KIDAPAWAN CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM

SLM IN HUMSS 12 Specialized Subject – Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences
Quarter 1/ Midterm Period/ Week 2 (August 31-September 4, 2021)
Name:________________________________________________GRADE & SECTION:________________
LRN:_____________________________Subject Teacher:_______________________________________
Score:____________________________
I. OBJECTIVES
 For the next six weeks you are expected to demonstrate an understanding of professionals and
practitioners in counseling.
 At the end of this week (Week One) you are going to discuss the core values of counseling -
HUMSS_DIASS 12-Ib-5, show understanding of the roles and functions of counselors -
HUMSS_DIASS 12-Ic-6, identify specific work areas in which counselors work - HUMSS_DIASS 12-Ic-
7, and identify career opportunities for counselors - HUMSS_DIASS 12-Ic-8.
II. SUBJECT MATTER
Lesson 1
PROFESSIONALS AND PRACTITIONERS IN COUNSELING
References 1. Teacher’s Guide Page/s:___ 2. Learner’s Materials Pages: ____ 3. Textbook Pages:16-31 / 31-40
4. Additional Materials from Learning Resources (LR) portals:_____
BOOKS Sampa, Elias M. 2017 TEXTBOOK ON THE DISCIPLINES IN THE APPLIED
SOCIAL SCIENCES. Quezon City: Rex Printing Company Inc. and Dela Cruz,
Arleigh Ross D, PhD, Fernandez, Carl G, RSW, MSW, Melegrito, Ma. Lourdes F.
PhD, Valdez, Violet B. PhD 2016 THE PADAYON SERIES TEXTBOOK ON THE
DISCIPLINES IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES. Quezon City: Phoenix
Publishing House, Inc.
Other Learning TEXTBOOKS, HANDOUTS, MODULES, Smartphone, Laptop, Wifi Broadband
Resources
III. LEARNING RESOURCES
IV. PROCEDURE/ LEARNING ACTIVITIES
INTRODUCTION
The Discipline of Counseling. The potential of every human being to change and to continue
learning throughout the lifespan, in formal and informal settings, and especially in the environment of
counseling and psychological services. Strong relationships as the primary vehicle in helping others
to learn new ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving, including collaboration within the university
community, and partnering with other offices to provide comprehensive mental health services to
students. An emphasis on prevention of mental health problems via education, intervention, and
outreach into the University Community. Respect human dignity, partnership, autonomy, responsible
caring, personal integrity, and social justice are the core values of counseling.
What I know?
Instruction: Core Values of Counselor
1. ______________________ Counselors must reflect personal integrity, honesty, and truthfulness
with client.
2. ______________________ This entails respect for confidentiality and trust in a relationship of
counseling and ensuring a safe environment that is needed for healing.
3. ______________________ This primarily means respecting the potential of every human being to
change and continue learning throughout his/her life, and especially in the environment of
counseling.
4. ______________________ This means that the counselor must provide a client unconditional
positive regards, compassion, non- judgmental attitude, empathy, and trust.

5. ______________________ A counselor must foster partnership with various disciplines that

come together to support an integrated healing that encompasses various aspects such physical,
emotional, spiritual, and intellectual.
6. ______________________ This mean accepting and respecting the diversity of the clients, the
diversity of individuals, their cultures, languages, lifestyles, identities, ideologies, intellectual
capacities, personalities, and capabilities regardless of presented issues.
What’s In?
Instruction: Read the phrase carefully. Write your answer in the space before the number. Write
True if the phrase is correct or False if the phrase is not correct.
___________ 1. Counselors practice within the scope of their competence.
___________ 2. Counselors don’t divulge information regarding their clients.
___________ 3. Counselors can harm their clients provided with valid and legal reasons.
___________ 4. Counselors act with care and respect for individual and cultural differences.
___________ 5. Counselors can make-up stories to protect the interest of his or her profession.

Office Address: JP Laurel corner Quirino Drive, Brgy. Poblacion, Kidapawan City Name of the Writers: Ms. Christel May J. Paguican & Ms. Avelina B. Divinosa
Telephone No.: (064) 5724144/ (064) 5779654 Specialized Subject: Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences
Website: depedkidapawancity.com Email: kidapawan.city@deped.gov.ph Grade Level: Grade 12 Humanities and Social Sciences
 What’s New?
Professionals and Practitioners in the Discipline of Counseling. Guidance Counselors – as
natural person who has been professionally registered and licensed by a legitimate state entity and
by virtue of specialized training to perform the functions of guidance and counseling. To assist the
person or clients in realizing a change in behaviour or attitude, to assist them to seek achievement
and goals, to assist them to find help, teaching of social skills, effective communication, spiritual
guidance, decision making, and career choice are the roles of guidance counselors.
Helping a client develop potentials to the fullest, helping client plan to utilize his or her
potentials to the fullest, helping client plan his or her future in accordance with his or her abilities,
interest, and needs, sharing and applying the knowledge related to counseling such as counseling
theories, tools, and techniques; and administering a wide range of human development services are
the function of guidance counselors.
Having the ability to administer and maintain career guidance and counseling programs,
administer career guidance advocacy activities, capable career advocates; and facilitate conduct of
career advocacy collaboration with career advocates and peer facilitators are the competencies of
guidance counselors.
Attending and listening, reflective skills, probing skills are the foundation skills in guidance
counseling (Cully & Bond 2004). Common skills in studying the curriculum of accumulated scientific
knowledge across disciplines; communication skills, motivational skills, problem-solving skills, and
conflict resolution skills.
Areas of specialization where counselor work are child development and counseling,
adolescent development and counseling, gerontology (the aged), marital relationship counseling,
health, career/lifestyle, college and university, drug, consultation, business and industry, and other
specialist.
Career opportunities for counselors are educational and school counselor, vocational or
career counselor, marriage and family counselor, addictions and behavioral counselor, mental health
counselor, rehabilitation counselor, and genetic counselor.

What is it?
Instruction: Word Search! Areas of specialization where counselor work.

ADOLESCENT
BUSINESS
CAREER
CHILD
CONSULTATION
DRUG
GERONTOLOGY
HEALTH
MARITAL
UNIVERSITY

What’s more?
Enrichment Activity: Crossword Puzzle! Career opportunities for counselors.

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 What I have learned?
Situational Activity: You are currently in your last year in the Senior High School but you are still
undecided on what course to pursue in college. What specialized area of counseling you should
seek help and why? Give your reasons (at least two to three reasons)

What I can do?

Reflection: Why do you think a gerontological counselor may help you settle your grandparents in a
nursing home? Support your answer.

V. ASSESSMENT
Quiz 1: MULTIPLE CHOICE
Instruction: Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions. Shade the circle
properly and eligibly with blue/black pen for each item that corresponds to your answer on the
answer sheet attached in this module.
1. Avelina helps couple prepare emotionally and
psychologically for marriage and eventual family
life. What role is she fulfilling?
A. Career Counseling B. Marriage
Counseling C. Sexual Counseling D.
Spiritual Counseling
2. Chante wants to know what course she is to
take in college.
A. Career/lifestyle
B. College and University
C. Consultation
D. Drug
3. Manager April wants to know what type of
training will she give to her subordinates to
enable them to meet company targets.
A. Adolescent Development and Counseling
B. Child Development and
C. Consultation
D. Counseling Marital Relationship
Counseling
4. Jayza and Jason’s marriage are on the rocks.
They are not getting along each other anymore
but they still want to work things out.
A. Adolescent Development and Counseling
B. Business and industry
C. Consultation
D. Marital Relationship Counseling
5. Allan and Joseph are juvenile delinquents. They always get into riots. Many times, they have been
called to the principal’s office for vandalism, smoking and drunk attendance.
A. Adolescent Development and Counseling C. Consultation
B. Career / Lifestyle D. Marital Relationship Counseling
6. Bulawan and Norhanisa are siblings and both senior citizens who have fear of death.
A. Career / Lifestyle B. Child Development and Counseling C. Consultation D. Other Specialist
7. Joko and Reyce want to know how to deal with their son, Edward, who is always getting into
trouble not only at school but as well as their residence.
A. Business and industry
B. Child Development and Counseling
C. Consultation
D. Other specialization
8. Retirees have specific psychological need as well. Counselors attending to them are in which
setting?
A. Geriatric-related facilities B. Religious institutions C. Retail businesses D. The educational system

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9. Priests and nuns often have degrees in counseling because they have to take care of their flock’s
spiritual well-being. In which areas of specialization where counselor works?
A. Geriatric-related facilities B. Religious institutions C. Retail businesses D. The educational system
10. Some women experience postpartum depression after childbirth. Counselors attending to them
are in which setting?
A. Correctional Facilities/Prisons B. Detoxification Centers C. Hospitals D. Mental Health Facilities
11. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) is a grim reality among soldiers sent out to fight in the
battlefields. In which areas of specialization where counselor work to help these soldiers?
A. Geriatric-related facilitiesB. Private/Public Practice C. Religious Centers D. Veterans Affairs
12. Teenagers often have to deal with fast-paced changes happening both in their own bodies,
psyches, and how they relate to the environment. Counselors who attend to them are those usually
in which areas of specialization where counselor work?
A. Geriatric-related facilities B. Religious institutions C. Retail businesses D. The educational system
13. Which of the following statement is false on the goal of counseling?
A. It guides a person to face the problems in life.
B. It deals with clinical intervention to cure mentally ill patients.
C. It applies the psychological concepts & theories in dealing with the client.
D. All of the above
14. How does psychology relate in counseling?
A. It is needed by the mental patients in the mental institutions.
B. It is considered as the heart of the guidance services in schools.
C. It uses the psychological concepts in dealing people’s responses to stress.
D. All of the above
15. The following are the scopes of counseling except ________?
A. Loss and death B. Marital problems C. Mental illness D. None of the above

VI. AGREEMENT/ ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

Instruction: Reminder on your “MMK: Dear Future Self” recorded audio output (max of 3
min.)
RUBRICS FOR (WEEKLY ACTIVITY)
WHAT I KNOW, WHAT’S IN, WHAT IS IT, WHAT’S MORE, WHAT I HAVE LEARND, WHAT CAN I DO?
CRITERIA 5 4 3 2
The contents of the The contents of the The contents of The contents of the
topic were clearly topic were clearly the topic were not topic is poorly
presented presented but there is clearly presented presented
Content
lacking information.
Show exemplary in The delivery of the topic The delivery of the The delivery of the
Delivery delivering the topic is good. topic is slightly topic needs
vague. improvement.
The output is very The output is pleasant The output done is The output is poorly
Overall Output pleasant and very and presentable. good. done
presentable.

Noted By: ________________________________________

Name and Signature of Parent/Guardian
Date: __________________________

What can I do What I have What’s More What is it What's in What I Know
learned
A gerontological Across: 1. True 1. Personal
counselor may 2. BEHAVIORAL 2. True integrity
As a Grade 12 2. Autonomy
help my 4. VOCATIONAL 3. False
HUMSS student, I 3. Responsible
grandparents will seek the help 4. True
caring
because…………. Down: 5. False
of ____ counselor 4. Respect human
1EDUCATIONAL dignity
because…………
See rubrics… 3. FAMILY 5. Partnership
Answers may vary 5. GENETIC 6. Social justice
Answers may vary
per student. per student.