School counselling: A necessity in modern education

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A. R. Lohia (Department of Psychology, Govt. Meera Girls College, Udaipur, Rajasthan)
Rashmi Singh (Department of Psychology, UCSSH, M.L.S. University, Udaipur, Rajasthan)

The school plays an important role in enhancing educational competence as well promoting psycho-social development of children and adolescents. Today’s children have to cope with heavy syllabi and stress of examinations, often manifesting psychosomatic complains, problems of sleep and appetite, behavior problems and declining performance, as signs of stress. Parents are facing their own problems, and when they face problems related to school performance and behavior of their children, they often approach teachers for help. This paper focuses on how school counseling can help students of various gender, age, etc. to resolve their problems of life with their own abilities, potentials etc. In modern education time school counseling is necessity for overall personality development of students.