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• Guidance and Counseling


  A profession involving an integrated approach to the development of a well functioning individual primarily by helping him or her to utilize his or her potentials to the fullest and plan his or her present and future in accordance with his or her abilities, interests and needs
• Guidance and Counseling includes

  • Counseling
  • Psychological testing
  • Research
  • Placement
  • Referral
  • Group processes
• Other services not mentioned in the RR (Gibson and Higgins, 1966)


  • Individual Inventory/Analysis
  • Information
  • Counseling
  • Research
  • Placement
  • Referral
  • Follow-up
  • Evaluation
  • Consultation
  • Program Development
  • Public Relations
• Individual Inventory


  It systematically collects, evaluates, and interprets data to identify the characteristics and potential of every client
• Information service


  It is an activity whereby descriptive materials and media are accumulated, organized, and disseminated through individual counseling or through planned group activities
• Major types of information that can be disseminated to clients

  • Personal-Social
  • Academic-Educational
  • Vocational-Occupational
• Major vehicle of information dissemination

  • Printed information materials
  • Small group guidance activities
  • Homeroom guidance/classroom guidance activities
  • Seminars, conferences, symposia
• Student Development Programs


  • Drug Awareness
  • HIV Awareness
  • Anti-Bullying Seminar
  • True Love Waits
  • Love and Sexuality
  • Resiliency Development Training
  • Leadership Training
  • Self-Awareness Workshop
  • Values Formation and Values Clarification
  • Relationship Enhancement
  • Self-Management Seminar
• Counseling- heart of guidance program


  It is a goal oriented relationship between a professionally trained, competent counselor and an individual seeking help for the purpose of bringing about a meaningful awareness and understanding of the self and environment, improving in planning and decision making, and formulating new ways of behaving, feeling, and thinking for problem resolution and development growth
• Types of counseling according to areas covered

  • Academic/educational
  • Vocational/occupational/career
  • Personal/social
• Types of counseling according to participants

  • Individual
  • Group
  • Multiple
  • Couple/marital
  • Family
• Counseling approaches


  • Clinical or Directive counseling
  • Client-Centered Counseling
  • Eclectic Counseling
  • Behavioral Counseling
  • Reality Therapy
  • Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy
  • Gestalt Counseling
  • Transactional Analysis
  • Solution-Focused Counseling
  • Cognitive Therapy
  • Psychoanalytic Counseling
  • Adlerian Counseling
  • Existential Counseling
  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• The Counseling process


  1. Relationship Building

  2. Problem Identification and Exploration

  3. Planning for Problem Solving

  4. Solution Application and Termination
• Consultation


  It is the activity engaged in by the individual when his or her expertise is requested by another party or organization, usually to enable the latter to assist another- a third party or organization
• Steps in Consultation Process

  1. Establish a consulting relationship

  2. Clarify the problem situation

  3. Determine desired outcome

  4. Developing ideas and strategies

  5. Develop a plan

  6. Specify the plan

  7. Confirm the consulting relationship
• Referral


  It refers to the assistance rendered to clients or their significant others in obtaining services from other people or agencies that might be more effective in helping them
• Ethical Considerations in Referral

  • The counselor has a valid reason for deciding on a referral
  • The counselor knows the specific area of concern requiring the referral
  • The counselor is familiar with the services available
  • The client has agreed to the referral
  • The counselor does not charge of the referral
  • The counselor does not interfere with the work of the external consultant
• Placement


  It is ensuring that people are in the right place at the right time. It has to do with helping people find a place that will contribute to their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being so that they can be happy, contributing members of the society
• Types of Placement


  • Personal-Social Placement
  • Educational-Academic Placement
  • Occupational-Career Placement
• Requirements for Effective Placement

  • Have an extensive and intensive knowledge of the different possibilities for placement
  • Have a thorough knowledge of the client and his or her needs for placement
  • Explain to the client the rationale for placement and what could be expected
  • Are able to liaise between the client and the institution or agency where he or she would be placed
  • Ensure that clients benefit from the placement
• Follow-up


  It helps determine the status of the person who received assistance and what other assistance must be rendered so that the service is complete and holistic. It can determine the adequacy and sufficiency of the programs and services extended in meeting the needs of the clients
• Types of Follow-up


  • Personal/Behavioral Follow-up
  • Academic Follow-up
  • Career Follow-up
• Research


  It is a service-oriented activity conducted to discover new knowledge, to advance current knowledge, and substantiate theory. Research is organized scientific effort for discovering new material, unearthing what is hidden, finding explanations for current situations, and corroborating or debunking theoretical assumptions, claims, or practices through systematic study
• Program Evaluation


  It is a program-oriented activity that seeks to collect relevant information to determine whether program goals are met in terms of outcomes as basis for modification of the delivery of services
• What Program Evaluation does

  • Provides evidence of the positive impact
  • Identifies needs met and not met
  • Determines the relative effectiveness
  • Provides a basis for designing
  • Supplies information for support
  • Clarifies the role of the counselor
• Types of Program Evaluation

  • Formative Evaluation
  • Summative Evaluation