Topic 2 Goals and Scope of Counseling

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COUNSELING
Counseling
•Counseling is a professional relationship that
empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to
accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and
career goals. The primary goal of counseling is to help
people utilize their prevailing social skills and problem
solving skills more functionally, or to cultivate new
surviving and coping skills.
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
• The profession that involves the use of an integrated approach to

the development of a well- functioning individual primarily by
helping him/her to utilize his/her potentials to the fullest and plan
his/her present and future in accordance with his/her abilities,
interests and needs.
- RA 9258, Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF COUNSELING
 Counseling as an art is the subjective dimension of

counseling
 Counseling as a science, on the other hand, is the

objective dimension of the counseling process
COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS:
• A person seeing a counselor, a psychologist, a
psychiatrist, or mental health practitioner has mental
illness.
 Counseling means giving advice.
 Counseling is part of the Discipline Board.
 A counselor is a problem- solver.
GOALS OF COUNSELING
DETAILED AND EXPANSIVE COUNSELING GOALS HAVE BEEN
IDENTIFIED BY GIBSON AND MITCHELL (2003), WHICH ARE AS
FOLLOWS:
1.Developmental Goals
- assist in meeting or advancing the clients human
growth and development including social, personal,
emotional, cognitive, and physical wellness
FOLLOWS:
2. Preventive Goals
- helps the client avoid some undesired outcome. E.g.
failing grades
3. Enhancement Goals
-enhance special skills and abilities.
FOLLOWS:
4. Remedial Goals
– assisting a client to overcome and treat an
undesirable development
FOLLOWS:
5. Exploratory Goals
- examining options, testing of skills, trying new and
different activities, etc.
6. Reinforcement Goals
- helps client in recognizing, that what they are doing,
thinking, and feeling is fine
FOLLOWS:
7. Cognitive Goals
-involves acquiring the basic foundation of learning
and cognitive skills
8. Physiological Goals
– involves acquiring the basic understanding and
habits for good health
FOLLOWS:
9. Psychological Goals
– aids in developing good social interaction skills,
learning emotional control, and developing positive
self – concept
FOLLOWS:
1.Developmental Goals 7.Cognitive Goals

2.Preventive Goals 8.Physiological Goals
3.Enhancement Goals 9.Psychological Goals
4.Remedial Goals
5.Exploratory Goals
6.Reinforcement Goals
LIST OF COUNSELING GOALS (MCLEOD,2003)
• Insights • Acquisition of Social Skills

• Relating with others • Cognitive change
• Self-awareness • Behavior change
• Self-acceptance • Systematic change
• Self-actualization • Empowerment
• Enlightenment • Restitution
• Problem-Solving • Generativity
• Psychological Education
SCOPE OF COUNSELING
• The scope of counseling covers personal,

social, cognitive, behavioral, psychological,
emotional, spiritual, occupational and even
health aspect of an individual.
SCOPE OF COUNSELING
INDIVIDUAL FAMILY
• Depression • Divorce
• Sexual Abuse • Family Dynamics
• Anxiety • Transitions in life
• Gender • Miscommunication
• Relationships • Jealousy
• Spirituality • Money Matters
• Ideology • Parenting
• Adolescent Issues • Remarriage
• Loss
• Anxiety
• Anger
• Vocation
• Studies
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.
• If you have a friend who’s thinking of dropping
or cutting classes from your class, how will you
help him/her using the different concepts of
counseling?
• Counseling is a professional relationship that empowers
diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish
mental health, wellness, education, and career goals. The
primary goal of counseling is to help people utilize their
prevailing social skills and problem solving skills more
functionally, or to cultivate new surviving and coping
skills.

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YOU

• The profession that involves the use of an integrated approach to

 Counseling as an art is the subjective dimension of

 Counseling as a science, on the other hand, is the

1.Developmental Goals 7.Cognitive Goals

• Insights • Acquisition of Social Skills

• The scope of counseling covers personal,

1. Cases of students suffering from physical violence as a

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