All schools shall aim to develop moral character, personal discipline, civic conscience and vocational efficiency, and to teach the duties of citizenship. In the pursuit of its objectives and in recognition of the increasing demand of the Philippine education set-up, the WU-P Guidance Center was established formally to give guidance and counseling services to all the students beginning from kindergarten to the graduate school. Although a few years after its founding in 1946, the school was already taken up as a public service on matters concerning evangelism, health, education-vocational and emotional – as the school undergoes physical expansion, its programs and services also expand.Guidance and Counseling have been defined in the Rules and Regulations (RR) of Republic Act 9258, Rule 1, Section 3 (Manila Standard, 2007), as a profession involving an “integrated approach to the development of a well-functioning individual primarily by helping him/her to utilize his/her
potential to the fullest and plan his/her present and future in accordance with his/her abilities, interests and needs.”Through the years, in many countries, the Guidance Program has been seen as a system of services designed to improve the adjustment of each and every person for whom it was organized. The Rules and Regulations declares that Guidance and Counseling include counseling, psychological testing, research, and placement, referral and group processes. Gibson and Higgins (1966) included the above services in their enumeration, but not learning and study orientation and
teaching of guidance and counseling subjects. They, however, describe other services not mentioned in the RR. Below is their brief description of each.The development, establishment, and maintenance of the Guidance Program are based on certain principles. Gibson and Mitchell (1991) and Crow (1951) summarized these.