History and

Development
of Guidance
Who is the Father of Guidance
Frank Parsons the “Father of Guidance”
 Boston, Massachussettes
Stressed the scientific approach to selecting a career.
In selecting a vocation:
One must have a clear self-understanding of one’s
aptitudes, abilities, interests, resources and limitations.
Knowledge of the requirements, advantages, and
disadvantages of different employment.

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 Who is the Father of Guidance in
Philippines?
Sinforoso Padilla is the father of guidance in the Philippines
Before:
• 1925 Guidance as movement, as it is now practiced and
accepted, was known in the Philippines.
• 1932 when a Psychological Clinic was started by Dr.
Sinforoso and which concerned itself with cases of student
discipline, as well as emotional, academic and vocational
problems.
• 1945 the First Guidance Institute
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• 1951 Congress proposed the establishment of a functional
guidance and counseling program to help students select
their course, activities, occupations, friends, future mates.

• 1953 The Philippine Association of Guidance Counselors

was organized in order to study the needs, interests and
potentialities of our young people and to established a Testing
Bureau.

• 1970 Presidential Commission to Survey Philippine

Education (PCSPE)

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• 1970-1986 Increased attention to career guidance in general
and to career information and tests.

• 1973 NCEE or National College Entrance Examination was

established to help the students in determining their career after
high school
• March 6,1976 Philippine Association for Counselor Education,
Research and Supervision was established (PACER)
• March 4, 1977 Career Development Association in the Philippines was
founded by Dr. Josefina Santamaria
• 2004 School Counselors in compliance with guidance and
counseling Act 2004
• 2009 Pushed the cultivation of strengths based professional
identities
among school counselors based on culturally relevant and
evidence based practices that support the developmental l earning
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abilities of the students.
Development of Guidance
 Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004
the most significant development in Philippine counseling is the
Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004 (Republic Act No. 9258).
 Guidance counselors pioneered regulation for counseling, and
psychologists are following suit through the Philippine Psychology Act of
2009 (Republic Act No. 10029).
regulate psychology and create a professional regulatory board for
licensing psychologists (Kabiling, 2010).

According to the Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004, counseling in

the Philippines, similar to how it is defined in the United States, is a
“profession that involves the use of an integrated approach to the
development of a well-functioning individual primarily by helping him/her to
utilize his/her potentials to the fullest and plan his/her present and future in
accordance with his/her abilities, interests, and needs” (2004). 6
 The functions of a guidance counselor enumerated in this law are
counseling, psychological testing, learning and study orientation,
research, placement, referral and group processes, and teaching
guidance and counseling courses.
 Republic Act 11206 or Secondary School Career Guidance and
Counseling

Prepared by: Legaspi, Maria Ana B.