Professional Education 5 (Guidance and Counselling) Prepared by: Shynne Marie P. Marikit II-15 BEED Philippine Normal University

2. Pseudo Scientific Techniques in
Guidance
• predicting of future outcomes
or events in terms of lucky or
lucky numbers.

3. Associating
one’s fate with
the course of the
stars and other
heavenly bodies.
Astrology

4. Graphology
• Analyzing one’s
character in terms of
one’s penmanship.
Intensity of
strokes
Shapes and
Size
Slant of the
letters

5. Palmistry
• Belief that the
lines on one’s
hand tell the
fate and destiny
of an individual.

6. Phrenology
• Individual traits
can be determined
by the size and
shape of the head,
the form of the
forehead.
honesty
Mathematical
ability
Musical talent

7. Physiognomy
• Predicts personality traits through facial
characteristics, bodily structure or
muscular set.

8. Occultism and spiritualism
• Common ways of looking into
the past or the future.
• Espiritistas
Ouija Board

9. Guidance movement in the
Philippines
Dr. Sinforoso Padilla
• Filipino psychologist
• 1932-he started a
Psychological Clinic.

10. Dr. Sinforoso Padilla
emotional
educational
vocational
• 1945- first Guidance Institute
• The Bureau of Public Schools started to
send teachers for study of guidance.

11. • Dr. Roy G. Bone and George H. Bennett,
UNESCO specialists in guidance, helped
much in making Filipino education officials
guidance-conscious.
• 1951, Congress proposed the
establishment of a functional guidance
and counselling program.

12. • 1952- division superintendents of schools
recommended the establishment of
guidance services in the public school.
• 1945- National Teachers Collage was chosen
to be the site of the first Guidance
Institutes
• Guidance Association of the Philippines has
been organized.

13. • 1953- Philippine Association of Guidance
counselors was organized to establish a
Testing Bureau.
• Guidance Section of the United States
Veterans Administration- most systematic
guidance program in the Philippines.