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Education is a process, which draws out the best in man with the aim of producing a well-balanced personality and brings about desirable changes in the learner in the way one thinks, feels and acts, in accordance with one's concept of effective life. The most important aim of education since the beginning of human culture is that of character formation. For this, proper guidance and help is needed from trained persons time to time. This book, 'Guidance and Counselling' is designed to meet the requirements of the students and teachers who are in the field of education and psychology especially with specialization in guidance and counseling at the graduate and post-graduate level. This book deals with all the important facts and principles related to guidance and counselling and related aspects in a simple, concrete and direct way. Here we emphasize the scientific basis for guidance and counselling services as well as the relevance of the discipline in the field of education and comprehensive development of the individual. In this book, we made an attempt to explain the concept of guidance and counselling, the principles underlying guidance, need of guidance and counselling in schools, the different services in the school guidance programme, the various therapies in counseling, the skills necessary to administer and interpret standardized tools, the qualities required for a good counselor, the various types of counseling, the group guidance and counselling, the various testing devices in guidance, the guidance for exceptional children, etc.