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The Professionals and
Practitioners in the
Discipline of Counseling
Roles of Guidance Counselors
• Given that the youth are the future
of every nation, the role of
providing guidance to them at
critical moments of their growth is a
serious nation-building undertaking.
• Counseling is a process and a
relationship between client(s) and
counselor.
• The role of the counselor is to
assist the person or persons
(clients) in realizing a change in
behavior or attitude, to assist
them to seek achievement of
goals, assist them to find help,
and in some cases, the role of
counselors includes the
teaching of social skills,
effective communication,
spiritual guidance, decision-
making and career choices.
Functions of Guidance Counselors
• The Philippine Republic Act No.
9258 ( Sec. 2-3) defines a guidance
counselor as a natural person who
has been professionally registered
and licensed by a legitimate state
entity and by virtue of specialized
training to perform the functions of
guidance and counseling.
The guidance counselor’s function include the use
of an integrated approach to develop a well-
functioning individual primarily through:
• 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 abilities, interest, and
needs;
• Sharing and applying knowlegde related to
counseling such as counseling theories, tools
and techniques; and
• Administering a wide range of human
development services.
Competencies of Guidance
Counselors
O Guidance counselors have the ability to administer
and maintain career guidance and counseling
programs. They are capable of properly guiding the
students toward becoming productive and
contributing individuals through informed career
choices with reference to appropriate bureaus,
relevant stakeholders, and national programs, and
in light of the available opportunities in the
community, the country, and the globally. They are
capable of designing and implementing program
that expose students to the world and value of
work and guide, provide, and equip the students
with the necessary like skills and values.
O They can administer career advocacy
activities.
O Guidance counselors are capable career

advocate.
O Guidance counselers can facilitate

conduct of career advocacy in
collaboration with career advocates and
peer facilitators.
Other Competencies that Apply to the
Broader Counseling Work
OThere are many competencies
that apply to the almost all
kinds of counseling context
but not uniformly. Different
authors have thematized
them differently .
Three stages theory counseling and marks
out three broad competencies for a
counselor that includes:
O Stage1: What’s going on? This
involves helping client to clarify the
key issues calling for change.
O Stage2: What solutions make sense
for me? This involves helping client
determine outcomes.
O Stage3: What do I have to do get
what I nees or want? This involves
helping client develop strategiesfor
the accomplishing goals.
Culey and Bond (2004) have describe all these as
foundation skills. They have grouped these foundation
skills around three headings: attending and listening,
reflective skills, and probing skills:
O Attending and Listening
O Reflective skills
O Probing skills
There are four common skills that require studying the
curriculum of accumulated scientific knowledge across
descipline:
O Communications skills..
O Motivvational skills.
O Problem-solving skills.
O Conflict resolution skills.

Areas of Specialization where Counselors Work
O Child development and counseling.

O Adolescent development and
counseling.
O Gerontology (the aged).
O Marital relationship counseling.
O Health.
O Career/Lifestyle.
O College and university. College and university
as an area of specialization offer the following
opportunities: college student counseling,
student activities, student personel work,
residential hall or dormitory counselor, and
counselor educator.
O Drugs. Drugs as area of specialization has
several options such as substance abuse
counseling, alcohol counseling, stop smoking
program manager, and crisis intervention
counseling.
O Consultation. Consultation as an area of
specialization covers agency and corporate
consulting, organizational development director,
industrial psychology specialist, and training
manager.
O Business and industry. Business and
industry areas of specialization include
training and development personnel, quality
and work-life or quality circles manager,
employee assistance programs manager,
employee career development officer,
affirmative action, or equal opportunity
specialist.
O Other specialties. Other specialties may
include phobia counseling, agoraphobia, self
management, intra-personal management ,
interpersonal relationships management a
grief counseling.
Career Opportunities for
Counselor
O Educational and school counselors.
O Vocational or career counselor.
O Marriage and family counselors.
O Addictions and behavioral
counselors.
O Mental health counselor.
O Rehabilitation counselor.
O Genetics counselors.
Rights, Responsibilities, and
Accountabilities of Counselors
O As state registered and licensed professionals,
counselors aare protected. They are goveerned
by scientific theories, practices, and processes as
well as professional standards aand ethics.
O They are responsible for the practice of their

profession ain accordance with their mandates
and professional guidelines and ethics.
Code of Ethics of Counselors
O As in all professional practices in applied
social sciences, counselors must observe
confidentiality at all times.
O They should not do harm to their clients.They

should be people of high moral standing.
O To protect the clients’ interests, the body

produced a Code of Ethics for its members’
compliance. The Code makes explicit the
values underlying their practice.
The Institute of Guidance Counselors’ Code consists of Four
overall Ethical Principles that subsume a number of specific
ethical standards:
Principle 1. Respect for the rights and dignity of

the client
O Guidance counselors honor and promote the

fundametal rights, moral and cultural values,
dignity, and worth of clients. They respect clients’
rights to privacy, confidentiality, self-
determination and autonomy, consitent with the
law.
Principle 2. Competence
O Guidance counselors maintain and

update their professional skills. They
recognize the limits of their
expertise, engage in self-care, and
seek support and supervision to
maintain the standard of their wrok.
Principle 3. Responsibility
O Guidance counselors are aware of

their professional responsibility to
act in a trustworthy, reputable, and
accountable manner toward clients,
collegues, and the community in
which they work and live.
Principle 4. Integrity
O Guidance counselors seek to

promote integrity in their practice.
They represent themselves
accurately and treat others with
honestly, straightforwardness, and
fairness.
Many other similar codes exist with the same
expectation for ethical conduct. The fundamental
principles includes the following:
O Respecting human rights and dignity
O Respect for the client’s right to be self-
governing
O A commitment to promoting the client’s
well-being
O Fostering responsile caring
O Fair treatment of all clients and provision
of edequate services
O Equal opportunity to the client availing
counseling sevices
O Ensuring the integrity of practitioner-client
realationship
O Fostering the practioner’s self knowlegde
and care for self
O Enhancing the quality of professional
knowledge and its application
O Responsibility to the society
THANKYOU
MGA ASWANG!
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