THE GUIDANCE SERVICES

I. Forms of guidance services

Objectives: Enumerate the different guidance services

Personal, Social, Health and Safety Guidance and Counseling

⦿ Incorporation of wellness practices into daily living

⦿ Demonstration of resilience and positive coping skills

⦿ Possession of assertiveness skills necessary for personal protection

Educational Guidance & Counselling

⦿ Provides support at key moments during your time in school. The Guidance Counselor is
involved in helping with the transition from primary to secondary school and with helping
with subject choices in first year and fifth year. The Guidance Counselor also works with
students on developing their study skills and future prospects.

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. One's career is often one of the
most important aspects of adulthood, and embarking on a new career, whether for the
first time, the second time, or any time thereafter, can be a stressful event, especially
when economic difficulties such as recession are a factor. A career counselor can help
by outlining and discussing one's potential career options.

Community Involvement

⦿ It is a generic term for any of professional counseling that treats dysfunction occurring
within a group of related people. This term describes a preventive system of counseling
that works to combat psychological impairment through the improvement and
development of community support. A community is defined as a group of interacting
individuals who share a commonality. This commonality can be anything from location of
residence to career interest, but a community counselor will use this common
characteristic to council groups of people.

Psychological Testing
 ⦿ Preadmission tests are given for new students

⦿ Aptitude tests are also given such as interest inventory, personality tests

Marriage Counseling

⦿ Marriage counseling, also called couples therapy, is a type of psychotherapy. Marriage

counseling helps couples of all types recognize and resolve conflicts and improve their
relationships. Through marriage counseling, you can make thoughtful decisions about
rebuilding and strengthening your relationship or going your separate ways.
Organization & Administration of Guidance

I. Guidance personnel and role of teachers, school psychologist and school counselor
in guidance and counseling
II. Procedures in initiating a guidance program

Objectives:

1. Understand the different concepts on how guidance programs are developed and
implemented;
2. Appreciate the role of a guidance counselor in school;
3. Enumerate the steps in developing a guidance program

Guidance personnel

1. Guidance Director

He/she has the overall authority for leading the personnel under his/her administration. He
reviews the guidance and counseling program they offer each year. To be a guidance director,
one should possess the following: strong work ethic, excellent organizational skills, flexibility,
ease and experience with computers and willingness to coordinate efforts with others.

2. Guidance Counselor

A guidance counselor assists people with personal, family, educational, mental health and
career decisions and problems. He provides options that will help the client to resolve his/her
problems. Its overall function is to talk to students, provide options, listen to problems, help the
students to develop coping skills and learn to solve problems and become a good decision
maker on their own.

3. Psychometrician

The one who develops a test is called psychometrician, while the one that conducts testing
services is called a psychometrist. A psychometrician has the following responsibilities;

● Identifies and selects tests

● Sets the schedule of testing services

● Administers, corrects and interprets test results

● Provides counselors with test results

● Encodes and makes summaries of test results

● Prepares testing materials

 ● Keeps test materials and test results

4. Clinical Psychologist

– Aims to reduce psychological distress and enhance and promote psychological well-being.

5. Counseling Psychologist

– Assess and evaluate individuals’ problems, through the use of case history, interview, and
observation and provide individual or group counseling services to assist individuals in
achieving more effective personal, social, educational and vocational development and
adjustment.

6. School Psychologist

– Provide a broad range of skills to address students’ needs in a variety of areas.

– Expert in special education and have large role in the eligibility process for special education

7. Social Worker
– Works with people who have socially excluded or who are experiencing crisis and their role is
to provide support to enable service users to help themselves.

Procedures in initiating a guidance program

The Program Development Cycle

1. ORGANIZING

a. Commit to action

b. Identify leadership for the program improvement efforts

2. PLANNING

a. Adopt the developmental guidance and counseling program model and the program
development process to be used

b. Assess the current program

3. DESIGNING

a. Establish the desired program design

b. Publish the program framework

c. Plan the transition to the desired program

d. Develop and implement a master plan for changed implementation

4. IMPLEMENTING
a. Make program improvements

b. Make appropriate use of the school counselors’ competencies

5. EVALUATING

a. Evaluate the developmental guidance and counseling program.