School Guidance and Counselling

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to school guidance and counselling services in Hong Kong. It draws extensively on current research in the field, with a special emphasis on how guidance and counselling could be systematically planned to meet the personal, social and educational and career needs of students. The chapters discuss how counselling could be infused into school activities by employing a team approach, wherein all staff members have specified roles to play. The book also focuses on the Confucian heritage practices in Chinese societies, such as the emphasis on examinations, the contestations between discipline and guidance, and the role of class teachers in school guidance.

Pattie Y. Y. Luk-Fong was an associate professor and associate head of the Department of Special Education and Counselling at the Hong Kong Institute of Education before her retirement. She is currently an adjunct associate professor in the same department. Yuk Ching Lee-Man was an assistant professor in the Department of Special Education and Counselling at the Hong Kong Institute of Education before her retirement.