@article{Cervantes_Aclan_Marticio_2018, title={Lived Experiences of Guidance Facilitators Who Take the Role of Guidance Counselors in the Philippines}, volume={6}, url={https://jurnal.unai.edu/index.php/isc/article/view/1165}, DOI={10.35974/isc.v6i1.1165}, abstractNote={<p>Guidance facilitators in the Philippines usually do not hold the qualifications of a <br>guidance counselor. Yet, due to registered guidance counselor (RGC) shortage,<br>guidance facilitators who graduated in various fields must take RGC’s role, thus,<br>the gap remains and literature on this issue is scarce. Hence, this phenomenological<br>research explored the experiences of guidance facilitators with their clients. It<br>answered two research questions: a) How do the guidance facilitators describe their<br>experiences in taking RGC’s role? b) What issues and challenges have the guidance<br>facilitators faced? Fifteen guidance facilitators who met the criteria set were the<br>study’s participants. To achieve maximum variation, participants were chosen<br>across age, employment type, and location. Data were collected via one-on-one<br>interviews and analyzed using Creswell’s model retaining only relevant themes.<br>The themes that emerged on the guidance facilitators’ experiences were clients with<br>special needs and boundary issues. Under boundary issues were multiple<br>relationships, multiple roles, and love interest by clients with the guidance<br>facilitators. The feelings of fear, difficulty, confusion, guilt, and sense of<br>achievement were felt by the guidance facilitators as they described their counseling<br>experiences. Issues and challenges faced by guidance facilitators were lack of<br>training, job mismatch, lack of documentation, false accusation, limited technology<br>and skills, and guidance counselors’ insufficiency. Based on the findings, a training<br>program for guidance facilitators is necessary. For future research, mixed method<br>studies may be conducted to find out the extent of the problem in terms of the<br>shortage of RGCs and to design intervention to address the RGC shortage.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Abstract Proceedings International Scholars Conference}, author={Cervantes, Almira and Aclan, Eunice and Marticio, Florvilla P.}, year={2018}, month={Oct.}, pages={243} }