THREE MAIN CAREER TRACKS FOR

APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENTIST

1. COUNSELING is one of the

fields of applied social sciences as
an application of the social
sciences, counseling provides
guidance, help, and support to
individuals who are distraught by a
diverse set of problems in their
lives.
THREE MAIN CAREER TRACKS FOR
APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENTIST

 Counseling can be done by the following:

 Guidance counselor and life coaching are
applications of the social sciences and these
professions, expert help are given to individuals who
needed guidance or advice pertaining to their
business successes, general conditions and personal
life transitions, relationships and career.
 Life coach analyzes the present condition of the
client, discovers different obstacles or challenges that
a client faces, and provides a certain course of action
to make the client’s life better.
THREE MAIN CAREER TRACKS FOR
APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENTIST

 Life coach analyzes the present condition of the

client, discovers different obstacles or challenges
that a client faces, and provides a certain course
of action to make the client’s life better.
 Career counseling is needed by people who are
in the process of entering the job market,
searching for possible career change, or those
wanting career advancements.
 Personal growth counseling concentrates on
the evaluation of different aspects of a client’s
life.
THREE MAIN CAREER TRACKS FOR
APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENTIST
 Social work practitioners help
individuals, families, and groups,
communities to improve their
individual and collective well-being.
 Communication Studies- Applied
social science provide adequate training
for careers in the field of journalism
and mass communication because of
multidisciplinary knowledge and skills
that graduates learn from social
sciences.
THE
DISCIPLINE OF
COUNSELING
COUNSELING
 Counseling – For Nystul (2003)
defined it as basically an art and a
science wherein you endeavor to weigh
the objective and subjective aspects of
the counseling process.
 As an ART is the subjective dimension
of counseling. It upholds a flexible and
creative process whereby the counselor
modifies the approach to meet the
developing needs of the clients.
 As a SCIENCE, on the other hand, is
the objective dimension of the
counseling process.
 In practical terms, counseling happens
when a person who is distressed asks for
help and permit another person to enter
into a kind of connection with him/her.
It is indicative with formal of someone
in search of counseling requests for time
and attention from person who will
listen, who will allow him/her to speak
and who will not condemn and criticize
him/her.
 Informal helping- is a kin with formal
helping in some ways such as presence of
good listening skills, empathy, and caring
capacity.
 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).
 Atthe 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 counselingis a
professional relationship that
empowers diverse
individuals, families and
group to accomplish mental
health, wellness, education,
and career goals (Kaplan, Tarvydas,
and Gladding, 2014).
GOALS OF COUNSELING
thekey component of
individual, group,
organizational and
community success
DETAILED AND EXPANSIVE COUNSELING
GOALS GIBSON AND MITCHELL (2003),

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.
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.
 DETAILED AND EXPANSIVE COUNSELING
GOALS GIBSON AND MITCHELL (2003),

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.
 SCOPE OF COUNSELING
 The wide ranges of human problems create
a widened scope and field of counseling.
 Broadly, the scope of counseling includes
individual counseling, marital and premarital
counseling, family counseling, and community
counseling.
 A more focused subject matter related to
scope of counseling is the 4757-15 Scope of
Practice foe Licensed Professional Counselors.
 It contains the rights and responsibilities of
licensed counselors including the following:
 LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS MAY FOR A FEE,
SALARY, OR OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
 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.
 “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.
 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.
 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.
CORE VALUES
 is a key component of an organization.
 It has significant influence on other
organizational components, more
specifically, to its members.
 It serves as standards that shape the
members behavior in their interaction
with their clients and other people.
 According to Mcleod (2003) ,the founders
of humanistic psychology, including
Maslows and Rogers ,highlighted the
importance of values.
CORE VALUES
 is a key component of an organization.
 It has significant influence on other
organizational components, more specifically, to
its members.
 It serves as standards that shape the members
behavior in their interaction with their clients
and other people.
 According to Mcleod (2003) ,the founders of
humanistic psychology, including Maslows and
Rogers ,highlighted the importance of values.
Core Values
ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
 Autonomy of individuals
 Is based on the right to freedom of action and freedom of
choice in so far as the pursuit of these freedom does not
interfere with the freedom of others ; counseling cannot
happen unless the client has made a free choice to
participate
 Principle of Non maleficence
 This refers to instruction to all helpers or healers that they
must ,above all, do no harm;
 Beneficence refers to the order to promote human welfare
 Principle of Justice
 Concerned with the fair distribution of resources and
services , unless there is some acceptable reason for
treating them differently
 For counseling , the principle has particular relevance to
the question access
GENERAL MORAL THEORIES
 The
BACP Ethical Framework for
Good Practice , drawing on
virtues perspective also
identified a set of personal qualities
that all practitioners should possess:
empathy, sincerity, integrity,
resilience, respect, humility,
competence, fairness, wisdom
and courage
 Professionals
and
Practitioners in
Counseling
 Roles /
Functions
of
Counselors
ROLES / FUNCTIONS OF
COUNSELOR
1. Individual Assessment - Seeks to
identify the characteristics and potential of
every client ; promotes the client’s self-
understanding and assisting counselors to
understand the client better
2. Individual Counseling - Considers as the
core activity through which other activities
become meaningful. It is a client –centered
process that demand confidentiality.
Relationship is established between
counselor and client.
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COUNSELOR

3. Group Counseling and Guidance -

Groups are means of providing
organized and planned assistance to
individuals for an array of needs.
Counselor provides assistance through
group counseling and group guidance.
4. Career Assistance - Counselors are
called on to provide career planning
and adjustment assistance to clients
ROLES / FUNCTIONS OF
COUNSELOR

5. Placements and Follow –Up - A

service of school counseling
programs with emphasis on
educational placements in course
and programs.
6. Referral - It is the practice of
helping the clients find needed
expert assistance that the referring
counselor cannot provide.
ROLES / FUNCTIONS OF
COUNSELOR
7. Consultation - It is the process of
helping a client through a third
party or helping system improve its
service to its clientele.
8. Research- It is necessary to
advance the profession of
counseling; it can provide
empirically based data relevant to
the ultimate goal of implementing
effective counseling.
ROLES / FUNCTIONS OF
COUNSELOR
9. Evaluation and Accountability-
Evaluation is a means of assessing the
effectiveness of counselor’s activities.
Accountability is an outgrowth of demand
that schools and other tax-supported
institutions be held accountable for their
actions
10. Prevention- This includes promotion of
mental health through primary
prevention using a social – psychological
perspective.
Competencies
of Counselors
 COMPETENCIES OF COUNSELORS
1. Interpersonal Skills –counselors who are
competent display ability to listen,
communicate ; empathize ; be present ; aware of
nonverbal communication; sensitive to voice
quality , responsive to expressions of emotion,
turn taking, structure of time and use of
language .
2. Personal beliefs and Attitude- counselors
have the capacity to accept others, belief in
potential of change, awareness of ethical and
moral choices and sensitive to values held by
client and self.
COMPETENCIES OF
COUNSELORS
3. Conceptual ability – counselors have the ability to
understand and assess client’s problem; to anticipate
future problems; make sense of immediate process in
terms of wider conceptual scheme to remember
information about the client.
4. Personal Soundness – counselors must have no
irrational beliefs that are destructive to counseling
relationships, self-confidence ,capacity to tolerate
strong of uncomfortable feelings in relation to the
clients, secure personal boundaries, ability to be a
client ; must carry no social prejudice, ethnocentrism
and authoritarianism.
COMPETENCIES OF
COUNSELORS
5. Mastery of Techniques –
counselors must have a knowledge
of when and how to carry out
specific interventions, ability to
assess effectiveness of the
interventions, understanding the
rationale behind techniques,
possession of wide repertoire of
intervention
COMPETENCIES OF
COUNSELORS
6. Ability to understand and work within
social system – this would be compromise of
awareness of family and work relationships of
client the impact of agency on the clients, the
capacity to use support networks and
supervision ; sensitivity to client from different
gender, ethnicity , sexual orientation, or age
group.
7. Openness to learning and inquiry –
counselors must have the capacity to be
curious about client’s backgrounds and
problems; being open to new knowledge
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AND AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION OF COUNSELORS

1. Marriage and Family

Counseling
2. Child and Adolescent
Counseling
3. Group Counseling
4. Career Counseling
5. School Counseling
6. Mental Health Counseling
 Rights and
Responsibilities,
and
Accountabilities
of Counselors
Code of ethics help counselors
to remind them of their rights,
responsibilities and
accountabilities in the
counseling profession.
The rights, responsibilities and
accountabilities of the
counselors are based on the
counselors associations of Code
of Conduct.
The code of ethics of the counselors
is divided into seven sections,
namely ,
 counseling relationship,
 confidentiality
 professional responsibility
 relationships with other professionals
 evaluation, assessment, and
interpretation
 teaching ,training and supervision
 research and publication