The act of supporting people in making informed choices that will lead to the resolution of their educational, professional, or personal concerns is referred to as "guidance," and the name "guidance" refers to the process itself. Self-awareness is a process that helps people gain a better understanding of their own abilities, aptitudes, interests, perspectives, as well as their own strengths and limitations. This is because individuals are able to gain a better understanding of their own talents, aptitudes, interests, and perspectives. Children go through a period known as adolescence, which is characterized by significant development in both their physical and psychological states, as well as shifts in their perceptions of and expectations from their social environments. Problems in different aspects of life, such as one's personal life, their social life, and their education, are inevitable as a natural consequence of maturing into an adult. The main aim of the study are to identify the guidance needs of adolescents of Chennai city and to outline the guidance needs of higher school students. The study has been carried out in Chennai during the April 2022 with an aim to understand the guidance needed by the adolescent students to improve their career. It is a qualitative study made with the behaviour of the higher secondary students. 400 higher secondary students have been selected using the simple random technique from the study area as sample respondents. 200 respondents each have been selected from the boys and girls respectively. 145 (36.3%) students from arts stream and 255 (63.8%) students from the science stream are selected. The primary data were collected using the Google forms. The study concluded that the level of guidance needed for the vocational, social, psychological, educational and physical is not vary significantly according to the education stream studied. .

Guidance, Adolescents and educational stream, Physical guidance, social, psychological and educational guidance