HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING

Submitted by:
Shadan H. Malangkapi
Jinayda S. Askalin
Kharima T. Altawan

Prof.Ed set B

Submitted to:
 HISTORY OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING IN PHILIPPINES
Year Personality/Event
Pre-colonial Counseling still shows vestiges of indigenous help-seeking through
(a)superstition; (b) reliance on elders, faith healers, and fortune tellers; and
(c) belief in the supernatural
1913 Definite mention of vocational guidance from the report of the Director of
Education.
1925 Formal vocational guidance in the public school began.
1932 Psychological Clinic was established pioneered by Dr. Sinforoso Padilla,
which concerned itself with cases of student discipline, as well as emotional,
academic and vocational problems.
1940 Establishment of the first psychological clinic at the University of the
Philippines
1940-1960 Teachers and officials of the Bureau of Public Schools were sent abroad to
study and observe guidance and counselling practices in the United States,
England and other European countries.
1941-1944 The growth of guidance and counseling was interrupted by the Japanese
occupation
1945 Guidance Association of the Philippines, the first formal organization of
Filipino counsellors had been established.

Foreign guidance experts like Dr. Rey G. Bose, and George H. Bonnette,
were invited to help in making leading Filipino School Administrators
“guidance conscious”.

Bonnette visited secondary schools, handled seminars all over the country,
served as consultant to the Bureau of Public Schools, while Dr. Bose offered
courses in some colleges.

First guidance Institute was held at the National Teachers College with U.S
Army Psychologists as resource person in November

1950 Interest in guidance as a significant component of education grew

More Filipinos either as government grantees, on private scholarships, or on

their own went abroad, mostly to the United States to specialize in guidance
and counseling.

Universities started offering counselor education programs to meet the

demand of trained personnel, (counselors).
1951 Congress proposed the establishment of a functional guidance and
counseling program to help students select their course, activities,
occupations, friends, future mates.
1952 Different public school superintendents, in a convention, approved ten
recommendations pertaining to the early development of guidance services
in the public schools.

City of Manila then was regarded as having the most up-to-date organization
and maintenance of functional guidance program in general secondary
school.
 1953 Philippine Association of Guidance Counselors (PGCA) was organized in
order to study the needs, interests and potentialities of our young people and
to establish a Testing Bureau.
1970 More professional associations: Indigenization
 Philippine Association for Counselor Education, Research, and
Supervision
(PACERS)
 Career Development Association of the Philippines (CDAP)
1976 Philippine Association for Counselor Education, Research and Supervision
(PACERS) established in March 6, 1976.
1980 The historic EDSA Revolution put a halt to the plans and preparations for
the annual conference-workshop. The officers convened to reexamine
PACERS’ focus and direction in keeping with the country’s post revolution
call for rehabilitation and reconciliation.
1990 Workshops introduced intervention strategies to help or regain family
wholeness.
2004 ‘Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004’ was pass. The Act was intended to
professionalize the practice of guidance and counseling and to create the
Professional Regulatory Board of Guidance and Counseling.
2008 The Family and Pastoral Counseling Association of the Philippines was
established

Session prescribed as an hour in counseling cost between 500 and 2,000

Philippine pesos

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