School guidance and counselling in Kuwait: Background,prospects and limitations

Counselling in Kuwait is a recent development and is relatively unexplored. This paper aims at giving a brief overview of the current status of school guidance and counselling. It also attempts to critically examine the prospects and limitations of counselling programs in course credit secondary schools. It concludes by shedding some light on efforts exerted in the direction of promoting counselling in the country, and specific challenges and problems with which it is faced.