Dr. Perlie Polestico, current PGCA Board member involved in the Membership Comittee has just passed me this morning a text message which has been roaming around about yesterday. It goes this way: "The PGCA National Convention of Guidance Counselors this May 23 has been postponed."
RELAX! My comment is this: Whoever has started this text has not just wasted his/her money because the PGCA Annual Convention on May 23-25 WILL GO ON AS SCHEDULED. I got this CONFIRMATION during our meeting yesterday at RGS Convent in Cubao. This is a task which the PGCA PRO Dr. Chit Salonga has not done. She was there in the meeting yesterday!!! Whoever started this message may either be INSANE or HAS AGGRANDIZED UNTO ONESELF A TASK WHICH BELONGS ONLY TO THE PGCA BOARD! Or is that person trying to say that the PGCA Board has now become something other than what it is: an APO!
Hence if I may suggest this as a paying PGCA member: the PGCA Board should make a resolution that TEXT MESSAGING SHALL NOT BE USED AS A MEDIUM TO COMMUNICATE such OFFICIAL NOTICES! Hence, any text message like these in the future should be labeled as "kuryente." Maybe the one who wrote this needs that psychiatric treatment, yung kinukuryente ba para magbago ang chemical composition ng brain niya! Joke only po (seriously!).
God, bless us with good Counselors, people who are trained, competent and most of all SANE.
Before I forget, let me share this. I read somewhere before that PSYCHIATRISTS have the highest number of SUICIDES. That is, among those who commit suicide, the highest number was by psychiatrists.
What am I saying here?
We as Counselors may be vulnerable to the toxins that get into our system by virtue of exposure. As we deal with our clients, it is essential, not just important, that we have our own debriefing. That is what supervision is all about. That is what we are called to CONSTANTLY MAINTAIN in our quality and excellent counseling services. In fact, our own Counseling should be embedded into the training so that we ourselves continue to be effective Counselors. God bless
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About Me
- BRC
- Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines
- I am Filipino SVD Religious Missionary Priest currently based in Catholic Trade Bldg, for this sabbatical leave. I used to be assigned in Christ the King Mission Seminary, Quezon City, Philippines. Am also a Ph.D. candidate in Counseling Psychology at DLSU, Manila. I used to do counseling and psychological work in the seminary, Sarnelli Center for Street Children at the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Baclaran. I also used to teach Psychology subjects in the seminary. I used to accept counseling and psychological assessment for most clientele (child, adolescents, adults, religious & family). I just received my PRC License as a Professional Registered Guidance Counselor on Sept. 28, 2008.
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