COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE

FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD

EDUCATION
(ECE 206)
 TOPIC 3
THE ROLE OF EDUCATORS/
CAREGIVERS AS COUNSELLING
TEACHERS
EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNSELORS
Specialize in helping children aged six
and younger, along with their families,
with diverse problems. Some specialize in
assisting with physical or mental
disabilities while other try to help with
psychological issues, like repeated thumb
sucking or reoccurring nightmares.
 ROLES OF A COUNSELOR
A child care counsellor may be responsible for performing a wide range
of different duties based on the organization where they work. However,
most child care counsellors hold a few key responsibilities:

SUPERVISE
CHILDREN
•The main responsibility of the child care counsellor is to supervise
children, both individually and in group settings. They ensure kids are
following rules and provide discipline as needed. Child care counsellor
may also create activities and lessons for the children.
 Monitor and Track
Progress
• As child care counselors supervise
kids, they monitor their behavioral,
mental, and physical progress.
• They keep detailed records of this
progress and analyze them so they
can create individualized strategies
to help children continue to grow
and learn properly.
 Report to Supervisors and
Parents
• Depending on their employer, child care counselors report on
children’s progress to supervisors, school administrators, and
parents.
• This may involve creating presentations and delivering them
in group settings.
 Create and Enforce Daily Schedule
• Child care counselors are responsible for creating daily
schedules for the children.
• This often involves planning activities, learning plans, and field
trips.
• Child care counselors are also responsible for enforcing the
schedule to ensure children get the most out of their days.
 Respond to Emergency
Situations
• Child care counselors are often the first line of response for children
during emergency situations.
• As such, they need to be prepared to lead children away from
dangerous situations, intervene during fights, and deliver first aid.
 COLLECTING CHILD’S INFORMATION

WHAT ARE CHILD’S INFORMATION? 

1) Background knowledge.

2) Child’s potential.

3) Academic achievement/ performance.

4) Behavior.
 METHODS OF COLLECTING CHILD’S
INFORMATION
1) Test-technique
 
Achievement test
Aptitude test
Personality test
Career test
Attitude test

 
2) Non-test technique
 
Observation
Interview
Document analysis
According To Thomas Achenbach (1992), There Are 4 Categories Of
Student’s Behavioural Problem

  
1) Internalizing behaviour

2) Externalizing behaviour

3) Social and attention and other problem

4) Other problems
  INTERNALIZING BEHAVIOUR
3 types of internalizing behaviours:

1)Somatic problems
Somatic symptom disorder involves a person having a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as pain,
weakness or shortness of breath

2) Withdrawal Syndrome
Also known as discontinuation syndrome, occurs in individual who have developed physiological dependence
on drugs or alcohol and who discontinue or reduce their use of it.

3) Paranoid
Type of eccentric personality disorder. An eccentric personality disorder means that the person’s
behavior may seem odd or unusual to others. An individual with paranoid personality behavior is
very suspicious of other people
 EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOUR
Emotional Behavioral Disorder
a state of arousal characterized by alteration of feeling tone and by physiologic behavioral changes. The
external manifestation of emotion is called affect; a pervasive and sustained emotional state, mood.

Delinquent behaviour
Delinquent behavior is defined as a criminal action committed by a human confronting the laws of the
civil society. Crime understanding is based on the principle of normalization, which means that an
individual`s guilt is based on the norms and laws applicable in the civil society.

Passive-Aggressive behaviour
Those that involve acting indirectly aggressive rather than directly aggressive
 SOCIAL AND ATTENTION AND
MENTAL PROBLEM
1) Social problem 2) Attention
3) Mental problem
problem
 Lack of social
 hallucinating
skill. Hyperactive.

 Mingle with Weird and

Daydreaming.
younger people. unacceptable
Slow learner. behavior
 Clumsy.
Short attention
 Does not act their span.
age.
 OTHER PROBLEMS
Sleep talking.
Nightmares.
Eating disorder.
Suicidal.
Nail biting.
Speech problem/ stutter.
 FACTORS LEAD TO MISBEHAVIOUR
AMONG STUDENTS
 
1) Biological factor
Genetic, biochemistry
 
2) Society factor
Low-self esteem
 
3) Environment factor
Trauma which affects the student self development