Pseudo Scientific Techniques in Guidance

• predicting of future outcomes or events in terms of lucky or lucky numbers.

Associating one’s fate with the course of the stars and other heavenly bodies.

Astrology

Graphology• Analyzing one’s

character in terms of one’s penmanship.

Intensity of strokes

Shapes and Size

Slant of the letters

Palmistry

• Belief that the lines on one’s hand tell the fate and destiny of an individual.

Phrenology

• Individual traits can be determined by the size and shape of the head, the form of the forehead.

honestyMathematical

abilityMusical talent

Physiognomy• Predicts personality traits through facial

characteristics, bodily structure or muscular set.

Occultism and spiritualism• Common ways of looking into

the past or the future.• Espiritistas

Ouija Board

Guidance movement in the Philippines

Dr. Sinforoso Padilla

• Filipino psychologist• 1932-he started a

Psychological Clinic.

Dr. Sinforoso Padilla

emotional

educational

vocational

• 1945- first Guidance Institute• The Bureau of Public Schools started to

send teachers for study of guidance.

• Dr. Roy G. Bone and George H. Bennett, UNESCO specialists in guidance, helped much in making Filipino education officials guidance-conscious.

• 1951, Congress proposed the establishment of a functional guidance and counselling program.

• 1952- division superintendents of schools recommended the establishment of guidance services in the public school.

• 1945- National Teachers Collage was chosen to be the site of the first Guidance Institutes

• Guidance Association of the Philippines has been organized.

• 1953- Philippine Association of Guidance counselors was organized to establish a Testing Bureau.

• Guidance Section of the United States Veterans Administration- most systematic guidance program in the Philippines.