PROFESSIONALS

AND
PRACTITIONERS
IN COUNSELING
 COUNSELING

• A profession that allows to help others

manage their responses to life’s challenges
• A career that provides you an opportunity to
assists others in developing their potentials
and to encourage personal growth and
learning
 PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
& INFORMAL HELPERS
Professional counselors Informal helpers
• Expected to maintain a • They may provide assistance to
people who are personally
high degree of related to them
objectivity in doing their • They may avoid confrontation
job. To do this, or contradicting statements of
effectively, they must the counselee—during the the
counseling process to preserve
not have a personal their friendship or personal
involvement with their relationship with the counselee
client.
 PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
& INFORMAL HELPERS
Professional counselors Informal helpers
• They are guided by rules • May help
and regulations (Code of
Ethics) people as
• They perform their duties encouraged by
and responsibilities
according to the their personal
standards set by the law
rules
 PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
& INFORMAL HELPERS
Professional counselors Informal helpers

Counselors use They are not formally

strategies & equipped with
standardized strategies
techniques to
or approaches. Usually,
promote the client’s they rely on providing
personal growth and advice or tips they feel
development suitable.
 PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
& INFORMAL HELPERS
Professional counselors

(1) They have acquired body of knowledge, skills, or

competencies through formal and specialized training
(2) They are guided by standards of professional practice
and laws
(3) They are formally identified as members of the helping
profession, competent in promoting growth and
personal change in their clients.
 ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
“ Professional school counselors do not take
rigid and static set of functions in the
educational system. This means that
”
professional counselors perform their roles in
a continuous state of transformation in
response to the current challenges. Therefore,
professional counselors function as follows:
Erford (2014)
1.Providers of individual and group counseling services.
2.Developmental classroom guidance specialists.
3.Leaders and advocates of academic success.
4.Career developmental specialists.
5.Agents of diversity and multiculturalism.
6.Advocates of students with special needs and students-at-
risk.
7.Advocates of a safe school environment.
8.School and community collaboration specialists.

Counselors also collaborate with mental health

practitioners when a student needs referral.
 ALLIED MENTAL HEALTH
PROFESSIONALS

• PSYCHOLOGIST
• PSYCHIATRIST
• NEUROLOGIST
• SOCIAL WORKER
 MY DISTINCTIVE TRAITS

1. Using the diagram below, identify four

distinctive traits or the personal qualities that
you like most about yourself. Write the traits
inside the circles.
 My
Distinctive
Traits
2. Choose a partner and show your
answer.
3. Tell your partner how these traits
are employed in helping others.
REFLECT UPON
1.How do you feel when you help others?
2.What do you think is the most effective
characteristic or trait in order to help
others?
3.Why is it necessary for counselors to
refer clients to other mental health
professionals?
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CHARACTERISTICS
OF A
PROFESSIONAL
COUNSELOR
 CHARACTERISTICS OF A PROFESSIONAL
COUNSELOR

1.EMPATHY
2.ACCEPTANCE
3.GENUINENESS
4.SELF-AWARENESS
5.CULTURAL COMPETENCE
 CHARACTERISTICS OF A PROFESSIONAL
COUNSELOR

6. OPEN-MINDEDNES
7. INTEGRITY
8. COMPETENCE
9. PROBLEM SOLVING-SKILLS & CREATIVITY
10. EMBRACING A PERSPECTIVE OF WELNESS
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COMPETENCIES OF
A
TRANSFORMATIVE
COUNSELOR
COMPETENCIES OF A TRANSFORMATIVE COUNSELOR

ESTABLISHING RAPPORT
 COMPETENCIES OF A TRANSFORMATIVE COUNSELOR
BASIC ATTENDING SKILLS
S itting across the counselee
Adopting an O pen posture during the counseling session
L eaning at times toward the counselee
Maintaining E ye contact, but not necessarily staring at
the counselee
being R elaxed or the ability to be composed and
confident during the session
COMPETENCIES OF A TRANSFORMATIVE COUNSELOR

Observational Skills
Guindon (2011) types of nonverbal expression
1. Physical Apperance
2. Personal space
3. Voice
4. Facial expression
5. Body language
6. Sudden change in behavior
 COMPETENCIES OF A TRANSFORMATIVE COUNSELOR

Basic Responding/Listening Skills

Skills that allow effective communication
1. Use of Minimal Encouragers
2. Restatement and Paraphrasing
3. Reflection of feelings
4. Summarization
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
1. School Counseling
2. Mental Health or Clinical Counseling
3. Rehabilitation Counseling
4. Industrial Counseling
5. Marriage & Family Counseling
6. Private practice
7. Community Counseling
 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
1. Elementary and High School Counselor
2. College counselors
3. Teaching in the Academe
4. Workshop Facilitator
5. Career Counselors
6. Community Counselors
7. Marriage & Family Counselors
 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS

7. Substance Abuse Counselors

8. Rehabilitation Counselors
9. Researcher
PROFESSIONAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES IN
GUIDANCE & COUNSELING
1. CONFIDENTIALITY
2. CLIENT WELFARE
3. INFORMED CONSENT
4. RELATIONSHIP WITH CLIENTS
5. PROFESSIONALISM
 VALUING RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS,
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES &
ACCOUNTABILITY OF COUNSELORS

1. Respecting the rights & dignity of every

human person
2. Respecting the client’s rights as self-
governing individual
3. Being committed to the client’s well-being
 VALUING RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS,
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES &
ACCOUNTABILITY OF COUNSELORS

4. Being fair to all clients by providing equal

opportunity to all who availed the counseling
service.
5. Enhancing the quality of their professional
knowledge and application.