Awareness of Grade 12 Home Economics Students Related to Guidance and Counseling Services

Abstract

Nowadays, most of the students are afraid to visit the guidance office because majority of them have a negative thought when they hear the word "guidance office". They fear to enter the premise of the guidance office and communicate with the guidance counselor because they thought that the Guidance office is a place for the students who committed a violation or did not abide with the rules and regulations of the school that ended up to giving sanction and punishment. Thus, they just kept their own problems that causes them to become more emotional problematic, aggressive and eventually missed the other services of the guidance office. The study used the Descriptive method of research that shows the appraisal of the respondents on Enhancing the Awareness and orientation of Grade 12 Home Economics Students related to Guidance and Counseling Services at Bestlink College of the Philippines. This method is concerned with the prevailing or existing status of an event or problem. The researcher aims to describe the existing phenomenon with the purpose of exploring the causes of a particular problem. It refers to the collecting of data from the number of populations in which direct contract is made through systematic means as in survey questionnaire, including checklist. The respondents of the study have various description such as age, gender, educational attainment and marital status. The services offered by the guidance office in terms of orientation, counseling, individual inventory is moderate level of awareness while the individual testing is the high level of awareness. The benefits that students derives from the guidance and counseling services provided by the Bestlink College of the Philippines is moderate level through physical while in mental, emotional and academic is high level of awareness. The level of awareness and orientation of grade 12 home economics related to guidance and counselling services provided by Bestlink College of the Philippines in terms of high level of awareness while the orientation, counselling, individual inventory, and testing moderate level of awareness. The disadvantage of not availing the services of guidance office is lack of information about the other services that can offered by the guidance office. The researchers recommend the administrators need to conduct seminars to correct the misperception of the students about the guidance office.