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Diass Lesson Week 3

Here is a draft slogan and social media post promoting mental health awareness in your barangay: [SLOGAN] "It's okay not to feel okay. Let's talk." [SOCIAL MEDIA POST] Good morning neighbors! Mental health affects us all. In these challenging times, it's more important than ever to check in on each other and make sure we're doing alright. I want our barangay to be a supportive community where anyone struggling can find help. Starting this month, I'll be hosting weekly wellness workshops to create a safe space for open discussion. You don't have to go through tough times alone - I'm here to listen without judgment. Small acts of kindness can make a big difference

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Diass Lesson Week 3

Here is a draft slogan and social media post promoting mental health awareness in your barangay: [SLOGAN] "It's okay not to feel okay. Let's talk." [SOCIAL MEDIA POST] Good morning neighbors! Mental health affects us all. In these challenging times, it's more important than ever to check in on each other and make sure we're doing alright. I want our barangay to be a supportive community where anyone struggling can find help. Starting this month, I'll be hosting weekly wellness workshops to create a safe space for open discussion. You don't have to go through tough times alone - I'm here to listen without judgment. Small acts of kindness can make a big difference

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ROLES AND FUNCTIONS IN

COUNSELING
 Counseling as a profession is stimulating and
also satisfying.
 If you find meaning in helping a client become
socially functional, if you get excited about the
study in human distress and how to distress, if
you are inquisitive on processing feelings, then
you are attracted to counseling as profession.
 “Counseling is a helping profession”.
 This statement defines their roles and
function.
 According to Gibson and Mitchell (2003), a
helping profession is composed of members “who
are specially trained and licensed to perform a
unique and service for fellow human beings”
These roles and functions are briefly
described below:
Individual Assessment
 Seeks to identify the characteristics and potential of every
client; promotes the client’s self-understanding and assisting
counselors to understand the client better.
Individual Counseling
 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.
Group Counseling and Guidance
 Groups are means of providing organized
and planned assistance to individuals for a
array of needs. Counselor provides
assistance through group counseling and
group guidance.
Career Assistance
 Counselors are called on to provide career
planning and adjustment assistance to
clients.
Placement and Follow-Up
 A service of school counseling programs with emphasis on
educational placements in course and programs.
Referral
 It is the practice of helping clients find needed expert
assistance that the referring counselor cannot provide.
Consultation
 It is a process of helping a client
through a third party or helping system
improve its services to its clientele.
Research
 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 and Accountability
 Evaluation is a means of assessing to 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.
Prevention
 This includes promotion of mental health through
primary prevention using a social-psychological
perspective.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION OF
COUNSELORS
 

Marriage and Family Counseling


 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.
 The focus of counselors is on
helping couples and families
discover options and
opportunities for effective family
living.
Child and Adolescent Counseling

 Child and adolescent counseling is a


developing area of expertise in the
counseling profession. Common
problems include child abuse and
neglect, child/adolescent depression,
and antisocial behavior.
 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.
Group Counseling
 Group counseling is a
dynamic field in the
counseling profession.
Group counseling offers the following: opportunities for
members to learn from observing other group members:

Opportunities for members to learn from observing other group


members

Can function as helpers and helps

Opportunities to discover others with similar concerns

Members are encouraged to offer help to others

Opportunities to enhance interpersonal skills


Career Counseling
 Career counseling is an evolving and
challenging counseling field. This type of
counseling aids individuals on decisions
and planning concerning their career. The
model consists of vocational career
services, occupational placement,
vocational guidance, career counseling,
career education, career therapy, and
position coaching.
School Counseling
 School counseling refers to the
process of reaching out to students
with concerns on drugs, family and
peers, or gang involvement. The Job
requires skills on consultation,
counseling exceptional students and
with the ability to handle problems
such as drug abuse, teenage
pregnancy, divorced or single
parents, and dropping out of school.
Mental Health Counseling
 Mental health counseling is manifested in the challenges
posed by its clientele with mental disorders. Mental
disorders include serious depression, schizophrenia, and
substance abuse.
 The job requires patience, humility,
kindness, and compassion. Skills
required for job effectively comprise of
capacity to determine when to be an
advocate and when you let the client take
the initiative, must have a support system
to be able to work effectively, apply give-
and-take approach in establishing support
system, and communication skills.
Activity
Instructions: Identify what roles/functions does the following
statements described.
1. It is considered as the core activity through which other activities become meaningful. It is
a client-centered process that demand confidentiality.
2. This role/function includes promotion of mental health through primary prevention using a
social-psychological perspective.
3. It seeks to identify the characteristics and potential of every client; promotes the client’s
self-understanding and assisting counselors to understand the client better.
4. Groups are means of providing organized and planned assistance to individuals for a array
of needs. Counselor provides assistance through group counseling and group guidance.
5. It is a service of school counseling programs with emphasis on educational placements in
course and programs.
6. The process of helping a client through a third party or helping system improve its services
to its clientele.
7. It is the practice of helping clients find needed expert assistance that the referring counselor
cannot provide.
8. This role is necessary to advance the profession of counseling; it can provide empirically
based data relevant to the ultimate goal of implementing effective counseling.
9. Means of assessing to 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.
10. Career planning and adjustment assistance to clients.
Performance task:
1. Create a slogan that will promote counselling in your Barangay.
2. Theme is all about Mental health awareness.
3. Write your original composition.
4. Post it on any social media platforms publicly.
5. Submit the soft copy of your work in DIASS google classroom.
6. Criteria for scoring:
CREATIVITY 30 % YOUR SCORE

RELEVANCE TO THE THEME 25 %

IMPACT AND PRESENTATION 20 %


(THROUGH REACTIONS AND SHARES)

ORIGINALITY 15 %

GRAMMATICAL AND TYPOGRAPHICAL 10 %


ERROR-FREE

TOTAL SCORE: 100 %

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