Lesson 3 - The Need for Services Flashcards
School Counselors
A certified/licensed educators who improve student success for ALL students by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program.
School Counselors
School counselors help all students:
- apply academic achievement strategies
- manage emotions and apply interpersonal skills
- plan for postsecondary options (higher education and/or work force)
Appropriate duties include providing:
- individual student academic planning and goal setting
- school counseling classroom lessons based on student success standards
- short-term counseling to students
- referrals for long-term support
- collaboration with families/teachers/ administrators/ community for student success
- advocacy for students at individual education plan meetings and other student-focused meetings
- data analysis to identify student issues, needs and challenges
Importance of School Counseling
The following conditions are some of the reasons why School Counseling is vital (Villar, 2009):
- The Learner’s Family Situation
- The Complexity of Living
- Experiences of Crisis even with very young learbers
- Increasing Rate of Persons Experiencing Anxiety and Depression which others had led to Committing Suicide
Under the Learner’s Family Situation:
The Disappearing Family
The Unready Family
The Pathological Family
- Many married couples separate because husband and wife cannot get along anymore with each other.
- Many children are left on their own because their parents are trying to earn for a living abroad or away from home.
Disappearing Family
- Many young people get into early marriages or parenthood that they are unprepared for. Many of these marriages eventually break up, and the unprepared couples become the parents in disappearing families.
Unready Family
- Many children from the disappearing and unready families grow up with unresolved issues or become pathological because of the absence of nurturance and supervision and also the physical, emotional, and verbal abuse that they may have experienced.
The Pathological Family
Children with family issues tend to manifest symptoms that may be a cry for help like showing ______ or _____ behavior. They also tend to become quarrelsome or attention-seeking. They lose concentration or focus, thus underachieve.
disruptive or inappropriate
Under The Complexity of Living:
*The Increased Mobility of Filipinos
* Increasing Career Options and the Changing Demands in the Labor Market
* New Job Titles
* Lack of Job Opportunities
* Increasing Financial Difficulty
- This is another condition that makes the life of some learners more complex. Migration due to economic reason has made many children move from one place to another. Experiences of pain of loss and anger because of their situation prevail.
The Increased Mobility of Filipinos
- Faced with more choices, students get confused as to where to study after high school. Parents have become misguided as well, leading their children to courses which they believe would generate the biggest income regardless of the intellectual capacity, interests, and aptitude of their children.
Increasing Career Options and the Changing Demands in the Labor Market
- New job titles have also come about with the changes in the fields of concentration and the demands of the industrial and corporate worlds.
New Job Titles
- The inability to find a job also results to frustration among the youth. Their economic dependency on their family continues, and the individuation may be delayed.
Lack of Job Opportunities
- Financial difficulty is a source of instability among family members. Joblessness can cause lowered self-esteem. Poverty may be a source of more problems as experienced by many in this time of COVID-19 Pandemic.
Increasing Financial Difficulty
Other crisis situations such as calamities, crimes, accidents, illness, as well as learning and other types of disorder make the life of some of the learners more difficult and painful.
Experiences of Crisis even with very Young Learners
Number of enrolled learners in the public basic education schools SY 2019-2020
22.57 million learners
Number of public schools all over the country
47,188
Amount of registered guidance counselors in DepED
550
Counselor to Learner Ratio
1 counselor = 41,041 learners
ideal ratio in PH (1:500)
Plantilla Positions
7,000
Career Progression
SG-11/13
entry level is a Master’s Degree
Regions and Divisions
All 16 regions have RGC’s in their area. While 147 out of 220 school divisions have at least 1 RGC
Guidance Services Specialists
There are 4 Guidance Services Specialist items occupied by RGC’s in Region 7
3 Programs of RGC
*Guidance and Counseling
*Career Guidance
*Mental Health Programs
(may include Counseling, Psychological Testing, Research, and Information/Psychoeducation)
School-Based
All guidance counselors are deemed school-based.
Amount of Counselor Supervisors
NONE
Budget
Least prioritized
Special Training
Specialized Training for Guidance Counselors has been minimal since then
Organizational Structure
Missing.
Counselors are school-based, they do not have counselor supervisors.
No dedicated office nor focal person
