`Quarter 1

THE DISCIPLINE OF COUNSELING:

LESSONS
Areas of work, Roles & Functions
2,3,4
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: Read the specific directions carefully before answering the exercises
and activities. For online consultations, please refer to the given schedule.

ESSENTIAL LEARNING PURPOSES: At the end of these lessons, I am expected to:

1. A: Identify specific work areas in which social workers work.
2. T: Adapt the different processes and methods involved in undertaking social
work.
What do I
need to
know?
Before going further, let us realize that almost all careers is the social science
discipline is interconnected one way or another. At the end of teach lesson
additional knowledge and skill is relevant!

Elicit. Answer the warm up question below.

What I
know?  Write and illustrate your most memorable memory with your
REVIEW
guidance counselor.

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 Who are Counselors and Where can
you find them?
Guidance counselors or “Counselors” in the
general term can easily be defined as people
who counsel, give advice and help you when
you have a problem. In the Philippines,
especially in school settings, being called in
the guidance counselor’s office is usually a
jittery and nerve wrecking moment. But what
does a counselor actually there for?

Counselor: A counselor’s role includes aiding one in coping with a

crisis. In some settings, counseling includes premarital and marital
counseling, grief and loss (divorce, death, or amputation), domestic
violence and other types of abuse, special counseling situations like
terminal illness (death and dying) as well counseling of emotionally
and mentally disturbed individuals. Counseling could be short-term
(brief counseling) or long-term.

Roles, Functions and Competencies of Counselors

• As we begin with what really a guidance counsellor does, let us first define
their number one role which is to assist the person or persons in realizing a
change in behavior or attitude, seeking achievement or goals, finding
help, and in some cases, the role of counsellors includes the teaching of
social skills, effective communication, spiritual guidance, decision-making,
and career choices. To help a client is a crisis, summarizes the role of a
counsellor.

• According to R.A No. 9258 (Sec. 2-3) defines a guidance counsellor as a

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 counselling. The guidance counselor’s
functions include the use of an integrated approach to develop a well-
functioning individual primarily through:
1. helping a client develop potentials to the fullest;
2. helping a client plan to utilize his or her potentials to the fullest;
3. helping a client plan his or her future in accordance with his or her
abilities, interests, and needs; and
4. sharing and applying knowledge related to counselling, such as
administering to a wide range of human development services.

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 • Some of many competencies of a guidance counsellor are as follows:
 Administer and maintain counselling programs like career path
decision making.
 Design and implement programs for group dynamics and the
independent self-production development.
 On an actual crisis situation, the counsellor may do the following
1. Clarify the issues that need resolving.
2. Make a list of solutions and define its possible outcomes.
3. Giving the client the power or will to pursue the goal of
getting better.

To remember: A guidance counsellor should be as flexible as possible. They

have the heaviest burden of avoiding transference and counter transference
in their everyday life in the career. Being able to keep with the hustle and
bustle and still keep a well-balanced personal life is the biggest challenge for
all counsellors.

Areas of Specialization Where Counselors Work

Counselors are practically found in all spheres of human
development, transitions, and caregiving. Identified
below are 11 major areas:

1) Child Development - Child development refers to the sequence of

physical, language, thought and emotional changes that occur in a
child from birth to the beginning of adulthood. During this process a
child progresses from dependency on their parents/guardians to
increasing independence.

2) Adolescent Development - Adolescence is a developmental

period during which dependent children grow into independent
adults. This period usually begins at about age 10 years and lasts until
the late teens or early 20s. During adolescence, children undergo
striking physical, intellectual, and emotional growth

3) Gerontology
Gerontology is multidisciplinary in that it combines or integrates several
separate areas of study. GSA fosters collaboration between
physicians, nurses, biologists, behavioral and social scientists,
psychologists, social workers, economists, policy experts, those who
study the humanities and the arts, and many other scholars and
researchers in aging

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 4) Marital Relationship - Definitions of marital relationship. the
relationship between wife and husband.

5) Health – he onset of medical health issues may contribute to

feelings of sadness, anxiety, depression, and/or anger. A mental
health professional may be able to help individuals cope with any
challenges that arise as they face a difficult or debilitating illness.

6) Drugs - Counseling is a mainstay of substance abuse treatment for many

people. Cognitive behavioral therapy, family counseling, and other
types of therapy can help you stay clean. Psychotherapy can also treat
other mental health conditions that often play a role in substance abuse.

7) Career/Lifestyle - Career counseling, also known as career guidance,

is counseling designed to help with choosing, changing, or leaving a
career and is available at any stage in life. ... A career counselor can
help by outlining and discussing one's potential career options.

ASSESSMENT
4

a.

b.

Explorer! Please take time to watch the following videos attached in this section
before you proceed to the next lesson. You need to thoroughly familiarize the
different therapies and methods that counselor use. For now, you may take your
ENRICHMENT break.

Video Links
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEdMj0Yuusk
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTzVplddMH0
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGOZoYY53as

NEXT LESSON: Who are Social Workers, what do they do and what are they responsible of.

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 Quantitative Research: Definition, Methods, Types And Examples. Retrieved
from: https://www.questionpro.com/blog/quantitative-research/
REFERENCES
Organizing Your Social Sciences Research Paper. Retrieved from:
https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/quantitative

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