REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Division of Camarines Sur
COLEGIO DELA VIRGIN DEL PILAR (CVP), INC
Formerly: Academia Sagrada Familia de Lupi, Inc.
SCHOOL ID NO. 433585
Colacling, Lupi, Camarines Sur
Mobile # SMART 0912-488-8437/GLOBE 0935-347-3635

Discipline and Ideas in the

Applied Social Sciences
THE APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES
AND THE DISCIPLINE OF
COUNSELING

Week 3
Module 3

Prepared by:
Mrs. Claribel A. Barce
DIASS Subject Teacher

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 HOW TO USE THIS MODULE

Before starting the module, I want you to set aside other tasks that will disturb you
while enjoying the lessons. Read the simple instructions below to successfully enjoy the
objectives of this kit. Have fun!

1. Follow carefully all the contents and instructions indicated in every page
of this module.
2. Write on your notebook the concepts about the lessons. Writing enhances
learning that is important to develop and keep in mind.
3. Perform all the provided activities in the module.
4. Let your facilitator/guardian assess your answers using the answer key card.
5. Analyze conceptually the posttest and apply what you have learned.
6. Enjoy studying!

PARTS OF THE MODULE

• Expectations - These are what you will be able to know after completing the
lessons in the module.
• Pre-test - This will measure your prior knowledge and the concepts to be
mastered throughout the lesson.
• Looking Back to your Lesson - This section will measure what learning’s and
skills did you understand from the previous lesson.
• Brief Introduction - This section will give you an overview of the lesson.
• Discussion - This section provides a short discussion of the lesson. This aims to
help you discover and understand new concepts and skills.
• Activities - This is a set of activities you will perform with a partner.
• Remember - This section summarizes the concepts and applications of the
lessons.
• Check your understanding - It will verify how you learned from the
lesson.
• Post-test - This will measure how much you have learned from the entire
module.

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 EXPECTATIONS

Specifically, this module will help you to:

 Explain the roles and function of counselors

 Identify specific work areas in which counselors work

 Identify career opportunities for counselors

 Value rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities

 Distinguish between ethical and unethical behaviors among counselors.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

- Counseling as a profession is stimulating and also satisfying.

- If you find meaning helping a client becomes socially functional.
- If you get excited about the study on human distress and how to distress
- If you are inquisitive on processing feeling then you are attracted to counseling as
profession.

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 DISCUSSIONS

Lesson Roles, Functions and Competencies of

1 Counselors
Roles of a Guidance Counselor

 Assist the person or persons (clients) in realizing changes in behavior

or attitude, in seeking achievement of goals, in finding help.
 Teach social skills, effective communication, spiritual guidance,
decision-making, and career choices.
 Aid in coping with crisis.

Functions of Guidance Counselors

1. Helping a client develop potential to the fullest

2. Helping a client plan to utilize his or her potential to the fullest.
3. Helping a client plan his or her future in accordance with his or her
abilities, interest and needs.
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

Guidance counselors…
• Have the ability to administer and maintain career guidance and counseling
programs;
• Can administer career advocacy activities;
• Are capable career advocates; and
• Can facilitate conduct of career advocacy in collaboration with career
advocates and peer facilitators

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 Other Competencies that apply to the broader Counseling Work

Stage I: What’s going on?

Stage II: What solutions

EGAN (2002)
make sense for me?

Stage III: What do I have

to do to get what I need
or want?

FOUNDATION SKILLS OF COUNSELING (CULLEY AND BOND,

2004)

Attending and Listening

Skills

CULLEY AND Reflective Skills

BOND
(2014)

Probing Skills
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 1. Attending and Listening – Attending and listening skills refer to active
listening which means listening with purpose and responding in such way
that clients are aware that they have both been heard and understood.
2. Reflective skills - This skill is concerned with the other person frame of
reference. Reflective skills capture what the client is saying and plays it
back to them but in counselor own words. The key skills are restating or
paraphrasing and summarizing for instance, the counselor may begin
with “Did you mean to say”.
3. Probing Skills – This skill facilitate going deeper, asking more directed or
leading questions (leading in the sense that they move the conversation
in particular direction.

Four (4) Common Skills that Require Studying the Curriculum of

Accumulated Scientific Knowledge;

1. Communication skills
These include the ability to actively listen, demonstrate understanding, ask
appropriate questions, and provide information as needed.

2. Motivational skills
These skills are the ones that influence a helpee to take action after the
helping session or consultation.

3. Problem-solving skills
These include differentiating between symptoms and the problem,
pinpointing probable causes and triggers for the problem, and then generating a
range of possible solutions to the actual problem.

4. Conflict resolution skills

These involve learning about styles of conflict resolution including
recognizing the signs of conflict and learning the process of conflict resolution

Areas of Specialization Where Counselors Work

Counselors are pratically found in all spheres of human development transitions

and caregiving, Peterson and Nesenhole (1987) identified 11 areas.

1. Child development and counseling – inclues parents educations, preschool

counseling, early childhood education, elementary scholl counseling, child

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 counseling in mental health agencies and counseling with battered and abused
children and their families.
2. Adolescent development and counseling – covers middle and high school
counseling, psychological edcuation, career development specialist, adolecent
counseling in menatal health agencies, youth work in residential facility and
youth probation officer.
3. Gerontology – Gerontological counseling (aged) is considered the fastest
growing field and essentially involves counseling of older citizens, it includes
preretirement counseling, community center counseling, nursing home
counseling and hospice work.
4. Marital Relationship counseling – It includes premarital counseling, marriage
counseling, family counseling, sex education, sexula dysfunction counseling and
divorce meditation.
5. Heath – Offers possibility for nutrition counseling, exercise and health education,
nurse – counselor, rehabilitation counseling, stress management counseling,
holistic health counseling,anorexia or bolimnia and genetic counseling.
6. Career/Lifestyle – Includes guidance on choices and decision making pertaining
to career or lifestyle, guidance on career development provision of education
and occopational information to cleints and more.
7. College and University – offer the following opportunies; college student
counseling, student activities, student personel work, residential hall or
dormitory counselor, and counselor eduator.
8. Drugs – has several options such as substance abuse counseling, alcohol
counseling, drug counseling, stop smoking program manager and crisis
intervention counseling.
9. Consultation – Covers agency and corporate consulting, organizationl
development director, industrial psychlogy specialist.
10. Business and Industry – Include training and development personnel, quality and
work-life or quality circle manager, employee assistance programs manager;
employee career development officer affirmative action or equal opportunity
specialist.
11. Other Specialties – may include phobia counseling, agoraphobia, self-
management,inter-personal relationships management, intrapersonal
management, and grief counseling.

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Rights, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities of Counselors

Counselors are responsible for the practice of their profession in accordance with
their mandates and professional guidelines and ethics. They are accountable to their
clients, the professional body, and the government

Code of Ethics of Counselors

Principle 1: Respect for the rights and dignity of the client

Principle 2: Competence
Principle 3: Responsibility
Principle 4: Integrity

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Fundamental Principles of All Existing Ethical Codes for Counselors

• Respecting human rights and dignity

• Respect for the client’s right to self-governing
• A commitment to promoting the client’s well-being
• Fostering responsible caring
• Fair treatment of all clients and the provision of adequate services
• Equal opportunity to clients availing counseling services
• Ensuring the integrity of practitioner-client relationship
• Fostering the practitioner’s self-knowledge and care for self
• Enhancing the quality of professional knowledge and its application
• Responsibility to the society

ACTIVITIES

Activity 3.1

Instruction:

1. Search and read the “Magna Carta for Licensed Guidance Counselor”
2. Answer the following Guide Questions;
a. What is the significance of Code of ethics in counseling Profession?
b. What are the examples of ethical and unethical behavior of a professional
counselor?
c. If given a chance to work as a counselor, do you think it will be easy for you to
follow and distinguish between the ethical and unethical behaviors of a
counselor? Why?
3. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

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 REFLECTION

Name ____________________________________________ Grade and Section ___________

School: ______________________ Date: _____________ Subj. Teacher: _______________

Guide Question 1: If you will be given a chance to be a counselor today, what career
opportunities will you like to get and be hired? Give your reasons.

Guide Question 2: What is your most significant learning about the topic?

Guide Question 3: How do you think a school counselor may help you resolve some of your
personal issues and concerns?

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