DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE

The Professional Counselor             Counseling is a profession that allows you to help others manage their responses to life’s challenges. Professional counselors are expected to maintain a high degree of objectivity in doing their job. To do this, they must not have personal involvement with their client. Second, counselors are guided by rules and regulations or what is called the Code of Ethics. Third, counselors use strategies and techniques to promote the client’s personal growth and development.             To differentiate professional counselors from informal helpers, they must have the following characteristics: (1) they have acquired body knowledge, skills, or competencies through formal and specialized training. (2) They are guided by standards of professional practice and laws. And, (3) they are formally identified as members of the helping profession, competen...

Guidance and Counseling as an Art and Science             Guidance and Counseling is a professionalized degree by the virtue of Republic Act 9258 known as the Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004 . It is defined by the las as “ the profession that involves the use of an integrated approach to the development of a well-functioning individual primarily by helping a person to utilize his potential to the fullest and plan his present and future by his abilities, interests, and needs . It is the heart of the guidance services. It is also a dynamic process where both agents relate with each other to try and see the whole picture of the situation, arrive at a similar understanding, and start identifying the counseling goals and how these will be achieved.             Counseling (Nystul, 2011) is essentially both an art and a science . A counselor is like an artist who can be flexi...