COUNSELING

“STUDENT FEUD” GAME!

COMMON PROBLEMS AMONG STUDENTS COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ON COUNSELING
1. Expectations of Parents 1.A person seeing a counselor has mental illness
2. Choosing course in college 2.Counseling means giving advice
3.Relationship problems 3.Counseling is part of the discipline board
4. Family problems
4.A counselor is a problem solver
5. Academic problems
5.Counseling is brain washing
6. Financial problems
7. Personal problems
8. Etc.
 The Discipline of Counseling
• Developed in the beginning of 20th Century

• Philippine Setting, the development of Counseling

was based from religious and superstitious beliefs in
assisting individuals to maximize their full potential
by analyzing their strength and abilities.

• Vocational Guidance

• The need of Counseling professionals in social

communities, schools, as well as homes, has been
more essential, thus, it is significantly developing
continuously.
 Misconceptions on how people define
Counseling:
❖ One MYTHS about Counseling is that it only deals with disciplinary and serious mental
and emotional problems.

❖ Counseling can be done even in the simplest concern ex. Having dilemma in choosing in
a wide array of course options in post-secondary or tertiary education

❖ Counseling can also help with life transitions, adjusting to new surroundings, academics
problems, relationship problems, and other struggles that an individual usually
encounters.

❖ It is NOT a process of giving advice , but it is a LONG-TERM PROCESS (depending on the

severity of the needs) of assisting people to help themselves to overcome their personal
conflicts.

❖ Counselors DO NOT Prescribe medication but if a Counselor recognizes that there is a

need for medication, it will refer to an appropriate specialist who can provide a proper
assessment.
 COUNSELING is composed of two
parties:

a)Who seeks help and ;

a)Who is professionally trained in directing the

counselee to the desired outcome of the present
problem.
GOALS OF COUNSELING
1.Facilitating Change of Behavior
2.Making the Clients Realize their Full
Potential
3.Enhancing Coping Skills
4.Building Interpersonal Relationship
5.Promoting Decision Making Skills
 1. FACILITATING BEHAVIOR CHANGE
• When the existing problem is due to client’s behavior, it will only be
resolved if the client is WILLING to modify the behavior that hinders
him/her from functioning accordingly and productively.

• The Counselor will not be able to attain this goal without client’s
COOPERATION.

• During Counseling session, the Counselor will just make the client
realize why that specific behavior is needed to be changed, and how are
they going to change it.
HOW?
WHAT ARE THE TECHNIQUES THAT CAN BE
USEFUL IN VARIETY OF BEHAVIOURAL
CHANGE?

1. “SMART” goal setting

2. Problem solving barriers..
3. Self-Monitoring
2. Making the Clients Realize their Full
Potential
• There are individuals who are unable to do some task NOT
because they really can’t BUT because they THINK they
CAN’T

• One of the goals in Counseling is to let the client DISCOVER

their full potential.
3. Enhancing Coping Skills
• Some of the client’s concerns are related with maladjustments. It
happens when an individual is having difficulty in dealing with the
environment’s demand.

• Another goal in Counseling is to help those people who were

struggling cope up in the situations that they were faced with.

• These may inability to adapt in new environment such as school,

workplace or difficulty in adjusting with your daily living after
losing someone you love.
4. Building Interpersonal Relationship
• This is for individuals who is very aloof? Introvert.

In this case, the goal is to help the individual to develop a

more effective interpersonal relationship by getting along
well with others as it is beneficial in people’s success and
happiness.
5. Promoting Decision Making Skills

Counselors do not MAKE decisions for their clients to avoid

dependence, they guide them until they come up with their
own choice.
 SCOPE OF COUNSELING
1. Depression
2. Stress
3. Relationship Difficulties
4. Anxiety and fears or trauma
5. Dealing with loss
6. Poor self-esteem
7. Dealing with conflict
8. Substance-related abuse
9. Coping with health problem
10.Personal growth
11.Anger management
12.Decision making
 SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
:1. Cases of students suffering from physical violence as a
result of bullying in school
2. Cases of students’ absenteeism
3. Choosing a career track in SHS
4. Students suicidal attempts in school
5. Cases of students with clinical depression and self-
mutilation behavior
PERFORMANCE TASK NO. 2: R

OLE PLA
TOPICS:

1. A Romantic love story turns to a traumatic

experience
2. A Man who can’t stop his Vices
3. LGBTQI Discrimination
4. Broken Family Y
5. Questioning Self-worth
CORE VALUES OF COUNSELING

1.Respect for human dignity

2.Partnership
3.Autonomy
4.Responsible caring
5.Personal integrity
6.Social justice
PRINCIPLES OF COUNSELING
1. Reassurance
2. Release of emotional tension
3. Clarified thinking
4. Reorientation
5. Listening skills
6. Respect
7. Empathy & positive regard
8. Clarification, confrontation, and
interpretation.
9. Transference and countertransference
 1. REASSURANCE
Counseling involves providing clients with
reassurance, which is a way of giving them
courage to face a problem or confidence that
they are pursuing a suitable course of action.
Reassurance is a valuable principle because it can
bring about a sense of relief that may empower a
client to function normally again.
2. Release of emotional tension.
Counseling provides clients the opportunity to
get emotional release from their pent-up
frustrations and other personal issues.
Counseling experience shows that 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. The release of tensions
helps remove mental blocks by providing a
solution to the problem.
 3. Clarified thinking.

Clarified thinking tends to take place while the

counselor and counselee are talking and
therefore becomes a logical emotional release.
As this relationship goes on, other self-
empowering results may take place later as a
result of developments during the counseling
relationship. Clarified thinking encourages a
client to accept responsibility for problems and
to be more realistic in solving them.
 4. Reorientation.
Reorientation involves a change in the client’s
emotional self through a change in basic goals
and aspirations. This requires a revision of the
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. The counselor’s job is to recognize
those in need of reorientation and facilitate
appropriate interventions.
 5. Listening skills.

Listening attentively to clients is the counselor’s attempt to

understand both the content of the clients’ 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 to
how to deal with them, or solve the issues presented. Good
listening helps counselors to understand the concerns being
presented.
 6. RESPECT
In all circumstances, clients must be treated with respect, 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 have to put their
personal feelings aside and treat the client with respect.
 7. Empathy and positive regard.
Carl Rogers combined empathy and positive regard as two
principles that should go along with respect and effective
listening skills. Empathy requires the counselor to listen and
understand the feelings and perspective of the client and
positive regard is an aspect of respect. For Rogers, clients have
to be given both “unconditional positive regard” and be
treated with respect.
 8.Clarification, confrontation, and
interpretation.

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.
 9. Transference and countertransference.
Other advanced principles deal with transference and
countertransference. 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
perceptional reactions and how to effectively manage them.
GROUP ACTIVITY:
VISION

MISSION

GOAL
END OF THE LESSON