(Approved by the IAEVG General Assembly, Stockholm, Sweden, August 08, 1995.)

Aims of Guidance

On behalf of personal choices and decisions for meaningful pursuits and occupations, the aims of educaitonal and vocational guidance are to assist:

recommend the basic nature and quality of service to be provided to students and adults

• students and adults to understand and appreciate themselves
• students and adults to relate effectively to others
• students and adults toto develop appropriate educaitnal and vocational training plans
• students and adults to explore career alternatives
• people of all ages to cope with and integrate successfully in society and the labour market.

Therefore, the Mission of IAEVG is to:

• advocate that all citizens who need and want educational and vocational guidance and counselling can receive this counselling from a competent and recognized professional
• recommend the basic nature and quality of service that should typify the service provided to students and adults
• recommend the essential training and other qualifications that all counsellors in educational and vocational guidance should have
• urge governments to enhance, facilitate or establish an agency, institution, or office with responsibility to develop and maintain
  • policies governing the provision of educational and vocaitonal guidance
  • the provision of training and continuing education programs for counselling and guidance practitioners
  • the development and provision of appropriate and effective methods and materials for guidance
  • the conduct of research and development to create new, more comprehensive, and better ways of conducting educational and vocational guidance
  • the development of appropriate methods of evaluation af counselling and guidance
  • the advancement of public awareness as to the protection of individual integrity, when appealing to services rendered by educational and vocational guidance practitioners, who accept a publicly known code of ethics in connection with an independent and unimpeachable body, with which the public can lodge grevances.