Referral and Follow-Up in Guidance and Counseling

1. REFERRAL AND
FOLLOW-UP
Delivios, Hernandez, Bernas, Galit

2. REFERRAL
Definition:
• 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

3. When to Refer?
• When a student presents a problem or a request
for information which is beyond your level of
competency.
• When you feel that personality differences
(which cannot be resolved) between you and the
student will interfere with his or her effective
progress.
• If the problem is personal and you know the
student on other than a professional basis
(friend, neighbor, etc.).

4. When to Refer?
• If the student is reluctant to discuss his/her
problem with you for some reason.
• If, after a period of time, you do not
believe your communication with a student
has been effective

5. Who to Refer
Anyone able to identify situations needing
specialized counseling or advising deserves
commendation.
In addition, referring a student to the office
appropriate to the problem demonstrates to
the student that you have his or her best
interests at heart.

6. How to Make a Referral
• The service is free to all students.
• Confidentiality, to the limits provided by the law
and court is respected.
• No record of a student's use of the Counseling
Center is made on a transcript, job placement
file, or administrative file.
• Information cannot be released without the
student 's permission (the usual exception being
cases of imminent harm and danger to the
student or others).

7. A referral may be made by…
• Peer
• Teacher
• Parent
• School nurse
• Administrator
• Outside Agencies or Individuals

8. TYPES OF REFERRAL
Self Referral
• Any Participant or family member may call
for information or arrange for confidential,
short-term counseling to discuss a personal
problem.

9. TYPES OF REFERRAL
Management Referral
•The focus of counseling services will be on
the job implications of the situation,
however, and not on the personal nature of
the problem.

10. SAMPLE REFERRAL FORM

11. SAMPLE REFERRAL FORM

12. FOLLOW-UP
Definition
•A continuous monitoring program designed to
evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention
procedures in relation to student progress &
adjustments
•This service is undertaken as systematic
evaluation of whether the guidance service in
particular and the educational program in
general have satisfied the needs of students.

13. FOLLOW-UP
Definition
•refers to the formal and systematic monitoring of the
individual progress of current students who have
undergone academic advising, counseling, referral,
placement, or any special intervention program.
Returning students and those who are in academic
probation are also monitored whenever needed

14. FOLLOW-UP
• An integral part of guidance services is the
follow-up
• It is concerned with what happens to
students while in school or after they have
left schools

15. PURPOSE OF FOLLOW-UP
1. To ascertain the progress and status of
students within the various classrooms,
courses and curricular areas.
2. To gain data which may identify
weakness in the various phases of the
school progress.
3. To learn how former graduates are
processing.

16. PURPOSE OF FOLLOW-UP
4. To evaluate the effectiveness of the
school’s placement activity.
5. To learn why pupils leave before
graduation.
6. To discover grade levels at which most
dropouts occur.
7. To obtain opinions concerning needed
modification of the curriculum in the light of
the experiences of former pupils.

17. Techniques of Follow-up
• Follow-up techniques includes interview,
postcard-survey, or questionnaire
• Each has its own advantages and
disadvantages

18. TOOLS USE IN FOLLOW-UP
1. Conducting surveys.
2. Use of telephone.
3. The use of follow up letters.

19. IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOW-UP
• Information obtained through follow-up
techniques can be used for improving the
curriculum stimulating better teaching,
increasing the value of the guidance
services and establishing better college
and community relationships

20. References
http://www.apsu.edu/counseling/referrals
http://prezi.com/3umjrztmdbyj/copy-of-copy-of/
http://www.slgahw.org/spd/index.html?uid=135
http://www.mauryk12.org/teachers_staff/MC
PS%20SCHOOL%20COUNSELOR
%20REFERRAL%20FORM.pdf

21. References
http://www.auf.edu.ph/modules.php?
name=StudentLife&page=Guidance
http://www.pnu.edu.ph/page/osass_guidanc
e.php
http://ssd.mmsu.edu.ph/gc.html
http://www.bulsu.edu.ph/index.php?
sel_side_subj=24
http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/erlisonlore
nzognilla/the-guidance-servicesmatapineda