The Guidance and Counseling Center
The Guidance and Counseling Center’s Vision, Mission and Objectives are based on the following underlying principles:
Our Vision
Comprehensive Guidance & Counseling Program equipping Filamerians with knowledge, skills and dispositions essential for quality and successful life.
Our Mission
Provide students with assistance and guidance to effectively identify, select, plan, and prepare for career; enable them to have increased confidence, inspired and encouraged to achieve.
Our Objectives
1. To secure and gather information about students through the use of psychological tests and non-psychometric devices to promote clients self-understanding as well as better understanding by counselors and other helping professionals. 2. To provide clients with information about personal-social growth and issues, educational and occupational requirements and opportunities, agencies and services in the school and community through updated bulletins of scholarships and job opportunities, seminar workshops and referrals. 3. To offer both individual and group counseling to facilitate positive change in client’s behavior, feelings and attitudes. 4. To conduct a systematic monitoring to determine the effectiveness of guidance services.
Official Time
The Guidance & Counseling Center is open from Monday to Friday | 8:00 am to 12 noon; 1:00-5:00 in the afternoon.
GUIDANCE AND COUNCELING SERVICES
This is designed to secure necessary student data to complete the individual and population profile of students. This includes the student’s personal family and academic background of some of the tests are interpreted right after the examinations, during the department convocations or during the year-round group counseling sessions with the Guidance Staff. Results are being made available to students to enable them acquire a positive and realistic self-image, self-motivation so that they can choose alternatives or make decisions.
The Guidance Center Director and her staff are open, and ready to assist students and/or personnel with difficulties and problems.Despite the present professional counselor ratio of 1:1250, the group counseling program of the Guidance and Counseling Center is active and functional from the elementary to the tertiary level. Each Guidance Staff is Assigned/designated to take charge of a specified unit/s. counseling sessions are focused on the Grades V and VI pupils, the first year and fourth year high school students, and the freshmen and sophomore college student who are believed to be in the period of adjustment.
Provide educational, social and occupational counseling to guide individual’s choice and decisions through homeroom guidance, classroom guidance, and guidance hours during departmental convocations. To enhance the program, the Guidance and Counseling Center organized the Peer Counseling Program which actively involves volunteer students trained for the work.
The results of testing service serve as one of the criteria for screening of applicants, for classification purpose and for psychological assessment of personality, mental capacity, and others. The testing service of the University provides a variety of evaluative techniques to identify the students’ areas of needs as well as valid, reliable testing materials for cognitive and intelligence measures, achievement, aptitude assessment, and interest, career and occupational interest surveys. Some of the tests are available on request.
