Guidance & Counseling for High School in the Philippines

1. M.Ed. GC – Batch 09
By: Jeel Christine C. de Egurrola
Guidance and Counseling for
Elementary Students

2. Maximizing students’ potentials
Understanding self and developing a
positive self-image
Showing respect for the feelings of
others
Understanding the decision-making
process
Maintaining effective relationships
with peers and adults
Developing effective study habits
Being prepared to make the
transition to the intermediate school

3. With students and
parents individually
With students and
parents in small groups
Parental permission is obtained prior
to any individual or group counseling.
…..when requested and deemed appropriate
How is elementary counseling conducted?

4. Benefits
Be successful in
school
Establish effective
study skills
Adjust to a new
school
Develop positive
feelings about
work, family and
society
Build positive
feelings toward self
and others
Develop skills in
interacting and
communicating
with others
Cope with change
in themselves and
their surroundings
Identify and accept
their own and
other’s strengths
and weaknesses
Recognizing the
causes and effects
of their actions
Become
responsible for
their own behavior
Receive crisis
intervention when
necessaryfor Students

5. Understand their children’s progress in school
Select strategies to motivate their children
Develop realistic goals with their children
Become actively involved in their children’s school life
Parent education and discussion groups for child-related issues
Benefits
for Parents
To identify students with special
needs and abilities
Find other professionals within the
school or community

6. A clearly defined curriculum
provides information about the
program of the community
Benefits
for the Community

7. • Provide students and groups with educational
counseling
• Work with students, including those with
academic and social development problems and
those with special needs
• Help students evaluate their abilities, interests,
talents, and personality characteristics
• Use interviews, counseling sessions, interest and
aptitude assessment tests, and other methods
Duties and Functions of Counselor

8. • Provide play therapy and art therapy for
students who cannot disclose in the
counseling sessions
• Observe younger children during classroom
and play activities
• Confer with teachers and parents to evaluate
the children’s strengths, problems, or special
needs
Duties and Functions of Counselor

9. • Regularly visits classrooms to teach students how to get
along with others, following school rules, safety, and
others
Classroom
Guidance
• Invite students who share common concerns to meet
for a few sessions
Small Group
Counseling
• Available to talk with a student privately of the concern
is very private and does not work well with groups or
with a presence of a parent
Individual
Counseling
• If children cannot express with words, they can express
their thoughts and feelings through play and/or art
session(s)
Art and/or Play
Session
How does a counselor work with students?

10. Confidentiality
Minor students should be informed of the counselor’s general
obligation to disclose information to acquiring parents prior to
forming the counseling relationship.
Guidance should be limited to the areas supported by school
policy.
When working with minors, counselors should encourage
family involvement when possible.
Parents of minors have the right for information in most
circumstances.
Practical Considerations

11. Confidentiality
Legal counsel should be sought when a guidance counselor
encounters a “grey area.”
The safety of students and the safety of the third parties
should paramount in the counselor’s consideration.
Abuse will always be reported
Threats of injury to third parties will be reported.
Practical Considerations

12. Confidentiality
and Parents
Informs parents of the counselor’s role with the emphasis of the
confidential nature of the counseling relationship between counselor
and counselee
Provides parents with accurate, comprehensive and relevant
information in an objective and caring manner, as appropriate and
consistent with ethical responsibilities of the counselee

13. 4. Maintenance of Records. Counselors maintain records in sufficient detail to
track the sequence and nature of professional services rendered and
consistent with any legal, regulatory, agency, or institutional requirement.
They secure the safety of such records and, create, maintain, transfer, and
dispose of them in a manner compliant with the requirements of
confidentiality and other articles of this Code of Ethics.
Confidentiality
Source: Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association, Inc. (2006). Code of Ethics for
Counselors & The Counseling Programs – Chapter II: Counseling Relationship.
2. Confidentiality. The counselor must preserve and safeguard the
confidentiality of the clients except:
2.1 When disclosure is required to prevent clear and imminent danger to the
client or others;
2.2 When legal requirements demand that confidential matter be revealed;

14. Confidentiality
Source: Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association, Inc. (2006). Code of Ethics for
Counselors & The Counseling Programs – Chapter II: Counseling Relationship.

15. Confidentiality
Source: Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association, Inc. (2006). Code of Ethics for
Counselors & The Counseling Programs – Chapter VII: Consulting and Private Practice.

16. Elementary Counselors work with…

17. Goals of Elementary Guidance
Counselors

18. How can Elementary Guidance
Counselors help students?

19. Premises of Child Guidance

20. Premises of Child Guidance

21. Premises of Child Guidance

22. Principles of Child Guidance

23. Principles of Child Guidance

24. References
• Tulio, D.D. (2008). A breakthrough in school: Guidance and
Counseling. Mandaluyung City: National Bookstore.
• Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association, Inc. (2006).
Code of Ethics for Counselors & The Counseling Programs.
Retrieved from: http://counpsychphil.blogspot.com/2007/03/code-of-ethics-
for-counselors.html