Guidance History 1 Guidance History in the Philippines

Guidance History

1. Guidance History in the Philippines 1913: Vocational Guidance is the first. 1926 -30 : Occupational and Educational guidance 1932 : First Psychological Clinic. (by UP) 1933 : Various trades and profession materials

1935 -45 : Guidance and Counseling Service in the schools. Public and private high school. 1945: First Guidance Institute was conducted by army psychologists from the United States. 1950 : Formal degree program in counselor education.

First- The graduate level Later- Undergraduate level as well 1951 : The school guidance started to move actively. Assist students with career choices, personal difficulties, school & home tasks, job placement, and initial work adjustments.

1953: First formal organization of Philippines. Guidance Association of the Philippines (1945) Philippine Association of Guidance Counseling was founding of (1953) Philippine Guidance and Personal Association now known as Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association (1965)

1965: Counselors-challenged to prepare students in career. 1970 -86 : The emergence of a movement to explore indigenous psychological concepts and methods inspired attempts to develop psychological tests and other assessment instruments.

1977: rename Philippine Vocational Guidance Association Philippine Association for Career Guidance and Development The Career Development Association of the Philippine

1980: 10 th world Congress of the International Association of Education and Vocational Guidance (in the Phil. ) 1982: The Technical and Vocational Education Project 1985: The Center for Women’s Studies and Development in Silliman University, Dumagete City.

1987 -present: Expanded Career Counseling Services. Focused on; poverty, unemployment, underemployment, over population, overseas workers etc. to set career counseling out of school Companies career counseling services. (organizational development & human resource development programs)

2. Concerns Students’ Career problems were related with: - Sociological - Psychological - General

3. Challenges Classical reasons 1) Family ties and Peso signs 2) Desire for economic improvement 3) Employability: studies show common reasons for curricular choices of college. ①Interest in the field ②Opportunity for employment ③Personal or family welfare ④Financial returns ⑤Influence of role models

New reasons 6. Prestige 7. Admiration 8. Status 9. Ability 10. Influence of media 11. Security 12. Opportunity to go abroad

4. Training and Employment Mismatch 1) Career development =Vocational development = Occupational development = Life-long process of development ; refining attitudes, beliefs and values, skills an abilities, interest, personal traits or behaviors, discovering aptitudes, acquiring knowledge of the field.

The trait-and-Factor Theory ( General theory in the Philippines) Kapwa (Special trait of Filipino concept of self)

2) Five-stage model for career counseling in the Philippines by Santamaria in 1993. ① The process of helping a person understand himself. ② The process of helping a person understand the situation. ③ Identify options. ④ Make choices from among these options. ⑤ Implement his decisions.

3) Stages of Career Counseling Self Expression Self Understanding Decision making Goal setting Action planning Follow-up

5. History of Guidance US version 1907: A systematic school guidance program by Jesse B. Davis 1908: Prank Parsons –”Father of Vocational Guidance” 1920 -30 s: School Counseling and Guidance grew.

1940 s: The US used psychologists and counselors to select, recruit, and train military personnel. 1950 s: Guidance and Counseling was diffused to nation wide. 1960 s: Continue to develop. * February 6 -10: Nation school counseling week.