WEEK 2 - SESSION 1

ACTIVITY SHEETS IN THE DISCIPLINE OF COUNSELING - COUNSELING

SECTION: __________________________________________
TEAM NUMBER: ____________________________________
TEAM LEADER: _____________________________________
TEAM MEMBERS: ___________________________________
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Anticipation Reaction Guide

Directions: The following statements enable you to reflect on or figure – out your level of understanding about counseling, its
goals and scope. Place a check mark (/) on the Before the Chapter Study column if you agree with the statement and cross (X)
if you do not agree.

After the Chapter Study. Place a check mark (/) on the After the Chapter Study column if you agree with the statement and a
cross mark (X) if you do not agree.
Before the Statements After the
Chapter Study Chapter Study
Counseling as an art is the subjective dimension of counseling. It acclaims a flexible
and creative process whereby the counselor modifies the approach to meet the
developing needs of clients.
Remedial goals refer to assisting a client to overcome and treat an undesirable
development.
Counseling happens when a person who is distressed asks and permits another
person to enter into a particular kind of connection with him or her.
Marriage and family counseling refers to the efforts to establish an encouraging
relationship with a couple or family and appreciate the complications in the family
system.

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KWL Chart
Direction: Form groups with 5 members each (refer to the seat plan). Complete the KWL chart on counseling using your
researches/reading materials.

KWL Chart
Topic: The Discipline of Counseling
What I Know What I Want to Know What I Learned
About Counseling About Counseling About Counseling

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I Need Help, Where Will I Go?
Direction: Using your activity sheet, record your team members’ answers to the questions in the activity “I Need Help, Where
Will I Go?” Write your answers on the box provided.

I Need Help, Where Will I Go?I

Activity Questions:
1. If something is bothering about life matters: academics, relationships, family, identity, and financial concerns, with whom do
you share your problem?
2. Will you pursue formal help or a non-formal help? Why or why not? Explain your answer.

“Open Notes”

1. Academics:_________________________________________________________________________
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4. Identity: ____________________________________________________________________________
2. Relationships:_______________________________________________________________________
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5. Financial concerns: __________________________________________________________________
3. Family: ____________________________________________________________________________
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Formal or Non-formal help? ______________________________________________________________

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In What Way Will Counseling Empower Me?
Direction: On your activity sheet, record your team members’ answers to the questions in the activity “In what way will
counseling empower me?” Write your answers on the box provided.

Activity Questions:
1. In our discussion on counseling goals, John McLeod contends that: “counseling aims to empower the client by helping
him/her make critical decisions in life, develop ability to cope, enhance effectiveness, and improve quality of life”. What do you
think about this statement?
2. Do you accept or support it? How will it empower you? Explain your answer.

“Open Notes”

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ASSIGNMENT:

Research for the following topics:

- Core Values
- Principles of Counseling

Matrix Completion: Need for Counseling, its Objectives, Core Values and Ethical Principles
Form groups with five members each (based on the seat plan). Watch the video entitled “Need, Scope of Guidance Principles,
Objectives of Counseling” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtaIXdaZN2k). After watching the video, list down the
following information in matrix form:

Reasons for the Need of Objectives of Counseling Core Values of Counseling Ethical Principles of
Guidance Counseling Counseling

Results and analysis of data from your interview must be written in a report, which may be used as reference for class activities
next meeting. Formulate your own title – a title which will embrace the data collected.

WEEK 2 - SESSION 2
ACTIVITY SHEETS IN THE DISCIPLINE OF COUNSELING - COUNSELING

SECTION: __________________________________________
TEAM NUMBER: ____________________________________
TEAM LEADER: _____________________________________
TEAM MEMBERS: ___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________

Anticipation Reaction Guide

Directions: The following statements enable you to reflect on or figure – out your level of understanding about the core values
and principles of counseling. Place a check mark (/) on the Before the Chapter Study column if you agree with the statement
and cross (X) if you do not agree.

After the Chapter Study. Place a check mark (/) on the After the Chapter Study column if you agree with the statement and a
cross mark (X) if you do not agree.
Before the Chapter Statements After the Chapter
Study Study
A licensed professional scholar may render to individuals , groups,
organizations , or the general public counseling services involving the
application of clinical counseling principles, methods, or procedures to assist
individuals in achieving more effective personal, social, educational, or career
development and adjustment.
The way we perceive or view things, people, events and our environment, is
influenced by our values.
Counselors treat with confidence personal information about clients, whether
obtained directly or indirectly by inference.
In view of the theory of utilitarianism in relation to beneficence, the application
of utilitarianism would be to apply an ethical decision in the light of costs and
benefits for each participant.
A counselor’s primary responsibility is to respect the dignity and to promote the
welfare of clients.
Counselors accept employment only for positions which they are qualified by
education, training, supervised experience, state and national professional
credentials, and appropriate professional experience.

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Take It from the Expert! (Presentation)
To be able to appreciate better the counseling profession, the class was be divided into teams (based on the seat plan). As an
assignment, each team was required to interview a counselor from any of the counselor’s work settings: school, mental hospital,
private agencies, community, and government. The interview focused on:

1. Institutional Profile:
The Work Setting (institution or agency where the counselor works) its context, history, the different cases/ problems it handles ,
the program implements, and the different approaches and interventions it applies; the problems that the institution face and the
victories and successes of the institution.

2. The Counselor:
The Counselor as a Professional – Questions may include: When did you start working as a counselor in the institution? What
programs do you handle? What are responsibilities? What skills, values must a counselor possess? How do you see yourself as
a counselor? What do you enjoy doing? What do you avoid doing? What challenges do you encounter as a counselor? What
helps you in your work? What education and training do you need to enhance your work? What other message do you want to
convey?

Results and analysis of data from your interview which were written in a report will be presented to the class in MS PowerPoint
format (per team). Each team will be given 3-5 minutes to tackle the work setting of their counselor interviewee and the specific
question/topic assigned to them by the teacher:

Team 1: Programs handled by a counselor

Team 2: Responsibilities of a counselor
Team 3: Skills and values that a counselor must possess
Team 4: Perception of counselors on their profession
Team 5: What counselors enjoy doing the most
Team 6: What counselors avoid doing
Team 7: Challenges encountered by a counselor
Team 8: Support/help system in the work performance of counselors
Team 9: Education and training needed to enhance counselors’ work
Team 10: Counselors’ message to aspiring counselors

Guide Questions for DISCUSSION 1:

1. Based on your activity did you see the roles and core values counseling? What are those? Explain.
2. is counseling a big responsibility? Why?
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Decoding Principles
Direction: Form groups with 5 members (refer to the seat plan). Decode and discuss with your team members the principles of
counseling described in each item on your activity sheet.

Principles of Counseling
A N S U R E A R C E S ______________________1. It is a way of giving clients the courage to face a problem or confidence
that they are pursuing a suitable course of action. This is a valuable principle because it can bring about a sense of relief that
may empower a client to function normally again.

R A C L D I F E I K I N G N H I T___________________________2. It tends to take place while the counselor and counselee

are talking and therefore becomes a logical emotional release. As the relationship goes on, other self-empowering results may
take place later as a result of developments during the counseling relationship. It encourages a client to accept responsibility for
problems and to be more realistic in solving them.

A C I V E D_________________3. Counseling may involve this as one of the several functions that counselors perform. When
this is done, the requirement is that a counselor makes judgments about a counselee’s problems and lays out options for a
course of action. Giving of this has to avoid breeding a relationship in which the counselee feels inferior and emotionally
dependent on the counselor.

S E E R L E A _________________4. Counseling provides clients the opportunity to get emotional release from their pent-up
frustrations and other personal issues. Counseling experience shows tthat as persons begin to explain their concerns to a
sympathetic listener, their tensions begin to subside. They become more relaxed and tend to become more coherent and
rational. This principle helps remove mental blocks by providing a solution to the problem.

T S L I N I N G E S L I K S L _______________________5. Listening attentively to clients is the counselor’s attempt to

understand both the content of the client’s problem as they see it, and the emotions they are experiencing related to the
problem. Counselors do not make interpretations of the client’s problems or offer any premature suggestions as how to deal with
them or solve the issues presented. This principle helps counselors to understand the concerns being presented.

O R E R N I E T N A T O I ________________________6. This involves a change in the client’s emotional self through a

change in basic goals and aspirations. This requires a revision of a client’s level of aspiration to bring it more in line with actual
and realistic attainment. It enables clients to recognize and accept their own limitations.

R S E C T E P _________________7. In all circumstances, clients must be treated with good regard, no matter how peculiar,
strange, disturbed, weird, or utterly different from the counselor. Without this basic element, successful counseling is impossible.
Counselors do not have to like the client, or their values, or their behavior, but they ahve to put their feelings aside and treat the
client with respect.

E Y M H P T A and E P V O S I T I R A R E G D______________________________8. Carl Rogers combined these two

principles that should go along with respect and effective listening skills. The first one requires the counselor to listend and
understand the feelings and perspective of the client and the second one is an aspect of respect. For Rogers, clients have to be
given both “unconditional positive regard” and be treated with respect.

T R A N S E C N E R E F and C R O U T E N T R A N S E C N E R E F
___________________________________________9. When clients are helped to understand transference reactions, they are
empowered to gain understanding of important aspects of their emotional life. Countertransference helps both clients and
counselors to understand the emotional and perceptual reactions and how to effectively manage them.

C A L R I T O I N C I F A, C O N T I O N F O R N A T, and I N T R E T A N I O T E R P
___________________________________________________10. Clarification is an attempt by the counselor to restate what
the client is either saying or feeling, so the client may learn something or understand the issue better. Confrontation and
interpretation are other more advanced principles used by counselors in their interventions.

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Role Playing and Counseling Graphic Organizer
Through a role-playing activity, demonstrate how the counseling core values can be exhibited in a counseling session.
Volunteers will be selected by the teacher.
1. Pair up with a classmate. Assign which of you will first play the role of the counselor and which one will be the counselee.
2. In two minutes, the counselee thinks of a life issue to bring up with the counselor, while the counselor internalizes the
counseling core values.
3. Start the role-play. Sustain a counseling session for five minutes.
4. Reverse roles. The counselor now becomes the counselee, and the counselee now becomes the counselor.
5. Repeat the process. The counselee chooses a different life situation to bring up. Restart the role-play.

Direction: Discuss how the core values of counseling were demonstrated during the session. Use the graphic organizer in your
activity sheet to note spectic manifestations of the core values and principles.

Counseling Graphic Organizer

Counselor 1
Core Values of Counseling Manifestations

Principles of Counseling Manifestations

 Counselor 2
Core Values of Counseling Manifestations

Principles of Counseling Manifestations

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ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN:
Create an advocacy campaign to promote the advanttages of counseling among the youth. Your campaign can come in any
creative and relevant form, such as blogs, infographics, podcasts, video, etc. The deadline of this output will be on the next
class session.

Rubric for Advocacy Campaign Material

Criteria Excellent Very Good Good Poor
Content 20 17 14 11

Creativity 10 8 6 4

Organization 10 8 6 4
Descriptions for each rating scale are found on the rubrics (attached).

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ASSIGNMENT:

Research for the following topics:

- Roles, Functions and Competencies of Counseling
- Career Opportunities and Areas of Specialization of Counselors

Matrix Completion: Roles, Functions and Competencies of Counseling and Career Opportunities and Areas of
Specialiazation of Counselors
Work with your teams. Watch the videos entitled “Roles and Functions of Counseling” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=x0kFo_2ktE8) and “Careers in Counseling” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOXzlu8TWeg). After watching these, list
down the needed information in matrix form:

Roles of Counseling:

Functions of Counseling:
Competencies of
Counseling:
Career Opportunities for
Counselors:
Areas of Specialization of
Counselors:

Results and analysis of data from your interview must be written in a report, which may be used as reference for class activities
next meeting. Formulate your own title – a title which will embrace the data collected.