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Disciplines and Ideas
in the Applied Social
Sciences
Quarter1-Week 1-Module 2
Disciplines of Counseling
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Module 2
DISCIPLINES OF COUNSELING
This module helps you understand the basic concepts of the counseling. You will be guided
to help you achieve deeper understanding on the goals and scope of counseling.
Generally, at the end of the module, you are expected to demonstrate a high level of
understanding of the basic concepts of counseling through a presentation of a situation in
which practitioners of counseling work together to assist individuals, groups, or
communities involved in difficult situations ( e.g., post disaster, court hearing about
separation of celebrity couple, cyber bullying.
Self-Check
Your Answer here:
_________________
Answer: help
assist guide
Vocabulary Activity:
What words describe these statements? block harm
Choose and circle your answers from the other box.
help
1. to aid (someone to do something), especially
by sharing the work, cost, or burden of
something
or distress
Re-write the statements with check marks. Circle the key words.
_______________________________________________________________________________
When was the last time you ask for help? ____________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
To whom did you ask from help: ___________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________
If your answer to the first is Guidance Counseling and Counseling to the second, you got
it correct! Congratulations. Get your badge. Write your name on it.
Essential Questions
• What is counseling?
• What are the goals of counseling?
• What are the scopes of counseling?
• In which aspects of human life can counseling be of real value?
-Detailed and expansive counseling goals have been identified by Gibson and Mitchell
(2003), which are as follows:
1. Development Goals – assist in meeting or advancing the clients human growth and
development including social, personal, emotional, cognitive, and physical wellness.
2. Preventive Goals – helps the client avoid some undesired outcome. E.g. failing grades,
5. Exploratory Goals- examining options, testing of skills, trying new and different activities,
etc.
6. Reinforcement Goals- helps client in recognizing, that what they are doing, thinking, and
feeling is fine
7. Cognitive Goals-involves acquiring the basic foundation of learning and cognitive skills
8. Physiological Goals – involves acquiring the basic understanding and habits for good
health
List of counseling goals, some of which are enhancement of the above goals.
Goal Description
Insight Understanding of the origins and development of emotional
difficulties, leading to an increased capacity to take rational
control over feelings and actions
Relating with others Becoming better able to form and maintain meaningful and
satisfying relationships with other people: for example , within
the family or workplace
Self- awareness Becoming more aware of thoughts and feelings that had been
blocked off or denied, or developing a more accurate sense of
how self is perceived by others.
Self- acceptance The development of a positive attitude toward self, marked by
an ability to acknowledge areas of experience that had been
the subject of self- criticism and rejection
Self – actualization Moving in the direction of fulfilling potential or achieving an
integration of previously conflicting parts of self.
Enlightenment Assisting the client to arrive at a higher state of spiritual
awakening
Problem- Solving Finding a solution to a specific problem that the client had not
been able to resolve alone. Acquiring a general competence
in problem – solving
Psychological Enabling the client to acquire ideas and techniques with which
education to understand and control behavior
Acquisition of Social Learning and mastering social and interpersonal skills such as
Skills maintenance of eye contact , turn taking in conversations,
assertive, or anger control
Cognitive change The modification or replacement of irrational beliefs or mal
adaptive thought patterns associated with self- destructive
behavior
Behavior change The modification or replacement of maladaptive or self-
destructive patterns of behavior.
Systematic change Introducing change into the way in that social systems operate
Empowerment Working on skills , awareness, and knowledge that will enable
to client to take control of his or her own life
Restitution Helping the client to make amends for previous destructive
behavior
Generality Inspiring in the person a desire and capacity to care for others
and pass on knowledge and to contribute to the collective good
through political engagement
Counselor
Scope of Counseling
The scope and field of counseling has widened as the human problems are wide in range. Broadly, the
scope of counseling includes individual counseling, marital and premarital counseling, family counseling,
and community counseling.
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING
• Adolescent identity, concerns, teen-parent relationships, peer relationships
• Anxiety
• Anger management
• Children’s concerns within the family unit, sibling relationships, school experiences, peer
relationships
• Depression
• Family of origin dynamics and issues
• Gender: identity, sexuality, homosexuality
• Relationships: personal and interpersonal dynamics
• Sexual abuse recovery
• Seniors: challenges, limitations, transitions
• Singles: single, newly single, single through divorce or being widowed
• Spirituality
• Stress management
• Workplace stress and relationships
• Young adult: identity, relationships, vocation
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FAMILY COUNSELLING
• Adolescent and child behaviors within family dynamics
• Adult children
• Divorce and separation issues and adjustment
• Family dynamics: estrangement, conflict, communication
• Family of origin / extended family issues
• Life stages and transitions
• Parenting patterns: blended, single, co-parenting families
A more focused subject matter related to scope of counseling is the 4757-15 Scope of
Practice for Licensed Professional Counselors. It contains the rights and responsibilities
of licensed counselors including the following:
Practice Task 1: On each hand, write the words you remember that are
related to counseling.
Practice Task 2: Create a Mind Map that will illustrate your enablers (people who help
you in times of need). On the next level, write down the issues or problem you can ask
from. Explain your answer.
Practice Task 3: Think of two (2) situations wherein you needed any form of assistance
about life matters: academics, relationships, family, identity, and financial concerns, with
whom did you share your problem? Discuss each on the first column. On the 2 nd column,
briefly write how you were able to overcome those. On the last column, write the names
of your enablers whom you shared your problems and helped you, state how he/she
helped you.
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Practice Task 5: With the problems or concerns mentioned in Activity 3 & 4, identify the
Scope of Counseling that covers and address the said problems. Write your answers on
a tablet paper.
Guide questions:
1. Have you gone to a counseling session? If yes, let him/her briefly discuss his/her
experience.
2. If have no counselling yet? Ask if will he or she is willing to have counseling? Why
or why not?
3. What scope of counseling covers the problem of your friend?
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Post Test
I. In this pandemic time, there are a lot of problems that arise. Cite 5 issues whether
personal or social and identify the scope of counseling it belongs.
1. _________________________________ _____________________________
2. _________________________________ _____________________________
3. _________________________________ _____________________________
4. _________________________________ _____________________________
5. _________________________________ _____________________________
II. Why should we seek help from a professional counselor? What will be your benefits if
you will have counseling?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Kmusta ka sa paggamit ng
module na ito? Anong bahagi nito
ang nahihirapan ka? Isulat ang
iyong sagot sa bubble balloon sa
kanang bahagi upang malaman
ko at matugunan ito.
-ang iyong guro =)
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Key to Corrections:
CRITERIA POINTS
Details from the lessons are clearly used, answers are coherent and no 10
grammatical errors,
Few details from the lessons are used, with minimal grammar error 5
No details from the lessons were used. 2
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Arcinas,PhD. M.M. (2016). Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences. Quezon, Philippines:
Phoenix Publishing House, Inc.
Dela Cruz A.R.; Fernandez C.; Melegrito M.L. Valdez Discipline and Ideas in Applied Social Sciences
Phoenix Publishing House
Gibson , Robert L. and Mitchell ,Marriane H. Introduction to Counseling and guidance. (Sixth
edition). NJ: Merill Prentice Hall, 2003.
Gladding, Samuel T. Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession. ( Fourth Edition) .NJ and Ohio :
Merill Prentice Hall,2000.
Kaplan, David M., Tarvydas, Vilia M. and Gladding, Samuel T. “20/20: A Vision for the Future of
the Counseling: The New Consensus Definition of Counseling.” Journal of Counseling and
Development. Volume 92, 2014.
Nystul , Michael. Introduction to Counseling : An Art and Science Perspective.( Second Edition
). USA: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.
Santrock, John W. Psychology. ( Seventh Edition) .USA: Mc Graw Hill,2003
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