help normal and at-risk schools

7. Course Content Nature and Scope of guidance and counselling
Meaning of the terms guidance and counselling
Goals of guidance and counselling

8. Course Outline cont… Nature and Scope of guidance and counselling
Qualities and characteristics of an effective Counsellor
Ethical issues in counselling
Categories and Types of Counselling

9. Course Outline cont… 2. Basic counselling theories:
Psychoanalytic approach
Humanistic approach
Behaviour and Cognitive behaviour approach
Family systems approach

10. Course Outline cont… Counselling skills and strategies
The relationship between communication skills and effective counselling
Basic counselling skills as used in counselling session
Procedures involved in conducting a counselling interview

11. Course Outline cont…
4. Guidance and counselling services and programmes in Tanzania secondary schools
Career guidance and counselling
Major social issues facing students in secondary schools

12. Course Content cont…
5. Developing and implementing comprehensive school guidance and counselling programmes

13. Teaching Methodology
Lectures
Seminar (Class Discussion)

14. Assessment/Evaluation
Two written tests %
Two Class Assignments %
Seminar %
Final Examination %

15. Course Orientation Groups of 10 (deadline Wednesday)
Two Tests (11th September and 18th September)
One Assignments (Deadline 17th September)
Class Tasks (At least three)

16. Course Orientation cont…
Always attend lectures and insist that your group members are also present
Ask for permission if you have an excuse
Absenteeism is punishable by marks
Submit your assignment on time

17. Consultation
Office Location: Counselling Unit Room 2, Human Resource Building Consultation Hours: Any day time

18. Get Engaged Beyond Lecture

19. Get Engaged Beyond Lecture

20. Get Engaged Beyond Lecture

21. What is Counselling?

22. What is Counselling?
Counselling is not new in Tanzania. Is part of our typical lives
In most communities, people help others with their problems.
Somehow we seek help to other (more experienced, knowledgeable) people to find ways of dealing with stressing problems.
Examples, in making critical life choices

23. What is Counselling?
While it is true that counselling has been part of our daily life, the practice is questionable
We need to know why we need it and the best way to do it

24. Definition of Guidance
The terms guidance and counseling have been loosely or interchangeably used
The two terms are, however, are two sides of the same coin (related but different)
Effective counsellors, need to understand the clear difference between the two so that they are able to identify exactly the nature of the services

25. Definition of Guidance cont…
Guidance is a broad in scope and is educational and proactive in nature (information based)
Refer to activities (services) that aim at assisting students to make and carry out adequate plans and to achieve satisfactory adjustment in life.

26. Definition of Guidance cont…
Is a process, developmental in nature, by which an individual is assisted to understand, accept and utilize their abilities, aptitudes and interests and attitudinal patterns in relation to their aspirations.

27. Definition of Guidance cont…
Is a process, developmental in nature, by which an individual is assisted to understand, accept and utilize their abilities, aptitudes and interests and attitudinal patterns in relation to their aspirations.
Not a single event but steps

28. Guidance as Services Educational/vocational: academic engagement
2. Personal: Identify the potentials/abilities in relation to future risks
3. Social guidance: addresses more people at the same time

29. Goal of Guidance
Help an individual identify who they real are (strength, weakness etc) and are able to develop/grow their potentialities.
Make clients predetermine the coming challenge in the future.

30. Meaning or Counselling
Usually viewed as one part of guidance services
Defines as a professional relationship between a trained counsellor and a person seeking help –also known as a client –to solve their problem.

31. Meaning or Counselling cont…
Counselling builds on facilitative relationship which assists the client to gain a wider view of their problem so that they are able to better analyze their problem so that they arrive at best decisions possible.

32. Meaning or Counselling cont…
Counselling relationship?
Empathetic understanding (getting into client’s concerns, thoughts and feelings)
Genuineness and sincerity (being ourselves without pretending)
Unconditional acceptance (no judgement, valuing the other person)

33. Goals of Counselling
Counselling is basically a reaction to the existing problem.
The focus is on the solution of the life challenge facing the client (the understanding of the core problem)
Core problem is usually unknown unless the client comes for counselling

34. Goals of Counselling
The ultimate goal of counselling is to help the client deal with emotional and behavioural problems which may have been interfering with their well being.

35. Engaging Activity
If the client usually doesn’t know the core problem, why do they come to counselling?

36. Engaging Activity
Not every relationship can be useful in facilitating counseling process. Elaborate this statement with specific examples.

37. Group Task Compare and contrast guidance and Counselling
What they do (nature of operation)
How they do it (strategy)
Who benefits (Recipient)
Scope of services (
What do they try to achieve (goal)
Who offers the service (provider)

38. Guidance Counselling Nature Proactive Reactive Strategy
No deeper Connectivity
Builds relationship
Recipient
General Public
Clients (on request)
Scope
Broader and Comprehensive
Detailed and Immediate
Goal
Self Understanding
Resolution of problem
Provider
Not necessarily trained
Professional

39. Group Task 2
Think of guidance and Counselling activities in the school context:
At the point of entrance (Form one and Five)
During the Studies (process)
On Completion (Form 4 and 6)

40. Traditional Advice Giving
Advice giving is providing suggestions to another person, telling them what they need to do to solve their problem (imposed solution to someone else’s problem
Why do we give advices to other people?

41. Traditional Advice Giving cont…
Easy to give (we think we know the other person). But do we?
Some people expect advices (they think other people know better than them)

42. Traditional Advice Giving cont…
It is rewarding to feel we have helped the other person (we feel important)
But imagine you have given an advice which didn’t work…or the advice is rejected!

43. Traditional Advice Giving cont…
In Counselling we DON’T GIVE ADVICES!
Reasons:
We know very little about the client’s problem.
We don’t want to be responsible for the consequence of our advices
It is embarrassing to offer an advice which is not used.

44. Traditional Advice Giving cont…
INSTEAD:
We helps people face their own problems, examine their options, understand their feelings and choose alternatives that seem best to them.
We ONLY give advices when we are 100% certain that it will work

45. Psychotherapy?
The terms ‘counselling’ and ‘psychotherapy’ are often used interchangeably, but there is a slight distinction
Counselling works with present emotional and behavioural problems whereas psychotherapy intensively and extensively examines a person’s psychological history. 

46. Psychotherapy?
Counselling is concerned with practical or immediate issues and outcomes while psychotherapy is long term process that looks at long standing attitudes, thoughts and behaviour
Psychotherapist: have medical background
But no clear line between counseling and psychotherapy

47. You followed for Three Hours? I cant believe it!