HISTORY OF CAREER GUIDANCE AND COUNSELINGRachel SamsonIV- 25 BSE Values EdCareer Development and Counseling

History of Career Guidance and CounselingThe school is anurturing environment where a person is cultivated and molded in preparation for adulthood. But the life of a student is not all that its cracked up to be. Especially that of a teenager. With raging hormonesmatched with a sea of seemingly grave dilemmas, who elsecan you turn to when no one seemsto listen?

History of Career Guidance and CounselingPre- problemPreparationPost problemInterventionThe process of helping individuals discover and develop their educational, vocational, and psychological potentialities and thereby to achieve an optimal level of personal happiness and social usefulness

History of Career Guidance and CounselingTo help in the proper choices of coursesTo help in the proper choice of careersTo help the students in vocational developmentTo motivate the youth for self employment

Guidance does not solve the problems for and individual, rather, it helps the individualsolve his problems This is made possible by making available tothe individual all possible means, opportunities, avenuesof value to him.

History of Career Guidance and CounselingTo help in the total development of the studentTo develop readiness for choices and changes to face new challengesTo minimize the mismatching between education and employment and help in the efficient use of manpower.To help students establish proper identity

To increased awareness in themselves which results to self knowledge, self appraisal and self understanding

History of Career Guidance and Counselingincrease studentacademic, career, college,and personal/socialcompetencies includingreduce achievement andopportunity gaps for allstudents

History of Career Guidance and Counseling190719081920s 1930s19401950195719602006-presentJesse B. DavisFrank ParsonsCounseling and Guidance GrewSelect, recruit, and train military personnelEstablished Guidance and Personnel Services SectionsSoviet Union launched SputnikNew professional and New LegislationNational School Counseling Week

History of Career Guidance and CounselingConsidered the first to provide a systematic school guidance program.

In 1907, he became the principal of a high school and encouraged the school English teachers to use compositions and lessons to relates career interests, develop character, and avoid behavioral problems.

History of Career Guidance and CounselingFATHER OF VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE

Established the Bureau of Vocational Guidance to assist young people in making the transition from school to work

History of Career Guidance and CounselingBorn in 1854, died in 1908Trained in Civil Engineering at CornellLater taught Mathematics, History and French in public schoolWas a Faculty at Kansas State UniversityLater on Faculty at Boston University

History of Career Guidance and Counseling1908 opened the Vocational Bureau of Boston with the purpose of helping people learn careers. Wrote book called Choosing a Vocation. First published in 1909, New York Agatha Press

History of Career Guidance and CounselingGrew: there was a rise of progressive education in schools

Declined: many schools reacted to this movement as ANTI-EDUCATIONAL (said that the fundamentals of education should be the only thing taught) + GREAT DEPRESSION

History of Career Guidance and CounselingThe Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century.

History of Career Guidance and CounselingGovernment established the Guidance and Personnel Service Section in the Division of State and Local School Systems

History of Career Guidance and CounselingThe American government passed the National Defense Act, which spurred a huge growth in vocational guidance through large amounts of funding.

History of Career Guidance and CounselingNew legislationNew professional developmentsFrom vocational/career developmentpurpose, its focus shifted onSTUDENTS PERSONAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES

History of Career Guidance and CounselingCongress officially declared February 6- 10 as national School Counseling Week

History of Career Guidance and Counselingmost recent version ofASCA National Modelwas published

History of Career Guidance and CounselingConfuciusChoose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. -