Guidance & Counseling for Elementary in the Philippines

M.Ed. GC – Batch 09

By: Jeel Christine C. de Egurrola

Guidance and Counseling for

Elementary Students

Maximizing students’ potentials

Understanding self and developing a positive self-image

Showing respect for the feelings of others

Understanding the decision-making process

Maintaining effective relationships with peers and adults

Developing effective study habits

Being prepared to make the transition to the intermediate school

With students and parents individually

With students and parents in small groups

Parental permission is obtained prior to any individual or group counseling.

…..when requested and deemed appropriate

How is elementary counseling conducted?

Benefits

Be successful in school

Establish effective study skills

Adjust to a new school

Develop positive feelings about

work, family and society

Build positive feelings toward self

and others

Develop skills in interacting and communicating

with others

Cope with change in themselves and their surroundings

Identify and accept their own and

other’s strengths and weaknesses

Recognizing the causes and effects

of their actions

Become responsible for

their own behavior

Receive crisis intervention when

necessaryfor Students

Understand their children’s progress in school

Select strategies to motivate their children

Develop realistic goals with their children

Become actively involved in their children’s school life

Parent education and discussion groups for child-related issues

Benefitsfor Parents

To identify students with special needs and abilities

Find other professionals within the school or community

A clearly defined curriculum provides information about the

program of the community

Benefitsfor the Community

• Provide students and groups with educational counseling

• Work with students, including those with academic and social development problems and those with special needs

• Help students evaluate their abilities, interests, talents, and personality characteristics

• Use interviews, counseling sessions, interest and aptitude assessment tests, and other methods

Duties and Functions of Counselor

• Provide play therapy and art therapy for students who cannot disclose in the counseling sessions

• Observe younger children during classroom and play activities

• Confer with teachers and parents to evaluate the children’s strengths, problems, or special needs

Duties and Functions of Counselor

• Regularly visits classrooms to teach students how to get along with others, following school rules, safety, and others

Classroom Guidance

• Invite students who share common concerns to meet for a few sessions

Small Group Counseling

• Available to talk with a student privately of the concern is very private and does not work well with groups or with a presence of a parent

Individual Counseling

• If children cannot express with words, they can express their thoughts and feelings through play and/or art session(s)

Art and/or Play Session

How does a counselor work with students?

Confidentiality

Minor students should be informed of the counselor’s general obligation to disclose information to acquiring parents prior to

forming the counseling relationship.

Guidance should be limited to the areas supported by school policy.

When working with minors, counselors should encourage family involvement when possible.

Parents of minors have the right for information in most circumstances.

Practical Considerations

Confidentiality

Legal counsel should be sought when a guidance counselor encounters a “grey area.”

The safety of students and the safety of the third parties should paramount in the counselor’s consideration.

Abuse will always be reported

Threats of injury to third parties will be reported.

Practical Considerations

Confidentiality

and Parents

Informs parents of the counselor’s role with the emphasis of the confidential nature of the counseling relationship between counselor

and counselee

Provides parents with accurate, comprehensive and relevant information in an objective and caring manner, as appropriate and

consistent with ethical responsibilities of the counselee

4. Maintenance of Records. Counselors maintain records in sufficient detail to track the sequence and nature of professional services rendered and consistent with any legal, regulatory, agency, or institutional requirement. They secure the safety of such records and, create, maintain, transfer, and dispose of them in a manner compliant with the requirements of confidentiality and other articles of this Code of Ethics.

Confidentiality

Source: Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association, Inc. (2006). Code of Ethics for Counselors & The Counseling Programs – Chapter II: Counseling Relationship.

2. Confidentiality. The counselor must preserve and safeguard the confidentiality of the clients except:

2.1 When disclosure is required to prevent clear and imminent danger to the client or others;

2.2 When legal requirements demand that confidential matter be revealed;

Confidentiality

Source: Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association, Inc. (2006). Code of Ethics for Counselors & The Counseling Programs – Chapter II: Counseling Relationship.

Confidentiality

Source: Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association, Inc. (2006). Code of Ethics for Counselors & The Counseling Programs – Chapter VII: Consulting and Private Practice.

Elementary Counselors work with…

Goals of Elementary GuidanceCounselors

How can Elementary Guidance Counselors help students?

Premises of Child Guidance

Premises of Child Guidance

Premises of Child Guidance

Principles of Child Guidance

Principles of Child Guidance

References

• Tulio, D.D. (2008). A breakthrough in school: Guidance and Counseling. Mandaluyung City: National Bookstore.

• Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association, Inc. (2006). Code of Ethics for Counselors & The Counseling Programs. Retrieved from: http://counpsychphil.blogspot.com/2007/03/code-of-ethics-

for-counselors.html