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WHAT 2B? (What Is Counseling?)
WHAT 2B? (What Is Counseling?)
WHAT 2B? (What Is Counseling?)
What2B?
essence of the
self."
Introduction:
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Counseling
COUNSELING
An aid provided by a staff member or
peer(student) in relation to an educational,
personal, or social problem.
WHAT SKILLS
DO YOU NEED
FOR THIS JOB?
HERE ARE SOME SKILLS NEEDED
IN COUNSELING
9 BASIC COUNSELING SKILLS
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5.Concreteness 8.Interpretation
Stay Focused Gives ew perspective
Pursue realistic growth Provokes thoughts/feelings
Ask questions Explanation for behaviors
HERE and NOW Don't overuse
The counselling process adapts to your needs and you are invited to be a co-
creator of the process. Your communication about what you want and need is
vital.
The principles here apply to both personal and couples counselling, though
how the different approaches are used may vary.
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TOOLS
&TECHNIQUES
Guidance is the scientific procedure for
assisting an individual. Various types of
tools and techniques are used for
measuring the potentialities of the
individual the guidance purpose.
An especially complete record card
includes spaces for the following:
The following are some of the main tools and i. Tests:
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techniques which are employed in guidance services:
Intelligence and standardized
Charles Dickens
achievement;
2. Interview Technique: One can easily see how such a record would v. Prolonged absences, with causes;
Another important technique is provide a valuable basis for guidance of the vi. personality-short description by
the interview technique which is student in selecting courses, curricula, teacher;
advanced educational, and a vocational career.
used for collecting information’s It is useful in understanding the maladjusted vii. vocation-educational aim,
about the individual by interview pupil chiefly as a source of clues for further vocational aim, special interests,
his parents and pears or other inquiry. Obviously such a brief compilation of
viii. Vocation-educational aim,
family members. It has also some more or less objective data cannot include the vocational aim, special interests,
limitations to have the reliable type of information needed to understand the outside employment, school activities;
data. sources, and dynamic factors in, most pupil
maladjustments. ix. Records of conferences with pupil-
important attitudes, remarks, and
decisions.
4. Adjustment Inventory or Schedule:
Types of Adjustment Inventories: 808
Adjustment schedules are frequently called self-report blanks,
adjustments questionnaires, or inventories. It is impossible to differentiate
them clearly from ‘tests’ designed to measure such personality traits as The adjustment inventories are related to
introversion, self-confidence, etc., since most, if not all, aspects of different areas—Home, Health, Social,
personality are related to adjustment. The purpose of adjustment emotional and School.
schedules is to estimate an individual’s degree of adjustment or
maladjustment.
These inventories are of the following types:
In their preparation, as series of questions designed to reveal attitudes,
feelings and behaviour indicative of maladjustment is gathered, attempts (i) For elementary child pupils.
are made to validate them and they are administered to a representative
group, norms are established. Thus, when the inventory is subsequently (ii) For high child students, and
administered to an individual, the degree of maladjustment indicated by
these responses can be compared with those of the original group. (iii) For college students or adults.
Uses of Adjustment Inventory: The adjustment inventories are useful in school situations may be
summarized as follows:
Adjustment inventories cannot yield conclusive assessment due to
the following reasons: i. For identifying some of the pupils needing special aid in adjustment. Those
who need help but cannot bring themselves to answer the questions frankly
i. It is difficult to formulate diagnostic questions which are will, of courses, have been located through some other means.
understood by all and have the same meaning for all.
ii. For uncovering unsuspected personal problems through noting an pupil’s
ii. It is not possible by the use of the inventories which limits to true answers to the specific questions. The existence of such problems must then
or false; it is an inventory to expose the extent of adjustment. be verified through other techniques.
iii. An adjustment inventory can be validated. iii. For discovering clues to the basis of the adjustment difficulty by means of
a thorough analysis of the answers.
iv. It is not the reliable. It cannot differentiates.
iv. For confirming a suspected maladjustment of a pupils when other
evidence yields inconclusive data. (A low score, however, would leave the
v. It depends on frankness of the subject in responding.
issue undecided).
WHAT SUBJECTS IN GMRC/ESP/PERDEV probably is the most
common and known subject to have this
SCHOOL WOULD kind of staffs working in it but personally, I
think not only those subject should be
HELP A PERSON considered since the "Guidance
Counselor" is the most suitable position or
WITH THIS JOB? a career counselor.
I would like and love doing this job. I did
considered my personality and abilities when I
chose this career. A friend of mine is already
WOULD YOU expecting that I'll be one in the near future.