DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN

APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES

MARIEL L. ANTONANO
SUBJECT TEACHER
 Week 2:
Roles, Functions
and Competencies
of Counselors
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
AT THE END OF THE LESSON, THE STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO:

• Discuss the roles and functions of counselors

(HUMSS_DIASS12-lc-6)

• Identify specific work areas in which counselors

work (HUMSS_DIASS12- lc-7)
 UNLOCKING:
Counseling- a process and a relationship
between the client(s) and counselor.
Counseling could be short term (brief
counseling) or long term.

Counselor- gives advice to the clients

or identify their goals and potential
solutions to problems

Client- person who receives services

from the counselor
 Roles, Functions
and Competencies
of Counselors
0 Roles of Guidance
1 Counselors
 Assist the person/s in realizing a change in
behavior or attitude, seeking achievement of
goals, and finding help.

 Teaching of social skills, effective

communication, spiritual guidance, decision-
making and career choices.

 Aiding one in coping with grief and loss,

domestic violence, and other types of abuse
 0 Roles of Guidance
1 Counselors

 Perform special counseling situations like terminal illness

(death and dying) as well as counseling of emotionally
and mentally disturbed individuals.
 0
Functions of Guidance Counselors
2
 Helping a client to 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 abilities, interests, and needs; and
 0
Functions of Guidance Counselors
2

 Sharing and applying knowledge related

to counseling, such as administering to a
wide range of human development
services.
 Guidance
Counselor – a natural
person who has been
Professionally Registered and
Licensed by a legitimate state
entity and by virtue of
specialized training to perform
functions of guidance and
counseling. [Philippine Republic Act
No. 9258 (Sec.2-3)]
 0
Competences of Guidance
3 Counselors
 Ability to administer and maintain career guidance
and counseling programs.

 Capable of properly guiding the students toward

becoming productive and contributing individuals
through informed career choices.

 Capable of designing and implementing programs

that expose students to the world and value of work.
 0
Competences of Guidance
3 Counselors

 Administer and facilitate career and advocacy

activities.

 Capable of being the career advocates.

The 3 Foundation Skills
(Culley and Bond, 2004)

1. Attending and listening skills (Active

listening)- listening with purpose and
responding in a way that clients felt heard
and understood.

2. Reflective skills- capture what the

client is saying and play it back to them
but in counselor’s own word.

3. Probing skills- facilitate going deeper,

asking more directed or leading questions
 Areas of
Specialization
where
Counselors
Work
 There 11 Major Areas of
Specialization of Counselors
according to Peterson and Nesenholz
(1987).
In all specialties, the counselor could
be self-employed as a private
practitioner or may be employed by
the agency (government or non-
government organizations).
Additional education and trainings
Areas of Specialization where
Counselors Work
Child
1. 2. Adolescent

development and development and

counseling counseling
Parent education, Middle and high
preschool counseling, school counseling,
elementary psychological
counseling, battered education, career
and abused children development
 Areas of Specialization
where Counselors Work
4. Marital
3. Gerontology /
relationship
The Aged
counseling
– fastest growing field. Premarital
counseling,
Essentially involves marriage
counseling of older counseling, family
citizens. counseling, sex
education, and
 Continuation….
Areas of Specialization
6.
where Counselors Work
Career/Life
5. Health
Nutrition counseling,
style
guidance on choices
exercise and health and decision-
education, making pertaining
anorexic/bulimia to career or
counseling, genetic lifestyle
counseling etc.
 Areas of Specialization
where Counselors Work
7. College and
8. Drugs
University
College student counseling, substance abuse
student activities, student counseling (drugs
personnel work, residential and alcohol), stop
hall or dormitory smoking program
counseling and education management and
counseling. crisis intervention
counseling.
 Areas of Specialization
where Counselors Work
9.
10. Business
Consultation and industry
agency and corporate work as training and
consulting and work as development personnel,
organizational quality and work-life or quality
development director, circles manager, employee
assistance programs
industrial psychology manager, employee career
specialist and training development officer,
Areas of Specialization
where Counselors Work
11. Other
specialties
phobia counseling, self-
management, intra-
personal management,
interpersonal
relationships
management and grief
 Thank
You!
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