Guidance is the systematic professional process of helping the individual through education and interpretative procedure to gain a better understanding of one's own characteristics and potentials and, to relate oneself more satisfactorily to social requirements and opportunities in accord with social and moral values."

The Scope of Guidance and Counselling

The scope of guidance and counseling is extremely comprehensive.
1. As the life is getting complex day by day, the problems for which experts help is required are increasing proportionately.
2. The scope of guidance, per necessity, is extending horizontally to much of the social context, to matters of prestige in occupation, to the broad field of social trends and economic development.
3. Guidance is assuming more and more responsibility for the individual in every direction :
o it helps in the selection of educational courses, and profitable occupation,
o in the job placement; placement in the next stage of education and training;
o improvement of study skills,
o maintenance of mental health;
o personal adjustment problems;
o identifying the gifted, the backward and help them achieve the maximum.