Prepared by: Lelibeth Poblete

Based on Guidance and Counseling Act of

2004, guidance and counseling is the
profession that implicates the application
of “ an integrated approach to the
development of a well-functioning
individual “ through the provision of
support that aids an individual to use
his/her potential to the fullest in accord
with his/her interest , needs and abilities.
(University of Queensland, 2015)
At the American Counseling Association
(ACA) Conference in Pittsburgh in March
2010, the representatives come to an
agreement on a mutual definition of
counseling. They agreed that counseling is a
professional relationship that empowers
diverse individuals, families and group to
accomplish mental health, wellness,
education, and career goals (Kaplan,
Tarvydas, and Gladding, 2014)
What is the purpose of Counseling?
The ultimate aim of counseling is to enable the client to make their own choices, reach their
own decisions and act on them. (www. skillsyouneed.com)
Goals of Counseling – the key component of individual, group, organizational and
community success .-Detailed and expansive counseling goals have been identified by Gibson
and Mitchell (2003), which are as follows:
1. Development Goals – assist in meeting or advancing the clients human growth and
development including social, personal, emotional, cognitive, and physical wellness.
2. Preventive Goals – helps the client avoid some undesired outcome. E.g. failing grades,.
3. Enhancement Goals- enhance special skills and abilities.
4. Remedial Goals – assisting a client to overcome and treat an undesirable development.
5. Exploratory Goals- examining options, testing of skills, trying new and different activities,
etc..
6. Reinforcement Goals- helps client in recognizing, that what they are doing, thinking, and
feeling is fine.
7. Cognitive Goals-involves acquiring the basic foundation of learning and cognitive skills.
8. Physiological Goals – involves acquiring the basic understanding and habits for good
health.
9. Psychological Goals – aids in developing good social interaction skills, learning emotional
control, and developing positive self – concept.
 List of counseling goals, some of which are enhancement of the above goals.
GOAL DESCRIPTION
Insight Understanding of the origins and development of emotional difficulties, leading to an
increased capacity to take rational control over feelings and actions
Relating with others Becoming better able to form and maintain meaningful and satisfying relationships with
other people: for example , within the family or workplace
Self- awareness Becoming more aware of thoughts and feelings that had been blocked off or denied, or
developing a more accurate sense of how self is perceived by others.
Self- acceptance The development of a positive attitude toward self, marked by an ability to acknowledge
areas of experience that had been the subject of self- criticism and rejection
Self – actualization Moving in the direction of fulfilling potential or achieving an integration of previously
conflicting parts of self.
Enlightenment Assisting the client to arrive at a higher state of spiritual awakening
Problem- Solving Finding a solution to a specific problem that the client had not been able to resolve
alone. Acquiring a general competence in problem – solving
Psychological Enabling the client to acquire ideas and techniques with which to understand and
education control behavior
Acquisition of Social Learning and mastering social and interpersonal skills such as maintenance of eye
Skills contact , turn taking in conversations, assertive, or anger control
 Scope of Counseling
The scope and field of counseling has
widened as the human problems are
wide in range. Broadly, the scope of
counseling includes individual
counseling, marital and premarital
counseling, family counseling, and
community counseling.
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING
• Adolescent identity, concerns, teen-parent relationships, peer relationships
• Anxiety
• Anger management
• Children’s concerns within the family unit, sibling relationships, school
experiences, peer relationships
• Depression
• Family of origin dynamics and issues
• Gender: identity, sexuality, homosexuality
• Relationships: personal and interpersonal dynamics
• Sexual abuse recovery
• Seniors: challenges, limitations, transitions
• Singles: single, newly single, single through divorce or being widowed
• Spirituality
• Stress management
• Workplace stress and relationships
• Young adult: identity, relationships, vocation
MARITAL AND PRE-MARITAL COUNSELLING
• Marital and relational dynamics
• Extended family relationships
• Fertility issues
FAMILY COUNSELLING
• Adolescent and child behaviors within family
dynamics
• Adult children
• Divorce and separation issues and adjustment
• Family dynamics: estrangement, conflict,
communication
• Family of origin / extended family issues
• Life stages and transitions
A more focused subject matter related to scope of
counseling is the 4757-15 Scope of Practice for Licensed
Professional Counselors. It contains the rights and
responsibilities of licensed counselors including the
following:
1.Licensed Professional Counselors may help for a fee,
salary, or other considerations
2.Afford counseling services to individuals, groups,
organizations, or the general public compromising of:
application of clinical counseling principles, methods, or
procedures to assist individuals in realizing effective
personal, social, educational, or career development and
adjustment
3. “apply clinical counseling principles, methods , and procedures “, means an
approach to counseling that emphasizes the counselor’s role in systematically
assisting clients through all of the following: assessing and analyzing
emotional conditions , exploring possible solutions, and developing and
providing treatment plan for mental and emotional adjustment or
development. It may include counseling, appraisal, consulting, supervision,
administration, and referral. 4.
4. Engage in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders
when under the supervision of a professional clinical counselor, psychologist,
psychiatrists, independent marriage and family therapist, or independent
social worker. 5.
5. Provide training supervision for students and registered counselor trainees
when services are within their scope of practice, which does not include
supervision of the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders
Practice Task 1: Think of two (2) situations wherein you needed any form
of assistance about life matters: academics, relationships, family, identity,
and financial concerns, with whom did you share your problem? Discuss
each on the first column. On the 2nd column, briefly write how you were
able to overcome those. On the last column, write the names of your
enablers whom you shared your problems and helped you, state how
he/she helped you.
Practice Task 2: As a Grade 12 HUMSS Student and as a
growing and developing teenager, you definitely experiencing
problems and issues in different aspects of your life. Relate any
of your major difficulties with the goals of counseling. In 200
words, answer How will counselling help you get through with
your problems? Make sure that you aligned your problems
with the counseling goals. Write your answer on a separate
paper. Attach it in this module.
Example: Counseling Goal: Remedial Goals - Problems: Low Grades
Practice Task 3: With the problems or concerns mentioned in
Activity 1 & 2, identify the Scope of Counseling that covers and
address the said problems.