Academic, Career and Social Guidance Counselling (Character Building Book 2)

In the days of old, students were provided with guidance services at school to take care of the nonacademic matters arising from their all round development. Nowadays that such services are no longer rendered in most schools; an outstanding handbook of this format is very much required to fill the existing vacuum. This is intended to relieve all students of the boredom emanating from peer pressure; intimidating factor beside their inability to make better informed career choices.

Obviously, everyone usually experiences different stages of development, in the all-important business of growing up in life. According to Abraham Maslow’s theory of wholism (1905) in developmental psychology, every individual observes significant life’s changes from childhood to the adolescent and to adulthood growth stage. In the adolescent stage, the individual is beginning to catch a glimpse of life towards developing self-identity. Both sexes (males and females) start to develop social feelings by exhibiting a tendency to conform to behaviour pattern of their peers. They tend to imitate dressing, hairstyle, use of stylish language and develop different attitude in quest for self-values. They therefore need to be supported with adequate guidance as this age bracket of adolescence exposes them into initiating what they will likely become in life. The adage that you can ‘bend a fish into any shape when it is still fresh’ would be true, because adolescents are emotionally unstable. They are usually moody and somewhat unpredictable. Some of them who are growing up from a socially disadvantaged background usually lack self-confidence. They become prone to anxiety while searching for identity and independence. This tendency culminates in intolerance and anger emanating from frustrated idealism, which in turn degenerates to hatred and rebellion.

During sad moments, certain strong decisions are made. These decisions are bound to be helpless when done outside thorough guidance and counselling. Most adolescents usually take to drugs and become addicted, resulting in deviant behaviours like rioting, smoking and experimenting with sex as an escape from frustration. Those who succeed from this state however, tend to develop a strong sense of identity, while those who could not cope settle to suffer role confusion. Consequently, they adopt such a negative identity that could get them deformed permanently in no time.

Definitely, every decision an individual makes always justifies the available guidance within his reach. This is because the much useful guidance one receives at the adolescent stage always stretches a distance walk to determine the range of dominance one asserts in ones domain. Therefore an outstanding handbook of this format could serve as an invincible amour that one could take against a sea of social challenges.

Perhaps you a student in the High School! If you are in SS1 for instance, you need to realize that you are now in the stage of adolescence, where you have to face the reality of life. I am half-expecting you would allow the grass grow under your feet, because you need have no choice but to take the bull by the horns. Life is a rhythmic gesture//With dancesteps constituting puzzle grandeur. Therefore, the much useful guidance one receives at the adolescent stage stretches a distance walk to determine life's successes.

Against this background, I stand like the weeping philosopher to hypothesize; no body is a mistake in life. I mean, everybody has an alternative of a bright shining fortune in the beautiful arms of fate. I stand corrected. If you are realistic as an individual; then your attitude to the contents of this book would reflect a predictive indication of your fame and fortune shine. Since the much useful counsel and guidance at one’s disposal can eliminate every measure of ignorance that might impair one’s fortune; it is therefore incumbent on all High School students to digest the contents of this is all-important