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Grade 12 | HUMSS

Discipline of Counseling Learning Targets

 identify the goals and scope of

counseling
 demonstrate comprehension of
the principles of counseling
 discuss the core values of
counseling
INTRODUCTION
The learners shall be able to demonstrate a high level of the basic concepts of counseling through a group
presentation of a situation in which practitioners of counseling work together to assist individuals, groups, or
communities involved in difficult situations ( e.g., post disaster, court hearing about separation of celebrity
couple, cyber bullying )

Activity 1: Let’s Practice

I. Chapter Pre Test

Act.1
Anticipation Reaction Guide
Direction: The following statements enable you to reflect on or figure – out your level of understanding
about counseling. You are required to agree or disagree with each of the following statements. Before the
chapter study. 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 Study Statements After the 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.
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.
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.
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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 Activity 2: Let’s Practice

Act.2 KWL Chart

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

Guide Questions:
1. What are your ideas about counseling?
____________________________________________________________________________
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2. Did you experience counseling? Why?

____________________________________________________________________________
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III. Discussion

Counseling
– For Nystul (2003) defined it as basically an art and a science wherein you endeavor to weigh the

objective and subjective facets of the counseling process.

- As an art is the subjective dimension of counseling. It upholds a flexible and creative process whereby the
counselor modifies the approach to meet the developing needs of the clients.
- As a science, on the other hand, is the objective dimension of the counseling process.
- In practical terms, counseling happens when a person who is distressed asks for help and permit another
person to enter into a kind of connection with him/her. It is indicative with formal of someone in search of
counseling requests for time and attention from person who will listen, who will allow him/her to speak and
who will not condemn and criticize him/her.
- Informal helping- is a kin with formal helping in some ways such as presence of good listening skills,
empathy, and caring capacity.
- Based on Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004, guidance and counseling is the profession that
implicates the application of “ an integrated approach to the development of a well-functioning individual “
through the provision of support that aids an individual to use his/her potential to the fullest in accord with
his/her interest , needs and abilities. (University of Queensland, 2015).
- At the American Counseling Association (ACA) Conference in Pittsburgh in March 2010, the
representatives come to an agreement on a mutual definition of counseling. They agreed that counseling
is a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families and group to accomplish mental
health, wellness,education, and career goals (Kaplan, Tarvydas, and Gladding, 2014)

Goals of Counseling – the key component of individual, group, organizational and community success
-Detailed and expansive counseling goals have been identified by Gibson and Mitchell (2003), which are as
follows:

1. Development Goals – assist in meeting or advancing the clients human growth and development including
social, personal, emotional, cognitive, and physical wellness.
2. Preventive Goals – helps the client avoid some undesired outcome.
3. Enhancement Goals- enhance special skills and abilities.
4. Remedial Goals – assisting a client to overcome and treat an undesirable development
5. Exploratory Goals- examining options, testing of skills, trying new and different activities, etc.

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6. Reinforcement Goals- helps client in recognizing, that what they are doing, thinking, and feeling is fine
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
9. Psychological Goals – aids in developing good social interaction skills, learning emotional control, and
developing positive self – concept.

The presented list of counseling goals, some of which are enhancement of the above goals.
Goal Description
Insight Understanding of the origins and development of emotional difficulties , leading
to an increased capacity to take rational control over feelings and actions
Relating with others Becoming better able to form and maintain meaningful and satisfying
relationships with other people : for example , within the family or workplace
Self- awareness Becoming more aware of thoughts and feelings that had been blocked off or
denied, or developing a more accurate sense of how self is perceived by others.
Self- acceptance The development of a positive attitude toward self, marked by an ability to
acknowledge areas of experience that had been the subject of self- criticism and
rejection
Self – actualization Moving in the direction of fulfilling potential or achieving an integration of
previously conflicting parts of self.
Enlightenment Assisting the client to arrive at a higher state of spiritual awakening
Problem- Solving Finding a solution to a specific problem that the client had not been able to
resolve alone. Acquiring a general competence in problem – solving
Psychological education Enabling the client to acquire ideas and techniques with which to understand and
control behavior
Acquisition of Social Learning and mastering social and interpersonal skills such as maintenance of
Skills eye contact , turn taking in conversations, assertive, or anger control
Cognitive change The modification or replacement of irrational beliefs or mal adaptive thought
patterns associated with self- destructive behavior
Behavior change The modification or replacement of maladaptive or self- destructive patterns of
behavior.
Systematic change Introducing change into the way in that social systems operate
Empowerment Working on skills , awareness, and knowledge that will enable to client to take
control of his or her own life
Restitution Helping the client to make amends for previous destructive behavior
Generality Inspiring in the person a desire and capacity to care for others and pass on
knowledge and to contribute to the collective good through political engagement

Act. 3
In What Way Will Counseling Empower Me?
Instruction:
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”.
2. What do you think about this statement? Do you accept or support it? How will it empower you? Explain
your answer.
3. Write your answer in the box.

Open Notes
Name:__________________________________________________________________________________
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 Scope of Counseling

The wide ranges of human problems create a widened scope and field of counseling. Broadly, the scope
of counseling includes individual counseling, marital and premarital counseling, family counseling, and
community counseling. A more focused subject matter related to scope of counseling is the 4757-15 Scope of
Practice foe Licensed Professional Counselors. It contains the rights and responsibilities of licensed
counselors including the following:

Licensed Professional Counselors may for a fee, salary, or other considerations

1. Afford counseling services to individuals, groups, organizations, or the general public
compromising of: application of clinical counseling principles, methods, or procedures to assist
individuals in realizing effective personal, social, educational, or career development and
adjustment.
2. “apply clinical counseling principles, methods , and procedures “, means an approach to
counseling that emphasizes the counselor’s role in systematically assisting clients through all of
the following: assessing and analyzing emotional conditions , exploring possible solutions, and
developing and providing treatment plan for mental and emotional adjustment or development.
It may include counseling, appraisal, consulting, supervision, administration, and referral.
3. Engage in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders when under the
supervision of a professional clinical counselor, psychologist, psychiatrists, independent
marriage and family therapist, or independent social worker.
4. Provide training supervision for students and registered counselor trainees when services are
within their scope of practice, which does not include supervision of the diagnosis and treatment
of mental and emotional disorders.

Source: http:codes.ohio.gov/oac/4757-15

Core Values- is a key component of an organization. It has significant influence on other organizational
components, more specifically, to its members. It serves as standards that shape the members behavior in
their interaction with their clients and other people.
According to Mcleod (2003) ,the founders of humanistic psychology, including Maslows and Rogers
,highlighted the importance of values.

Ethical Principles of counseling which are follows:

Ethical These are the ideas that underpin both personal and professional codes.
Principles 1. Autonomy of individuals
 Is based on the right to freedom of action and freedom of choice in so far as
the pursuit of these freedom does not interfere with the freedom of others ;
counseling cannot happen unless the client has made a free choice to
participate
2. Principle of Non maleficence
 This refers to instruction to all helpers or healers that they must ,above all, do
no harm;
 Beneficence refers to the order to promote human welfare
3. Principle of Justice
 Concerned with the fair distribution of resources and services , unless there is
some acceptable reason for treating them differently
 For counseling , the principle has particular relevance to the question access
General  The BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice , drawing on virtues perspective also
Moral identified a set of personal qualities that all practitioners should possess: empathy,
Theories sincerity, integrity, resilience, respect, humility, competence, fairness, wisdom and
courage

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Act.5 Which Counseling Principle I Agree Most?
Instruction:
1. Among those four ethical principle that we discuss in class, namely , principle of autonomy of
individuals, principles of non-maleficence, principle of justice, and principle of fidelity, which will you
choose to present? Why this principle? What aspect of the principle influences you? Please explain.
2. Write your answers on the box.
3.
Open Notes
4.
5.
Name:___________________________________________________________________________________
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6.
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IV. Application
Act. 6 Take It from the Expert! (Presentation)
To be able to appreciate better the counseling profession, the class will be divided into four groups. Each
group is required to interview via zoom for online class and thru conference call for modular class, a
counselor from any of the counselor’s work settings: school, mental hospital, private agencies, community,
and government. You interview must focus 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 must be written in a report. Formulate your own title – a title
which will embrace the data collected. The ethics forms (letter of permission, consent from the institution and
the counselor) will be submitted together with the report.

Guide Questions:
1. Based on your activity did you see the roles, values and principles of counseling? What are those? Explain.
________________________________________________________________________
2. For you is it counseling is a big responsibility? Why?
_______________________________________________________________________

V. Valuing

1. What are the importance of counseling?

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2. If you give a chance to become a counselor what are the characteristics do you think that a counselor
should have and why?

VI. Assignment
Search for the following:
- Roles , Functions and Competencies of counseling
- Career Opportunities and Areas of Specialization of Counselors

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 Let’s rate your understanding! Shade it.

Congratulations! You are done in this module. How do you feel about our lesson? Shade the circle of your
choice.

I know the lesson very well. I feel like I could teach it to someone else.

I feel like I know this well. I get almost every question right for the first time

I feel like I am still learning this time. I still have some questions and unsure sometimes.

I have lots of questions. I am not sure what to do most of the time.

HAVE A PICTURE OF YOU and YOUR ANSWER HERE AND SEND IT TO YOUR TEACHER.

References
Repko, Allen F. (2008). Interdiciplinary Research: Process and Theory.
London, Los Angeles , New Delhi , Singapore: Sage.

Gouldner, Alvin W. ( 1989 ) “ Explorations in Applied Social Science”,

Sociological Practice: Vol. 7 :Iss. 1 , Article 5.Available at :
http//digitalcommons.wayne.edu/socprac/vol7/iss1/5.

Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences Authors: Arleigh Ross D. Dela Cruz PhD, Carl G. Fernandez,
RSW, MSW, Ma. Lourdes F. Melegrito, PhD Cand. Violet B. Valdez, PhD.

Prepared by: Checked and recommended by:

MARIDEL P. DE GUIA JENNIFER D. SOTELO

DIASS Teacher Principal

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