1. A crash course in Guidance & Counseling Dona Francisca Lacsamana de Ortega Memorial National High School

2. GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING Article . The RIGHTS OF THE CHILD The Right to School Guidance and Counseling

3. Guidance Process of helping the individual develop his totality as a person for his and other’s benefit.

5. * To help the individual lay a permanent foundation for sound, mature adjustments. * To assist the individual to live a well-balanced life in all respects-physical, mental, emotional, social and moral .

7. Differences of Education, Guidance, Counseling, and Psychotherapy

8. PSYCHOTHERAPY - for Incapacitating psychological problems/disorders like Neurosis and Psychosis; given by psychotherapist or psychiatrist * primarily individual attention COUNSELING- for non-incapacitating problems, related to a need for self- understanding /normal developmental problems like insecurities or psycho-social maladjustment due to family problems or peer conflicts; given by counselors/therapist * Individual or small groups

9. GUIDANCE – for those with potential for self-direction but with need for Information; given by counselors *Individual or small groups INSTRUCTION/EDUCATION - Instructional needs general to all students; given by teachers * Primarily large groups

10. Psychotherapy, Counseling & Guidance are generally called Helping Professions while Education is a Teaching Profession

12. Place of Guidance in the Educational System

39. As a counselor to them, I become not an authority. I don’t take the role of a parent but more of a best friend whom they can open up things with w/o passing judgments to them. It is not my job to tell them what to do (unless they ask for it) or how to do things the right way, rather, with some key questions & a learned conversational techniques, I facilitate in their own determination of what is right and wrong to them, and for them to arrive at a better decision beneficial to them and to others . Most of the time, I am more of a listener than a talker in our conversation.