Here is a draft PowerPoint presentation for junior high school students on the discipline of counseling: Slide 1: Introduction to the Discipline of Counseling Slide 2: What is Counseling? - Counseling is a helping relationship that aims to support clients manage issues and make positive changes in their lives. It involves active listening, facilitating insight, and empowering clients to find their own solutions. Slide 3: The Nature and Scope of Counseling - Counseling addresses a wide range of human concerns including academic, career, social/emotional, and family/relationship issues. It provides preventive services to help clients anticipate challenges and develop coping strategies. Slide 4: Career Opport

1. Lesson 1:
The Discipline of
Counseling

3. At the end of this module, I can:
• Define counseling.
• Discuss the application of the counseling as a discipline
of art as discipline of science.
• Enumerate and discuss the goals, and scope of
counseling.
• Explain and provide a rationale about the principals of
counseling.
• Enumerate and discuss the core values of counseling.

4. There are common misconceptions about
mental health services that have negative
connotation to the idea of meeting with a
counseling professional or practitioner,
especially in the Philippines. These
misconceptions include the following:

5. 1. A person seeing a counselor, a
psychologist, a psychiatrist, or any mental
health practitioner has mental illnes.
• A person can freely consult any mental
health practitioner and share his or her
concerns so that he or she can deal with
them affectively. For instance, symptoms
such as frequent feelings of anxiety with
excessive worry may not worsen and
develop into panic attacks. This is possible
if contributing reasons or factors are
processed before an individual’s condition
has worsened.

6. 2. Counseling means giving advice
• A professional counselor is trained to avoid advice. When a
counselor gives an advice, the client is kept from gaining a
better position to understand, analyze, and solve his or her own
problem. Instead of giving advice, the primary goal of the
counselor is to assist the client to identify and address the
factors in his or her problem.

7. 3. Counseling is part of the Discipline
Board
• Students who have violated the school’s
code of discipline are referred to the
counselor. However, this not mean that
the counselor’s role is to reprimand
and discipline. In this situations, the
counselor provides the following
assistance to the student concerned:

8. • 2. reorientation of the school
policies,
1. facilitation toward an
understanding of the factors
that caused him or her to
disobey school rules and
regulation,

9. 4. psychological support
should the student’s action
merited dismissal from the
school.
3. referrals to or recommendation
for seminars or workshops aimed
to impart the characterization of
the
school’s values,

10. 4. A counselor is a problem-solver
• Counselor do not dispense an easy
solution to fix problems. In fact,
counseling work best through
collaboration with the client. A
counselor is a facilitator who guide you
toward the possible solutions to
understand the entire situations could
he or she best help the client.

11. The Goals of Counseling
• According to Kottler and Shepard (2007), the
goals that are common to counselors and that are
essentially indicate of their professional identity
include clients in the following:

12. • 1. Plan and work in a
constructive manner
in training life success;

13. • 2. Learn, anticipate,
and react positively to
issues brought about
by developmental
changes;

14. • 3. Express their
uniqueness in diverse
circumstances through
socially accepted
integration of their
thoughts, feelings, and
actions;

15. • 4. Respond with
resilience to stress
and be able to buffer
themselves from its
negative impact on
their functioning;

16. • 5. Develop effective
skills in relating with
others in order to
enhance abilities in
establishing
harmonious
relationship;

17. • 6. Increase awareness
of the self by
identifying their
strengths and
weaknesses;

18. • 7. Become mindful of
the realities of life and
be able to apply
effective principles of
coping and adjusting to
the different experience
they encounter in life;

19. • 8. Learn to speak for
more options or
choices to be well-
informed before
making a decision; and

20. • 9. achievement
autonomy from
counseling as they
have learned life skills.

21. • One of the important goal of the counseling
process is to move the client toward proper and
empowered self-management.
• If you seek counseling so that can get immediate
solutions to your problems, you might feel
disappointed in your guidance visit.

22. • The counselor introduce tools, such as
• time management skills,

23. • stress management skills, and

24. • social skills, that you can use to manage and solve
your problems.

25. The Importance of Counseling
• Counseling programs aim to provide preventive
measures to you as a client. This is achieved as the
counselor assist you to anticipate the challenges that
may arise from a situations.
• As the counselors points these out, he or she will then
discuss and provide guidelines about how you
may properly deal with these situations. In doing so,
you can function better by being wiser in choosing
your decision

26. • Professional counselors are trained not to give you
direct advice or act as you problem solvers. Rather,
• they listen to you,
• guide you to see the whole picture of your situations,
• present options to you,
• and facilitate your informed and wise decisions.

27. The Nature and Scope of Counseling
• Counseling deals with a
myriad of human
concerns. The following
are general
classifications of
problems and reasons
why clients to consult
counselors:

28. • 1. Academic difficulties
• these include the students’ difficulties in accomplishing
various requirements and meeting the standards of
education,
• adjusting to teaching methods used,
• handling academic pressures,
• maintaining good grades,
• managing time,
• learning how to focus, and ensuring effective study
skills.

30. • 2. Personal concerns
• These involve the difficulties that the clients
• encounter in planning and setting their goals,
• handling stress,
• sustaining their motivation,
• making informed decisions,
• identifying priorities,
• and solving problems.

32. • 3. Social concerns
• Difficulties encountered by counselees in relating with
others includes dealing with
• rejections,
• Handling peer pressure
• Coping with the challenges of romantic relationship
• and bullying.

34. • 4. Emotional difficulties
• Problems related to clients’ emotions include dealing
with
• Anxiety, nervousness, and heartache;
• Coping with the loneliness due to homesickness and
rejection;
• Managing negative emotions, such as depression,
anger. And fear;
• And attaining emotional stability.

36. • 5. Psychological challenges
• These include
• Handling persistent suicidal behaviours;
• Managing some forms of addiction such as smoking,
drinking, and computer gaming;
• Dealing with eating or sleeping problems;
• Understanding one’s identity;
• Handling painful experience.

38. • 6. Family problems
• Clients’ primary concerns usually involve
• separation of parents,
• Absence of parents due to work abroad,
• Single parenting,
• Infidelity of parents,
• Hostile parenting,
• Favoritism in family,
• Pregnancy and parenting,
• and unpleasant home environment

40. • 7. Career-related concerns
• These difficulties can be addressed by
• identifying the clients’ strengths, interest, and personal traits
and matching them with career choices;
• Accessing information regarding career choices;
• Reconciling personal career choices with those of family
members;
• Identifying unclear career goals and lack of career plans;
• Preparing for job application;
• and attaining job satisfaction (Hurlock, 1980)

42. THE CORE VALUES OF COUNSELING
• Your values constitute your beliefs, which in turn
affect how you view the persons you deal with and
how you understand your situations. Hutchinson
(2014) offered a synthesis of moral values for
effective counseling. These include the following:

43. • 1. Each person is, in essence, naturally pure
and good.
• If you share the same belief, then you treat every
individual with care and respect, operate from a
non-judgmental point of view, and try to understand
why some persons cannot perform or function well.

44. • 2. The primary role of a counselor is to give
support so that the client will be able to attain
autonomy.
• This would enhance the clients’ sense of
responsibility so that he or she could later arrive at a
better positions and see how he or she influences
and is influenced by social forces.

45. • 3. The essential values that will compel and
sustain you in doing this work are love and
compassion.
• In order for you to become an effective counselor,
you must have a big heart because as guidance
counselor, you should learn to prioritize the needs of
your clients.

46. • 4. An effective counselor finds the job’s intrinsic
rewards more interesting than its extrinsic ones.
• This job’s intrinsic rewards come from the
counselor’s sense of fulfilment in seeing his or her
clients achieve life success, attain autonomy, and
exercise effective coping skills.

47. • 5. Deal with life through an attitude of gratitude
and forgiveness.
• You have to keep inspiring other people to be well
and do well; to be hopeful and confident in facing
life’s challenges; and to stay positive in times of
problems and difficulties.

48. • What have I Learned So Far?
• 1. What is counseling?
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• 2. What is the importance of counseling?
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• 3. What do you think are some of the human concerns that bother most adolescents in this
modern day?
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• 4. How will you differentiate personal concerns from emotional concerns?

49. BEYOND WALLS 1.1 (Apply IT IN Real Life)
• As a career counselor of a university, you are tasked to
prepare a 30-minute talk on the discipline of counseling of
junior high school students. You have to prepare a
PowerPoint presentation which highlights the nature and
scope of the discipline, the career opportunities with
compensations, and educational preparations and
trainings needed to become a counselor.
• Make sure to sufficiently cover the salient features of
counseling, use the appropriate jargons in the discipline, and
check your sentence for correct grammar.