Fundamentals of Guidance & Counseling

• guidance - process of helping individuals to understand themselves and their worlds
• self-awareness - the goal of guidance
• insight - it is the goal of counseling
• insight - bringing the unconscious material to the conscious level
• Daniel Goleman - proponent or theorist of emotional intelligence and said that an emotional intelligent person can understand himself
• True - T/F: a guidance counselor should be licensed/registered, personally qualified, and trained
• Counseling - a process in which a person with problems is helped by a professional to change their behavior, clarify attitudes, ideals, and goals, or to voluntarily change himself
• what theory/therapy signifies that we have to help them change their thoughts first before their behavior? Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• what approach/theory signifies that clients are capable of making their own decisions thus in counseling we do not give advice and just help them make decisions? Humanistic Approach
• what approach / theory signifies that an individual should be encourage to grow emotionally, socially, and psychologically? Humanistic Approach
• 2 types of counseling? Individual and Group Counseling
• what type of counseling is a client-centered approach or the workload should be done more by clients? Individual
• Individual - a one-on-one type of counseling to help a person understand himself, clarify thoughts make decisions, and alleviate the problems.
• what does theory/therapy signify about changing the maladaptive behavior? Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• what type of counseling is done through a group of people less than 10 who share their same experiences because a free atmosphere and freedom of speech are encouraged - Group
• Group - a type of counseling wherein a group of people has one same cases or conditions and through this it helps them to create a support system.
• what type of counseling is a problem in marriage / relationship - Group
• parens patriae - the government, or any other authority, regarded as the legal protector of citizens unable to protect themselves (they have the right to bring you to an institution that is going to take care of you)
• Educational Counseling - problems in learning, studies, teacher, classmate, and school
• Marital Counseling - counseling for married life problems
• Personal-Social Counseling - problem's of one's life, friends, society
• Rehabilitation Counseling - for people experience traumatic and stressful events. life disruptions such as accidents
• Vocational Counseling - problems in work or to guide people in their career-choice
• Guidance - process by which individuals make decisions about their lives with the assistance of another individual who has specialized knowledge and skills in helping them explore alternatives and choose courses of action.
• Counselor - person who helps others solve personal, social, educational, vocational, emotional, behavioral, developmental, health, and environmental problems through communication and understanding.
• Educational, Marital, Personal-Social, Rehabilitation, Vocational - 5 Classifications of Counseling
• Direct, Indirect, Eclectic - 3 Approaches to Counseling
• Indirect - client-centered approach, mas maraming trabaho si client kumpara kay counselor. client talks, counselor listens
• 3 counseling tenets - authentic, emphatic listening, unconditional positive regard
• Direct - an approach where counselor dictates pace. Mas maraming trabaho si counselor
• Indirect approach is more on humanistic
• Direct approach is more on psychoanalytic
• Eclectic - combinations of different approach, high recommended and effective
• find out and make individuals aware of their basic personal prerequisites to help client achieve self-awareness
• provide visible information or vocation to correct or clarify misinformation
• assess an individual's chances to succeed in labor market (1 counselor: 500 students)
• create awareness of clients in the availability of jobs and how to progress in it
• make available opportunities (free training/workshops)
• suggest alternative careers and realizations
• Galatea effect - involves raising an individuals self-efficacy which results in an increase performance