Guidance services help students make important decisions about their career path and personal development. Colleges often provide guidance services to assist students. Services include individual assessments to help students understand themselves, testing to evaluate abilities and interests, information to aid decision making, orientation for new students, counseling, and follow-up with graduates to evaluate the program's effectiveness. Guidance counselors also provide services to faculty, parents, the community, and school administration. The goal is to equip students with knowledge, attitudes, and skills to become responsible members of society.

1. Guidance Services
-Guidance services help people make important decisions.
Colleges often have guidance services to help students choose
the right career path.
-Provide services that will equip the students with the necessary
knowledge, attitude and skills to become mature and socially
responsible individuals who will promote a just and humane
society.
Different Guidance Services
 Individual Inventory Service. This service aims to
gather information about the student that will help her/him
know and understand herself/himself and assist the
teachers, counselors, administrators and parents in
understanding the students. The data are gathered
through test and non test techniques. The test
techniques include the different tests such as Mental
Ability, Scholastic Ability, Achievement, Aptitude,
Personality, Values, Interests and Critical Thinking. The
non test techniques include inventory forms, interviews,
checklist and rating scale.
 Testing Service. This service helps the student assess
and understand her abilities, capacities, interests,
personality and pressing concerns. It is also a useful tool
for the counselors as basis for guidance and counseling
and helps diagnose behavioral and emotional problems
that affect school performance. Every year students are
given various psychological tests and are interpreted by
their respective guidance counselors.
 Information Service. This service provides valid
information which are educational, social, personal and
occupational in nature so that the student may be able to
develop his/her decision making competencies. It is
implemented through Group Guidance and information
materials are also made available to the student through
the Guidance bulletin board.
 Orientation Service. This service assists new students
and transferees in becoming at home in their new
environment. Talks on various topics that deal with
adjusting to college life and the various programs and
services that the Guidance Center offers are discussed.
Old students are also reoriented with the various
Guidance programs and services through their student
assemblies, group guidance and classroom sessions.
 Counseling Service. Respect for the dignity of the
person and recognition of individual differences underlie
this service. This service is rendered through individual
counseling, group counseling, home visits, referrals. The
latter is rendered to anyone in difficult situation needing
specialized counseling or advising. This service aims to
help students attain self awareness so that they can be
responsible for themselves, overcome personal
difficulties and imbibe the Vincentian values such as love
for the poor, simple lifestyle and realize her role as agent
of transformation. Counseling may be walk in, referred or
call in. Peer counselors are also available to students
who are hesitant to approach their counselors or
teachers.
 Follow up Service. Follow up service focuses on the
graduates, school learners and counseled students. It
hopes to look into the effectiveness and adequacy of the
guidance program and the educational program in
general. Follow up is done through letters, telephone
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2. calls, personal interview or questionnaires. This may
also include contact with school heads, counselors of
former student to gain insight into her level of adjustment.
 Service to Faculty. The teachers and counselors are
partners in helping the students go through the process
of integral development according to their God given
talents and potentials. This service aims to identify
students with difficulties and share with faculty
appropriate individual data of students. Teachers are
also assisted in utilizing students’ data to the best interest
of the student . Through meetings with the teachers,
they are assisted in understanding their students and
discovering ways of handling them. The guidance staff
also provides available data to teachers/faculty and
students conducting research and to the university
researchers.
 Service to Parents. This service aims to provide
parents with information about their children, inform them
about the educational and other programs of the school,
policies, rules and regulations and assist them in
developing a realistic perception of their children’s
development in relation to their potential through
seminars and forum. It also aims to assist parents with
their parenting skills.
 Service to the Community. Service to the Church and
society is the mission of Universidad de Sta. Isabel. As
such the school makes available to the community its
resources and services. Interested persons avail of the
counseling and testing services. Counselors are also
invited as resource speakers or facilitators for
seminars/trainings/workshops and formation sessions.
 Evaluation and Research. These services aim to
determine how effectively the guidance program is
meeting the need, interests and abilities of the students
and discover what aspect of the program has contributed
to the development of the total educational program of
the school. Every year, the guidance center conducts
evaluation on the different programs and services it
offers, it also assists the Student Development Services
in disseminating its evaluation form which covers the
different Student Services; Canteen, Guidance,
Bookstore, Sewing, and Clinic.
 Homeroom Guidance. The permissive atmosphere in
the classroom during the homeroom session promotes
an atmosphere of freedom, trust and security. This
affords them the opportunity to explore themselves, their
potentials and capabilities. The guidance counselors for
each grade level schedules a session with class once a
month. This gives the counselor a firsthand contact with
the students in the classroom.
 Referral Services. Referral happens when a student
with personal problems and complains of anxiety and
depression, poor self image, relationship problems and
family difficulties are referred to the guidance counselor,
which in turn provides specialized counseling. However
if the situation requires a highly specialized approach,
clients may be referred to other professionals in their
field.
 Service to Administration. The guidance service is a
support service in carrying out the Vision Mission of the
school. It assists in the recruitment and screening of
students applying for admission in the Basic and Higher
Education Department and screening of employee
applicants through the administration of psychological
tests.