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HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
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Disciplines & Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences

HUMSS 12

Disciplines & Ideas in the Applied

Social Sciences
Quarter 1
SELF LEARNING MODULE 2
Week 2

F2 ROYLAN HOPE C. PETILUNA.

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Most Essential Learning Competencies:

1. discuss roles and functions of counselors

2. identify specific work areas in which counselors work
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Professionals & Practitioners in the Discipline of

Counseling
Introduction:

While counseling can be done by anyone that a disturbed person can approach in times of
distress and emotionally-critical points of life, Counselors are said to be the professional
practitioners of counseling. They spent time studying and developing their skills for the purpose
of providing support to emotionally-burdened individuals. In school, they are often referred to as
Guidance Counselors; providing guidance to students and even at some cases, teenagers that we
can consider as out-of-school youth. Now we are going to know them better by understanding
their roles and functions as well as other areas that a counselor may be assigned to deal with.

Roles of Guidance Counselors

The critical role of a guidance counselor is to assist a person(s) (clients) in realizing a
change in behavior or attitude, seeking achievement of goals, and finding help. Other related
roles of the guidance counselor may also include:
 Teaching social skills and effective communication skills
 Provide spiritual guidance
 Provide assistance in decision-making and career choices
 Aid a person when coping with a crisis
 Pre-marital & marital counseling
 Counseling in times of grief/loss (divorce, death, amputation)
 Counseling in times of domestic violence/other types of abuse
 Counseling in cases of terminal illness
 Counseling of emotionally and mentally disturbed individuals

Functions of Guidance Counselors

According to Republic Act No. 9258 (Sec. 2-3); a guidance counselor is defined as “a
natural person who has been professionally registered and licensed by a legitimate state entity
and by virtue of specialized training to perform the functions of guidance and counseling”. To
carry out this definition of of guidance counselors, their assigned primary function is to use an
integrated approach to develop a well-functioning individual primarily through:
1. helping a client develop potentials to the fullest;
2. helping a client plan to utilize his/her potentials to the fullest;
3. helping a client plan his/her future in accordance with his/her abilities,
interests, and needs; and
4. sharing and applying knowledge related to counseling, such as
administering to a wide range of human development services.
To do this, a guidance counselor must focus his/her attention in providing opportunities
and easy access for individuals (clients) to counseling services, setting goals and objectives in the
mental and emotional health of people under his/her area of responsibility, and provide effective
assessment and monitoring framework necessary for the effectiveness of counseling services. The
counselor must also improve his/her professional skills in order to ensure that effective methods
and strategies are employed to contribute to the success of the counseling process.

Areas of Specialization of Counselors

The concept of “emotionally-significant moments of a human person’s life” is too broad
and can include a wide and diverse range of aspects. This wide and diverse range of aspects can
be too troublesome, and counseling would be both inefficient and ineffective if concentrated only
to one group or one type of counselors. That is why, counselors also divide their work, as well as
their work force into different areas of specialization where a particular person may specifically
approach depending on his/her situation/condition. Peferson & Neseholz (1987) as cited by
Sampa (2019) identified 11 major areas where counselors work.
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1. Child development and counseling. This area of specialization includes counseling in

issues that involve; parent education, pre-school counseling, early childhood
education, elementary school counseling, child counseling in mental health agencies,
counseling with battered and abused children and their families.
2. Adolescent development and counseling. Counseling involving junior and senior
high school, psychological education, career development, adolescent counseling in
mental health agencies, youth work in residential facilities, and youth probation.
3. Gerontology (the aged). This is the area of counseling focused on the old-aged or
senior-citizens. Particularly this area includes the counseling of the old-age in aspects
like pre-retirement, community centers (for the old-aged) nursing home counseling,
and hospice work.
4. Marital relationship counseling. Also known as relationship counseling, this area of
specialization involves premarital counseling (counseling before marriage), marriage
counseling, family counseling, sex education, sexual dysfunction counseling, and
divorce mediation.
5. Health. This is the field of specialization that involves nutrition counseling, exercise
and health education, nurse-counselor activities, rehabilitation counseling, stress
management counseling, holistic health counseling, anorexia or bulimia counseling,
and genetic counseling.
6. Career/lifestyle. Involves the most number of counseling activities. These counseling
activities include guidance on choices and decision-making pertaining to career or
lifestyle; guidance on career development; provision of educational and occupational
information to clients; conducting information on career lifestyle trends; provision of
various forms of vocational assessment appropriate to a setting; addressing the career
and life development needs of special populations and appropriate career services in a
given setting; facilitation of work-related activities as an integral part of development
and formation across the lifespan; information dissemination of current career,
vocational, educational, occupational, and labor market information; giving assistance
to clients on developing skills necessary to plan, organize, implement, administer, and
evaluate client’s own career development; facilitating understanding of the
interrelationships among work, family, and other life roles and factors including
diversity and gender, their influence on career development and choices; identification
of ethical and legal considerations, characteristics, and behaviors that influence
career; and provision of needed skills in managing or going through job interviews.
7. College and university. As a field of specialization, it includes the following
counseling opportunities: college student counseling, student activities, student
personnel work, residential hall or dormitory counseling, and education counseling.
8. Drugs. Involves several counseling options like substance abuse counseling, alcohol
counseling, drug counseling, stop-smoking program management, crisis intervention
counseling.
9. Consultation. This field of specialization involves agency and corporate consulting,
working as an organizational development director, industrial psycology specialist, and
training manager.
10.Business and Industry. This offers work for counselors as training and development
personnel, quality and work-life or quality circles manager, employee assistance
programs manager, employee career development officer, affirmative action or equal
opportunity specialist.
11.Other specialties. This field may include phobia counseling (e.g. recovering from
hydrophobia), self-management, intra-personal management, interpersonal
relationships management, and grief counseling.
These fields of specialization are occupied by a counselor either in the public sector or in
private sectors especially in non-government organization (NGO). It is highly imperative to assign
these areas on counselors who had finished a college degree in counseling, however, additional
training or education (usually after college graduation) may be required to fully and effectively be
assigned to a specific field of specialization.
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General Instructions:
Always read and follow the instructions for every exercise carefully. Write your answers in
the blank spaces provided.
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Exercise 1

Directions: Match the following the following counseling activities/opportunities in Column A to

their respective fields of specialization of counseling in Column B. Write only the letter of your
answer in the space provided before the item number. (1 pt. each)
A B
_____1. Alcohol counseling A. Marital relationship counseling
_____2. Training and Development Officer B. Gerontology
_____3. Sex Education C. Child development
_____4. Guidance on choices and decision- D. Business & Industry
making E. College & University
_____5. Stress management F. Consultation
_____6. Pre-retirement counseling G. Drugs
_____7. Senior High School counseling H. Adolescent Development
_____8. Industrial Psychology Specialist I. Career/Lifestyle
_____9. Dormitory counseling J. Health
_____10. Elementary school counseling

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Exercise 2

Directions: Read the questions carefully and answer them to the best of your ability. (20 pts.)

1. How important is the role of guidance counselors in school?

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2. Cite and discuss an example scenario of a guidance counselor doing his/her role? Make sure that your
scenario is specific.

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3. How important is the primary function of guidance counselors in school?

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4. Cite and discuss an example scenario of how a guidance counselor practices his/her function. Make sure
that your scenario is specific.

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------Scoring Rubric------

Points
Content
5 Answer(s) are highly relevant
to what is asked in the
corresponding item
3 Most points in the
discussion of the answers
are relevant to what is asked
in the corresponding item
1 The answer is not related to
what is asked
Criteria
Comprehensiveness
Discussions are highly specific
and connected to the effect
discussed
The connection between the
discussion of answers and the
question is unclear
The connection between the
discussion of answers and the
question is unclear
Clarity
Has very good sentence
construction and does not provide
any vague statements.
Has a good sentence construction
with little grammatical mishaps
and vague statements
Poor sentence construction and no
idea can be easily understood.

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Reflection

What did you learn most from this topic? Discuss your learnings/insights comprehensively.

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Reference(s)

Sampa, E., M. (2019) Disciplines and ideas in the applied social sciences. Philippines. Rex
Book Store, INC. pp. 24-30
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Document Title:
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Disciplines & Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences