DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY

Guidance and Counseling Center

The Guidance and Counseling Center seeks to provide appropriate developmental, preventive
and remedial guidance and counseling programs and services which respond to the needs of the
community especially of the students. Specifically, the office seeks to:
Facilitate students awareness and understanding of their artistic, emotional, interpersonal,
intellectual, physical, and spiritual development;
Help students cope with their personal, academic and career challenges;
Assist the faculty and administration in improving the learning environment of the community;
and
Assist graduating students and alumni in career planning and job placement.
Guidance Counseling Center Services:
Individual Inventory
The office maintains a database of students personal and educational background. Information
are updated on an on-going basis and used for follow-up interventions, as well as monitoring the
students intellectual, social and emotional developments.
Information
The center provides students with appropriate educational, occupational/vocational, social, and
personal data needed to better understand themselves and their environment. These programs
include information dissemination through brochures, a bulletin of information, seminars,
lectures, orientations, films, panel discussions and meetings with teachers and administrators,
parents and other students.
Counseling
Student interviews are conducted by guidance associates.
Preliminary Interviews are conducted for all students to assist in determining their development
needs and goals, and to facilitate their adjustment to college life.
Counseling is provided to various individuals walk-in consultations, referrals, follow-up
interventions, underachievers, and other cases to assist them in coping with their academic,
personal and/or career challenges.
Consultation
Consultations and interviews may be conducted either privately or in a group, so as to provide
the students, parents, teachers and administrators with the appropriate opportunity to express and
clarify the feelings, ideas, conflicts, plans, etc. which affect any or all aspects of life; educational,
career, social, personal, or emotional.
Prevention and Wellness
Through this program, the needs and characteristics of the client population, their adaptation

processes and capacities and the elements in the environment are identified. Group/Classroom
guidance, group counseling/individual counseling, training programs, peer intervention,
consultation are conducted to facilitate growth
Referral Service
Students in need of assistance may be referred to the guidance counselors by faculty or staff of
offices, as well as by their parents and peers. When complex cases cannot be adequately handled
by the guidance counselors, a pool of specialists and agencies are available for consultation and
referral.
Placement Assistance
The Guidance and Counseling Center helps prepare students for the demand of the industry by
providing them the basic skills needed for job hunting, providing them with information and
materials on job placement. These include pre-employment seminars, information on job
openings and job fairs. List of graduates is also provided to prospective employers.
The office also tracks the circumstances of alumni, and assists them in career development
through posting of job opportunities, campus recruitment of companies, and career counseling.
Follow-up Cases
So as to evaluate and facilitate the quality of its services, guidance counselors see to it that cases
are followed-up. The condition of the student is checked, particularly those in difficult or critical
condition, and additional interventions are undertaken if necessary. The effectiveness of the
services provided is evaluated jointly by both the counselor and the counselee.
Research
The Guidance and Counseling Center undertakes research such follow-up, correlation,
comparative and profiles studies to assess the students needs and gauge the effectiveness of
the services offered by the center.
Testing
A psychometrist administers and interprets various test (e.g., personality, aptitude, interests, and
inventories) to help the students in assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and to assist them in
making sound decisions for their personal life and career.
Click this link to access the individual inventory form. Thank you.
https://docs.google.com/a/dlsl.edu.ph/forms/d/1VR2CjNpcfdqFkq9Td1yq4Q3AYA019NVHanNl
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