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WELCOME TO THE WHITE PLAINS HIGH SCHOOL GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT   Click to view the monthly Guidance Bulletin To see which which colleges are visiting the high school this month visit the Calendar   Guidance is a comprehensive and integral part of the student's educational process. It is designed to help students with their educational, vocational and social development.   The Guidance Department at White Plains High School provides guidance and counseling services to all students from the time that they enter the high school until graduation. Guidance is a service function, which includes a series of, planned and informal activities designed to assist students to understand themselves better, to cope with the normal problems associated with growing up, and to become contributing citizens. The goal of our program is to meet the individual needs of each student and to help achieve a successful high school experience.   Guidance and counseling is, however, is more than a program of activities. It is also a relationship that exists between a student and a guidance counselor, the one adult at school who will play a continued and key role during the duration of the student's high school life. From grades nine through twelve, the guidance counselor advises and counsels students about the selection of courses, relationships with teachers and other significant adults, relationships with peers, extra-curricular involvement, career and post-high school planning, coping with pressures, tensions and the day-to-day problems of growing up in a complex, multi-faceted society.