Lived Experiences of Guidance Facilitators Who Take the Role of Guidance Counselors in the Philippines
| Main Authors: | Cervantes, Almira, Aclan, Eunice, Marticio, Florvilla P. |
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| Format: | Article info application/pdf Proceeding |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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LPPM Universitas Advent Indonesia
, 2018
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| Online Access: |
https://jurnal.unai.edu/index.php/isc/article/view/1165 https://jurnal.unai.edu/index.php/isc/article/view/1165/695 |
Daftar Isi:
- Guidance facilitators in the Philippines usually do not hold the qualifications of a guidance counselor. Yet, due to registered guidance counselor (RGC) shortage,guidance facilitators who graduated in various fields must take RGC’s role, thus,the gap remains and literature on this issue is scarce. Hence, this phenomenologicalresearch explored the experiences of guidance facilitators with their clients. Itanswered two research questions: a) How do the guidance facilitators describe theirexperiences in taking RGC’s role? b) What issues and challenges have the guidancefacilitators faced? Fifteen guidance facilitators who met the criteria set were thestudy’s participants. To achieve maximum variation, participants were chosenacross age, employment type, and location. Data were collected via one-on-oneinterviews and analyzed using Creswell’s model retaining only relevant themes.The themes that emerged on the guidance facilitators’ experiences were clients withspecial needs and boundary issues. Under boundary issues were multiplerelationships, multiple roles, and love interest by clients with the guidancefacilitators. The feelings of fear, difficulty, confusion, guilt, and sense ofachievement were felt by the guidance facilitators as they described their counselingexperiences. Issues and challenges faced by guidance facilitators were lack oftraining, job mismatch, lack of documentation, false accusation, limited technologyand skills, and guidance counselors’ insufficiency. Based on the findings, a trainingprogram for guidance facilitators is necessary. For future research, mixed methodstudies may be conducted to find out the extent of the problem in terms of theshortage of RGCs and to design intervention to address the RGC shortage.