Flores, John Carlo M.

HUMSS-12

DIASS Activity #2

1. Define Counseling in your own words.

Counseling is guiding a person to the right path in the way of helping them to come up
to a good decision not to help them make a good one. It is different in giving advice because
advicing is giving your opinion to what is best for them while counseling is you let them freely
choose and decide what is the best for them and help them overcome their personal problems.
It is also looking for another point of view of their problem in order for them to see things
clearly than before. In my other perspective, counseling is needed by people who wants to
change something in their life like their attitudes, characteristics mindset and the likes. The only
thing that the counselors do is to motivate their client to surpass their problem and not the give
any solutions to their problems.
2. Briefly describe each counseling context
a. Peers - These are you friend's standards or expectations, behavior and attitudes that
has a strong influence on adults. This was called peers as context because these
things are being delivered to them by their peers or by the people who has the
same age as them.
b. Neighborhood - the interaction between the families and neighbors are also
affecting the counseling. It introduces both the additional strengths or challenges to
how the parents raise their child. I think this was called neighborhood as context
because the things such as strengths and challenges are both delivered by the
people who is closely related to them.
c. Culture - it gives meaning and connection to the life of communities or
organizations. This is where the counselor look for the client's culture (norms, values
and such) in order to identify his/her nature of struggle
d. Counseling - this is where the counselor monitors the progress of his client and
looking for results of the therapeutic approach they did