Scribd
Upload
21 views20 pages

Disciplines and Ideas in The Applied Social Sciences

The professionals and practitioners in the discipline of counseling include guidance counselors. Guidance counselors play key roles such as assisting clients to achieve desirable changes, seek goals, and develop social and career skills. They function by helping clients develop and utilize their potentials, plan their futures, and apply counseling knowledge. Effective guidance counselors have competencies including active listening, reflective questioning, communication, motivation, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills. They may specialize in areas like child development, career counseling, or consultation. Counselors adhere to a code of ethics centered around respecting clients, competence, responsibility, and integrity.

Uploaded by

Pizarras Saint
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
21 views20 pages

Disciplines and Ideas in The Applied Social Sciences

The professionals and practitioners in the discipline of counseling include guidance counselors. Guidance counselors play key roles such as assisting clients to achieve desirable changes, seek goals, and develop social and career skills. They function by helping clients develop and utilize their potentials, plan their futures, and apply counseling knowledge. Effective guidance counselors have competencies including active listening, reflective questioning, communication, motivation, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills. They may specialize in areas like child development, career counseling, or consultation. Counselors adhere to a code of ethics centered around respecting clients, competence, responsibility, and integrity.

Uploaded by

Pizarras Saint
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 20

Disciplines and ideas in the

applied social sciences


Imagine that you have a little brother who
struggles to choose the best course for his
college career as an older brother/sister
what is your way or plan to help your little
brother to choose a better course based on
his capabilities.
Who do you think are the professionals
and practitioners in the discipline of
counseling? Why?
Objectives

 At the end of the lesson, the learners should be able to:


 a. identify the roles, function, and competencies of
counselors;
 b. create an advocacy campaign to promote the advantages
of counseling among youth in any creative and relevant
form such as blogs, infographics, podcast, video, etc. and,
 c. value the importance of the role of counseling.
The professionals and
practitioners in the discipline of
counseling.
ROLE OF GUIDANCE COUNSELORS
 Assist the person or a group to achieve a desirable
change in behavior or attitude.
 Seeking and working toward achieving specified goals.
 To provide capacity in building in social skills,
communication skills,career-choice, decision making
skills and In some spiritual guidance.
 Aiding the clients to cope with a crisis, premarital and
marital issues, terminal illness, death and dying, grief
and loss, and dealing with domestic violence abuse.
Guidance

Administrator

Facilitator
Function of guidance counselor
 Helping a client develop potentials to the fullest;
 Helping a client plan to utilize his or her potentials to
the fullest
 Helping a client plan his or her future in accordance
with his or her abililites, interest needs; and
 Sharing and applying knowledge related to counseling,
such as administering to a wide range of human
development services
PERFOMANCE TASK
 1. Campaign advocacy
 Create an advocacy campaign to promote the
advantages of counseling among youth. Your
campaign can come in any creative and
relevant form, such as blogs, infographics,
podcast, video, etc.
 The class will be grouped into 3 groups.
Competencies of guidance counselors

A 1. Attending and listening skills


R 2. Reflective skills
P 3. Probing skills
4. Communication skills
C
5. Motivational skills
M
P 6. Problem solving skills
C 7. Conflict resolution skills
FOUNDATION SKILLS

 ATTENDING and LISTENING


SKILLS
 Active listening
 Listening with purpose
FOUNDATION SKILLS

 REFLECTIVE SKILLS
 Concerned with the other person’s frame of reference
 Capture
FOUNDATION SKILLS

 PROBING SKILLS
 Asking more directed or leading questions
 Use of directed questions intended to stimulate discussion
in the hope of uncovering relevant information or helping
the client come to a particular realization or achieve a
particular insights
FOUNDATION SKILLS

 COMMUNICATION SKILLS
 Ability to listen, demonstrate understanding a, ask
appropriate questions, and provide information needed
FOUNDATION SKILLS

 MOTIVATIONAL SKILLS
 Influence a helpee/beneficiary to act after the helping
session or consultation.
FOUNDATION SKILLS

 PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS


 Differentiating between symptoms and the problem,
pinpointing causes and triggers for the problem, and then
generating a range of possible solution to the actual
problem
FOUNDATION SKILLS

 CONFLICT RESOLUTION SKILLS


 UTILIZE ASSERTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILL
 UTILIZE ACTIVE LISTENING SKILLS
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

 CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND COUNSELING


 ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT AND COUNSELING
 GERONTOLOGY
 MARITAL RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING
 HEALTH
 CAREER/LIFESTYLE
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

 COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY


 DRUGS
 CONSULTATION
 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
CODE OF ECTEHICS OF COUNSELORS

 RESPECT FOR THE RIGHT AND


DIGNITY OF THE CLIENT
 COMPETENCE
 RESPONSIBILITY
 INTEGRITY

You might also like