MOD 1: INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELING (YEAR HISTORY)

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

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1913

Definite mention of vocational guidance from the report of the Director of Education

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1925

Formal vocational guidance in the public school began

1932

Psychological Clinic was established pioneered by Dr. Sinfroso Padilla, which concerned itself with cases of student discipline, as well as emotional, academic and vocational problems

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1940

Establishment of the first psychological clinic at the University of the Philippines

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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.

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1941-1944

The growth of guidance and counseling was interrupted by the Japanese occupation.

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1945

Guidance Association of the Philippines, the first formal organization of Filipino counselors had been established

Foreign guidance experts like Dr. Rey G. Bose (NTC), and George H. Bonnette (consultant to Bureau of Education), were invited to help in making leading Filipino School Administrators "guidance conscious".

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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).

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1951

Congress proposed the establishment of a functional guidance and counseling program to help students select their course, activities, occupations, friends, future mates.

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1952

Different public school superintendents, in a convention, approved ten recommendations pertaining to the early development of guidance services in the public schools.

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.

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1970s

More professional associations: Indigenization

Philippine Association for Counselor Education, Research and Supervision (PACERS)

Career Development Association of the Philippines (CDAP)

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