speech about the role and function of the school counselor
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The role of the counselor is to guide, advise, recommend, consult, and assist with the nearly limitless variety of concerns that students, parents, teachers, administrators, and the school community may have. School counselors are vital members of the education team.
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Roles of Guidance Counselors
Given that the youth are the future of every nation, the role of providing guidance to them at critical moments of their growth is a serious nation-building undertaking. Counseling is a process and a relationship between the client(s) and counselor. The role of the counselor is to assist the person or persons (clients) in realizing a change in behavior or attitude, to assist them to seek the achievement of goals, assist them to find help, and in some cases, the role of counselors includes the teaching of social skills, effective communication, spiritual guidance, decision-making, and career choices. A counselor’s roles may sometimes include aiding one in coping with a crisis. In some settings, counseling includes premarital and marital counseling, grief and loss (divorce, death, or amputation), domestic violence, and other types of abuse, special counseling situations like terminal illness (death and dying) as well as counseling of emotionally and mentally disturbed. individuals. Counseling could be short-term (brief counseling) or long-term.
Functions of Guidance Counselors
The Philippine Republic Act No. 9258 (Sec. 2-3) defines a guidance counselor as a natural person who has been professionally registered and licensed by a legitimate state entity and by virtue of specialized training to perform the functions of guidance and counseling. The guidance counselor’s functions include the use of an integrated approach to developing a well-functioning individual primarily through:
helping a client develop potentials to the fullest;
helping a client plan to utilize his or her potentials to the fullest;
helping a client plan his or her future in accordance with his or her abilities, interests, and needs
sharing and applying the knowledge related to counseling such as counseling theories, tools, and techniques and
administering a wide range of human development services.
Given that the youth are the future of every nation, the role of providing guidance to them at critical moments of their growth is a serious nation-building undertaking. Counseling is a process and a relationship between the client(s) and counselor. The role of the counselor is to assist the person or persons (clients) in realizing a change in behavior or attitude, to assist them to seek the achievement of goals, assist them to find help, and in some cases, the role of counselors includes the teaching of social skills, effective communication, spiritual guidance, decision-making, and career choices. A counselor’s roles may sometimes include aiding one in coping with a crisis. In some settings, counseling includes premarital and marital counseling, grief and loss (divorce, death, or amputation), domestic violence, and other types of abuse, special counseling situations like terminal illness (death and dying) as well as counseling of emotionally and mentally disturbed. individuals. Counseling could be short-term (brief counseling) or long-term.
Functions of Guidance Counselors
The Philippine Republic Act No. 9258 (Sec. 2-3) defines a guidance counselor as a natural person who has been professionally registered and licensed by a legitimate state entity and by virtue of specialized training to perform the functions of guidance and counseling. The guidance counselor’s functions include the use of an integrated approach to developing a well-functioning individual primarily through:
helping a client develop potentials to the fullest;
helping a client plan to utilize his or her potentials to the fullest;
helping a client plan his or her future in accordance with his or her abilities, interests, and needs
sharing and applying the knowledge related to counseling such as counseling theories, tools, and techniques and
administering a wide range of human development services.
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