Learning Guide 3 - The Professionals and Practitioners in The Discipline of Counseling

10/22/23, 12:36 PM Learning Guide 3 - The Professionals and Practitioners in the Discipline of Counseling
Learning Guide 3 - The Professionals and Practitioners in the

Discipline of Counseling
Site: New Era University Printed by: Arhielle Anel A. Gomez

Course: DIASS - Discipline and Ideas in the Applied Social Science Date: Sunday, 22 October 2023, 12:36 PM
Learning Guide 3 - The Professionals and Practitioners in the
Book:
Discipline of Counseling
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Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Defining the Roles, Functions, and Competencies of Counselors

2.1. Roles of Guidance Counselors
2.2. Functions of Guidance Counselors
2.3. Competencies of Guidance Counselors
2.4. Other Competencies that Apply to the Broader Counseling Works
3. Areas of Specialization where Counselors Work
4. Enrichment Activity
5. Code of Ethics of Counselors
6. ASSESSMENT
7. REFERENCES
1. Introduction
Who do you think are the professionals and practitioners in the discipline of counseling?
In this module, we will try to get to know them and to learn more about their roles, functions
and competencies, and the responsibilities and ethics that come along with their profession.
2. Defining the Roles, Functions, and Competencies of Counselors
Given that youth are the future of every nation, providing guidance to them at critical
moments in their development is a serious nation-building endeavor. Counseling is a process that
involves both the clients and the counselor.
2.1. Roles of Guidance Counselors
A counselor's roles include:

• to help a person or persons (clients) to change their behavior or position;
• to support the pursuit of objectives;
• to teach people about social skills, effective communications, spiritual guidance, decision-
making and career decisions; and
• to help them cope with a crisis.
In some cases, counseling may include the following:

• providing marital and premarital counseling;
• Bereavement and loss (divorce, death, or amputation);
• Abuse, including domestic violence and other forms of abuse;
• Situations requiring special counseling, such as terminal illness (death and dying); and
• As well as counseling for emotionally and psychologically disturbed people.
Remember that counseling can be either short-term (brief counseling) or long-term (long-term
counseling).
2.2. Functions of Guidance Counselors
Section 3 (b) of The Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004 (Republic Act No. 9258) defines a
guidance counselor 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 counseling.
The tasks of the guidance counselor include using an integrated strategy to primarily produce a
well-functioning person:
· helping the client to develop his or her full potential;
· assisting the client to make full use of his or her potential;
· helping the client to plan its future according to his or her abilities, interests, and needs;
· sharing and applying expertise in the fields of counseling, such as counseling theories,
instruments and techniques; and
· a variety of human development services are administered.
2.3. Competencies of Guidance Counselors
As part of their competencies, guidance counselors have the ability to:
1. Administer and Maintain Career Guidance and Counseling Program

They are capable of properly guiding the students toward becoming productive and
contributing individuals through informed career choice with reference to appropriate bureaus,
relevant stakeholders, and national programs, and in light of appropriate opportunities in the
community, country, and globally.
2. Administer Career Advocacy Activities

They can collaborate with different government agencies, student organizations, industrial
associations, counseling, professional organizations and other relevant stakeholder organizations
to promote students' understanding and appreciation of the world of work and to aspire and better
prepare for it.
3. Facilitate Conduct of Career Advocacy in Collaboration with Career Advocates and Peer
Facilitators.
The professional advocates are not necessarily certified or licensed guidance counselors, but
provide advice for work and employment. They include consultants and teachers in all areas of
learning who can carry on professional advocacy work. On the other side, peer facilitators are high
school students trained to support professional advocates in carrying out career advocacy work.
Here are some examples of the career activities that show competencies of guidance counselors.
Title: NEU Celebrates Career Guidance Week:

The IS Career Parade and Show
Courtesy: New Era University
Published: November 28, 2019
2.4. Other Competencies that Apply to the Broader Counseling Works
There are numerous competences that apply, but not universally, to practically every type of
counseling context. Different authors have thematized them differently.
Egan (2002) refers to them as the three-stage theory of counseling and identifies three broad
competencies for a counselor:
Stage I: What’s going on? This entails assisting clients in identifying the key issues that
necessitate change.
Stage II: What solutions make sense for me? This involves helping clients determine outcomes.
Stage III: What must I do to obtain what I require or desire? This entails assisting clients in
developing goals-attainment strategies.
According to Culley and Bond (2004), there are foundation skills in counseling. They have
grouped these foundation skills around three headings: attending and listening, reflective skills,
and probing skills.
1. Attending and listening. Attending and listening skills refer to active listening, which means
listening with purpose and responding in such a way that clients are aware that they have both
been heard and understood.
Title: Improve Your Counselling Skills in 60 Seconds:

Active Listening—Narrated by Dr. Andrew Reeves
Courtesy: SAGE Students
2. Reflective skills. These skills are concerned with the other person’s frame of reference. It
‘captures’ what the client is saying and plays it back to them – but in the counselor’s own words.
The key skills are restating, paraphrasing, and summarizing; for instance, the counselor may begin
with, “Did you mean to say…?”

Paraphrasing and Summarizing—Narrated by Dr. Andrew Reeves
3. Probing skills. These skills facilitate going deeper, asking more directed or leading questions
(leading in the sense that they move the conversation in a particular direction). Culley and Bond
(2004) looked at the different forms that questions can take and how they can help or exhibit
exploration, and the role of making statements. Making statements is seen as generally gentler,
less intrusive, and less controlling than asking questions – although that depends on the
statement.

Questioning—Narrated by Dr. Andrew Reeves
3. Areas of Specialization where Counselors Work
Counselors can be found in almost every aspect of human development, transition, and
caregiving. According to Peterson and Nesenholz (1987), there are 11 major areas:
1. Child development and counseling. Parent education, preschool counseling, early childhood
education, elementary school counseling, child counseling in mental health agencies, and
counseling with battered and abused children and their families are all areas of specialization in
child development and counseling.
2. Adolescent development and counseling. Middle and high school counseling, psychological
education, career development specialist, adolescent counseling in mental health organizations,
youth work in a residential institution, and youth probation officer are all areas of expertise in
adolescent development and counseling.
3. Gerontology (the aged). Gerontological counseling (the elderly) is the fastest-growing area of
specialty, and it mostly entails counseling of senior persons. Pre-retirement counseling,
community center counseling, nursing home counseling, and hospice work are all examples of
this.
4. Marital relationship counseling. Premarital counseling, marriage counseling, family therapy, sex
education, sexual dysfunction counseling, and divorce mediation are all examples of marital or
relationship counseling.
5. Health. Nutrition counseling, exercise and health education, nurse-counselor, rehabilitation

counseling, stress management counseling, holistic health counseling, anorexia or bulimia
counseling, and genetic counseling are all possible specializations in health.
6. Career/Lifestyle. Career and lifestyle counseling is a specialization that includes guidance on

career and lifestyle choices and decision-making; career development; provision of educational
and occupational information to clients; and assisting clients in developing skills to plan, organize,
implement, administer, and evaluate their own career development; facilitating understanding of
the interrelationships between work, family, and other life roles and factors, such as diversity and
gender, and their impact on career development and choices; identification of ethical and legal
considerations, characteristics, and behaviors that influence career; and possibly providing needed
skills in managing or going through job interviews.
7. College and university. College and university as area of specialization offer the following
opportunities: college student counseling, student activities, student personnel work, residential
hall or dormitory counselor, and counselor educator.
8. Drugs. Substance abuse therapy, alcohol counseling, drug counseling, stop smoking program
manager, and crisis intervention counseling are all alternatives for drug specialization.
9. Consultation. Agency and corporate consulting, organizational development director, industrial
psychology specialist, and training manager are all covered by consultation as an area of
specialization.
10. Business and industry. Training and development staff, quality and work-life or quality circles
manager, employee assistance programs manager, employee career development officer,
affirmative action, or equal opportunity specialist are some of the business and industry
specializations.
11. Other specialties. Other specialties may include phobia counseling, agoraphobia, self-
management, intra-personal management, interpersonal relationship management, and grief
counselling.
In all disciplines, the counselor might work for themselves as a private practitioner or for an
agency, which could be a government or non-government institution (NGO). Additional education
and training beyond graduation and post-graduate degrees are required in any specialty area.
4. Enrichment Activity
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5. Code of Ethics of Counselors
Counselors, like all other professionals in the applied social sciences, must maintain strict
confidentiality at all times. Clients cannot trust counselors without confidentiality, making the
profession impossible to practice. Counselors must keep confidential anything they learn from
their clients while caring for them. Counselors must also live and work in accordance with the
professional norms of conduct established for the practice of guidance and counseling, according
to the code of ethics. They should be morally upright individuals.
To protect the clients' interests, the organization created a Code of Ethics for its members to
follow. The Code expresses the values that underpin their practice.
The Institute of Guidance Counselors’ Code consists of four overall ethical principles that
subsume a number of specific ethical standards:
Principle 1: Respect for the Rights and Dignity of the Client

Guidance counselors respect and promote their clients' fundamental rights, moral and
cultural values, dignity, and worth. In accordance with the law, they respect clients' rights to
privacy, confidentiality, self-determination, and autonomy. They make every effort to ensure that
the client understands and consents to any professional action they propose.
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. They offer only those services for which they are qualified by education, training, and
expertise.
Principle 3: Responsibility
Guidance counselors are aware of their professional obligation to be trustworthy, reputable,
and accountable to clients, colleagues, and the community in which they work and live. They avoid
causing harm, accept responsibility for their professional actions, and use a methodical approach
to resolving ethical quandaries.
Principle 4: Integrity
Guidance counselors strive to uphold integrity in their work. They accurately represent
themselves and treat others with honesty, directness, and fairness. They actively manage conflicts
of interest, avoid exploiting others, and are on the lookout for inappropriate behavior by
colleagues.
6. ASSESSMENT
Click the image below to answer your assessment.
7. REFERENCES
Sampa, Elias M.(2017) Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Science. Rex Bookstore
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https://learning.grca.school/stm_lms_course_category/values-09/
https://www.scribd.com/document/475671191/Transcript-of-Applied-Social-Sciences
https://www.coursehero.com/file/p4qf0pj2/that-deals-with-the-institutions-and-functioning-of-hum-involves-the-study-of/
https://www.coursehero.com/file/p220lrg/coping-with-a-crisis-premarital-and-marital-counseling-grief-and-loss-divorce/
https://www.thehotline.org/
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10/22/23, 12:36 PM Learning Guide 3 - The Professionals and Practitioners in the Discipline of Counseling

Learning Guide 3 - The Professionals and Practitioners in the

Site: New Era University Printed by: Arhielle Anel A. Gomez

2. Defining the Roles, Functions, and Competencies of Counselors

3. Areas of Specialization where Counselors Work

5. Code of Ethics of Counselors

2. Defining the Roles, Functions, and Competencies of Counselors

2.1. Roles of Guidance Counselors

A counselor's roles include:

In some cases, counseling may include the following:

2.2. Functions of Guidance Counselors

2.3. Competencies of Guidance Counselors

As part of their competencies, guidance counselors have the ability to:

1. Administer and Maintain Career Guidance and Counseling Program

2. Administer Career Advocacy Activities

Title: NEU Celebrates Career Guidance Week:

Published: November 28, 2019

2.4. Other Competencies that Apply to the Broader Counseling Works

Title: Improve Your Counselling Skills in 60 Seconds:

Title: Improve Your Counselling Skills in 60 Seconds:

Title: Improve Your Counselling Skills in 60 Seconds:

3. Areas of Specialization where Counselors Work

5. Health. Nutrition counseling, exercise and health education, nurse-counselor, rehabilitation

6. Career/Lifestyle. Career and lifestyle counseling is a specialization that includes guidance on

9. Consultation. Agency and corporate consulting, organizational development director, industrial

Click the image below to answer the activity.

5. Code of Ethics of Counselors

Principle 1: Respect for the Rights and Dignity of the Client

Click the image below to answer your assessment.

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