In schools, where group guidance is promoted, students are able to avail the following benefits through participation in them.
1) Information regarding:
a) Higher educationprospects
b) Occupational opportunities and vocational preparation
c) Leisure time activities
d) Social and civic conditions.
2) Experience in cooperative living leading to the development of :
a) Interpersonal skills
b) Good sportsmanship
c) Understanding of the self and others
c) Social skills
3) Development of individual’s abilities and interests through:
a) Participation in group projects
b) Organization of student initiated activities
c) Special services and programmes in schools and other institutions.
Advantages of Group Guidance
i) It is suitable for certain kinds of guidance activities like information about careers or orienting new entrants about the school. Here individual guidance will be a mere waste of time and other resources involved in undertaking the activity.
ii) It establishes a relationship between students and guidance worker which creates avenues for other guidance services. For example, new entrants to 11th standard want help in selection of subject from the school counsellor after a talk was delivered on “How to plan your career effectively?”
iii) It provides orientation to unfamiliar situation on new experiences. For example, the new batch of 10+2 level felt at ease when a counsellor told them about the school, the various facilities available in the school, the rules and regulations and the expectation from them.
iv) It paves the way for individual counselling. Group guidance saves time and effort on part of the counsellors as well as the students. Further it reduces monotony. Imagine how boring it is to repeat the classtalk on time management separately for each student in a class of 40.
v) It focuses collective attention on common problems. A group situation helps individual more readily to find a solution for a problem than he could if he works on it alone. Further he develops an awareness that the problems are not peculiar to him but are shared by others too. Therefore, he discusses the problem in permissive atmosphere and the emotional tension gets a release. The suggestions made during group discussion are thus more acceptable to him.
vi) It provides the individual with a chance for real group life and opportunity to deal with people. In group situation students are more exposed to a variety of group experiences which help them to modify their behavior in a socially acceptable way. They also learn to respect others point of view.
vii) It also helps a counsellor to multiply contacts with the students.
viii) The informal and free atmosphere of the group discussion provides a good opportunity to the counsellor to observe the behavior of each student in a group situation and learn about them more. In individual counselling sessions, artificiality in behavior may occur. Further the counsellor may not be able to note the interaction pattern of the student. Thus, group guidance is very much required in certain situations.
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