HISTORY OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING IN WESTERN COUNTRIES (U.

S)

Year Personality/Event
1892 American Psychological Association founded (150,000 members in 2006)
1905 Binet & Simon develop mental ability scale
1907 Jesse B. Davis, the first person to set up a systematized guidance program in the public schools, suggested that classroom
teachers of English composition teach their students a lesson in guidance once a week.
1908 Frank Parsons, often called the founder of guidance, founded Boston’s Vocational Bureau, a major step in institutionalizing of
vocational guidance
Clifford Beers publishes A Mind That Found Itself. Contributed to public awareness of issues relating to mental disorders
1911 Education courses for counselors had begun at Harvard University
1913 Founding of the National Vocational Guidance Association (NVGA), which was the forerunner of the American Counseling
Association. It established an association offering guidance literature and united those with an interest in vocational
counseling for the first time.
1917 Development of the Army Alpha and Beta test
1920 Education courses for counsellors almost exclusively emphasized vocational guidance
Certification of counselors in Boston and New York
Freud’s ideas begin to influence mental health professionals
1924 State certification of guidance counselors begins
1927 Publication of new psychological instruments such as Edward Strong’s Strong Vocational Interest Inventory (SVII), this
instrument set the stage for future directions for assessment in counselling
1929 Abraham and Hannah Stone’s establishment of the first marriage and family counseling center in New York City.
1930 Broadening of counseling beyond occupational concerns. The seeds of this development were sown in the 1920s, when
Edward Thorndike began to challenge the vocational orientation of the guidance movement
1932 John Brewer published a book titled Education as Guidance. He proposed that every teacher be a counselor and that
guidance be incorporated into the school curriculum as a subject.
1938 Congress passed the George-Dean Act that created the Vocational Education Division of the U.S. Office of
Education and an Occupational Information and Guidance Service.
School counseling became more of a national phenomenon.
1939 The U.S. Employment Service published the first edition of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) which became a major
source of career information for guidance specialists working with students and the unemployed, described known
occupations in the United States and coded them according to job titles.
Development of the first theory of counseling, “The Clinical Method of Guidance”, which was formulated by E. G. Williamson
and his colleagues (including John Darley and Donald Paterson) at the University of Minnesota.
1942 Carl Rogers publishes Counseling & Psychotherapy and begins the era of individual counseling
1945 Counseling becomes dominant school guidance service
1946 U.S. government further promoted counseling through the George- Barden Act of 1946, which provided vocational education
funds through the U.S. Office of Education for counselor training institutes.
1952 The establishment of the American Personnel and Guidance Association (APGA) with the purpose of formally organizing
groups interested in guidance, counseling, and personnel matters.
The Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) of APA was formally established. It was initially known as the Division of
Counseling Psychology.
1953 The charting of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA). It joined APGA as its fifth member shortly thereafter.
The passage of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
1962 Gilbert Wrenn set the tone for the decade in his widely influential book, The Counselor in a Changing World.
1981 The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) was formed as an affiliate
organization of APGA.
1982 The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) was formed
1984 After considerable debate, the APGA changed its name to the American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD)
1985 Chi Sigma Iota, an international academic and professional honor society, was formed in 1985 by Thomas J. Sweeney to
promote excellence in the counseling profession.
1986 Establishment of the American Association of State Counseling Boards (AASCB) by Ted Remley.
1987 CACREP achieved membership in the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA), bringing it “into a position of
accreditation power parallel to” such specialty accreditation bodies as the APA
1992 AACD to modify its name and become the American Counseling Association (ACA). The new name better reflected the
membership and mission of the organization.
2002 Counseling formally celebrated its 50th anniversary as a profession under the umbrella of the ACA.
2003 Center for School Counseling Outcome Research was developed by Jay Carey
2006 US congress officially declared Feb 6-10 as National School Counseling Week
HISTORY OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING IN PHILIPPINES

Year Personality/Event
Pre-colonial Counseling still shows vestiges of indigenous help-seeking through (a)superstition; (b) reliance on elders,
faith healers, and fortune tellers; and (c) belief in the supernatural
1913 Definite mention of vocational guidance from the report of the Director of Education.
1925 Formal vocational guidance in the public school began.
1932 Psychological Clinic was established pioneered by Dr. Sinforoso Padilla, which concerned itself with cases of student
discipline, as well as emotional, academic and vocational problems.

1940 Establishment of the first psychological clinic at the University of the Philippines
1940-1960 Teachers and officials of the Bureau of Public Schools were sent abroad to study and observe guidance and
counselling practices in the United States, England and other European countries.

1941-1944 The growth of guidance and counseling was interrupted by the Japanese occupation
1945 Guidance Association of the Philippines, the first formal organization of Filipino counsellors had been established.

Foreign guidance experts like Dr. Rey G. Bose, and George H. Bonnette, were invited to help in making leading
Filipino School Administrators “guidance conscious”.

Bonnette visited secondary schools, handled seminars all over the country, served as consultant to the Bureau of
Public Schools, while Dr. Bose offered courses in some colleges.

First guidance Institute was held at the National Teachers College with U.S Army Psychologists as resource person in
November

1950 Interest in guidance as a significant component of education grew

More Filipinos either as government grantees, on private scholarships, or on their own went abroad, mostly to the
United States to specialize in guidance and counseling.

Universities started offering counselor education programs to meet the demand of trained personnel, (counselors).

1951 Congress proposed the establishment of a functional guidance and counseling program to help students select their
course, activities, occupations, friends, future mates.
1952 Different public school superintendents, in a convention, approved ten recommendations pertaining to the early
development of guidance services in the public schools.

City of Manila then was regarded as having the most up-to-date organization and maintenance of functional guidance
program in general secondary school.
1953 Philippine Association of Guidance Counselors (PGCA) was organized in order to study the needs, interests and
potentialities of our young people and to establish a Testing Bureau.
1970 More professional associations: Indigenization
 Philippine Association for Counselor Education, Research, and Supervision
(PACERS)
 Career Development Association of the Philippines (CDAP)
1976 Philippine Association for Counselor Education, Research and Supervision (PACERS) established in March 6, 1976.

1980 The historic EDSA Revolution put a halt to the plans and preparations for the annual conference-workshop. The
officers convened to reexamine PACERS’ focus and direction in keeping with the country’s post revolution call for
rehabilitation and reconciliation.
1990 Workshops introduced intervention strategies to help or regain family wholeness.
2004 ‘Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004’ was pass. The Act was intended to professionalize the practice of guidance
and counseling and to create the Professional Regulatory Board of Guidance and Counseling.

2008 The Family and Pastoral Counseling Association of the Philippines was established

Session prescribed as an hour in counseling cost between 500 and 2,000 Philippine pesos