Counseling

Counseling
• a profession that allows people to manage
their responses to life’s challenges.
Example:
a friend is giving an advice
a mother sharing insights to her children
a pastor preaching God’s message
• is a career that provides people an
opportunity to assist others in developing
their potentials and encourage personal
growth and learning.
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 Professional Counselors vs.
Informal Helpers
• are expected to maintain a high degree of
objectivity in doing their job since they
should not have personal involvement with
their client.
• are guided by rules and regulation based
on the Code of Ethics stated in the RA of
2004 to support the improvement,
advancement and protection of the
guidance and counseling profession.
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 Professional Counselors vs.
Informal Helpers
• use strategies and techniques to promote
the client’s personal growth and
development.
• avoid preconceived idea about the client
may affect the counseling process like
having biases and reservations.

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 Professional Counselors vs.
Informal Helpers
 are expected to provide assistance to
people who are personally related to them.
 helpers are those that provide advice or
tips base on what they feel suitable.
 Use preconceived idea since it may help
to avoid confrontation between the
counselor and counselee.

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 Functions of a Professional
Guidance Counselor
• 1. Providers of individual and group
counseling services.
• 2. Agents of diversity and
multiculturalism.
• 3. Developmental classroom guidance
specialists.
• 4. Advocates of students with special
needs and student – at – risk.
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 Functions of a Professional
Guidance Counselor
• 5. Leaders and advocates of
academic success.
• 6. Advocates of a safe school
environment.
• 7. Career development specialists.
• 8. School and community
collaboration specialists.
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 Allied Mental Health
Professionals
1.Psychologist
2.Psychiatrist
3.Neurologist
4.Social Workers
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 Psychologist
• provides counseling and
psychotherapy to promote a
healthy mental state.
 Psychotherapy – this is being
given to those people who have
mental conditions such as mental
trauma and depression. It uses
psychological approaches such
as talk therapy.
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 Psychiatrist
• specializes on the treatment of
mental health disorders with the
help of pharmacological
interventions.
• They require physical examination,
such as complete blood test and
urinalysis to determine physiological
causes of the client’s condition.
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 Neurologist
• professionals that deals with
the study and treatment of
disorders of the nervous
system.
• Speech and language
disorders, brain seizures or
movement disorders are few of
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 Social Workers
• they handle specific
concerns related to
housing emergencies or
crisis situations such as
death in the family.
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 Characteristics of a
Professional Counselor
1. Empathy 7. Integrity
2. Acceptance 8. Competence
3. Genuineness 9. Problem – solving
4. Self – Awareness Skills and
5. Cultural Creativity
Competence 10.Embracing a
6. Open – Perspective of
Mindedness Wellness
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 Competencies of an Effective
Professional Counselor
1.Establishing Rapport
2.Basic Attending Skills
3.Observation Skills
4.Basic Responding Skills
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 Establishing Rapport
•refers to creating
connections by
showing acceptance
and warmth.
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 Basic Attending Skills
• refers to the nonverbal
behaviors of the counselor
which are important in the
counseling process to make
the counselee feel that the
counselor is listening.
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 SOLER
• Sitting across the counselee
• Open posture
• Leaning at times toward the
counselee
• Eye contact but not staring
• Relaxed or composed during the
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 Observation Skills
• refers to the ability of the counselor to
observe the verbal and non – verbal
messages conveyed by the counselee.
• Verbal messages are the spoken or
written insights and thought of the
counselee.
• Nonverbal messages are the cues or
indicators of thoughts and feelings that
may indicate personal issues or problems
of the counselee.
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 Basic Responding Skills
• refers to the listening skills of the
counselor to accurately hear and
understand the counselee.
• It includes emphatic
understanding by “putting himself
into the shoes of another person”.

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 6 Basic Types of Nonverbal
Expression
• 1. Physical appearance
• 2. Personal space or Proximity
• 3. Voice
• 4. Facial expression
• 5. Body language
• 6. Sudden change in behavior
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 Skills to Allow Effective
Communication
• 1. Use of minimal encouragers
– open body positing, nodding
and “uh-ha”
• 2. Restatement and
paraphrasing – restating
without alterations or
fabrications
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