USC Guidance Services Center

Guidance Services Center

Our Vision
The Guidance Center participates in the realization of the USC VISION-MISSION by providing opportunities for PERSONAL GROWTH of the Carolinian and the community

Core Function
The Guidance Center complements the Academic Program of the university by providing services to and facilitating programs for the STUDENTS and significant others (teachers, peers, parents, administrative staff) involved in their (students) development which are aimed at:

• promoting, personal, interpersonal and leadership competencies
• facilitating psycho-emotional development
• facilitating academic, social and career adjustments
• generating data relevant to on-going GUIDANCE operations, as well as to instruction and management.

Services

Counceling Service
(The Heart of Guidance Services) The school provides the time, the place, and the personnel required for skilled assistance to individual students in working out solutions to personal concern that will lead them to a better self-understanding and adjustment to life. It maybe done individually or done in a group (individual counseling or group counseling).

Information Service To provide for the collection, maintenance, and dissemination of information. Information available maybe classified into:
A. Information Dissemination
1. Educational Information
*requirements for entrance
* curricular & co-curricular offerings
* scholarships
* information about schools abroad
* Guidance & other services in school
* shifting to another course
* transferring to another school
* withdrawing subjects

2. Personal-Social Information
* Personal-Social Development
* Personal Hygiene
* Tips on appropriate Behavior at Social Functions
* Personality Development
* Relationship Enhancement
* Dating

3. Occupational Information
* Possible Job Opportunities for specific courses
* Possible Career Options
* Work Values

B. Group Guidance Activities

Group Guidance Activities may be delivered through lectures, symposia or trainings. The following training programs are available upon requests
* Study Improvement Program
* Self-Awareness Seminar
* Effective Communication
* Personal Management
* Relationship Enhancement Seminar
* Time Management Seminar
* Self-concept/Self-image Enhancement Training.
* Well-being (Stress Management Seminar)
* Decision-making Seminar
* Problem-Solving Seminar
* Other Human Relations Development Training Programs
* Career Reassessment Symposium
* Symposium on Work Ethic
* Other trainings may be designed to fit the expressed needs of
requesting clients.

Follow-Up Service
Aims at maintaining contact with students still in school and those who have graduated in order to aid the school in evaluating the effectiveness of the program and gathering relevant information from the students that the school can use to enhance its program.

Referral Service
Concerned with transferring an individual to another person or agency for specialized assistance which may not be available from the original source.

Research Service
Concerned with generating data relevant to on-going Guidance operations as well as to instruction and management.

Individual Analysis Service
A program for maintaining a continuous study of each student that includes the development and use of cumulative records, test results, and other procedures and techniques of assessing individual growth. Stress is placed on the application of data to teaching and counseling. This record is strictly confidential.