GUIDANCE SERVICES

GUIDANCE SERVICES

Individual Inventory Referral

Information Placement
Counseling Follow-up
Consultation Testing
Prevention and Wellness
Research and Evaluation
INDIVIDUAL INVENTORY
SERVICE
 INDIVIDUAL INVENTORY

It systematically collects, evaluates and

interprets data to identify the
characteristics and potential of every
client.
The data can be used for proper
diagnosis, predicting progress and
behaviors, accurate placement and
program evaluation.
 NATURE AND PURPOSE
It enables the client to:
1. develop a deeper and fuller self-
awareness
2. discover potentials and obstacles to
full development
3. create appropriate plans for improving
the qualify of hid/her life based on this
awareness and self-understanding.
 NATURE AND PURPOSE
 It enables the counselor to:
1. get to know the client
2. facilitate client’s self-awareness and decision
making
3. ascertain appropriate avenues for clients to
pursue
4. determine the best option in helping the client.
5. assist the significant others in helping the
client.
 CUMULATIVE RECORD
CONTENTS
❖PERSONAL INFORMATION
✔Personal Data
✔Age
✔Family Background and home environment
✔Hobbies, Interests
✔Personal Strengths
✔Problems and Needs
 CUMULATIVE RECORD
CONTENTS
❖EDUCATIONAL DATA
✔Schools Attended
✔Grades
✔Co-curricular Activities
✔Courses taken
❖SOCIAL DATA
❖HEALTH DATA
CUMULATIVE RECORD
CONTENTS

❖ PERSONAL
INFORMATION SHEET
 CUMULATIVE RECORD
CONTENTS

❖ANECDOTAL REPORT
these are the summaries of a
client’s unusual or unexpected
behavior in a given situation or
event.
CUMULATIVE RECORD
CONTENTS
❖ANECDOTAL RECORD
 CUMULATIVE RECORD
CONTENTS

❖RATING SCALES
these scales enables the
rater to observe an individual
systematically and objectively
in a given situation and record
his/her observations
 CUMULATIVE RECORD
CONTENTS

❖CHECKLIST
designed to focus on
observable personality traits
and characteristics of an
individual.
 CUMULATIVE RECORD
CONTENTS
❖ SELF-MADE REPORTS ❖ PEER PERCEPTIONS
✔ Autobiography ✔ Guess who instrument
✔ Self-Expression Essay ✔ Sociometric Techniques
✔ Self-Description Essay ❖
DISCIPLINARY DECISIONS
✔ Diaries and Daily Schedules
❖ STANDARDIZED TEST
❖ QUESTIONNAIRES
❖ INTAKE INTERVIEW
❖ SESSION SUMMARIES
CUMULATIVE RECORD
CONTENTS
INFORMATION SERVICE
INFORMATION

Activity whereby descriptive

materials and media are
accumulated, organized and
disseminate through counseling,
group activities or postings and
announcements.
NATURE AND PURPOSE

Helps the client to:

1. Get a wide range of information from
diverse sources
2. Discover more possibilities than had
already been thought about
3. Weigh pros and cons of each possibility
4. Make an informed decision on the
matter at hand.
NATURE AND PURPOSE

Helps the counselors:

1. Provide a wide range of info that
counselors alone cannot give.
2. Extends information to a greater
number of students even without
individual contact
3. Increases and updates the counselor’s
own knowledge as basis for guiding
clients.
 KINDS OF INFORMATION

❖PERSONAL-SOCIAL ❖METHOD OF
DISSEMINATION
✔Building self-confidence
✔Classroom guidance
✔Overcoming shyness ✔Workshops
✔Handling bullies ✔Films
✔Lectures
✔Seminars
 KINDS OF INFORMATION

❖ACADEMIC-EDUCATIONAL ❖METHOD OF
DISSEMINATION
✔Regular Academic
✔Resource Speakers
Institution
✔Brochures
✔K-12 Possibilities
✔Websites
✔Within institutions ✔Class visits
information
✔Interviews
✔Talent Academics
 KINDS OF INFORMATION

❖ METHOD OF DISSEMINATION
❖VOCATIONAL- ✔ Homeroom Guidance
OCCUPATIONAL ✔ Educational trips
✔Job offerings ✔ Career days
✔Jobs/Occupations ✔ Seminars
✔ Job Fairs
✔ Immersion
✔ Bulletin Board/Brochures
 METHODS OF
DISSEMINATION

❖Printed Information Material

❖ Homeroom Guidance/Guidance
Class
❖Seminars/Symposia/Conferences
❖Programs
TARGET AUDIENCE

❖TARGET AUDIENCE
✔Students
✔Faculty
✔Parents
✔Administrators
✔Support and Maintenance Staff
REFERRAL SERVICE
REFERRAL

❖It is usually understood as the action

taken by persons within the institution
who see that a particular person needs
counselor assistance.
❖It also refers to be assistance
rendered to clients or their significant
others in obtaining services from other
people or agencies that might be more
effective in helping them.
EXTERNAL CONSULTANTS

✔ Medical-dental assistance need

✔ Spiritual-moral issues
✔ Children with special needs
✔ Legal attention is needed
✔ Speech therapists/pathologists
✔ Substance-abused
✔ Psychiatrists or Psychologists
WHEN TO REFER?

✔The counselor believes that he/she

cannot be objective with the client.
✔The client believes that he/she cannot
work with the counselor.
✔Non-professional relationship has
developed between the client and the
counselor
WHEN TO REFER?

✔The needed attention/service is

beyond the competency of the
counselor.
✔The counselor is no longer available.
✔Specialized attention is needed by the
client.
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

❖The counselor has a valid reason for

deciding on referral
❖The counselor knows the specific area
of concern requiring the referral.
❖The client agreed to the referral and
its term
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

❖ The counselor is familiar with:

a. where services are available
b. what services are available
c. who renders them
d. how much the services would cost
e. the credentials of the external
consultant
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

❖The external consultant knows the

referral is for and accepted the
referral
❖The counselor introduces the referred
party to the external consultant
❖The counselor gives feedback and
receives feedback from the external
consultant
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

❖The counselor follows up

❖The counselor does not interfere with
the work of the external consultant
❖The counselor does not charge for
referral
PLACEMENT SERVICE
 NATURE AND PURPOSE

⮚ It ensures that people are in

the right place at the right
time.
⮚ It has to do with helping people
find a place that will contribute
to their physical, mental,
emotional, social and spiritual
health.
 NATURE AND PURPOSE

⮚ The counselor considers the

client goals, needs values
interest and capabilities in
placing them.
 TYPES OF PLACEMENT

✔ PERSONAL-SOCIAL PLACEMENT

Examples: Areas:
shyness or social crisis centers
phobia mental hospitals
lack of friends rehabilitation centers
Substance abuse art schools/drama
illness
 TYPES OF PLACEMENT

✔ EDUCATIONAL-ACADEMIC PLACEMENT

Examples: Areas:
Course educational t activities:
level training
sessions/seminars/workshops
section
job fairs
group posting for academic
extra curricular activities/programs
 TYPES OF PLACEMENT

✔ VOCATIONAL-OCCUPATIONAL PLACEMENT

Examples: Areas:
Course career placement activities:
level training sessions
job fairs
section
posting job openings
group
coordinating with reputable
extra curricular corporations
 REQUIREMENT FOR
EFFECTIVE PLACEMENT
1. Have an extensive and intensive knowledge about
the different possibilities for placement
2. Have thorough knowledge on client and his needs
for placement
3. Ensures that client will benefit from placement
4. Compile updated directory of reputable institutions
and agencies for placement
 REQUIREMENT FOR
EFFECTIVE PLACEMENT
5. Are able to liaise between the client and the
institution or agency where he/she would be
placed.
6. Explain to the client the rationale for placement
and what could be expected.
FOLLOW-UP SERVICE
 NATURE AND PURPOSE

It helps to determine the status of the

client who received assistance and
what other assistance must be
rendered so that the service is holistic
and completed.
It can be extended to individuals who
have been counseled, referred or
placed.
CONSULTATION SERVICE
CONSULTATION

 The counselor may be sought by

parents, teachers, administrators,
spouses, for guidelines on how to
deal with a person or situation.

►As a consultant, she/he is the

helper in a triad that includes the
consultee, the person who consults
and identified client.
NATURE AND PURPOSE

It is the activity engaged in by

the individual when his/her
expertise is requested by
another party or organization.
 STAGES/STEPS IN
CONSULTATION PROCESS
1. Establish a consulting relationship.
2. Clarify the problem situation.
3. Determine the desired outcome.
4. Developing ideas/strategies.
5. Develop a plan.
6. Specify the plan.
7. Confirm the consulting relationship.
EXAMPLES

❖ Consulting with the Students

1. study habits and skills
2. financial management
3. handling different forms of
abuses
4. managing the bully
EXAMPLES

❖ Consulting with the School

Administrators
1. Team Building
2. Leadership Development
3. Responsible Citizenship
4. Communication Styles
EXAMPLES

❖ Consulting with the Teachers

1. helping them understand their
student better
2. developing remedial program
3. identifying the deficiencies
in academic or personal
development
EXAMPLES

❖ Consulting with the Parents

1. effective parenting workshops
2. understanding
children/adolescents
3. career planning
4. parent-child dialogues
PREVENTION AND
WELLNESS SERVICE
 PREVENTION

 One of the goals of

guidance and counseling.
 EFFECTIVE PREVENTION
PROGRAM SHOULD:

1. Be implemented before the onset

indicators or symptoms.
2. Target populations, not individuals
3. Consist of procedures that have been
proven effective.
4. Have strong organizational support
 PEOPLE INVOLVED

✔Support groups
✔ Parents/ family
✔Role models
✔Peers
✔Faculty and school personnel
 THREE LEVELS:

1. Primary prevention
- are for the people who are not
presently afflicted with a disorder/problem
2. Secondary prevention
- focuses on the people who are
experiencing the early onset of the
disorder/problem.
 THREE LEVELS:

3. Tertiary prevention
- deals with the individuals who
are already afflicted by the
disorder/problem and are being
helped to manage it, reduce its
effects and recover from it.
 METHODS

✔Psychoeducation
✔Group counseling
✔Individual counseling
✔Trainings
✔Film viewing
 WELLNESS
❖Counselors should be increasingly
involve in programs promoting lifestyle
change for healthy living.
❖Concerns on physical health.
❖Appropriate exercise, good diet and
stress free lifestyle.
❖Healthy living underscores prevention
as opposed to remediation.
 RESEARCH AND
EVALUATION SERVICE
RESEARCH

❖It is a service oriented activity

conducted to discover new knowledge,
to advance learned knowledge and
formulate theory.
EVALUATION

❖It seeks to collect relevant

information to determine whether
program goals are met in terms of
outcomes and what modifications must
be made.
IMPORTANCE OF EVALUATION

✔Provides evidence of positive impact

of guidance services
✔Identifies needs not met by the
present program
✔Supplies information for support of
the current program or for improving
personnel, services and facilities
TYPE OF EVALUATION

❖Formative evaluation
It is concerned during the planning
and operations of the program, service
or activity.
❖Summative evaluation
It is conducted after the program or
activity to measure the effectiveness.
 THANK
YOU!
If you have any questions, please contact me thru
my email address: hhdelacruz@cvsu.edu.ph