Lesson 3 (WEEK 3) : Disciplines and Ideas in The Applied Social Sciences

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Lesson Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences

3 (WEEK 3) (HUMSS_DIASS12-Ia-2)
In this module, you are expected to:

1. discuss roles and functions of counselors (HUMSS_DIASS12-Ic-6)
Mark a check (  ) if the statement corresponds to whether T (True) or F (False).
1. Counselling is a process and a relationship between the client and the T F

counsellor.
2. A guidance counsellor is someone who should be registered and licensed by a

legitimate state and has specialized training to be one.
3. One of the roles of the counsellor is to assist the client in realizing change in
behaviour and attitude
4. The guidance counsellor’s functions include the use of approaches to help client
develop potentials to the fullest.
5. A counsellor can have several roles.
6. Counselling is always long-term.

7. Counselling is something new and recent.
8. Your teacher cannot be your guidance counsellor.
9. Only people with mental and emotional problems need the help of a counsellor.
10. A counselor administers a shorter range of services.

LESSON PROPER
In the previous chapter, you have developed a comprehensive definition of
counselling as an applied science. You understood the principles of counseling and the
contexts involved in it. We had clarified how the different factors contribute to the
successful counseling, discussed the core values of counseling and the principles and
determined the life situations that are within the goals and scope of professional
counseling.
As previously discussed in the previous chapters, counseling is a process and
relationship between the client(s) and counselor. In this chapter, you will learn about the
professionals and the practitioners in the discipline of counseling.
Defining the Roles, Functions and Competencies of Counselors
Roles of Guidance Counselors
In the Western world, counseling in schools began in the early twentieth century, focused
mainly on preparing students for the workforce. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s,
guidance counselors became more prevalent. In the beginning, many teachers doubled as
guidance counselors; however, this is no longer the case. In the 1960s, counseling in public
schools was afforded more funding, allowing the vocation to flourish. The profession
expanded beyond the focus on academic and career achievement.
Given that the youth are the future of every nation, the role of providing guidance at critical
moments of growth is a serious nation-building undertaking. Counseling is a process and a
relationship between the client(s) and counselor.
 The role of the guidance counselor is to assist the person or persons (clients) in
realizing change in behavior or attitude, to assist them to seek achievement of goals,
assist them to find help.
 In some cases, the role of counselors includes teaching social skills, effective
communication, spiritual guidance, decision-making and career choices.
 A counselor’s role may sometimes include aiding one in coping with a crisis such as
premarital and marital problems, grief and loss (divorce, death or amputation),
domestic violence and other types of abuse. Special counseling may include
assistance in situations like terminal illness (death and dying and counseling of
emotionally and mentally disturbed individuals.
 Counseling can be short-term or long-term.
Functions of Guidance Counselors
 According to Philippine Republic Act No. 9258 (Section 2 to 3) a guidance counselor
is a natural person who has been professionally registered and licensed by a
legitimate state entity and by virtue of specialized training to perform the functions of
guidance and counseling.
 He or she must be a qualified and licensed guidance counselor at master's level. It is
a profession, not a field. This is the only profession whose primary purpose is
counseling; wellness and strength-based approach to treatment; wellness model
rather than medical model.
The functions of a guidance counselor include:
1. helping a client develop potentials to the fullest;
2. helping a client plan to utilize his or her potentials to the fullest;
3. helping a client plan his or her future in accordance with his or her abilities, interests,
and needs;
4. sharing and applying knowledge related to counseling such as counseling theories, tools
and techniques; and
5. administering a wide range of human development services.
Competencies of Counselors
 Seven (7) distinct competence areas of counselors. (McLeod, 2003)
1. Interpersonal Skills – counselors who are competent display ability to listen,
communicate ; empathize ; be present ; aware of nonverbal communication; sensitive to
voice quality , responsive to expressions of emotion, turn taking, structure of time and use
of language .
2. Personal beliefs and Attitude- counselors have the capacity to accept others, belief in
potential of change, awareness of ethical and moral choices and sensitive to values held by
client and self.
3. Conceptual ability – counselors have the ability to understand and assess client’s
problem; to anticipate future problems; make sense of immediate process in terms of wider
conceptual scheme to remember information about the client.
4. Personal Soundness – counselors must have no irrational beliefs that are destructive to
counseling relationships, self-confidence ,capacity to tolerate strong of uncomfortable
feelings in relation to the clients, secure personal boundaries, ability to be a client ; must
carry no social prejudice, ethnocentrism and authoritarianism.
5. Mastery of Techniques – counselors must have a knowledge of when and how to carry
out specific interventions, ability to assess effectiveness of the interventions, understanding
the rationale behind techniques, possession of wide repertoire of intervention
6. Ability to understand and work within social system – this would be compromise of
awareness of family and work relationships of client the impact of agency on the clients, the
capacity to use support networks and supervision ; sensitivity to client from different
gender, ethnicity , sexual orientation, or age group.
7. Openness to learning and inquiry – counselors must have the capacity to be curious
about client’s backgrounds and problems; being open to new knowledge
Things to Remember:
The following are the key skills of a counselor:
1. Attending and listening skills – This refers to active listening which means listening with
a purpose and responding with awareness that the client feels he or she has been both
heard and understood.
2. Reflective skills – The key skills are restating, paraphrasing and summarizing, capturing
what the client is saying and “playing” it back to them.
3. Probing skills – These skills facilitate going deeper, asking more directed or leading
questions that they move the conversation in a particular direction.
4. Communication skills – These include the ability to actively listen, demonstrate
understanding, ask appropriate questions and provide information as needed.
5. Motivational skills – This is to influence the client to take action after a helping session
or consultation.
6. Problem-solving skills – These include differentiating between the symptoms and the
problem itself.
7. Conflict resolution skills – These involve helping the client focus on facts rather than
personalities.
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
Choose the best answer to the following questions. Encircle the letter of your answer.
1. This is a process and a relationship between the client and the counsellor.
a. Counselling b. Discipline c. Counselor d. Client
2. He or she is someone who should be registered and licensed by a legitimate state and
has specialized training to be one.
3. Realizing change in behaviour and attitude to assist the client is one of the roles of this
professional and/or practitioner.
4. His or her function as a professional includes the use of approaches to help client
develop potentials to the fullest.
5. He or she perform several roles and can have many functions.
a. Counselling c. Counselor
b. Discipline d. Client
PREPARED BY: JESSICA T. ANDONGA CHECKED BY: ALVIN T. HINAY Ph.D

BASIC ED. PRINCIPAL
ANSWER KEY
What I Know
1. T 6. F 11. T
2. T 7. F 12. T
3. T 8. F 13. T
4. T 9. F 14. T
5. T 10. F 15. T
What’s New
ACTIVITY 1
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What’s More
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What I Have Learned

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What Can I Do
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Assessment
1. a 6. a 11. a
2. c 7. a 12. b
3. c 8. c 13. d
4. c 9. c 14. c
5. c 10. c 15. d
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Sampa, Elias M., Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences: First Edition, Rex Bookstore
Inc.
Passer, Michael W.; Smith, Ronald E., Psychology: Frontiers and Applications, McGraw-Hill
Companies
WEBSITE
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DISCIPLINES_AND_IDEAS_IN_THE_APPLIED_SOCIAL_SCIENCES
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https://study.com/academy/lesson/counseling-as-a-profession-types-of-counselors.html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03069885.2015.1063111?
src=recsys&journalCode=cbjg20
https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/70571_Nystul_Chapter_1.pdf
https://www.counseling.org/aca-community/learn-about-counseling/what-is-counseling#
https://www.scribd.com/document/389174203/Discipline-and-Ideas-in-Applied-Social-Sciences-
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
284446194_Applied_Social_Sciences_Education_Sciences
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Republic of the Philippines

Lesson Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences

In this module, you are expected to:

Mark a check (  ) if the statement corresponds to whether T (True) or F (False).

1. Counselling is a process and a relationship between the client and the T F

2. A guidance counsellor is someone who should be registered and licensed by a

5. A counsellor can have several roles.

6. Counselling is always long-term.

10. A counselor administers a shorter range of services.

PREPARED BY: JESSICA T. ANDONGA CHECKED BY: ALVIN T. HINAY Ph.D

What I Have Learned

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