Learning Area
Learning Delivery Modality
School
Teacher
LESSON
EXEMPLAR
Teaching Date
Teaching Time
I. OBJECTIVES
A. Content Standards
B. Performance Standards
C. Most Essential Learning
Competencies (MELC) (If
available, write the indicated
MELC)
D. Enabling Competencies (If
available, write the attached
enabling competencies)
II. CONTENT
III. LEARNING RESOURCES
A. References
a. Teacher’s Guide Pages
b. Learner’s Material Pages
c. Textbook Pages
d. Additional Materials from
Learning Resources
B. List of Learning Resources for
Development and Engagement
Activities
IV. PROCEDURES
A. Introduction
Disciplines and ideas in the applied social sciences
Modular Distance Modality
SFDSS Grade Level 11 -HUMSS
RAIZA S.CABRERA Learning Area Introduction to the
disciplines and
ideas in the applied
social sciences
10/26-28/2020 Quarter FIRST QUARTER
1-2 12f /2-3 12E/3:20- No. of Days Week 3
4:20 12G
At the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to:
a. Define the code of ethics
b. Demonstrate understanding of value, rights and responsibilities of
counselors.
c. Explain /identify the area of responsibilities of counselors
professionals and practitioners in counseling
undertake participant observation (e.g., a day in a life of a counselor) to
adequately document and critique their roles,
functions, and competencies
value rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities of
counselors
HUMSS_DIASS 12-Ic-9
Page no.
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Power point presentation print outs,
for Quarter 1
LESSON 3 value rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities of
counselors https://www.pap.org.ph/sites/default/files/upload/resolution11-
2017.pdf
What I need to Know?
Lesson 6 value rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities of
counselors
Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to:
a. Define the code of ethics
b. Demonstrate understanding of value, rights and responsibilities of
counselors.
c. Explain and identify the areas responsibilities of counselors
What’s new?
Rearrange the letters that will be completed to this lesson
 luaves- _____________
gthsirs - _____________________
ponislibieisters - _____________________
ccauonatlibieist - _____________________
ouncesorls - _________________________

B. Development What is in?

1.Identify the career opportunities for professional counselors ?

1.______________ 2.________________ 3._________________

4.__________________ 5.______________________

What is it?

What is Code Of Ethics?

Rights and Responsibilities, and Accountabilities of Counselors

(MIDTERM)
Code of ethics help counselors to remind them of their rights, responsibilities
and accountabilities in the counseling profession. The rights, responsibilities
and accountabilities of the counselors are based on the counselors
associations of Code of Conduct.
The code of ethics of the counselors is divided into seven sections,
namely, (a) counseling relationship, (b) confidentiality (c) professional
responsibility (d) relationships with other professionals, (e) evaluation,
assessment, and interpretation, (f) teaching,training and supervision (g)
research and
publication.(Gladding ,2000 ). We shall only presenting in details three of
the seven areas, namely, counseling relationships, confidentiality, and
professional responsibility. The following three tables below provide a
sample code of ethics of the American Counseling Association.
WATCH AND READ THIS ARTICE FROM THE CODE OF ETHICS OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOSCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
https://www.pap.org.ph/sites/default/files/upload/resolution11-2017.pdf
Source: Gladding 2000

Areas Description
The Counseling Relationships
1. Client welfare Counselor’s primary responsibility
is to respect the dignity and
promote the welfare of clients.

2. Respecting Diversity
3. Client Rights
4. Clients Served by others
5. Personal Needs and values
6. Dual Relationships
7. Sexual Intimacies with Clients
8. Multiple Clients
They are also expected to
encourage client’s growth.
Counselors and clients are expected
to work together in crafting
individual counseling plans
consistent with the client’s
circumstances.
Counselors do not engage in
discrimination based on age, color,
culture, disability, ethnic group,
gender, race, religion, sexual
orientation, marital status and socio
economic status. Counselors shall
respect differences and understand
the diverse cultural backgrounds of
their clients.
Counselors shall disclose the
purposes, goals, techniques,
procedures, limitations, potential
risks, benefits of the services to be
performed and other pertinent
information to the client throughout
the counseling process. Counselors
offer clients the freedom to choose
whether to enter into a counseling
relationship and determine which
professional will provide
counseling, except when the client
is unable to give consent.
In cases where the client is
receiving services from another
mental health professional, with
clients consent, inform the
professional person already
involved to develop an agreement.
Maintain the clients and avoid
actions that seek to meet their
personal needs at the expense of the
clients. Counselors shall be aware
of their values, attitudes, beliefs,
and behavior and how these apply
in a diverse society and avoid
imposing their values on clients.
Counselors are aware of their
influential position over their
clients avoid the exploiting the trust
and dependency of the clients.
Counselors should not accept as
superiors or subordinates clients’.
Counselors should not have any
type of sexual intimacies with
clients and do not counsel persons
with whom they have sexual
relationship. Counselors should not
also engage with sexual intimacies
with their former clients within a
minimum of two years.
In cases where counselors agree to
provide counseling services to two
or more persons who have a
 relationship, counselors clarify at
the outset which person or persons
are clients and the nature of
relationship they will have with
each other involved person.
9. Group Work Counselors screen prospective
group counseling / therapy
participants to determine those with
compatible needs. In group setting,
counselors take reasonable
precautions to protect clients from
physical or psychological trauma.
10. Fees Prior to entering the counseling
relationship, the counselors clearly
explain the clients all financial
arrangements related to
professional fees.

Areas Description
Confidentiality
1.Right to Privacy Counselors respect a client’s right
to privacy and avoid illegal and
unwarranted disclosures of
unwarranted information.
The right to privacy may be
waived by the clients or their
legally recognized representative.
The general requirement that the
counselors keep the information
confidential does not apply when
disclosure is required to prevent
clear and imminent danger to the
client or others or when legal
requirements demand that
confidential information is be
revealed.
Counselors who received
information confirming that a client
has a disease known to be
communicable and fatal is justified
in disclosing information to an
identifiable third party, who by
his/her relationship with the client
is at high risk of contracting the
disease.
When court orders the counselors
to release confidential information
without client’s permit, counselors
request to the court that the
disclosure should not be required
due to potential harm to client or
counseling relationship.

2. Group and Families In group work, counselors clearly

define confidentiality and
parameters for the specific group
being entered, explain its
importance, and discuss difficulties
related to confidentiality involved
in group work.

3. Minor Incompetent client
4. Records
5. Research and Training
6. Consultation
In family counseling, information
about one family cannot be
disclosed to another member
without permission.
When counseling clients who are
minors or individuals who are
unable to give voluntary, informed
consent, parents or guardians may
be included in the counseling
process as appropriate.
Counselors maintain necessary
records for
rendering professional services to
their clients and as required by
laws, regulations, or agency or
institution procedures.
Counselors are responsible for
securing safety and confidentiality
of any counseling record they
create, maintain, transfer, or destroy
whether the records are written,
taped, computerized, or stored in
any other medium.
Counselors recognized that
counseling records are kept for the
benefits of the clients therefore
provide access to record and copies
of record when requested by
competent clients unless it contains
information that may be misleading
or detrimental to the clients.
Counselors obtain written
permission from clients to disclose
or transfer records to legitimate
third parties unless exception to
confidentiality exists.
Use of data derived from
counseling relationships for
purposes of training ,research , or
publication is confined to content
that is disguised to ensure the
anonymity of the individuals
involved. Identification of the client
involved is permissible only when
the client has reviewed the material
and has agreed to its presentation or
publication.
 Information obtained in
consulting relationship is discussed
for professional purposes only with
persons clearly concerned with the
case. Before sharing information,
counselors make efforts to ensure
that there defined policies that
effectively protect the
confidentiality of information with
other agencies serving the
counselors clients.
 Source; Gladding 2000
Areas
Professional Responsibility
1. Standards Knowledge
2. Professional Competence
Description
Counselors have a responsibility to
read, understand, and follow the
Code of Ethics and Standards of
Practice
Counselors practice only within
the boundaries of their competence
based on their education, training,
supervised experience, state and
national professional credentials
and appropriate professional
experience. Counselors will
demonstrate a commitment to gain
knowledge, personal awareness,
sensitivity, and skills pertinent to
working with diverse client
population.
Counselors practice specialty
areas new with to them only after
appropriate education, training, and
supervised experience. While
developing skills in new specialty
area, counselors take step to ensure
the competence of their work and to
protect other from possible harm.
Counselors accept employment
only for positions which they are
qualified by education, training,
supervise experience, state and
national professional credentials,
and appropriate professional
experience
Counselors continually monitor
their effectiveness as professionals
and take steps to improve their
skills and knowledge.
Counselors refrain from offering
or accepting professional services
when their physical, mental, or
emotional problems are like to
harm clients or others.

C. Engagement What more?

Act. 2.1
Act. 2 Count Me In, Count me Out: Reflection Activity
Will I Give up My Job or Not?
Instruction:
1. In the area of counseling relationships of the Code of Conduct, it
states that “Counselors should not have any type of sexual intimacies with
clients and do not counsel persons with whom they have sexual relationship.
Counselors should not also engage with sexual intimacies with their former
clients within a minimum of two years.”
2. What if you are counselor and you have fallen in love with your
client and the client has also fallen in love with you. Since, it is unethical to
pursue the relationship; you will quit your job. Your job is also important to
you. Now, what will be your decision?

D. Assimilation
V. REFLECTION I understand
that _______________________. I
realize that
____________________________.
Prepared by:
What i can do?
Act. 2.2 Will I report My Client or Not
Instruction:
1. In the area of confidentiality of the Code of Ethics, there is a portion on
client’s right to privacy. What if the counselor, in his/her conversation with
the client, found out that the client accidentally killed a person, will you
report the client to police or not? Explain your answer.
2. The class will be divided into two. The first group will choose the position
of disclosing the information to the right authorities. The other group will
take the position of not disclosing the information to the authorities. What is
your position? Why?
3. Share your answer through the debate.
4. Will I report? Or will not report?
What I have learned?
Question:
What is the code of ethics?
What are the seven section of counselors?
What I can do? (Assessment)
Prepare to answer the following
Assessment questions
Identification: Read the following sentences, Write the areas of
responsibilities that match from the given.
1. Right to privacy
2. Client welfare
3. Records
4. Clients Served by others
5. Standards knowledge
6. Professional Competence
7. Clients served by others
8. Minor incompetent client
9. Fees
10. Group work
Answer key:
1.Confidentiality
2.The Counseling relationships
3.Confidentiality
4.The Counseling relationships
5.Professional responsibility
6.Professional responsibility
7.The counseling relationships
8.The counseling relationships
9.The counseling relationships
10.The counseling relationships
In their notebook the learners will write their
personal understandings about the lesson.
1. All things that they have learned.
Noted by:
RAIZA S. CABRERA LEVY P. TALAY
Teacher Principal