A Lesson Plan in Humanities and Social Sciences – HUMSS

Prepared by:

I. Content Standard/Performance Standard

The learners demonstrate an understanding of the disciplines of the of the counseling.

II. Objectives:
At the end of the discussion the students must be able to:
a. identify the goals and scope of counseling
b. demonstrate comprehension of the principles of counseling

III. Subject Matter:

a. Topic: Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences: Counseling

b. References: Guidance and Counseling Today, p. 1-10
c. Materials: Laptop, Projector, video clips from you tube
d. Value: Give hope to as many people as possible

IV. Learning Activities:

a. Prayer
b. Greetings
c. Checking of Attendance
d. Review of the previous lesson
e. Motivation
Let the class watch the video clip presentation entitled the “Heart of a
Teacher”. Let them have the reflection and process the following questions?
1. What are the characters that the teacher in poem has?
2. Why do you think the author entitled the poem “The Heart of the Teacher”
3. What do you think the relevance of that poem to counseling?

Discussion of the topic: Counseling

1. Definition
2. Goals
3. Scope
4. Core Values

Activity: (to have a brief background on the topic stated)

1. Have the students played/practice a counseling session, they will ask to
choose their partner and have a conversation regarding their life experience.
The 1st student will act as a counselor and the 2nd student will act as a counselee.
2. Let them repeat the process having the 1st student to be the counselee and
the 2nd student to be the counselor.

Processing questions:
1. How do you feel about being a counselor? Being a counselee?
2. Do you think that you have solved the problem of your classmate? How?
3. As a counselee is it very easy for to confide your stories to your
classmate? Why Yes? Why No?
3. What do you think are the core values that you have considered in dealing with your
classmate’s problem?

f. Evaluation:
Instruction: Analyze the following by stating your own assessment of the cases given. If
you are the counselor, how are you going to handle the following considering the following:
a. scope
b. core values
c. goals of counseling.

1. Bert, a young employee of few years was fired from his job for no apparent reason at. All.
He sought the help of a counselor.
 2. Betty planned to buy insurance. She arranged a schedule with the company’s sales
counselor
to know the conditions and terms of the policy.
4. Benny and Beth had finally decided to settle down for good. They went to a
premarital counselor for their required pre marriage counseling seminar.

IV. Application
Answer the following.
1. Cite at least two (2) examples of problem and conflict that most of the teenagers like
you had experience and state what scope of counseling they are in.
2. If you are their counselor, how are you going to handle/manage their case?
3. What are the core values that you need to have to be able to help them?

V. Assignment:
Instruction:
Interview at least two (2) of the following (child with broken family, runaway teenager, student
with failing grades, girl/boy who broke up with her gf/bf) and try to assess their
dilemmas and conflict by answering the following questions.
1. How would you describe their current situation?
2. What is their main concern?
3. What do you think originally caused these problems?
4. What do you think would help solve the problems?

The Discipline of Counseling

 Definitions
 Goals
 Scope
 Core values

COUNSELING DEFINITION – derived from the word “ cons ilium” meaning to give and advice.
- creating a wholesome relationship between the counselor and counselee; a collaborative process
wherein the counselor takes a passive position of listening, as the counselee is encouraged
to articulate himself until he clarifies his thinking to consider various steps in solving his own problem.

COUNSELING: GOAL
 Provides a change in attitude or behavior in a person
 Helps in preventing the development of a problem into a more complicated one
 Encourages expression, release of emotion while there is a provision of support in times of
problem in order to stimulate growth of ideas from the client.
 Helps the counselee/client to feel relieve and his emotional burden lightened as he clarifies his thoughts.
 Helps the client/counselee to come up with a solution to his pressing problem.

COUNSELING: SCOPE

Individual Counselling
 Adolescent identity, concerns, teen-parent relationships, peer relationships
 Anxiety
 Anger management
 Children’s concerns within the family unit, sibling relationships, school experiences, peer
relationships
 Depression
 Family of origin dynamics and issues
 Gender: identity, sexuality, homosexuality

Marital and Pre-marital Counselling

 Marital and relational dynamics
 Extended family relationships
 Fertility issues
Family Counselling
 Adolescent and child behaviors within family dynamics
 Adult children
 Divorce and separation issues and adjustment
 Family dynamics: estrangement, conflict, communication
 Family of origin / extended family issues
 Life stages and transitions
 Parenting patterns: blended, single, co-parenting families
 Remarriage relationship counselling

COUNSELING: CORE VALUES

 Professional - offer a safe, empathic, professional and ethical service for the alleviation of
personal distress and suffering and promotion of your personal growth and well-being.
 Respectful: I am consistently respectful of your human rights, dignity and accepting of the
diversity of your culture and life experiences without prejudice
 Responsive: I work with you holistically and uphold your autonomy to be self directing inside and outside of
the therapy room.
 Fairness: treat the client fairly with the utmost integrity for the therapeutic relationship, personal safety, and
access to the services offered.
 Confidential: professionally manage and respect the right to privacy and confidentiality and
consider client’s own autonomy and legal frameworks for managing disclosure.
 Commitment: committed to partaking in activities for own continuous professional and personal
development, developing good practice and moral qualities as a therapeutic practitioner including, empathy,
sincerity, integrity, resilience, respect, humility, competence, fairness, wisdom and courage.
 Maintaining the best interest of the client