Guidance Center

The Saint Joseph School Guidance Center facilitates students’ transformation by continuously enhancing their personal development and growth as a wise, compassionate, and virtuous Josephian.

Each student is given access to the following Guidance Center services:

Counseling

Competent counseling staff and trained peer facilitators assist students in understand themselves and their environment while helping them navigate challenges. Follow-up sessions ensure that students develop appropriate responses to difficult situations.

We also provide responsive counseling and immediate intervention for students with urgent concerns that may affect their academic, personal, or social well-being. When necessary, we facilitate referrals to third-party resources or experts for more complex cases.

Services include:

Individual and group counseling
Academic remedial assistance
Consultation with staff, parents, and community agencies
Referral to professional resource

Counseling

Competent counseling staff and trained peers assist students to understand themselves and their environment and to find a resolution to challenges they may be facing. Followup sessions are conducted to ensure that students learn and respond appropriately to difficult situations.

Responsive counseling and immediate intervention are also made available to students with urgent concerns that may distract them from their academic, personal, and social involvement. The necessary referral to a third-party resource or expert is provided for more complex situations.

Individual and group counseling
Academic remedial assistance
Consultation with staff, parents, and community agencies
Referral to professional resource

Testing

Counselors administer and interpret psychological assessments to evaluate students’ behavioral tendencies. These tests serve as tools to provide informed counseling and guidance.

Services include:

Entrance examination for transferees and new students
Administration and interpretation of the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT)

Career development

We aspire for our students to pursue fulfilling and meaningful careers. The Guidance Center prepares them early by helping them discover their abilities and potential, make informed decisions about university education, and equip themselves with the necessary tools to achieve their aspirations.

Services include:

Senior High School Orientation for Grades 9 and 10 students and their parents
Career orientation for Grades 11 and 12 students

Career development

We aspire for our students to have fulfilling and meaningful careers. The Guidance Center prepares them early by helping them discover their abilities and potential, make informed decisions about university education, and equip themselves with the tools to reach their dreams.

Senior High School Orientation for Grades 9 and 10 and parents
Career orientation for Grades 11 and 12

Homeroom guidance

This service assists Class Advisers in designing and implementing the Homeroom Guidance Program (HGP) to help students develop greater self-awareness, self-understanding, and self-acceptance. Homeroom sessions focus on values formation, attitude development, study habits, social etiquette, and leadership skills.

Additionally, homeroom serves as a space where students can discover their strengths, embrace their giftedness, and become witnesses to their faith, promoting social transformation.

Individual inventory

The Guidance Center gathers and safely keeps student records to help counselors, teachers, and administrators gain a more comprehensive understanding of each student before counseling sessions.

Routine individual interviews are also conducted to proactively identify student concerns and provide necessary support.

Individual inventory

The office gathers and safely keeps information about students to enable counselors, teachers, and administrators to understand a student better and more fully before counseling is conducted.

The office also routinely conducts individual interviews to understand the students and proactively know their concerns.

Information

Students receive relevant information to help them thrive academically, socially, and personally through various workshops and seminars.

Services include:

Orientation programs for transferees and new students
Seminars, training sessions, and workshops
Exit interviews for graduating and exiting students

Socials

Address

Saint Joseph School (Naga City), Inc.
Ramon H. Felipe Jr. Street
Panganiban Drive
Triangulo, Naga City
Philippines 4400

Telephone

+63 54 871.4103

Email

1sjsnaga@gmail.com