Training aspects related to guidance: diagnostic and therapeutic dimensions. Critical reflections drawn from field research

Abstract

Orientation is synonymous with education: education that begins in the early days of life through the work of parents, nursery school, and elementary school; by middle school, children already have a defined lifestyle, which is what is referred to as the longitudinal aspect of orientation. Guidance has a dual meaning: it refers to the informative action of guiding, exercised by one person towards another, and to the reflective action of orienting oneself, exercised by the individual on themselves. Without adequate support from teachers based on empathy and backed by a genuine process of encouragement, students will often fail to orient themselves, because their contingent psychological maturation problems will prevent them from doing so. The use of technical tools by specialists can help to better understand and become indispensable for designing appropriate recovery strategies