Guidance and Counseling Reflection

          

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

George F. Nordenholt

Problems!!!     Problems!!!     Problems!!!



 "Laugh at your problems; everybody else does."

          Anyone of us encountered a problem.. But with the help of our  family, friends, classmates etc. they give some advices, but try to face the reality that not all problems are done in just a snap of our fingers.

         For every individual who undergo different hindrances have a lot of options and choices of what to do and whom to approach. Counseling is a part of our society and play a vital role upon all our lives.

          Counseling Services is considered as the "heart and soul" of the guidance program. Different approaches, skills and theories are implemented by counselors because people and situations are different. Sometimes one or the other is best, and sometimes the combination of techniques produces the most benefit. These counseling services are the following: Individual, Group, Family and Counseling Special Cases. 

“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."

Francis Bacon

 

Chapter IV: GUIDANCE SERVICES

OBJECTIVES:

• To organize a filly functional counseling and testing center that would cater to the students and other member of the institution.

• To promote the services of the Guidance Center to the students, faculty members and employees of the institution.

• To establish a “catharsis” where students, parents and faculty can pour their feelings in full confidentiality.

• To provide opportunities for the students to enrich their social lives through the development of skills in interpersonal relationships, with the end in view of helping facilitates the maximum utilization of their academic potentials.

Counseling Services

           This is considered the “heart and soul” of the guidance program. This service aim to assist students in gaining deeper self-understanding and awareness of one’s problems and the effective used of the decision process by formulating alternatives and projecting consequences of each that’s allow students to review critically what has taken place and makes provision for future meetings if they are needed.

           Different approaches, skills and theories are implemented by counselors because people and situations are different. Sometimes one or the other is best, and sometimes the combination of techniques produces the most benefit. These counseling services are the following.

• Individual Counseling

• Group Counseling

• Family Counseling

• Counseling Special Cases

Testing Services

          In many educational institutions as well as employment offices, test are the most widely used specialize techniques I guidance. Test will be useful as a guidance tool if combined with appropriate planning for individual development. Test provide “information terms through quantitative description.”

These services cover the administration, scoring, interpreting and evaluating results of selected test such as:

• Admission Tests

• Intelligence Tests

• Individual Intelligence Tests

• Group Intelligence Tests

• Aptitude Tests

• Interest Tests

• Personality Tests

• Projective Tests

• Special Tests

Student Inventory Record

           This is a continuous process of accumulating recording and utilizing information on each student for guidance and counseling purposes and for obtaining a complete picture of the individual.

Training/ Seminar/ Forum

           These are programs design to help students discover their innate ability and talent as well as develop their emotional intelligence. Symposium and Forum are organize well as information program to tackle important life issues lie love, dating and marriage; Natural Family Planning; Abortion and Contraceptives Methods; gender issues and other relevant topics affecting the life of a person.

Placement and Career Services

           Graduating students are being prepared by the series of career talks by experts on the different field of occupational endeavors. They are coached on how to write an application letter, resume and the development of self confidence in facing interview by the prospective employer. Afterwards an annual “Job Fair” and In Campus Recruitment is organize where educational and medical institutions, industrial, commercial, and technical companies are invited to screen, evaluate, and accept the graduating students as job applicants.

Research Services

          Research capabilities of the guidance center are conducted in conjunction with relevant educational studies like students’ delinquency problems, teenage pregnancy, faculty-student relationship and others. Researches help bridge the gap that currently exist between theories and practice in counseling. Result of the findings in research will serve as guidepost for guidance and educational planning.

Career and Life Planning
 

          Career development program is a package of activities design to develop skills in self-exploration, values clarification, career planning and decision-making, and life-goal setting.

Fresh Men Enhancement Program

           Fresh Men Enhancement Program is a package of activities for fresh men designed to facilitate adjustment into collage life, enhance self-awareness and understanding, and develop the basic skills in coping effectively with rigors in academic life. The component of this program include psychological testing and evaluation; study skills development; time management; stress management; and group growth session.

Orientation and Information

           Orientation and Information service consist of accumulation and dissemination of information about the different guidance activities, vocational opportunities, and educational information for better adjustment and personal growth.

Referral

           Special cases, which require service beyond the scope of guidance and counseling program, are referred to other agencies.

Linkages

           The guidance and counseling program also carry out collaborative activities with school and community-based organizations.


Extension Services

          Guidance staff functions and responsibilities go beyond the students. They extend themselves by helping others by training, seminars, or conduct research as they are often invited in occasions needing their skills and knowledge. In most instances, they rendered the services for free.

Peer facilitation

          Peer facilitators are trained to help the staff in the delivery of the guidance services, as well as extension services. On the other hand practicum the students are provided the opportunity for on-the-the-experience in the guidance field.