1. Welcome

2. GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING OF STUDENTS

3. INTRODUCTION Guidance and counseling: twin concepts Not synonymous
Guidance in the educational context
Counseling: specialized service of guidance

4. OBJECTIVES To establish the difference between guidance and counseling
To identify some of the issues that students face.
To come up with an effective way of how lecturers and staff can effectively guide BU students in a collaborative way so as to produce well rounded graduates.

5. DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS
Guidance is a process of helping every individual, through his/her own effort to discover and develop his/her potentialities for their own personal happiness and social usefulness.
Counseling is essentially a process in which the counselor assists the counselee to make interpretations of facts relating to a choice, plan or adjustment which he needs to make.

6. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
Broader and comprehensive
In-depth and narrow
More external
An internal analysis
Targets intellectual attitudes
Works more with emotional attitudes

7. COMMON STUDENT ISSUES Background issues: Relationships Finances, etc
Poor upbringing
Poor families
1st generation: tertiary
Abuse: sexual, physical, emotional, etc
Relationships
Finances, etc

8. PURPOSE OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
Provides needed information and assistance
Improves the understanding of self
Helps in adapting to changes or new environment
Provides efficient use of capabilities and talent
Produces a well-rounded being

9. GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING SKILLS
Communication skills
Active listening
Clarification
Reflection
Effective questioning skills
Rapport
Empathy

10. FACTORS/THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR
Transference
Countertransference
Being biased
Attachment
Sympathy

11. WAY FORWARD Collaboration: Botho University Counseling unit at SAAD
Student Officers
Lecturers (different faculties)
Staff

12. GROUP WORK Get into groups according to your faculties/offices
Identify the issues you face with your students as individuals and as faculties/offices
How can these issues be resolved or minimized for us to produce well rounded graduates?

13. END!!!

14. THANK YOU