Name: Dalligos, Shaira Nica C.
Grade & Section: 12-
Hopeful
Roles of Counselors
Here in the Philippines, Counseling is a profession (R.A. 9258 also known as the Guidance and Counseling Act
of 2004) that allows you to help others manage their responses to life’s challenges (Cleofe et al., 2015). It is more just
listening, its “active listening”; its more emphatic, it’s caring; the relationship of client and therapist/counselor are guided
by rules and regulations (Code of Ethics, R.A. 9258) so as to protect not only the Counselors, but also the rights of clients.
And as the counseling profession evolves, so do their roles and functions to adapt in the changing times, to response to
various changes such as, economic, social and technological. And this changes also affects clients.
Roles and Functions of Counselors
“Counseling is a helping profession”. This statement inspires counselors in what they do. This statement defines their
roles and functions.
Individual Assessment - seeks to identify the characteristics and potential of every client
Individual Counseling - considers as the core activity through which other activities become meaningful; a client-
centered process that demand confidentiality; relationship is established between counselor and client
Group Counseling and Guidance- groups are means of providing organized and planned assistance to individuals for
an array of needs
Career Assistance - counselors are called on to provide career planning and adjustment assistance to clients
Placement and Follow - Up – a service of school counseling programs with emphasis on educational
placements in course and programs
Referral - it is the practice of helping clients find needed expert assistance that the referring counselor cannot provide .
Consultation - process of helping a client through a third party or helping system improve its services to its clientele
Research - necessary to advance the profession of counseling; relevant of implementing effective counseling
Evaluation and Accountability- Evaluation – means of assessing the effectiveness of the counselor’s
activities; Accountability - an outgrowth of demand that schools and other tax-supported institutions be held accountable
for their actions
Prevention- includes promotion of mental health through primary prevention using a social
psychological perspective
Career Opportunities and Areas of Specialization of Counselor
The scale of counselors in discharging their duties and responsibilities is sometimes limited on the work areas that
they focus. Mostly sometimes these overlapped with other mental health practitioners and educators, especially when
dealing with the student’s welfare. Nonetheless, their scope work covers a broad area, and sometimes caters a lot of
individual and groups so as to reach more and people may avail to their services.
Marriage and Family Counseling - refers to the efforts to establish an encouraging relationship with a couple or
family and appreciate the complications in the family system.
-focus of counselors is on helping couples and families discover options and opportunities for effective family living
Child and Adolescent Counseling - developing area of expertise in the counseling profession.
Common problems include child abuse and neglect, child/adolescent depression, and antisocial behavior.
- counseling strategies focus on helping children and adolescents acquire coping skills through promotion of resiliency,
positive attachment relationship, emotional and intellectual intelligence and other qualities that promote optional
development.
Group Counseling - dynamic field in the counseling profession.
Offers the following —opportunities for members to learn from observing other group members; can function as helpers
or helps; opportunities to discover that you have similar concerns; members are encouraged to offer help to other;
opportunities to enhance interpersonal skills; the therapeutic climate created similar as the client’s family origin
Career Counseling- in evolving and challenging counseling field. This aids individuals on decision and planning
concerning their career. The counseling approach includes integrating theory and practice.
Model of Wagner- vocational career services, occupational placement, vocational guidance, career counseling, career
education, career therapy, and position coaching
Industrial Counseling- Counselors may also specialize in the industrial setting, where they could provide workplace
counseling to respond to the concern of the employees. Aside from counseling, they are also tapped in other areas like
training or professional development service or in other activities to help the employees develop soft skills.
School Counseling- process of reaching out to students with concerns on drugs, family and peers, or gang
involvement. School counselors links with relevant community agencies and closely coordinates with key stakeholders in
the school and family. The job requires skills on consultation, counseling exceptional students and ability to handle
problems such as drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, divorced or single parents, and dropping out of school.
Mental Health or Clinical Counseling- manifested in the challenges posed by its clientele with mental disorders.
Mental disorders include serious depression, schizophrenia, and substance abuse. Mental health counselors have to be
inventive, and creative to address problems. The job requires patience, humility, kindness and compassion.
Name: Dalligos, Shaira Nica C. Grade & Section:12-Hopeful
Activity 1. Direction: Read the questions or statements below. Answer it with true or false. Write your
answer on the lines before each number. Check your answers and score yourself.
True 1. Counselors help people resolve conflicts even if the concern is developmental in nature.
False 2. School counselors have nothing to do with curriculum development.
True 3. Building rapport with client is essential in any counseling setting.
True 4. Counselors are also needed in private companies.
False 5. Community counselors work in communities only and do not work with various age groups.
False 6. Counseling strategies focus only on helping adolescents acquire coping skills through promotion of resiliency,
emotional and intellectual intelligence and other qualities that promote optional development.
True 7. School counseling aids individuals on decision and planning concerning their career.
True 8. The process of helping the client through a third party or helping system improve its services to its clientele is
called Consultation.
True 9. One way to asses the effectiveness of a counsellor is through evaluation.
True 10. Marriage and Family Counseling is focus on helping couples and families discover options and
opportunities for effective family living.
Activity 2. Direction: Below are some situational problems or topics that a counselor faces everyday. Your task is to find
what role or function should they perform in given situations. As an added task on the activity, write whether the function or
role is done on what setting; you may choose clinical, industrial or school setting. Provide your answer on the space
provided. (10 points).
Situational Problem Role/ function Setting
1. Typhoon Odette hit Palawan, Visayas and Mindanao. The
PAP and DOH send some of their doctors and guidance Prevention Clinical
counselors on the barangays and communities suffering of
trauma and stress.
2. Maria is having problem with her studies; she is very
stressed when answering her math subject. Individual Counseling School
3. Teacher Sarah is having trouble answering some of her
students’ questions about jobs and professions to choose. Career Counseling School
4. Every year, different schools provide entrance
examinations, etc. for incoming students in the college level. Placement and Follow-Up School
5. Group of girls are always having trouble because of their
misdeed of spreading lies and verbal bullying. Group Counseling and Industrial
Guidance
