Counseling is a service offered by the experts to help students in their personal development, emotional conflicts and handling their school-related issues and guide them about how to follow their inherent skills in daily routine. Counseling basically involves only two individuals, the one who is seeking help and the other, who is an expert in solving problems and leading students towards positive growth. It involves techniques such as active listening, emphatic understanding, confronting the students’ behavior and much more. It is an integral part of an overall development of the students.

The need for academic counseling:

In the modern era, the need for introducing academic counseling to the parents, students is very important. The supporting the education patterns provided by the counselors lead school students towards bright career choices.

To bring clarity to goals:

For the overall development of a student, it’s important to first identify his capabilities, interests, and clarification of goals. This can be done by societies in an organized manner by taking the benefits of the experience of academic counselors. They can give informative ideas to pupils and motivate them for hard work and skill development so that they can be differentiated from others by understanding their own talents.

To establish the new students:

It is seen that students who are fresher in the school, face many problems for being established. Academic counselors help new students to make them familiar with the course and guide them about the situations to be faced during the course and all other possible factors and future scope related to that field.

To work as a sculptor:

Academic counselors help students to find out their proper choices related to their academics and play a role of a sculptor in their life. They also help students in their vocational development and prepare them to get ready to face new challenges while helping them to use their power for being efficient in education and in employment.

To build self-confidence:

Every school/society has students of different qualities; they may be over-sensitive towards their life situations and find themselves weak in facing them. Academic counselors help the students to deal with their life situations boldly and effectively and nourish them with self-confidence and self-knowledge. They help students to come out of the tough times of confusion and turmoil at different career level of students. They also help in identifying the need of special help required by the students.

To Imbibe self-discipline:

It is important for the students to keep them busy for nonclass hours. Academic counselors keep checking that students don’t waste time outside their classrooms and utilize that time in a creative manner. It also helps to imbibe self-discipline in students and that will also mold them towards positive approach.

To act as an intelligent listener:

There are students in the school/society who require interesting introspection towards academics. They seem not to be satisfied with the limited and reliable information. At this stage, academic counselors act as a key to their problems. They act as an intelligent listener to the students and provide them with proper guidance. It will make the students recite their problems before them and boost them to make a strategy towards their growth so that they can’t distract and go astray.

To provide a friendly environment:

It is also seen that students are not aware of their problems and are unable to define themselves. It may prove to be a negative impact on students’ lives. Academic counselors will become familiar with the pupils and take them in confidence so that students can share everything that they want. After having a healthy communication with students, they can easily assess the strong and weak points of the students and make them aware of their problems and motivate them towards self-improvement.

Our counselors in such a way play a vital role at crucial turning points in the lives of students, whether they are at any stage of the school. Students always seek guidance and support in the school premises for one reason or the other. Just a word full of warmth from a counselor can bring a deep impact on students’ life and lead them towards a change in their outlook for school, family, and the future positively