Important Areas of Student Life

2. General Information
The data that should be
collected in this area pertains
to personal information about
the student.

3. Important items are:
 name
 nickname
 home address
 sex
 birthplace
 date of birth
 brothers & sisters with their respective ages
 names of parents or guardian
(birthplaces, national descent, marital and
educational status, and religious affiliation)

4. Health
the importance of physical
and mental health data can
hardly be overemphasized. It
forms the basis of all
constructive guidance
information.

5. Great value for counseling:
 vision
 hearing
 speech
 psychotic symptoms
 illness
 diseases
 accidents
 handicaps

6. Achievement
It is scarcely conceivable that
effective guidance can be
accomplished without knowledge
of the achievement of the
student. Achievement records
should reflect all aspects of
development of the past as well
as the present.

7. Aptitudes
One of the aims of guidance
is to assist the student in
choosing the right vocation and
in working to the best of his
ability. Information is
needed, therefore, to determine
the capacity of the individual
and his potentiality for various
areas of work.

8. Personal Adjustment
The social and emotional
growth of the students is vital.
Information concerning his
social, personal, and emotional
relationships with
teachers, fiends, parents and
other students should be
systematically gathered and

9. Interest
If interests coincide with
abilities and proper
motivation is provided, then
we can assume that maximum
progress and growth will
occur.

10. Plans for the Future
For effective
guidance, data indicating the
student’s goals, plans or
objectives are highly
important.

11. Family Background
A valuable source of
information for the effective
guidance of the pupil is
knowledge of the home.

12. a. The Home Environment
b. Physical Conditions
c. Social Relationships
d. Intellectual Areas and
e. Emotional Growth