VISION

                  The Guidance Counseling Office envisions the students to grow and develop into and develop into a totally integrated person, mature, responsible and productive in life with deep love and respect for God and fellowmen.

MISSION

                  The Guidance Counseling Office was organized to promote, develop and enhance the students’ well-being through efficient and effective deliverance of the different of everyday living with full confidence and high hopes in life.

GOALS

            To promote and develop emotional stability, maturity, social adjustment and physical well being, the school organized the Guidance Counseling Office. The office also aims to help acquire knowledge, skills, moral and spiritual development of guidance personnel who perform the role of assisting students in their needs.

                  Guidance is the assistance given to the individual to enable him to help himself. It aims to change the person from what he ought to be, to accept his real self and adopt socially accepted ways of behavior based on rational, moral and spiritual values thereby enabling self to adjust internally and externally. The Guidance Counseling Office of the University of Batangas aims to provide students with services that will (1) explain how to solve their problems a home, school and in the community; (2) make ,them gain self-understanding of their potentials, interests and aptitude; (3) assist in securing self-direction, discipline, confidence, self-respect and interest in school, home and civic activities and; (4) share effective study techniques and work habits.

The Peer Group Program is a service that can offer students a warm, safe and supportive environment conducive to self-help. The Guidance Counseling Office recognizes the value of peer support in helping the students a address their academic; personal and social concerns.

Support Group for College

Peer Facilitators

Peer Facilitators are 3rd year/ 4th year/ 5th year college students who are trained to help students with their academic, personal and social problems on a walk-in or by appointment basis.

Support Group for High School

Anak Batnagueño

The ANAK BATANGUEÑO Organization was organized by LACMMI in response to the growing concerns of students whose parents are working aboard. With this, the University of Batangas recognized the importance of having a program that is designed to help the specific group of individuals enrolled in the institution. The Guidance Counseling High School office initiated the FORMATION of the ANAK BATANGUEÑO with the same focus since its inception in the High School Guidance Program in 2006, the ANAK BATANGEUÑO AND THE Guidance office have formulated various activities and programs designated to aid the realization of the objectives of the ANAK BATANGUEÑO.

The Young Philanthropists

1. Take leadership roles.

The best way to learn to lead is to do it. Generation Y has been raised to be great team players – in everything from school to work to social lives. Gen Y is a generation that will live its life out in groups. But for all the hoop-la about being on a soccer team where everyone plays, there has been very little focus on leadership for young people. You can address a deficit like this by taking leadership positions in college, and courses like this one (which I loved taking) if you can get someone else to pay for it.

2. Get a good internship.

Eighty percent of graduating seniors will have completed at least one internship, according to Mark Old man, co-founder of Vault, a media company for career information. “In the United States an internship is no longer an optional benefit but an essential stepping stone for career success.” So part of your job as a student is to line up good internships. The way to set yourself up for success as an adult is to balance the school stuff and the work stuff – even now, before you graduate.

3. Don’t get straight A’s

There is little correlation between how well someone does in school and how well that person does in adult life. School rewards people who follow rules and are motivated by grades. Adult life requires people to figure out how to steer themselves and motivate themselves. Spend your time in school doing something besides studying so that you will steer well when you graduate. People who spend their college years getting straight A’s often say they regret it.

4. Be a joiner – spots, fraternity, cheerleading

Cheerleaders do better in business than everyone else except athletes, who do as well as cheerleaders. So be a joiner. Figure out how to work in teams and how to exude enthusiasm even in the face of bad news. And, when it comes to building networks, a fraternity is a ready-made network of people who are generally similar to you, so get started in college, when it feels more like a party than a network.

5. Read novels, even if they’re not assigned

Tiziana Casciaro, professor at Harvard Business School, says that,”How we value competence changes depending on whether we like someone or not.” And people who lack social competence end up looking like they lack other competencies, as well. This is why social skills are as important as other work place skills. The best way to learn social skills is to put down your books and go meet new people. But if you insist on reading, pick up a novel. It will require you to understand what motivates people, and that, after all, is what social skills are all about.

6. Take a Myers Briggs test – know strengths

We are each born with strengths and weaknesses. Instead of banging your head against the wall trying to change who you are, take a personality test and find out your strengths. Then, forget about overcoming your weaknesses and focus instead on leveraging your strengths. Many studies conducted at the Gallup Institute show that we find more success through our strengths, but you have to know them in order to leverage them. Most people wait too long to take a test. Take yours now, in college.

7. Start a company

You can run a company out of your dorm room. Try anything. It’s free. The software is free, the viral marketing is free (your friends list) and your time is almost free since you wouldn’t be getting paid right now anyway. So even if your business does nothing, you will have the experience of starting one and that will give you the confidence to try many more times after you graduate, when the stakes are higher.

8.Turn a professor into a mentor.

10 COMMANDMENTS OF SELF-CONFIDENCE

1. Be your own best friend; learn to trust and love yourself.
2. Stop mumbling a litany of negatives; maintain a positive attitude in all that you do.
3. Keep a list of your good qualities in your wallet, more so, in your heart and mind.
4. Nobody is perfect; don’t be afraid of criticisms.
5. Break the habits; try new and more challenging tasks sometimes.
6. Celebrate! Pat yourself on the back once in a while
7. Never compare yourself with others; you are special in your own way.
8. Master your crafts; share it with others
9. Look smart and feel smart-dress up properly and maintain a good posture.
10. Lift yourself up on the wings of prayer!
    

CREED OF A COUNSELOR

I will not agree to help you go off the edge.
I will not help you become a robotized normal and adjusted person.
I will not help you stay and wallow in the cesspool of your own making.
All these go against my values.

I will help you to grow, to become more productive, by your own definition.
I will help you to become more autonomous, more resistant to enculturation,
More loving of yourself, more excited, sensitive and full, more free
To becoming the authority of your own living.

I cannot give you your dreams or “fix you up”, simply because I cannot.
I cannot make you grow or grow for you. You must grow for yourself.
I cannot take away your loneliness or pain.
I will not sense you world for you, evaluate your world for you, or tell what is best for you in this world, for you have your own world.

I cannot convince you of the crucial choice of choosing the scary uncertainty of growing over the safe misery of not growing.

I want to be with you, and know you as a rich and growing friend, yet I cannot get close to you when you choose not to grow.

When I begin to care for you out of pity; when I begin lose trust in you, then I am toxic, bad and inhibiting for you, and you for me.

You bet my helping is conditional: I will be with you

PRAYER FOR COUNSELORS

From the One whose heart is ever as open
To all our own worries and pains
And whose in visible hand gently pats our backs
When we are racked with troubles in our own lives
And who celebrates our smiles and laughter

From Him we draw the strength to love
All young souls entrusted to us
No matter how difficult they can present themselves to be.

May He-
Gift us right words when a boy in tears knocks on our door
Help us who doesn’t know himself
Touch him who finds it difficult to open himself up
Help him, explore whose eyes are filled with wonder.

May He also give us
The strength to endure
The knowledge to share
And the wisdom to impart.

For it is from Him we draw our inspiration
From Him we get meaning

Of this vocation He called all of us for.

To achieve the goals of the Guidance Counseling Program, the office provides the following services:

Individual Inventory – This is a key by which a counselor learns more about the learner through the cumulative records for proper understanding, decision-making and placement.

Information Services – This is a comprehensive collection and dissemination of information through various delivery mechanisms that aims to assist students in their personal-social, educational, and occupational planning.

Counseling – This is the heart of the guidance program. It is a dynamic personal interaction between the counselor and the counselee(s) that aims to assist individual to work through their academic, career, and personal-social development concerns.

Testing Service – This is the administration, scoring, and interpretation of different psychological tests. This service aims to help the students understand themselves and their potentials, interests and personality traits that can be used for career planning and counseling purposes.

Follow-up – This service deals with the assessment of hoe counselees who have been counseled, placed, or referred or have graduated are doing. This aims to determine whether further assistance is necessary.

Referral – This service directs the office to tap professionals (e.g. psychologist; psychiatrist; social workers; etc.), agencies, and organizations that may be of better assistance in the counselee’s resolution of the problems.

Consultation – This is a mutual sharing and analysis of information with the stakeholders- administration, faculty, and parents to solicit schemes on how to further assist the counselee and to facilitate decision-making.

Research – This is an attempt to determine the needs and concerns of the stakeholders and to assess the environment for spearheading improvement, designing/creating new interventions and or upgrading / updating programs.

Evaluation – This is an appraisal of the guidance services for redesigning; evaluation of the efficiency of the personnel for enhancement; and assessment of facilities for reconstruction.

E-Counseling

* With registration
* e-mail: ub_guidance@yahoo.com