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    The document defines the roles, functions, competencies, areas of specialization, career opportunities, rights and responsibilities, and code of ethics of counselors. Specifically, it outlines that counselors assist clients in realizing behavior changes, achieving goals, and making decisions. Their functions include helping clients develop and utilize their potentials, plan their futures, and apply counseling knowledge and skills. Counselors specialize in areas like child development, careers, colleges, and health. Career opportunities exist in education, vocations, marriage and family counseling, and rehabilitation. Counselors are governed by ethics of confidentiality, trust, respect, competence, responsibility, and integrity.

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    The document defines the roles, functions, competencies, areas of specialization, career opportunities, rights and responsibilities, and code of ethics of counselors. Specifically, it outlines that counselors assist clients in realizing behavior changes, achieving goals, and making decisions. Their functions include helping clients develop and utilize their potentials, plan their futures, and apply counseling knowledge and skills. Counselors specialize in areas like child development, careers, colleges, and health. Career opportunities exist in education, vocations, marriage and family counseling, and rehabilitation. Counselors are governed by ethics of confidentiality, trust, respect, competence, responsibility, and integrity.

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    The document defines the roles, functions, competencies, areas of specialization, career opportunities, rights and responsibilities, and code of ethics of counselors. Specifically, it outlines that counselors assist clients in realizing behavior changes, achieving goals, and making decisions. Their functions include helping clients develop and utilize their potentials, plan their futures, and apply counseling knowledge and skills. Counselors specialize in areas like child development, careers, colleges, and health. Career opportunities exist in education, vocations, marriage and family counseling, and rehabilitation. Counselors are governed by ethics of confidentiality, trust, respect, competence, responsibility, and integrity.

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    The Professionals and

    Practitioners in the Discipline


    of Counseling
    Group 1
    3.1.Defining the Roles, Function
    and Competencies of Counselors
    Roles of Guidance Counselors
    • To assist the person or persons
    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.
    Functions of Guidance 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, interests, and needs
    Functions of Guidance Counselors

    4. Sharing and applying knowledge


    related to counseling such as
    counseling theories, tools, and
    techniques.
    5. Administering a wide range of
    human development services.
    Competencies of Guidance Counselors

    1. Guidance Counselors have the ability to


    administer and maintain career guidance
    and counseling program.
    2. Guidance Counselors are capable career
    advocates.
    3. Guidance Counselors can facilitate
    conduct of career advocacy in
    collaboration with career advocates and
    peer facilitators.
    Other Competencies that apply to the
    broader counseling work
    Egan (2002) calls them the three stages theory of counseling
    and marks out three broad competencies for a counselor that
    includes:

    I. What’s going on?


    II. What solutions make sense for me?
    III. What do I have to do to get what I need or want?
    Foundation Skills

    • Attending and Listening Skills


    Foundation Skills

    • Reflective Skills

    Did you
    mean to
    say ?
    Foundation Skills

    • Probing Skills
    Four Common Skills in Applied Social
    Science
    1. Communication Skills
    2. Motivational Skills
    3. Problem-solving Skills
    4. Conflict Resolution Skills
    3.2. Areas of Specialization where
    Counselors Work
    Areas of Specialization where Counselors
    Work
    • Child development and Counseling.

    • Adolescent development and Counseling.


    Areas of Specialization where Counselors Work

    • Gerontology (the aged)

    • Marital relationship counseling


    Areas of Specialization where Counselors Work

    • Health

    • Career/Lifestyle
    Areas of Specialization where Counselors Work

    • College and university

    • Drugs
    Areas of Specialization where Counselors Work

    • Consultation

    • Business and Industry


    Other specialties
    • Phobia Counseling
    • Agoraphobia
    • Self-management
    • Intra-personal management
    • Interpersonal relationship management
    • Grief counseling
    3.3 Career Opportunities for
    Counselors
    Career Opportunities for Counselors

    1. Educational and School Counselors


    2. Vocational or career Counselors
    3. Marriage and Family Counselors
    4. Addictions and Behavioral
    Counselors
    Career Opportunities for Counselors

    5. Mental health Counselors


    6. Rehabilitation Counselors
    7. Genetics counselors
    3.4 Rights, Responsibilities and
    accountabilities of Counselors
    Rights, Responsibilities and
    accountabilities of Counselors
    • As state registered and licensed
    professionals, Counselors are
    protected. They are governed by
    scientific theories, practices, and
    processes as well as professional
    standards and ethics.
    3.5 Code of Ethics of Counselors
    Code of Ethics of Counselors

    • Counselors must observe


    confidentiality at all times.
    • The values include an assertion that
    the work of the guidance counselor
    involves a special relationship of
    trust.
    Ethical Principles

    1. Respect for the rights and dignity


    of the client
    2. Competence
    3. Responsibility
    4. integrity
    Thank you

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