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" Response to change : "
Fulton, John Francis
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Latin Dissertation
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1102731
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TLets758036
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Fulton, John Francis
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Response to change :\ Fulton, John Francis
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Keele University
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1975
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1975
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Ph.D.
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The roots of guidance and counselling are to he found in the works of the great philosophers who have written on education. However, the modern concept of guidance, as a service distinguished from normal classroom practice, is a relative newcomer on the educational scene and derives from three main sources, the psychological-educational, the medical- psychiatric and the vocational-occupational. The first two have been described as constituting the mental health (personal-emotional) aspect of guidance and counselling, the third as the forerunner of contemporary vocational guidance (help with decision-making). Since the early work in psychometrics, vocational guidance and guidance for maladjusted children, guidance has acquired a much wider meaning. It now covers guidance in all aspects of development for all children. This broader concept appears to have been the response of twentieth century educational practice to the unique complexity of contemporary social and political life. Counselling is described as one of the activities, for many pupils perhaps, the most important activity through which the objectives of guidance can be achieved. This is not to devalue in any way the significant contribution made to education by the contemporary counselling movement. It is an important strand of the wider mental health movement in education which does not attempt to deny the validity of academic objectives but seeks to give at least equal importance, if not priority, to the all-round personality development of the pupils. Although some references can be found to guidance in government reports of the late 1930's, the growth of the guidance services in Northern Ireland is a post-war development. Local authority school psychological services now cover the whole province, but the provision of child guidance clinic facilities is limited. The Northern Ireland Youth Employment Service was set up in 1962. Three years later responsibility for the service was transferred from the Ministry of Labour and National Insurance to the Ministry of Education, but new proposals have suggested a return to the Department of Manpower Services as part of an all-age guidance and placement unit. Surveys were carried out to examine the structures for guidance and counselling in schools, the facilities available, the role of counsellors and the attitudes of teachers and other professional groups in education to counselling. A marked growth in the school-based guidance and counselling services in Northern Ireland has taken place in the last ten years, although there is strong evidence that there has been much less emphasis on the mental health and personal counselling aspects than there has been on careers guidance. Nearly all secondary and grammar schools and technical colleges have a careers teacher. About 34
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LB Theory and practice of education
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Keele University
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