HISTORY OF GUIDANCE
AND COUNSELING
Western Countries and Philippines
Submitted by: Group 2
Avery, Princess Zena
Cruz, Nathalie A.
Evangelista, Irish O.
Madrid, Mirasol S.
Ocampo, Patricia
Perez, Jessica I.
Pineda, Roselyn
Torrenueva, Annie T.
III-9 BS Psychology
Submitted to:
Professor Tito Baclagan
November 13, 2014
HISTORY OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING IN
WESTERN COUNTRIES (U.S)
Year
Personality/Event
1892
1905
1907
American Psychological Association founded (150,000 members in 2006)
Binet & Simon develop mental ability scale
Jesse B. Davis, the first person to set up a systematized guidance program in
the public schools, suggested that classroom teachers of English composition
teach their students a lesson in guidance once a week.
Frank Parsons, often called the founder of guidance, founded Boston’s
Vocational Bureau, a major step in institutionalizing of vocational guidance
1908
1911
1913
1917
1920
Clifford Beers publishes A Mind That Found Itself. Contributed to public
awareness of issues relating to mental disorders
Education courses for counselors had begun at Harvard University
Founding of the National Vocational Guidance Association (NVGA), which
was the forerunner of the American Counseling Association. It established an
association offering guidance literature and united those with an interest in
vocational counseling for the first time.
Development of the Army Alpha and Beta test
Education courses for counsellors almost exclusively emphasized vocational
guidance
Certification of counselors in Boston and New York
1924
1927
1929
1930
1932
Freud’s ideas begin to influence mental health professionals
State certification of guidance counselors begins
Publication of new psychological instruments such as Edward Strong’s
Strong Vocational Interest Inventory (SVII), this instrument set the stage for
future directions for assessment in counselling
Abraham and Hannah Stone’s establishment of the first marriage and family
counseling center in New York City.
Broadening of counseling beyond occupational concerns. The seeds of this
development were sown in the 1920s, when Edward Thorndike began to
challenge the vocational orientation of the guidance movement
John Brewer published a book titled Education as Guidance. He proposed that
every teacher be a counselor and that guidance be incorporated into the school
curriculum as a subject.
1938
Congress
passed the
George-Dean Act that created the Vocational
Education Division of the U.S. Office of Education and an Occupational
Information and Guidance Service.
School counseling became more of a national phenomenon.
1939
1942
1945
1946
1952
1953
1962
1981
1982
1984
The U.S. Employment Service published the first edition of the Dictionary of
Occupational Titles (DOT) which became a major source of career
information for guidance specialists working with students and the
unemployed, described known occupations in the United States and coded
them according to job titles.
Development of the first theory of counseling, “The Clinical Method of
Guidance”, which was formulated by E. G. Williamson and his colleagues
(including John Darley and Donald Paterson) at the University of Minnesota.
Carl Rogers publishes Counseling & Psychotherapy and begins the era of
individual counseling
Counseling becomes dominant school guidance service
U.S. government further promoted counseling through the George- Barden
Act of 1946, which provided vocational education funds through the U.S.
Office of Education for counselor training institutes.
The establishment of the American Personnel and Guidance Association
(APGA) with the purpose of formally organizing groups interested in
guidance, counseling, and personnel matters.
The Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) of APA was formally
established. It was initially known as the Division of Counseling Psychology.
The charting of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA). It
joined APGA as its fifth member shortly thereafter.
The passage of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
Gilbert Wrenn set the tone for the decade in his widely influential book, The
Counselor in a Changing World.
The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational
Programs (CACREP) was formed as an affiliate organization of APGA.
The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) was formed
After considerable debate, the APGA changed its name to the American
Association for Counseling and Development (AACD)
1985
1986
1987
1992
2002
2003
2006
Chi Sigma Iota, an international academic and professional honor society,
was formed in 1985 by Thomas J. Sweeney to promote excellence in the
counseling profession.
Establishment of the American Association of State Counseling Boards
(AASCB) by Ted Remley.
CACREP achieved membership in the Council on Postsecondary
Accreditation (COPA), bringing it “into a position of accreditation power
parallel to” such specialty accreditation bodies as the APA
AACD to modify its name and become the American Counseling Association
(ACA). The new name better reflected the membership and mission of the
organization.
Counseling formally celebrated its 50th anniversary as a profession under the
umbrella of the ACA.
Center for School Counseling Outcome Research was developed by Jay
Carey
US congress officially declared Feb 6-10 as National School Counseling
Week
HISTORY OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING IN
PHILIPPINES
Year
Pre-colonial
1913
1925
1932
1940
1940-1960
1941-1944
1945
Personality/Event
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
Definite mention of vocational guidance from the report of the Director of
Education.
Formal vocational guidance in the public school began.
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.
Establishment of the first psychological clinic at the University of the
Philippines
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.
The growth of guidance and counseling was interrupted by the Japanese
occupation
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.
1951
1952
1953
1970
1976
1980
1990
2004
2008
Universities started offering counselor education programs to meet the
demand of trained personnel, (counselors).
Congress proposed the establishment of a functional guidance and counseling
program to help students select their course, activities, occupations, friends,
future mates.
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.
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.
More professional associations: Indigenization

Philippine Association for Counselor Education, Research, and
Supervision
(PACERS)

Career Development Association of the Philippines (CDAP)
Philippine Association for Counselor Education, Research and Supervision
(PACERS) established in March 6, 1976.
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.
Workshops introduced intervention strategies to help or regain family
wholeness.
‘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.
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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