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 3 (September 7-11, 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 value rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities
of counselors - HUMSS_DIASS 12-Ic-9 and distinguish between ethical and unethical behaviors
among counselors - HUMSS_DIASS 12-Ic-10.
II. SUBJECT MATTER
Lesson 3
PROFESSIONALS AND PRACTITIONERS IN COUNSELING
References 1. Teacher’s Guide Page/s:___ 2. Learner’s Materials Pages: ____ 3. Textbook Pages:32-34 / 41-42
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
Rights - As state registered and licensed professionals, counselors are protected. They are
governed by scientific theories, practices, and process as well as professional standards and ethics.
Responsibilities – They are responsible for the practice of the profession in accordance with
their mandates and professional guidelines and ethics.
Accountabilities – They are accountable to their clients, the professional body, and the
government.
It is critical that the counselor and the client fully understand the nature of the concerns,
which leads to a contract to act on the mutually agreed upon problem. (Peterson & Nisenholz 1987)

What I know?
Instruction: Complete me! Value rights, responsibilities and accountabilities of counselors.
COMMITMENT FAIR INTEGRITY RESPECT
RIGHT RESPONSIBLE PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Guidance Counselor code of ethics. __________ human right and dignity, respect for the client’s
__________ to be self-governing, A ______________ to promoting the client well-being, fostering
___________ caring, Fair treatment of all clients and the provision of adequate services, equal
opportunity to clients availing counseling services, ensuring the ___________ to practitioners-client
relationship, fostering the practitioner’s self-knowledge and care for self, enhancing the equality of
________________ knowledge and its application and ___________________ to the society.

What’s New?
CODE OF ETHICS OF COUNCELORS Magna Carta for Counselors (RA 9258)
Principle 1: Respect for the rights and dignity of the client – Guidance counselors honor and
promote the fundamental rights, moral and cultural values, dignity, and worth of clients.
Principle 2: Competence – Guidance counselors maintain and update their professional
skills. They recognize the limits of their expertise, engage in self-care, and seek support and
supervision to maintain the standard of their work.
Principle 3: Responsibility – Guidance counselors are aware of their professional
responsibility to act in a trustworthy, reputable, and accountable manner toward clients, colleagues,
and the community in which they work and live.
Principle 4: Integrity – Guidance counselors seek to promote integrity in their practice. They
represent themselves accurately and treat others with honesty, straightforwardness, and fairness.

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 I have learned?
Situational Activity: In the area of confidentiality of the Code of Ethics, there is a portion on client’s
right to privacy. What if the counselor, in his/her conversation with the client, found out that the client
accidentally killed a person, will you report the client to police or not?

What I can do?

Reflection: If given a chance to work as a counselor, what career opportunity would you prefer and
do you think it will be easy for you to follow and distinguish between the ethical and unethical
behaviors of a counselor? How can you say if it’s ethical and unethical? State your reasons.

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. Counselors work professionally with

truthfulness and equality with or without the
public scrutiny.
A. Integrity
B. Competence
C. Responsibility
D. Respect for the rights and dignity of the
client
2. They deal actively with conflicts of
interest, avoid exploiting others, and are
alert to inappropriate behavior on the part of
colleagues.
A. Integrity
B. Competence
C. Responsibility
D. Respect for the rights and dignity of the
client
3. Which of the following does not show an
ethical behaviour among counselors?
A. Promotes integrity in the counseling
profession.
B. Maintains and update their professional
and lavish lifestyle.
C. Upholds their professional responsibility
towards their client and community.
D. Honors and promote the fundamental
rights, moral and cultural values of the
client.
4. They offer only those services for which they are qualified by education, training, and experience.
A. Integrity
B. Competence
C. Responsibility
D. Respect for the rights and dignity of the client
5. Which of the following would be considered unethical behavior on the part of a school counselor?
A. Conducting counseling research without the consent of the client.
B. Friending students on Facebook and commenting on their daily activities.
C. Collaborating with other counseling professionals on a student treatment plan.
D. Referring a student who appears to have a drug dependency to an outside treatment facility.

6. Ritchie is a marriage counselor whose client experienced extreme bullying inside the classroom. If
you are Ritchie, what will you do?

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 A. Assess the needs of the client C. Refer the client to a school guidance counselor
B. Continue the counseling and help the client D. Refuse to conduct counseling with cheap paying client
7. You have a private counseling practice in a racially mixed community. Your clientele, however,
are nearly an IP. When you examined the referrals, you’ve received in the past months, you note
that all of them are IP as well. What do you do?
A. Counselor must do his/her outmost to avoid equality in your counseling practice.
B. Counselor must do his/her outmost to avoid discrimination in your counseling practice.
C. Counselor must do his/her outmost to encourage impartiality in your counseling practice.
D. Counselor must do his/her outmost to promote discrimination in your counseling practice.
8. You think that one of your clients in counseling program in which you work is ready to go home
but the director of the clinic advises you to keep this client for another few weeks because the client
is rich and may increase the profit of the clinic. What do you do?
A. Counselors must continue the counseling relationships.
B. Counselors must not terminate the counseling relationships.
C. Counselors must terminate the counseling relationships when it is deemed necessary.
D. All of the above.
9. One of your clients, an attractive person about your age, suggest going out for coffee some
afternoon next week. What do you do?
A. You should not engage in counseling relationship with your family and friends or people
with whom you have other kind of previous relationships.
B. You should not reject in counseling relationship with your family and friends or people
with whom you have other kind of previous relationships.
C. You should not disengage in counseling relationship with your family and friends or people
with whom you have other kind of previous relationships.
D. All of the above.
10. One of your client, a teen mom, says that she’d been having trouble with anger and that she has
shaken her baby a few times recently to stop it from crying. What do you do?
A. Counselors are ethically bond to protect the physical safety of the client and those who might be
harmed by the client and a counselor must report suspected abuse to the proper authorities.
B. Counselors are ethically bond to protect the physical safety of the client and those who might be
harmed by the client, and a counselor must protect suspected abuse to the proper authorities.
C. Counselors are ethically bond to neglect the physical safety of the client and those who might
be harmed by the client, and a counselor must disregard suspected abuse to the proper
authorities.
D. All of the above.
11. A young woman comes to your office in the local mental health agency. She says she’s in
counseling with a male counselor in another agency but that she’d really like to work with a woman,
and she’d heard some very nice things about the way you work. She ask you to take her on as a
client. What do you do?
A. There may be times when it is appropriate for two counselors to work with a given person for
instance if they are working with distinctly separate issues but each should be aware of the
other’s work and should occasionally ignore with each other if the clients gives permission.
B. There may be times when it is wrong for two counselors to work with a given person for
instance if they are working with distinctly separate issues but each should be aware of the
other’s work and should occasionally consult with each other if the clients gives permission.
C. There may be times when it is appropriate for two counselors to work with a given person for
instance if they are working with distinctly separate issues but each should be aware of the
other’s work and should occasionally consult with each other if the clients gives permission.
D. All of the above.
12. You are working as a school counselor in the local high school. A lawyer calls you asking for
information about one of the students on your caseload. She says that the information is important
and that the family says it’s OK for you to talk with her. What do you do?
A. Clients have the right to confidentiality in their relationship with you and bound by your
professional code of ethics to hold confidential in everything a client tells you.
B. Clients have the right to privacy in their relationship with you and bound by your professional
code of ethics to hold confident everything a client tells you.
C. Clients have the right to secrecy in their relationship with you and bound by your professional
code of ethics to hold confident everything a client tells you.
D. All of the above.
13. Christel failed to keep the privacy of a very influential client. She spilled the issue to a friend who
eventually posted the information in the social media. What can one say on her actions?
A. The client should thank Christel for sharing his secret to the public.
B. She is a very responsible counselor but still she can commit mistakes.
C. She is accountable to her client and may soon face charges against her.
D. Counselors have also the right to disclose the secrets of the clients to the most trusted
individuals they have.

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14. You're a counselor working with Leomar in a counseling session when he tells you that he has a
plan to physically harm another boy next Friday after school. You should _______________.
A. Refer Johnny to an outside physician.
B. Tell Johnny's parents to keep an eye on things.
C. Report the incident to all appropriate authorities.
D. Ignore the statement because it appears vague and non- threatening.
15. The institute of Guidance Counselors’ Code lists the four distinct ethical standards of counseling.
Which principle is needed to remind the counselors to avoid doing harm and adopt a systematic
approach to resolving ethical dilemmas?
A. Integrity
C. Responsibility
B. Competence
D. Respect for the rights and dignity of the client.

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: __________________________

Answer Key

What can I do What I have What I Know

learned
If I will become a 1. Respect
counselor, I will be a 2. Right
_______ If I were the 3. Commitment
because………. counselor, I will….. 4. Responsible
5. Fair
As a __ counselor, I See rubrics… 6. Integrity
distinguish ethical from 7. Professional
unethical counselor 8. Responsibility
behaviors through……. Answers may vary
per student.