VISION

The Guidance, Admissions, and Scholarship Department envisions empowering students in meeting their psychosocial, emotional, and academic needs that will support them as lifelong learners to participate in and contribute to the global world.

MISSION

The Guidance Office provides and implements comprehensive school counseling programs that cater to the academic, career, personal, social, emotional, and behavioral needs of all students. Guidance Counselors and Associates work in collaboration with students, teachers, family members, and the local and international community to prepare and help students develop their potential and grow as a total person.

GENERAL GOALS

The Guidance, Admissions, and Scholarship Department is one of the support units of Diliman Educational Corporation. As a support unit, it intends to enhance the development of the students through the delivery of creative, innovative, and quality programs in an atmosphere of care, hope, and respect.  As such, the Guidance, Admissions, and Scholarship Department helps the students acquire awareness of their abilities, interests, and other strengths so that they can develop their potential to the fullest and become good citizens and responsible leaders of the society to which they belong.

GUIDANCE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

The Guidance Office aims to respond to stakeholders’ intellectual, emotional, social, and psychological needs and other important learning and life issues.  It also assists the students with their family and peer problems, concerns about the future, feelings of stress, low self-esteem, loneliness, anxiety, career choices, and life skills. It provides support and consultation to staff, faculty, and parents who have concerns about the well-being of a particular student. The Guidance Office also creates and implements significant guidance programs that are primarily designed to develop and enhance our students’ total personality as well as to assist them in their personal adjustment in life.

    1. Individual Inventory Services

This is an organized and functional record of each student containing pertinent information about his/her home and family background, and his/her intellectual and social development. Also, this is a collection of extensive information about the individual for proper understanding, decision-making, and placement.    

    2. Information Services

The function of this service is to make available to the students' valuable information not ordinarily provided through the instructional programs for personal, social, emotional, and spiritual development and adjustment. These include general lectures, group and individual conferences, and other types of activities.  The effectiveness of the orientation activities is measured by the degree to which the students can acquaint themselves with the new school system and understand its purposes and objectives. This may also include different enrichment programs such as:

    a. Exploration
Self-awareness activities and orientation in relation to varied aspects of campus life

    b. Effective Study Habits
Lectures on how to study effectively, time management, and developing good memory as well as steps on how to take a test and have better results.

    c. Coping with Stress
A session aimed in assisting students in identifying and developing skills in handling school pressures

    d. Handling Relationship
A lecture on how to handle relationships such as boy-girl relationships and family relationship

    e. Student-Peer-Facilitator Training
Training workshops for student-peer-facilitators are conducted; aimed in developing   their   counseling and   facilitating skills to establish effective self-awareness and peer relationship

    f. Drug Control and Prevention Program
This activity promotes a drug-free school and offers varied activities for student awareness.

    g. Gender and Development
Sessions are designed to foster awareness and understanding of gender issues, promote equality, and encourage personal development.

    3. Counseling Services

Counseling is referred to as the “heart” of the guidance program. There is an effective counseling service through which the student is helped to understand himself/herself in relation to his/her unique and developing world.  This provides the individual with the opportunity to make his own plans and decisions to come up with a resolution to his own personal problems. Individual or group sessions with counselors are available to students who have academic, personal, interpersonal, emotional, career, and moral concerns. This could be given on an individual or group basis according to the needs of the students. The types of counseling are individual and group counseling, walk-in or voluntary visits, referred cases, and guidance counselors-initiated counseling.

    4. Testing Services

The student’s strengths and weaknesses in the areas of personality, aptitudes, interests, needs, and job skills are assessed through the use of standardized tests. Test results are provided to the students by their respective guidance counselors for self-awareness, growth, and development. Test interpretations are also made available in groups.
    
        a. Panukat ng Pagkataong Pilipino (Center for Educational Management)
To determine one’s feelings, opinions, and behavior by assessing a total of 19 personality dimensions (PDs) that are critical to the assessment of Filipino personality

    5. Career Guidance Services

The Guidance office assists in the career development, and career counseling of its students.  A career guidance service assists the student in developing and enhancing skills necessary in the choice of his/her career in life.  A well-planned Career program is organized to guide and aid students in wise choices of career and vocations.  Enhancing their knowledge about what people do for a living will enable them to further explore the world of work.

    
    6. Consultation Services

The Guidance personnel conducts consultation with the student’s significant others to assist them in improving the environment or situation that contributes to the students' problem. These may include consulting with the School Administrators, teachers, classmates/ schoolmates, and parents.

    7. Referral Services

This is done by tapping agencies, organizations, or individuals that may be of better assistance in the counselee’s resolution of problems and attainment of the full potential beyond the scope of the guidance counselor’s expertise. This may include referral to a Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Developmental Pedia, Therapist, and other mental health professionals.