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Guidance Personnel Roles and Functions

The document discusses the roles and functions of various guidance personnel: 1. The Guidance Director oversees the guidance program and ensures its coordination, requiring strong organizational skills. 2. Guidance Counselors assist students with personal, academic, career, and mental health issues through individual and group counseling, testing, and referrals. 3. Psychometricians administer and interpret tests, providing results to counselors to aid student evaluation and guidance. 4. Researchers design and conduct studies to collect and analyze information to address guidance issues.

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Guidance Personnel Roles and Functions

The document discusses the roles and functions of various guidance personnel: 1. The Guidance Director oversees the guidance program and ensures its coordination, requiring strong organizational skills. 2. Guidance Counselors assist students with personal, academic, career, and mental health issues through individual and group counseling, testing, and referrals. 3. Psychometricians administer and interpret tests, providing results to counselors to aid student evaluation and guidance. 4. Researchers design and conduct studies to collect and analyze information to address guidance issues.

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  • Guidance Personnel Roles: Describes different roles within guidance personnel including job descriptions and responsibilities.
  • Introduction: Introduces the objectives of the document focusing on guidance personnel staffing, roles, and functions.

COURSE TITLE:  

                    ORGANIZATION & ADMINISTRATION OF THE

GUIDANCE

TOPIC: GUIDANCE PERSONNEL STAFFING, ROLES AND

FUNTIONS

II. OBJECTIVES

To discuss the different guidance personnel staffing, roles and functions

III. CONTENTS

Who are the Guidance Personnel?

1.   Guidance Director

He/she has the overall authority for leading the personnel under his/her administration. He reviews the
guidance and counseling program they offer each year. To be a guidance director, one should possess
the following: strong work ethic, excellent organizational skills, flexibility, ease and experience with
computers and willingness to coordinate efforts with others.

2. Guidance Counselor

A guidance counselor assists people with personal, family, educational, mental health and career
decisions and problems. He provides options that will help the client to resolve his/her
problems. Its overall function is to talk to students, provide options, listen to problems, help the
students to develop coping skills and learn to solve problems and become a good decision maker on
their own.

Counseling services includes:

 Individual Counseling

 Group Counseling

 Group Guidance

 Student Appraisal

 Referral

 Consultation

 Coordination

Common Problems of Students Bring to Counseling Sessions

 Conflict with others


 Conflict with self

 Lack of information about self

 Lack of information about the environment

 Lack of skill

Attitude and skills of the counselor are very important to the quality of the counseling relationship.
The qualities of an effective counselor are the following:

 Intellectual competence

 Energy

 Flexibility

 Support

 Good Will

 Self – awareness

3. Psychometrician

The one who develops a test is called psychometrician, while the one that conducts testing services is
called a psychometrist. A psychometrician has the following responsibilities;

 Identifies and selects tests

 Sets the schedule of testing services

 Administers, corrects and interprets test results

 Provides counselors with test results

 Encodes and makes summaries of test results

 Prepares testing materials

 Keeps test materials and test results

4. Researcher

He designs, formulates and conducts research projects. He manages, collects and analyzes
information and organizes data which are presented in oral and written form. The researcher has
the following functions:

 Applying a variety of research techniques to gather relevant information, including document


analysis, surveys, case studies and interviews;
 Preparing and reporting findings and disseminating results, both orally and in writing; and

 Offering research – based briefings and advice, which may involve writing action plans.

COURSE TITLE:                       ORGANIZATION & ADMINISTRATION OF THE
 Conflict with self  Lack of information about self  Lack of information about the environment  Lack of skill Attitude an
 Preparing and reporting findings and disseminating results, both orally and in writing; and  Offering research – based bri

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