Unit IXProblems of Guidance

• Counselors can help a great deal in regulating student activities.

• c) Cheating- it is said that, today cheating seems to have become a way of life among students. They do it in the open, apparently without a sense of guilt.

 

• d) Change sense of values- students of yesterday entered their class with only one purpose- to learn but today students go to their classroom with only one purpose-to pass which guidance gave attention as well.

3) Problems in the student discipline- in an ideal guidance program, it is the administrator who enforces regulations and discipline among

students who violate school rules and regulations.

 Guidance- cannot be take charge of disciplinary action on violations of school rules and regulations because the students might shy away from the guidance clinic and from the counselors.

However, counselor can deal with disciplinary problems such as:

1.Truancy-- is any intentional unauthorized or illegal absence from compulsory schooling.

2.Cutting classes - not appearing or showing up class.

3.Stealing- the illegal act taking of another person's property without that person's freely-given consent.

4.Cheating- It is generally used for the breaking of rules to gain advantage in a competitive situation.

8.Misbehaving outside and inside the classrooms

9.insubordination- is the act of willfully disobeying an authority.

10.Violation of school rules and regulations

Friendly interview - helps teacher and counselor to better understood other forms of anti- social behavior.

4) Social maladjustment- when an individual is in harmony between himself and has environment, he is said to be mentally healthy. He is able adapt himself to others and to the community in which he lives.

 

According to the book of Educational Psychology:

Social adjustment- more than just making changes in the behavior of an individual in order to fit himself into community in which he lives.

Mental health or adjustment- should be to make “those changes in conduct or behavior of an individual in order to fit himself into the community in which he must lives!”

According to Dr. Estefania Aldaba Lim, mental health is better understood by knowing what mental health is not.  She said that:

1) Having health is not an adjustment in all respect.

To disagree, to come out of ones shell and protest against a harmful tradition or policy, is a surer sign of mental health.

2) Mental health is not always freedom form anxiety and freedom.

Anxiety is often a prerequisite of creativity and self-preservation.

3) Neither is mental health freedom from dissatisfaction.

Dissatisfaction can be a blessing in disguise because it can stimulate invention and progress.

4) Mental health is not conformity.

What a mentally healthy individual can do is to assume an attitude of permissiveness and acceptance of people against whom he has biases.

6) Mental is not the absence of personal idiosyncrasies.

Education, guidance and human relations temper and modify one’s idiosyncrasies, but they remain inside him wherever he goes.

5) Mental health is not constant happiness.

Experiments do not always succeed, but most of them in turn stimulate others.

7) Mental health is not the undermining of authority.

People obey and respect authority but it is normal to rebel, to object or to protest, especially if the object of protest is unjust dishonest, untrue harmful, oppressive, far too authoritative.

8) Mental health is not an opposition to religious values.

We have freedom of worship even there is a separation of church and state, but they can work in harmony with each other in administering the welfare of the community and the people.

5) The problem of the superior student.

A move was started among civic- minded Filipino to form an association so that gifted and talented children could be given better attention and help. The foundation for gifted children has become a reality since December 1959. Valedictorians and salutatorians of all schools are given scholarships in the form of free tuition.

Guidance maybe given to all students who need it, concerning participation in stimulating activities which challenge their leadership- dramatics, public speaking, and journalistic writing.

Home- maladjustment can be caused by overprotection, rejection by parent, over- affection, poverty or an unhappy life. 

School- it can be due to an unsuitable curriculum, poor and ineffective teaching methods, wrong attitude on the part of the teacher, over restriction and ineffective methods of handling undesirable behavior.

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5) The problem of the superior student.

A move was started among civic- minded Filipino to form an association so that gifted and talented children could be given better attention and help. The foundation for gifted children has become a reality since December 1959. Valedictorians and salutatorians of all schools are given scholarships in the form of free tuition.

Guidance maybe given to all students who need it, concerning participation in stimulating activities which challenge their leadership- dramatics, public speaking, and journalistic writing.

Awards- in the form of cash, certificates, medals or awards in kind are granted as marks of distinction, thus encouraging the students to excel others in various fields.

6) Dropouts- in spite of compulsory education, only 46 percent of children who should be in school are accommodated.  

According to the First National Conference on Student Mental Health held in Baguio City in October, 1959, the causes of non-continuance of schooling among Filipino college students are:

1.Lack of personal discipline

Insufficient academic preparation

Poor study habits

Inadequate finances

Vocational misfits

Poor housing facilities

Emotional disturbance

School policies

The number of dropouts and failures in school can be minimize if a guidance program can be set up in every public and private school in the Philippines.

 • Those who have stop schooling because of poverty

can be better prepared for a vocation.

• Those who are able to continue can be guided in preparing for college education or for a vocational course.

   

REPORT   In   

Guidance and Counseling      

Of 

Evora, Maria Kristina Cassanda R. BLK. 3 / BSED-3

   

Mam Agnes Arellano (Professor)