Guidance services

Include only all systematic and organized procedures and facilitates the same end. May be
defined as a group of services to individuals to assist them in securing knowledge and skills
needed in making plans and devices, and in interpreting life.

The Guidance Services promote the holistic development of pupils and students by providing
on-going prevention and intervention services and offering personal curricular and career
guidance services offered. Promoting guidance in support of the education of students.

Guidance Service provides:

• Orientation
• Inventory
• Testing Services
• Counseling
• Intervention
• Placement
• Follow up

Orientation service

The orientation service is provided to the students those who are new comers and those who
go to new class or new course in the school set up. It is a well-known fact that the students
those who join first time. In the school or get promotion for higher classes are heterogeneous
in nature as they are from different family backgrounds, from different socio-economic status,
from different areas, and from different abilities, interests, aptitudes and skills.

So that the orientation service is normally meant for students to enable them to know school
courses, rules, regulations, different facilities given to the students by school and to know the
clear image of the school. On the same line school also keeps record of the students about their
bio-data including identification, socio- economic background, capacities and abilities, interest
for courses etc.

The orientation service is highly needed due to following reasons:

 It assists new students to know the information’s about school, its history and
traditions, its rules and regulations, its strength and weak nesses, facilities available for
them etc.
 It helps students to adjust with school situations and enables students to develop
academic standard, personal qualities, high moral values as well as ethical standards
from rich experiences of the school.
  It assists students to achieve success in academic life by learning to study carefully,
developing interest in study, taking examinations and notes sincerely and utilizing time
properly.
 It helps students to know the almost all useful information’s regarding physical plant,
library, hostels, class-rooms, laboratories, workshops, gardens, play grounds, different
teaching aids and other facilities.
 It assists students to provide remedial reading, language programme, projects and clubs
and different financial help by schools.
 It helps students to know the almost all useful information’s regarding physical plant,
library, hostels, class-rooms, laboratories, workshops, gardens, play grounds, different
teaching aids and other facilities.
 It assists students to provide remedial reading, language programme, projects and clubs
and different financial help by schools.

INDIVIDUAL INVENTORY SERVICE

It consists of all the information gathered about each individual in school. The information
usually stored in a Cumulative Folder where the data accumulated about each student are kept
while the student is in school, and up to a few year after.

Nature and Purpose:

1. Systematically
a. Collects,
b. Evaluates,
c. Interprets data,
d. Identify the characteristic and potential of every client
2. Proper diagnosis
3. Predicting progress
4. Accurate placement
5. Program Evaluation

INDIVIDUAL INVENTORY
Gives the Administration and Faculty and idea of the:
 Profile of the school Population
 Appropriate strategies for responding to needs, interest, and values.
Parents/Guardians would have basis for:
 Understanding their children better.
 Responding sensibly to their children.

INDIVIDUAL INVENTORY FORM / PERSONAL INFORMATION SHEET / INDIVIDUAL PROFILE

SHEET
 Personal Information
 Family Background and Home Environmental
 Friends
  Hobbies, interests, goal, values
 Personal strengths, personality traits and characteristics
 Problems, fears and needs
 Educational Data
 Schools Attended
 Grades
 Co-curricular and extracurricular activities
 Courses taken
 Health Data
 Test Records

TESTING
this uses standard psychological test to be administered, scored and objectively interpreted to
students for awareness and realization of their potentials and interest and other factors as
define in the following description of psychological test available in the center.

Types of testing:
1. Personality-this test is designated to yield information about a person characteristics,
traits, behavior attitude, opinion and or emotion

2. Occupational Inventory-this test is designed to assist student in self-exploratory,

vocational expectation and career development.

3. Aptitude Test-this test designed to predict future performance in academic curriculum

area in a specialized vocational activity.

4. Intelligence Test- This test designed to measure level; of intelligence.

COUNSELING

Types of counseling according to areas covered:

1.) Personal/Social
a. Family problems
b. Depression
c. Sexuality
d. Relationship concerns
e. Sleep difficulties
f. Anger
g. Anxiety
 h. Stress

2.) Academic/Educational
a. School and Academic concerns
b. School selection
c. School entry
d. School adjustment
e. School maintenance
3.) Vocational/Occupational/Career
a. Individual counseling
b. Group counseling
c. Multiple Counseling
d. Couple Counseling
e. Family Counseling

Intervention
Is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people usually family and friends to get someone to
seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other
serious problem.

Interventions have been used to address serious personal problems, including:

 Alcoholism
 Compulsive gambling
 Drug abuse
 Self-harm
 Victim of abuse

Placement (Placement Services)

 A continuous program which helps determine the manner to assign a student based on
his/her personal and social adjustment.
 (Villar 2007) Helping people find a place that will contribute to their physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual health and well-being.
 (Ryan and Zeran) Placement by definition is the satisfactory adjustment of the
individual to the next situation whether in school or on the job.

Types of Placement Service

1. Educational or Academic Placement
 Related to practically all areas of the educational program such as academic courses,
attendance, work experience, electives, part time work and extracurricular activities.
Through placement services, students are placed in grade levels, classes and activities
suitable to their needs, interests, abilities and if applicable – schedule.
 This occurs when a person is placed in the appropriate educational setting. This
placement is necessary for students who are going to school for the first time,
 transferring from one to another, want or need to transfer to a different school, are
gifted, etc.

2. Personal-Social Placement
 These are social-personal concerns that may not necessarily be responded to by the
institution.
Ex: shyness, social phobia, poor self-esteem, lack of friends, physical disabilities, etc.

3. Occupational or Career Placement (Also known as Vocational Placement)

 Also known as “job placement”. Graduates receive appropriate training and preparation
to ensure them that they can land in a stable job after school or graduation.

 OJT/Internship – students are sent to external business and agencies to familiarize them
on the actual working environment.

Follow-up
 Intended to secure information about former students and provide continuing services
for students after they leave school. This technique for evaluating the appropriateness
and adequacy of the instructional program.

Types of Follow-up:
1. In-School Follow-up
 Intended to secure information about former students and provide continuing services
for students after they leave school. This technique for evaluating the appropriateness
and adequacy of the instructional program.
 Help diminish the number of drop-outs by knowing the cause or reasons why students
leave school. Also helps students adjust to student life
 (Evangelista 2005) Without follow-up, the counseling is incomplete.
 Like a physician who checks on whether his patient has recovered from an illness, the
counselor should also find out what happened to his counselee.

2. Out-of-school Follow-up
 Applies to services extended even to the graduates to instill in them a sense of
belongingness. It also helps the school analyze its effectiveness.
 Ensuring that the students who graduated are hired in companies.
 (Villar 2007) Commonly overlooked service in the Philippine school.
 (Ambida-Cinco 2008) Provide continuing services for students after they leave the
school.

CAREER SERVICE
 They work one-on-one with clients, getting to know them in order to assess their
aptitudes, identify career goals, and develop workable strategies to accomplish them.
REFERRAL SERVICE
 Refers to the practice of helping clients find needed expert assistance that referring
counselor cannot provide.
 Direct the client to another counselor with a higher level of training or special expertise
related to the clients need.

Research
 Is an organized scientific effort for discovering new material, finding explanations for
current situation and debunking theoretical assumptions.

Evaluation
 On the other hand, is a guidance function where the counselor develop and implement
assessment and evaluation plans that would provide soft and hard data on the quality,
results, and impact of the various student service and program.
 Evaluation is done to discover whether program, service or activities attain the goals for
which they are implemented. It may be considered form of research. It requires
systematic collection and analysis of data to determine the value of a program – its
effectiveness, adequacy and efficiency.
 Evaluation justifies the existence of the Guidance Program and the need to support it to
make it more functional and effective.

Consultation
 Expert, knowledgeable and skillful on how to respond to needs and behaviors.
 Sought by parents, administrators for guidelines on how to deal with people.
 Acts as adviser or enhancer.

Stages/Steps in the Consultation Process

 Establish a consulting relationship.
 Clarify the problem situation.
 Determine desired outcome.
 Develop ideas and strategies.
 Develop a plan.
 Specify the plan.
 Confirm the consulting relationship.

Qualities of a Consultant
 Aware of the psychological, sociological, educational factors that may underlie certain
maladaptive patterns of behavior.
 Expert in a variety of areas.
 Knowledgeable of the resources needed • Ability to make sound judgement to make
appropriate decisions.
 Dedicated, conscientious and industrious enough to continually update himself/herself
  Exudes confidence, ease in dealing with people and equanimity
 Interested in helping and concerned about welfare
 Articulate and systematic able to present strategies and their theoretical frameworks
understandably
 Intelligent and creative able to flex and shift according to adjustments needed by the
client of the consultee

 Public relations (PR)

Is the practice of deliberately managing the spread of information between an individual
or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization)
and the public.

 Public relations may include an organization or individual gaining exposure to their

audiences using topics of public interest and news items that do not require direct
payment. The aim of public relations is to inform the public, prospective customers,
investors, partners, employees, and other stakeholders and ultimately persuade them to
maintain a positive or favorable view about the organization, its leadership, products, or
political decisions.
 It is planned efforted by an organization to influence the attitudes and opinions of
specific group, by developing a long-term relationship.

Functions of Public Relations:

 Advertising
 Media Representation
 Crisis Communication
 Content Development
 Stakeholder Relations
 Social Media Management

 Importance of Public Relation

With over 63% of the value of most companies dependent on their public image, Public
Relation has become a very important topic today for numerous reasons; like builds up
the Brand Image, Strengthen community relations.