COUSELING PSYCHOLOGY NOTES NO.

“THERE ARE SUFFERING PEOPLE ALL OVER THE
WORLD… THEY HAVE BROKEN BODIES, BROKEN
MINDS, BROKEN SPIRITS… THEIR WORLD IS DARK
AND THEY EXIST IN GLOOM AND DESPAIR. THEY
GROPE IN THE DARK FOR HELP… THEY ARE IGNORED
AND UNWANTED’’
COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
 Applied science in psychology
 It is a Science and an art with four
fundamental charateristics:
- Honesty: Uprightness of conduct in
general
- Parsimony: Wise, sparing and
prudent
- Duality: Counselor and client
together in intimate system
interactions.
- Insight: Intellectual discernment,
perceptive skills
 Focuses on the basic theories of
counseling, techniques and application
in Educational, Clinical and Community
settings.
 Emphasizes theories on Cognitive,
affective, and behavioral in counseling
that studies problems of adjustments to
challenges that everyone face in life.
 Skills in counseling within the ethical
framework are expected from the
counselor and psychotherapist
 The counseling process is characterized
as:
- Educative
- Developmental
- Preventive
- A service provided by the school to
assist young people in making
intelligent choices and adjustments
so that they can develop their
potentials as individuals as a
contributing members of society.
- Central or Foundation part of
guidance services is Counseling
- Guidance is Education. Education is
Guidance. As a process of change
both is a way for realizing optimum
human growth and development of
all learners.
- FOCUS: Guidance and counseling is
NOT SOLVING PROBLEMS FOR
INDIVIDUALS but helping
individuals to solve his problems.
 PSYCHOTHERAPY:
- “A problem that is shared is a
problem in half”
- Applied when there are personality
maladjustments or mental disorder
that is psychogenic in origin
- Procedure designed to alleviate
behavioral disorders through
psychological means:
-- COUSELING
-- EVIDENCE BASED TREATMENT
-- PSYCHOANALYSIS
CENTRAL AXIOM OF
COUNSELING/PSYCHOTHERAPY IS
CHANGE

 COUNSELING:
- A professional relationship
WESTERN COUNSELING: Premises on personal
growth; Individual and Self exploration; Individualistic
established voluntarily by an
FILIPINO COUNSELING: Premises on family and social
individual who feels the need of
obligations, collectivist.
psychological help with a person
trained to provide that help
- Counseling is a personal ministry
and a service of reaching, caring
and concerned with the dev’l of
talents, potentials and healing
human hurts.
 GUIDANCE: