Guidance Center
Welcome Message from the Unit Head
At the University of San Carlos Counseling Center (USC CC), we provide counseling for students as individuals and groups, consultations to faculty, staff and concerned family and friends as needed.
Our workshops seminars, symposia, fora and brochures are offered to facilitate college and academic adjustment, self and relationship enhancement, life-career planning and decision-making, to school to work adjustment and total well-being.
We are committed to maintaining an open and accepting environment in which all clients feel welcomed and valued.
We invite you to visit our counseling and testing service offices on all campuses of the University.
Maria Julieta Oporto-Co
Head, Counseling Center
Overview of the Office
Thrust and Core Process
The Guidance Center participates in the realization of the USC Vision-Mission by making available services and programs for the students and significant others (teachers, peers, parents) involved in their (students) development. These are aimed at:
a. facilitating psycho-emotional development
b. facilitating academic and career adjustments
c. promoting social skills and leadership competencies
d. generating data relevant to instruction and learning
e. integrating Christian witnessing to the Word with one’s daily life
Services Offered
Basic Education Services
Counseling Services
The school provides the time, the place, and the personnel required for skilled assistance to pupils to cope/deal with concerns affecting school performance and learning. This can be done individually or in group.
Appraisal Services
At the start of the school year, new students have an initial encounter with their counselor. Counselors keep track of students’ development as well as the services availed of through the maintenance of cumulative records (include test results, development programs attended, etc.).
These records are strictly confidential. To facilitate increased personal and career awareness and decision-making, the Center provides psychological assessment services to individual or group
Admission and Academic Placement
The Center is involved in the proper placement and equal distribution of pupils in every section according to their intellectual abilities to maintain the heterogeneous nature of the group.
Consultation/Information Service
The office provides and facilitates pupil/student development through social/personal or educational/vocational/occupational information programs involving teachers, parents, and pupils. These may be relevant to adjustment to school/college/academic life, understanding and dealing with life and career issues.
Referral Services
The office helps pupils in the getting the professional assistance needed to better address intrapersonal, academic/vocational and/or personal/social concerns.
Follow-up Service
Academic, behavioral and personal/social follow ups aim at maintaining contacts with students in school.
Research and Evaluation
The Center conducts researches and makes the outputs as basis for the design, innovation and implementation of programs and services for the students
Tertiary Services
Counseling Services
The Heart of Guidance Services
The school provides the time, the place, and the personnel required for skilled assistance to individual students in working out solutions to personal concern that will lead them to a better self-understanding and adjustment to life. It may be done individually or in a group. Counselors do Follow-up and call on students for:
- Academic follow-up. To provide help to students who may need extra assistance in achieving academic and college adjustment.
- Personal/social follow-up. It is done to check on students’ progress or well-being. This may be after counseling, the initial interview, or the referral to other persons.
- Exit interview. It is conducted during the students’ last year in college to follow-up on their career plans and preparedness for work. This facilitates future linkage with graduates who may need assistance. Relevant information from the students is also used to enhance guidance services and programs.
The Guidance Office facilitates the process of Referral. Counselors link students to other school personnel/office who can further assist them with their concerns. The same assistance is given when students or parents/guardians can be best helped by outside professional or agencies.
Appraisal Service
At the start of every semester, new students have an initial encounter with their counselor. Counselors keep track of students’ development as well as the services availed of through the maintenance of cumulative records (include test results, development programs attended, etc.). These records are strictly confidential.
To facilitate increased personal and career awareness and decision-making, the Center provides psychological assessment services to individual or group. These may include career interest, personality, aptitude, general intelligence (IQ), among others services.
Referral Service
The office facilitates the process of referring students to other school personnel/office who can further assist them with their concerns. The same assistance is given when students or parents/guardians could be best helped by outside professional or agencies.
Information Service
The Center is the appropriate place to ask important information such as:
A. Information Dissemination
1. Educational Information
* Information about the school
* Other services in the university
2. Personal-Social Information
* Personal development
* Social development
* Relationship enhancement
3. Career/Occupational Information
* Possible job opportunities for specific courses
* Possible career options
* Work values
B. Group Guidance Activities
Group Guidance Activities may be delivered through lectures, symposia or workshops. The following training programs are available upon requests.
1st year Self- Management I
It includes adjustment to college life, learning styles, study skills and learning enhancement strategies, goal setting and basic time management skills.
2nd year Self-Management II
It includes basic self-exploration/awareness, managing emotions and character building.
3rd year Social Skills Development I
It includes relationship enhancement skills like conflict management, basic listening and feedback giving skills, love relationships, and family relationships. Special Programs for Organizations and Corporations: Social Skills Development III
It focuses on building healthy relationships in an organizational, group or team setting, and the relational dimension of leadership.
4th year Career Development I & III
It focuses on work ethic and building positive relationships in the work setting.
4th or 5th year Career Development III
It focuses on job preparation, entrepreneurship as an option or market trends in specific fields.
Research Activities
Relevant data gathered from students are used to enhance and improve services and programs for the students. Outputs are also on-going Guidance operations as well as to instruction and management.
Special Program
Peer Facilitating Program
The Center provides opportunities for students to volunteer their services in assisting their peers in developing themselves fully by acting as implementing partners of the guidance staff.
Others
Practicum Supervision
The Center coordinates with the Department of Psychology and the Graduate School by offering practicum students first hand experiences on the different aspects of the Guidance Services.
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