History and

Development of
Guidance
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Guidance
Motivated by religious and superstitious beliefs,
people have made efforts to help others, discover
their potentialities, analyze their abilities, and
even predict their future.
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Guidance
Guidance programs reveal much scientific work
already being undertaken in the fields of
education, psychology, sociology, and mental
health.
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Pseudo-scientific
techniques in
Guidance
It may seem unbeilivable, but people are still influenced by
these practices as evidenced by their behavior, and they
spend much money and time waiting for their lucky day.
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NUMEROLOGY
Is predicting of future outcomes or
events in terms of lucky and
unlucky numbers
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ASTROLOGY
Is associating one’s fate with the
course of stars and other
heavenly bodies
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GRAPHOLOGY
Is analyzing one’s character in
terms of one’s penmanship
pattern
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PALMISTRY
The belief that lines on can tell the
fate and destiny of an individual
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PHRENOLOGY
Is character analysis technique
whereby an individual traits like
honesty, sympathy, etc. can be
determined through bodily
structure.
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PHYSIOGNOMY
Allied with phrenology that
predicts personality traits
through facial characteristics,
bodily structure or muscular set.
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DREAM
INTERPRETATION
Is the process of assigning meaning
to dreams.
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OCCULTISM &
SPIRITUALISM
Ways of looking into the past and
future through the help of
spiritista.
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“
The element of the unexplained,
the unknown, or the one-step-
beyond has consciously or
unconsciously influenced many
individual’s behavior and
conduct.
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Guidance . . .
• aims people to help in terms of :
 PRE-PROBLEM
 PREPARATION
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Frank Parsons

Known to be
the ‘Father of
Guidance’
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Frank Parsons
● Stressed the scientific approach to
selecting a career. In selecting a
vocation:

○ One must have a clear self-understanding of one’s

aptitudes, abilities, interests, resources and
limitations.
○ Knowledge of the requirements, advantages, and
disadvantages of different employment.
○ An understanding of how these two are related.
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SINFOROSO PADILLA

father of
guidance in the
Philippines
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"Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004"

● It is hereby declared a policy of the State to
promote the improvement, advancement,
and protection of the guidance and
counseling profession by undertaking and
instituting measures that will result in
professional, ethical, relevant, efficient, and
effective guidance and counseling services for
the development and enrichment of individuals
and group lives.
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"Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004"

● The State recognizes the important role of guidance
counselors in nation-building and promotes the
sustained development of a reservoir of guidance
counselors whose competence have been determined by
honest and credible licensure examinations and whose
standards of professional practice and service are world-
class and internationally recognized, globally
competitive through preventive regulatory measures,
programs and activities that foster their continuing
professional development.
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GUIDANCE Movement
in the Philippines
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In the Philippines, guidance is said

to have both accidental and
incidental origin.
Before 1925, guidance as movement, as it
is now practiced and accepted, was
unknown in the Philippines.
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It was only in 1932

when a Psychological Clinic was started
by Dr. Sinforoso Padilla and which
concerned itself with cases of student
discipline, as well as emotional,
academic and vocational problems.
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In November 1945,
the first Guidance Institute was opened.
The Bureau of Public Schools started
to send teachers as pensionados for
observation and study of guidance
services abroad.
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In its report of 1951,

Congress proposed the establishment of
a functional guidance and counseling
program to help students select their
course, activities, occupations, friends,
future mates.
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In 1953,
the Philippine Association of
Guidance Counselors was organized in
order to study the needs, interests and
potentialities of our young people and
to establish a Testing Bureau.
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The most systematic guidance program

in the Philippines was launched by the
Guidance Section of the United States
Veterans Administration composed of
both American and Filipino
psychologists like Dr. Sinforoso
Padilla, Dr. Jesus Perpinan and Mr.
Roman Tuason.