This document discusses the roles and responsibilities of professional counselors. It outlines that professional counselors help others manage life's challenges and assist with personal growth by using standardized strategies. In contrast, informal helpers may avoid confrontation to preserve relationships but lack formal training. The document then lists the various roles of professional school counselors including providing counseling, advocating for student success, and collaborating with the community. It also outlines areas of counseling specialization and career opportunities, as well as important ethical principles such as confidentiality, client welfare, and professionalism that counselors must uphold.

1. PROFESSIONALS
AND
PRACTITIONERS
IN COUNSELING

2. • A profession that allows to help others
manage their responses to life's
challenges
• A career that provides you an
opportunity to assists others in
developing their potentials and to
encourage personal growth and learning

3. PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
& INFORMAL HELPERS

4. Professional counselors
• Expected to maintain a high degree of objectivity in
doing their job. To do this, effectively, they must not
have a personal involvement with their client.
Informal helpers
• They may avoid confrontation or contradicting
statements of the counselee-during the counseling
process to preserve their friendship or personal
relationship with the counseling

5. Professional counselors
Counselors use strategies & techniques to
promote the client's personal growth and
development
Informal helpers
They are not formally equipped with
standardized strategies or approaches.

6. RULES AND FUNCTIONS
OF PROFESSIONAL
COUNSELOR

7. "Professional school counselors do not
take educational system. This means
that professional counselors perform
their roles in a continuous state of
transformation in response to the current
challenges.

8. 1.Providers of individual and group
counseling services.
2.Developmental classroom guidance
specialists.
3.Leaders and advocates of academic
success.
4.Career developmental specialists.

9. 5.Agents of diversity and multiculturalism.
6.Advocates of students with special
needs and students-at- risk.
7.Advocates of a safe school
environment.
8.School and community collaboration
specialists.

10. AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION
1. School Counseling
2. Mental Health or Clinical Counseling
3. Rehabilitation Counseling
4. Industrial Counseling
5. Marriage & Family Counseling
6. Private practice
7. Community Counseling

11. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
1. Elementary and High School Counselor
2. College counselors
3. Teaching in the Academe
4. Workshop Facilitator

12. 5. Career Counselors
6. Community Counselors
7. Marriage & Family Counselors
7. Substance Abuse Counselors
8. Rehabilitation Counselors
9. Researcher

13. PROFESSIONAL ETHICAL
PRINCIPLES IN GUIDANCE &
COUNSELING
1. CONFIDENTIALITY
2. CLIENT WELFARE
3. INFORMED CONSENT
4. RELATIONSHIP WITH CLIENTS
5. PROFESSIONALISM

14. VALUING RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS,
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES &
ACCOUNTABILITY OF COUNSELORS
1. Respecting the rights & dignity of every
human person
2. Respecting the client's rights as self-
governing individual
3. Being committed to the client's well-
being

15. 4. Being fair to all clients by providing equal
opportunity to all who availed the counseling
service.
5. Enhancing the quality of their professional
knowledge and application.
6. Being responsive to the society.

21. THANKS