Dear Sir/ma kindly help me out on these issue of finding The hostorical of Guidance and Counselling in America. I just need to know how Guidance and Counselling was originated in America,i also need to know the advantages and the disadvantages. Kindly send the reply to the email above.

-- hakeem ganiyu (skeemjohn@yahoo.com), February 25, 2005

Answers

It depends on what you mean, exactly. Guidance and counseling have been going on since the dawn of time. The practice known as "counseling psychoolgy" dates back, I think, to around the 1950s. You might look at a book such as John M. Whiteley's _The History of Counseling Psychology_ (Brooks/Cole, 1980). On a related topic, you might look at John E. Schowalter's _Psychiatric Times_ article "A History of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the United States" at http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p030943.html. A Yahoo! search of the terms "counseling psychology history" will reveal many other sources.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), February 26, 2005.

well guidance and counselling are firmly rooted in the development of vocational guidance services. In 1908 the Vocation Bureau of Boston was established under the direction of the American lawyer and educator Frank Parsons to assist young men in making vocational choices based on their occupational aptitudes and interests. It soon became obvious that individuals needed vocational guidance while still in school so that they could prepare for their chosen careers. By midcentury, counseling services were being provided in the lower grades, and counselors extended their activities beyond vocational advice to problems of social adjustment. so whan you talk about advantages and the disadvantages, to my own point of view their are kown disadvantages.

-- olaolu fawehinmi (laolu80@yahoo.com), March 14, 2005.