Educational Guidance Manual

Theory and practice of educational psychology

This book is an Educational Guidebook that includes the theoretical and practical pillars that a guidance professional needs to know if he wants to tackle this complex task in the 21st century.

In the first place, the book lays the theoretical foundations of Psycho-pedagogy, to then learn how this theoretical science has been materializing in another applied one: educational orientation. From the origins of orientation in the 20th century, and from a universal perspective, it transcends Spanish regulations so that counselors have a manual that can be used in other contexts and places.

The book deals in depth with the techniques, instruments and procedures of educational guidance and examines each intervention in the academic, personal, socio-affective and emotional dimensions. The purpose of this manual is to become a reference for those who are training to work as counselors, teachers or other professions in the educational field.

The knowledge contained in this book is based on decades of guidance practice, so the proposals indicated can be extrapolated to real contexts. For this purpose there is a specific chapter with a Practical Method of application during a complete course. As the culmination of the manual, there is a chapter dedicated to professional ethics, which is an essential issue for the development of a professional profile.

A century after the emergence of guidance, with professionals all over the world, it was necessary to systematize knowledge based on experience.

It is an important manual for us to collect what we have learned and suggestive for us to continue facing the challenges of the future.

Ana Cobos Cedillo has a doctorate in Educational Sciences. Since 1992 she has been working as a counselor in various institutes in Malaga and has been an internship tutor since 1995. From 2010 to 2014 she carried out provincial coordination tasks in the Territorial Delegation of the Ministry of Education in Malaga, also in the field of educational guidance. She is a professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Malaga. She has supervised dozens of Master’s thesis on orientation, attention to diversity and coexistence. She currently teaches in the Master’s Degree in Psycho-pedagogy at this University. She is a regular contributor to the media and different publications, and participates as a speaker in courses and conferences on education and guidance. Since 2014 she is the president of COPOE (Confederation of Psycho-pedagogy and Guidance Organizations of Spain).

1. Guidance and Psycho-pedagogy in Educational Sciences

2. Educational Guidance: origin, concept and principles

3. Guidance Professionals

4. Intervention in Educational Guidance

5. Instruments for Educational Guidance: tests and other materials

6. Techniques of Educational Guidance and psycho-pedagogical intervention

7. Intervention procedures in the academic dimension

8. Intervention procedures in the socio-affective dimension

9. Intervention procedures in the personal dimension

10. Intervention procedures in the emotional dimension

11. Specific educational needs for support

12. Psycho-pedagogical assessment and reports

13. Organizing the educational response so that no one is left behind

14. Proposal of a working method for a complete course

15. Ethics of educational guidance