What I Know

Task 1: “FACT or BLUFF”

Directions:
✓ Before the chapter study. Read and understand each item carefully. You are
going to answer whether the statement is a “Fact” as true or a “Bluff”as false.
✓ Answer directly on your notebook.
Statements Fact or Bluff
1. The counselor should practice active
listening, noting and reflecting during the
counseling sessions.
2. The counselor must be unaware of the
client’s problem including the goal why
he/she undergo counseling session.
3. The counselor should not encourage the
client to draw their conclusion and
choose the direction they want to resolve
the issue.
4. Counselors have certain standards and
quality service that needs to comply.
5. Counselors help clients that has eating
disorders.
6. Practitioners in counseling cater clients
who has no problem, happy and
contented in life.
7. Communicators help clients who has
depression, anxiety, and stress.
8. Counselors are employed in schools,
colleges, communities, employment
agencies, and business.
9. There are also private practice counselors
who provide their services to clients.
10. It is important to know the functions and
roles of counselor because this will
prepare you in the future to offer help,
support, understanding, and possible
alternatives that could lead enjoyment
and a more fulfilling and productive life
not only for yourselves but also to other
individuals.

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 What’s In

Professional counseling is a professional relationship that empowers

diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health,
wellness, education, and career goals. Counselors work with clients on
strategies to overcome obstacles and personal challenges that they are facing.

This presents on how theoretical knowledge will be applied to bring

change. This will allow you students to gain a broad knowledge on these
disciplines affect individuals, and social groups.

What’s New
Directions: Copy and answer in your notebook. Answer must be at least 2
paragraphs with 3-4 sentences each paragraph.

1. If given a chance to become a counselor and choose a kind of advice to give to a

person, what would it be and why? (e.g. person who suffers from illness/injury,
persons with different age, etc.)
___________________________________________________________________
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 What is It
Professionals and Practitioners in Counseling

Roles of Counselors
Since counselor is a profession, there are certain standards and quality service that
needs to comply. Counselors are expected to do the following:

a) The counselor must attempt to facilitate clients to solve their problems but should
demonstrate a genuine concern and compassion for the client’s issues and
problems.
b) The counselor must have individualized interaction and should maintain rapport
to his/her clients.
c) The counselor should practice active listening, noting and reflecting during the
counseling sessions.
d) The counselor must be aware of the client’s problem including the goal why
he/she undergo counseling session. A counselor with the help of his/her client
should work together to achieve the goals of their counselor-client relationship.
e) The counselor should be able to explain the benefits of holistic health,
developing one’s identity and the concept of self-responsibility.
f) The counselor should always encourage the client to ultimately draw their
conclusion and choose the direction they want to resolve the issue. The
counselor may challenge the client to formulate a behavioral goal to address the
ultimate objective. This may also include the areas of what are the things the
client should stop, should continue and should start doing.
g) Ultimately the goal of the counselor is to help others to understand themselves
and their existence, so that they may be able to live and enjoy the experience of
life and what is to be human.

Functions of Counselors
Professional counselors work in various fields such as Educational (Schools,
Colleges, Psychological Education), Clinical (Crisis Intervention and Communities)
and Industrial (Businesses).

The following problems prompted people to seek counselors for help:

a. Bereavement
b. Eating disorders
c. Crisis Situations
d. Post-traumatic stress disorder

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e. Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
f. Difficulties at work
g. Phobias and obsessions
h. HIV and AIDS
i. Bullying
j. Adjustments
k. Addictions and Substance Abuse
l. Issues from the past and
m. Failed relationships

Areas of Specialization where Counselors work

Counselors are employed in schools, colleges, communities, employment agencies,
and business. They are also used in mental institutions, family and rehabilitation
centers, government agencies and non-government organizations and civic society
organizations. Some counselors work with the churches or church-affiliated
counseling services. There are also private practice counselors who provide their
services to clients.

In the Philippines, a Generalist Counselor is called a Registered Guidance Counselor,

however he/she can join professional organizations which are the counselor’s field of
interest. For instance, Family and Pastoral Counseling Association of the Philippines
- for counselors whose interest is in the welfare and development of professional
practitioners in the helping services, etc.

Most of the Registered Guidance Counselors in the Philippines were hired as

Guidance Counselor of schools or Counselor Educator. Some of the professional
counselors worked in government agencies, clinics, and private practice.

Working as a counselor is fulfilling because of its impact on the lives of the people
he/she has worked with. Counseling, therefore, is a noble profession which can be
considered as a personal ministry in the perspective of the practitioner.

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 What’s More
Task 2: SELF-EVALUATION!
Directions.
1. You will write in your notebook your most significant learning about the topic
discussed.
2. The students will evaluate the learning they have from the topic discussed where:
“5” as the highest “1” as the lowest
(5 – outstanding to 1 – poor or no learning at all)

Most Significant Learning Rating

(write your understanding regarding the

roles and functions of counselors here)

(specific areas of specialization where

counselors work)

(importance of knowing the roles and

functions of counselors)

Task 3: NAME IT!

Directions. Copy and answer in your notebook.
1. What are the roles and functions of counselors?
____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

2. Identify specific areas of specialization where counselors work and explain each.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
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 What I Have Learned
Reflect on yourself after studying this chapter. What you learned or realized so far?

Task 4: “MYSELF AS A COUNSELOR”

1. On your PAPER, write a reflection paper entitled “Myself as a Counselor”.

2. Include in your reflection paper what specific field of counseling you will specialize
and what approach you will use if ever.
3. You are to write your reflection paper in paragraph form and must contain not less
than 300 words.
4. Your performance will be graded using the rubrics for individual work attached
below.
5. Note: 5% of the total score will be automatically deducted if your essay is less than
300 words.

INDIVIDUAL WORK RUBRICS

Exemplary Sufficient Minimal Beginning

4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Makes use of Automatic/sup
existing erficial
Active and
Critically reviews knowledge responses with
careful
existing without an little conscious
consideration of
knowledge, attempt to thought or
existing
Reflection on questions evaluate/appraise reference to
knowledge and
Existing assumptions, and knowledge; existing
articulates new
Knowledge articulates new demonstrates knowledge;
understanding
perspectives as a understanding but responses are
of knowledge as
result of does not relate to offered without
a result of
experience other experiences attempting to
experience
or personal understand
reaction them
Demonstrates Connects Connections
Demonstrates
clear experience with are not drawn
superior
Connection connections class content between
connection
to Academic between (concepts/theorie experience
between
Concepts experience and s) but remains and class
experience and class content superficial or content
class content (concepts/theori abstract (concepts/theo

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 (concepts/theorie es); evidence of ries) or
s) and literature; application of literature
evidence of theory.
application of
theory and
reconstruction of
perspective
Articulates
Articulates new No evidence of
transformation of Limited/superficial
understanding/in insights about
their perspective insight about self
sights about self self or
of themselves or or particular
Evidence of or particular particular
about a particular issue/concept/
Development issue/concept/ issue/concept/
issue/concept/ problem as a
problem as a problem as a
problem as a result of
result of result of
result of experience
experience experience
experience
Consistently
Some words are
Consistently Mostly detailed inaccurate or
inaccurate or
accurate and and mostly clear ambiguous
ambiguous.
Clarity clear wording and writing and wording,
Confusing
sentence sentence confusing
sentence
structure. structure. sentence
structure.
structure.
Adapted from: https://brocku.ca/pedagogical-innovation/wp-content/uploads/sites/53/Critical-Reflection-Rubric.pdf

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 What I Can Do

Task 5: “WORD PUZZLE”

Directions:
1. Find the following words in the puzzle: Counseling, Function, Communication,
Social Work, Roles, Advice, Practitioners, Applied, Counselor, and Counselee. (10
points)
2. Copy and answer on your paper. (you can cut this puzzle and paste on your
paper)

C C P S O X N E C C
O O C R A E S R A O
U M U E S S O I S U
N M M N O C C C E N
S U U O S I I S B S
E N A I N E A D U E
L I D T O N L E G L
O C V I I T W I A E
R A I T T I O L N E
I T C C C A R P T G
C I E A N T K P E A
E O B R U I C A S L
O N P P F R O L E S

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Answer Key

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