A proposed guidance program for St. Mary's College Boy's Department, Tagum, Davao del Norte

• Main Author: Abrenica, Vicente E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1971
• Subjects: Educational counseling; Group guidance in education; Educational counseling—Case studies; Students—Psychology; Student Counseling and Personnel Services
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/188
• Institution: De La Salle University

v. 1. The many technological changes taking place in the occupational structure make it necessary to help the students make maximum use of their talents and opportunities. This requires thoughtful assessment to what the schools, especially school administrators, are doing, careful consideration of suggested changes and a blending of the old and new in a way that will accomplish their goals. It is possible that the impact of technological changes on the students may reach the St. Mary's Boys High School. Therefore, it will be wise to prepare the students of the school by proposing a program that will direct the students activities towards the satisfaction of his needs and interests and towards self-appraisal and self-understanding. The school administrator and personnel of St. Mary's Boy's High School are very much aware of the need of an organized guidance program to be integrated to the total educational program. This need was accentuated by the alarming number of failures and drop-outs, the minimal proficiency of the fourth year graduates in oral and written English and the apathy or indifference of parents towards their children's achievements and failure in school. In this case, the paper discusses a proposed organized guidance program and tackles the services it would offer, the staffing, the cost and to what level would the student and parental receptibility be. v. 2. Counseling has become an integral part of school guidance programs but when needs of individual students are considered very little time is actually available for unhurried consultation between students and their counselor. Interviews and observations of students by teachers and counselors consistently show that a great number of students need help. Yet, with the usual 1,000-1 student counselor ratio, the time for individual consultation is often reduced to the minimum, hence, the necessity for a new technique, which could reach a number of students in one sitting. Group counseling arose out of this need, not to mention attempts to study and understand the dynamics of group process. Group counseling was initially conceived as a time saver. Counselors and counselees now regard it as everything but a time saver since it is considered as a powerful therapeutic technique, a technique, which has some unique advantages over individual counseling, but also complements the same. The writer, by virtue of a previous training in creative dramatics thought out a plan which could intensify the effectiveness of group counseling and extend its merits in helping a greater number of students in their personal growth. The purpose of this paper is to present an original plan of using creative dramatic techniques in group counseling. The study revealed that creative dramatics is basically a group work. The mechanics of group counseling are similar to that of creative dramatics. Since it is a group art, it requires cooperation in planning, playing and evaluating. It provides a play situation where children experience basic rules in living with each other and they learn to relate to one another as they communicate their experiences. The values of creative dramatics are identical if not the same as those of group counseling. Its suitability for local use, however, is thought to be far greater than group counseling. Aside from the values of creative dramatics to group counseling, there are also benefits for group members such as v. 3. The case under study is a thirteen-year old boy who is a freshman in high school and who was referred to the counselor by his sister because of apparent underachievement in school, fear of sleeping alone at night and because of his overt belligerence and rebellious nature. Interviews with the boy revealed that he was beset by adjustment problems on account of his small stature. He looks small for his age and therefore is often the object of peer ridicule. Interviews further revealed that the boys academic performance was far below than what he can normally achieve considering his mental ability and previous performance in school. He had a failing grade in music and this further made him the object of his mothers ire and nagging situation. His mother, being highly academic-oriented has great expectations of her children, much to the resentment of the counselee. Thus, he openly exhibits his rebellion against his mothers wishes by being belligerent, hostile, sullen, and by snapping at his younger sisters. Behavioral counseling techniques were employed and directed at helping the counselee attain, a mutually desired goal that of being in the honor roll. In order, however, to achieve this, the major goal was subdivided into sub-goals. The counselor was of the belief that attainment of sub-goals would lead to the achievement of the major goal. Extinction and role shift stratagems were employed by extinguishing the belligerent, hostile attitude and answering back behavior of the counselee towards his mother. The mother was likewise involved in the treatment and was made to assume a new role that of a reinforcing mother than a nagging one. She was also asked to refrain from making any comment on his failing grade to facilitate the extinction of the male adaptive behavior. The verbal reinforcements of the mother were rewards for the counselee. This was further supplemented by encouraging remarks from the counselor. For helping the subject to obtain a satisfactory grade in music, a plan of action, which was design