CLASSROOM RULES
• Respect your teacher
• Listen to the discussion
• Raise your hand if you
want to speak
• Be ready to learn
REVIEW
MOTIVATION
MIX AND
MATCH
COLONUSERS
= COUNSELORS
CCMMUOONNIITA
KILLSS
= Communication
Skills
ONCSULATITOIN
= CONSULTATION
RONOGETOLOGY
= GERONTOLOGY
OTOMTIVAIOLAN
KILLSS
= MOTIVATIONAL
SKILLS
TEALHH
= HEALTH
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, student should be able to:
a. Identify the professional and practitioner in
counseling;
b. Demonstrate the role of counselor through a role
play, "it's showtime”; and
c. Promote the area specialization in counseling
through a video called “a day in my life as a
counselor.
ACTIVITY
IT’S SHOW TIME
Demonstrate the role of
counseling in a minute.
THE PROFESSIONAL
AND PRACTITIONERS IN
THE DISCIPLINE
OF COUNSELING
THE COUNSELORS
1. What are the roles and functions
of counselors in relation to their
level of competencies?
2. How does a counselor perform
his/her roles and functions?
ROLES OF
COUNSELORS
1. Here in the Philippines, Counseling is a
profession (R.A. 9258 also known as the
Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004) that
allows you to help others manage their
responses to life’s challenges (Cleofe et al.,
2015).
2. It is more just listening, its “active
listening”; its more emphatic, it’s caring; the
relationship of client and
therapist/counselor are guided by rules and
regulations (Code of Ethics, R.A. 9258) so as
to protect not only the Counselors, but also
the rights of clients.
3. To assist students in their
academic well-being.
4. To provide guidance.
5. To bring light and to give hope.
6. Assist the person/s in realizing a
change in behavior or attitude.
7. Assist to seek achievement.
8. Assist to find help.
9. Teaching of social skills, effective
communication, spiritual guidance,
decision making, and career choices.
10. Aiding one in coping with a
crisis.
THE PROFESSIONAL
AND PRACTITIONERS
IN THE DISCIPLINE OF
COUNSELING
GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF COUNSELORS
1. Helping a client develop potentials to the
fullest;
2. Helping a client plan to utilize his or her
potentials to the fullest;
3. Helping a client plan his or her future in
accordance with his or her abilities,
interest, and needs;
GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF COUNSELORS
4. To teach counseling such as
counseling theories, tools, and
techniques.
5. Administering a wide range of
human development process.
Specific
Functions of
Counselors
1. Providers of individual and group
counseling services.
…professional counselors are equipped not
only in helping individuals understand
themselves, but also in providing correct
evaluation of either behavioral or clinical
problems a student may have.
2. Developmental classroom guidance
specialists.
…professional counselors prepare lessons and
implement guidance instructions to students
and deliver them through talks, seminars,
workshop, and other interesting activities.
3. Leaders and advocates of academic
success.
…Professional counselors guide the students
by identifying strategies so they can positively
cope with personal, socio-emotional, moral
dilemmas and career-related barriers and see
these challenges as opportunities for
growth.
4. Career development specialists. …
Professional counselors also provide activities
that will prepare students for the demands
and requirements of their chosen profession
and help them develop essential, basic skills
such as effective communication, creativity,
decision-making, critical
thinking, and work ethics.
5. Agents of diversity and
multiculturalism.
…Professional school counselors are
trained to deal with and address the
needs of people from different
cultural backgrounds.
6. Advocates of students with special needs and
students-at-risk.
…Professional counselors give attention to students
with special needs-such as the athletes, honor
students, students with absentee parents, those
with learning disabilities and other clinically
diagnosed students.
7. Advocates of a safe school environment.
…Professional counselors create a
comprehensive school counseling program
with intervention components such as school
bullying campaign and peer and mentoring
can address various issues.
8. School and community collaboration
specialists.
…To ensure student’s holistic development
and success, professional school counselors
work in collaboration with the other school
authorities and with the parents of
the students.
8. School and community collaboration
specialists.
…To ensure student’s holistic development
and success, professional school counselors
work in collaboration with the other school
authorities and with the parents
of the students.
COMPETENCIE
S OF
GUIDANCE
COUNSELORS
1. Guidance counselors
have the ability to
administer and maintain
career guidance and
counseling programs.
2. They can administer
career advocacy activities.
3. Guidance counselors are
capable advocates.
4. Guidance counselors can
facilitate the conduct of career
advocacy in collaboration with
career advocates and peer
facilitators.
THREE-STAGE
THEORY OF
COUNSELING
(EGAN, 2002)
Stage I. What’s going on?
This involves helping client to
clarify the key issues calling for
change.
Stage II. What solutions make
sense for me?
This involves helping clients
determine outcomes.
Stage III. What do I have to do
to get what I need or want?
This involves helping clients
develop strategies for
accomplishing goals.
FOUNDATIONAL
SKILLS
(Culley & Bond,
2004)
1. Attending Skills
- active listening or
listening with purpose and
responding appropriately.
2. Reflective Skills
- restating, paraphrasing,
and summarizing what that
client is saying…like “Did you
mean to say?”
3. Probing Skills
- facilitate going deeper , asking
more directed or leading questions.
Statements are generally gentler, less
intrusive, and less controlling than
asking questions.
4 COMMON SKILLS
1. Communication Skills
- include active listening, demonstrate
understanding, ask appropriate
questions, and provide information
needed
4 COMMON SKILLS
2. Motivational Skills
- influencing a helper to take actions
after a helping session.
“ You can lead a horse to a water but you
can’t make it drink”.
4 COMMON SKILLS
3. Problem-Solving Skills
- differentiating symptoms and
problems, pinpointing probable cause and
triggers for the problem, and generating
possible solutions.
4 COMMON SKILLS
4. Conflict Resolutions Skills
- recognizing the signs of conflict
and learning he process to resolve it.
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION OF
COUNSELORS
Child development and counseling
Adolescent development and
counseling
Gerontology (the aged)
Marital relationship counseling
Health
Career/lifestyle
College and university
Drugs
Consultation
Business and industry
Other specialties (phobia, agoraphobia, self-
management, intra-personal and
interpersonal management, & grief
counseling
PROCESS QUESTIONS:
• What do you think is the most
challenging part in being a counselor?
• How about the most fulfilling part?
THANK YOU!!!
