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Week 3 - Assessment

The document outlines the roles, competencies, and career opportunities for counselors. It lists 10 roles of counselors including identifying a client's characteristics and potential, establishing relationships, providing group and career counseling, educational placement assistance, and more. It also lists 7 competencies such as awareness of clients' relationships, effective listening and communication skills, lack of irrational beliefs, openness to new knowledge, acceptance of others, understanding interventions, and assessing clients' problems. Finally, it provides 6 examples of career opportunities for counselors like marriage and family counseling, counseling those with mental disorders, career counseling, group counseling, counseling students with drug and peer concerns, and helping children develop coping skills.

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Week 3 - Assessment

The document outlines the roles, competencies, and career opportunities for counselors. It lists 10 roles of counselors including identifying a client's characteristics and potential, establishing relationships, providing group and career counseling, educational placement assistance, and more. It also lists 7 competencies such as awareness of clients' relationships, effective listening and communication skills, lack of irrational beliefs, openness to new knowledge, acceptance of others, understanding interventions, and assessing clients' problems. Finally, it provides 6 examples of career opportunities for counselors like marriage and family counseling, counseling those with mental disorders, career counseling, group counseling, counseling students with drug and peer concerns, and helping children develop coping skills.

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Test I

Enumeration
I. Roles of Counselors
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II. Competencies of Counselors
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III. Career Opportunities and Areas of Specialization
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Test II
Identification
Identify what is being asked.
Roles / Functions Description
Seeks to identify the characteristics and
potential of every client ; promotes the
client’s self-understanding and assisting
counselors to understand the client better
Considers as the core activity through
which other activities become meaningful.
It is a client –centered process that
demand confidentiality. Relationship is
established between counselor and client.
Groups are means of providing organized
and planned assistance to individuals for
an array of needs. Counselor provides
assistance through group counseling and
group guidance.
Counselors are called on to provide career
planning and adjustment assistance to
clients.
A service of school counseling programs
with emphasis on educational placements
in course and programs.
It is the practice of helping the clients find
needed expert assistance that the referring
counselor cannot provide.
It is the process of helping a client through
a third party or helping system improve its
service to its clientele.
It is necessary to advance the profession
of counseling; it can provide empirically
based data relevant to the ultimate goal of
implementing effective counseling.
Evaluation is a means of assessing the
effectiveness of counselor’s activities.
Accountability is an outgrowth of demand
that schools and other tax-supported
institutions be held accountable for their
actions.
This includes promotion of mental health
through primary prevention using a social
– psychological perspective.
Competencies of Counselors
1. This would be compromise of awareness of family and work relationships of client
the impact of agency on the clients, the capacity to use support networks and
supervision ; sensitivity to client from different gender, ethnicity , sexual orientation,
or age group.
2. Counselors who are competent display ability to listen, communicate ; empathize ; be
present ; aware of nonverbal communication; sensitive to voice quality , responsive to
expressions of emotion, turn taking, structure of time and use of language .
3. Counselors must have no irrational beliefs that are destructive to counseling
relationships, self-confidence ,capacity to tolerate strong of uncomfortable feelings in
relation to the clients, secure personal boundaries, ability to be a client ; must carry no
social prejudice, ethnocentrism and authoritarianism.
4. Counselors must have the capacity to be curious about client’s backgrounds and
problems; being open to new knowledge
5. Counselors have the capacity to accept others, belief in potential of change,
awareness of ethical and moral choices and sensitive to values held by client and self.
6. Counselors must have a knowledge of when and how to carry out specific
interventions, ability to assess effectiveness of the interventions, understanding the
rationale behind techniques, possession of wide repertoire of intervention
7. Counselors have the ability to understand and assess client’s problem; to anticipate
future problems; make sense of immediate process in terms of wider conceptual
scheme to remember information about the client.
Career Opportunities
1. Refers to the efforts to establish an encouraging relationship with couple or family
and appreciate the complications in the family system.
2. Is manifested in the challenges posed by its clientele with mental disorders..
3. This type of counseling aids individual on decisions and planning concerning their
career.
4. Is the dynamic field in the counseling profession, it offers the following : opportunities
to members to learn from observing other group members ; can functions as helpers
and helps ; opportunities to discover that you others have similar concerns ; members
are encouraged to offer help to others ;opportunities to enhance interpersonal skills; the
therapeutic climate created similar as the client’s family origin.
5. Refers to the process of reaching out students with concerns on drugs, family and
peers or gang involvement.
6. The counseling strategies focus on helping children and adolescents acquire coping
skills through promotion of resiliency, positive attachment relationship, emotional and
intellectual intelligence, and other qualities that promote optional development.

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