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 Competencies:
 Discuss the roles and functions of counselors. HUMSS_DIASS12-Ic-6
 Identify specific work areas in which counselors work. HUMSS_DIASS12-Ic-
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Objectives: At the end of the week, you shall have to

 determine and explain the roles and functions of counselors in the society;
 identify the area of specialization of counselors suited for every situation in
pandemic crisis;
 create an overview of what a counselor does using a semantic web; and
 value the importance of counselors in the society.

Learner’s Tasks

Lesson Overview

ROLES, FUNCTIONS, AND SPECIFIC WORK AREAS OF COUNSELORS

“Counseling is a helping profession”. This statement defines roles and functions of counselors. According to
Gibson and Mitchell (2003), a helping profession is composed of members “who are specially trained and licensed to perform
a unique and service for fellow human beings”.
Roles of Counselors
Here in the Philippines, Counseling is a profession (R.A. 9258 also known as the Guidance and Counseling Act of
2004) that allows you to help others manage their responses to life’s challenges (Cleofe et al., 2015). It is more just listening,
its “active listening”; its more emphatic, it’s caring; the relationship of client and therapist/counselor are guided by rules and
regulations (Code of Ethics, R.A. 9258) so as to protect not only the Counselors, but also the rights of clients.
Functions of Counselors
Professional school counselors function as follows:
1. Providers of individual and group counseling services. In a school setting, professional counselors are equipped
not only in helping individuals understand themselves, but also in providing correct evaluation of either behavioral or
clinical problems a student may have.
2. Developmental classroom guidance specialists. Professional counselors also prepare lessons and implement
guidance instructions to students. They deliver talks, seminars, workshop, and other interesting activities. Lastly,
professional counselors improve their programs and mode of instruction through consistent feedback and evaluation.
3. Leaders and advocates of academic success. Professional school counselors have an ethical responsibility of
promoting academic success by helping students identify barriers affecting school performance. These barriers may
be personal (example: living with an absentee or separated parents); socio-emotional (ex. peer pressure); moral
dilemmas (ex. failing an exam or cheating to pass an exam), or career-related barriers (ex. indecisiveness about a
course in college).
4. Career development specialists. Professional counselors also provide activities that will prepare students for the
demands and requirements of their chosen profession. These activities include formal writing of resumes, having
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 proper responses to job interviews and knowing appropriate clothing for job applications
5. Agents of diversity and multiculturalism. Professional school counselors are trained to deal with and address the
needs of people from different cultural backgrounds.
6. Advocates of students with special needs and students-at-risk. Professional counselors give attention to students
with special needs-such as the athletes, honor students, students with absentee parents, those with learning disabilities
and other clinically diagnosed students.
7. Advocates of a safe school environment. Conflicts, which may lead to violence, happen in some school
communities. For instance, there are issues on bullying-physical, verbal, cyber, psychological, etc. nowadays. Hence,
a comprehensive school counseling program with intervention components such as school bullying campaign and
peer and mentoring can address this issue.
8. School and community collaboration specialists. To ensure student’s holistic development and success,
professional school counselors work in collaboration with the other school authorities and with the parents of the
students.

Specific Work Areas in which Counselor Work

The scope of work a professional counselor covers a broad area. Some of the role’s functions require specialization
because counselors cater to the various needs of an individual. Appropriate counseling services are provided given an
identified need. Among the following are some work areas which counselors delves and specializes:
1. School Counseling. School counselors help students at all levels to understand and cope with social, behavioral, and
personal problems. School or education counselors emphasize preventive and developmental counseling to enhance
students’ personal, social, and academic growth and to provide students with the life skills needed to deal with
problems before they worsen. School counselors often provide special services, including alcohol and drug
prevention programs, conflict resolution classes, vocational counseling, and also try to identify cases of domestic
abuse and other family problems that can affect a student’s development.
2. Mental Health or Clinical Counseling. Mental health counselors work with individuals, families, and groups to
address and treat mental and emotional disorders and to promote mental health. They are trained in a variety of
therapeutic techniques used to address issues such as depression, anxiety, addiction and substance abuse, suicidal
impulses, stress, trauma, low self-esteem, and grief.
3. Rehabilitation Counseling. These counselors provides counseling, guidance and case management services to
persons with disabilities to assist them in achieving their psychological, personal, social, and vocational goals. After
conferring with the client’s physicians, psychologists, occupational therapists, and the employer, a rehabilitation
program is initiated.
4. Vocational Counselors or career counselors help individuals and groups with career, personal goals, social and
educational counseling. Many times, counselors in this field work with individuals who feel unsatisfied with their
career choices, but who are afraid to make changes because of emotional issues or family or financial constraints.
5. Industrial Counseling. Counselors may also specialize in the industrial setting, where they could provide workplace
counseling to respond to the concern of the employees. Aside from counseling, they are also tapped in other areas
like training or professional development service or in other activities to help the employees develop soft skills.
6. Marriage and Family Counseling. A marriage counselor is unbiased third parties who can help couples resolve
marital problems. Distressed couples seek the help of a marriage counselor when they don’t want to divorce but
aren’t sure how to compromise on various issues.
7. Private Practice. Counselors may have their own wellness center or private clinic. The clinic can accommodate
children and/or adults, depending on the counselor’s specialization.
8. Community Counseling. It is provided to members of the society who encounter difficulties in the community
setting. Counselors who work in the community setting are usually adept in the community’s background, culture, or
practices.

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Activity 1. Situational Analysis
Directions: Identify what role and function is or not portrayed in given situations and explain. Write your answers in a
separate sheet of paper.

Situation 1
“Counselor Manabat only sees that students, who have financial capacity, deserve to go to better schools. So he
organizes career orientation for students who are in middle class. He organizes a different career orientation for the others
who cannot afford.”
Roles and Function: ________________________________________________________________
Explanation: _______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________

Situation 2

“The school is having a crisis of academic performance for grades 11 and 12 students. Their school is having a
NAT next month. The principal tapped the services of Guidance Counselor Ms. Morales for the students’ improvement
and development. Ms. Morales requested a meeting of both the parents, teachers and other related parties to discuss some
academic interventions and rehabilitation measures to promote development of the learners.”
Roles and Function: _______________________________________________________________
Explanation: _______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________

Activity 2: A Profession for every situation

Direction: Identify which area of specialization of counselors is suited for every situation in pandemic crisis or focus area
presented. Write your answers in a separate sheet of paper.
Focus Area Area of Specialization
1. Depressed quarantined soldiers
2. Kylie was diagnosed having postpartum
depression
3. Constant fighting of parent in the house
4. The grade 10 student of Miguel Malvar High
School are having difficulty of what school to go
to in the SHS
5. Brgy. 112. of Quezon City was on lockdown
for 14 days, due to the rising cases of COVID 19
in the community

Activity 3: A Picture of a Counselor

Directions: Research on what counselors actually do inside the school. Gather as many as you can. You can ask your school
counselors, or you may look it up on the internet. Express the collected data through the cut-out or drawn photographs and
place them within the case then answer the critical thinking questions. You may want to follow the format below. Your

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output will be graded using the given rubric below. Write your answers in a separate sheet of paper.

Picture

Picture Counselor’s Roles Picture

and Functions

Picture

Critical Thinking Questions:

1. What did you discover after gathering your data?
________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. As a Filipino, what practices or values can you learn from your guidance counselor? How will you promote these
values and practices?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________

SEMANTIC WEB RUBRIC

Category 4 3 2 1
Content Content is Content is good, Content is fair/poor and Content is very poor and
exemplary, suggests suggests little ideas of suggests very little ideas suggests no idea of the
important ideas of the topic of the topic topic
the topic
Images All images are All images are effective, Some images are Too few images are used to
effective but there effective. be an
appear to be too few, too effective presentation.
many
or some that are
irrelevant.

RUBRIC (Explanation)

1 2 3 4
Performance Areas
Explanation & Analysis Little to no Explanation and Clear explanation Clear and concise
explanation or analysis attempt to and analysis that explanation and analysis
analysis of the discuss the discuss most of the that thoroughly
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 information information but is information discusses the
presented. unclear or lacks depth. presented. information presented.
Little to no Writing contains some Writing attempts to Writing maintains a
Organization &
attempt at informal elements maintain a formal formal and objective
Transitions
organization. (e.g., contractions). and objective tone tone throughout.
Distracting Mechanical errors A couple errors Mechanics reflect
Mechanics
mechanical errors distract at times present, but they do careful editing.
(Spelling & Grammar
throughout. not distract.

Formative Test

Direction: Choose the letter that corresponds to the best answer. Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.
1. What specific function of professional counselors that prepare lessons and implement guidance instructions to
students. They deliver talks, seminars, workshop, and other interesting activities?
A. Developmental classroom guidance specialists
B. Leaders and advocates of academic success
C. Providers of individual and group services
D. Career development specialists
2. Which of the following function of professional counselors that provides activities preparing students for the demand
and requirements of their chosen profession?
A. School and Community collaboration specialists
B. Leaders and advocates of academic success
C. Career development specialists
D. Advocates of students with special needs and students-at-risk.
3. Which of the following does follow “School and Community Collaboration”?
A. Allowing yourself to be counselled means that you have a problem only in the school and have issues in
academic success, that is only concern with the school
B. Counselors’ ensures learner’s holistic development and success through barangay, teacher and parent
coordination
C. A counselor’s job is in only to see counseling as its objective and final approach to student improvement
D. The school is an independent institution, it does not need help from other schools in improving learner-
community engagement.
4. Career development specialist is a function or counselor in the setting of ___.
A. Clinical C. Industrial
B. Educational D. none of the above
5. Which is NOT true about counseling?
A. It caters mostly people with mental disabilities
B. It is most provided in the clinical setting
C. It most given to groups of people
D. It is a helping profession

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 Answers Key

Activity 1
(Answers are expected to vary)

Activity 2
1. Mental Health or Clinical Counseling
2. Vocational Counselors
3. Marriage and Family Counseling
4. Vocational Counselors
5. Community Counseling

Activity 3
(Answers are expected to vary)

References

Books:
Cleofe, Myreen P., Liquigan Boots C., Maadrigal, Christopher L. (2016). Discipline and Ideas in the Applied
Social Sciences. pp. 16-48
Corey, Gerald. (2015) Counseling and Psychotherapy. Theory and Practice.

Online Resource:
https://quizlet.com/233806095/lesson-32-areas-of-specialization-where-counselors-workflash-cards/

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