Reality Counseling Technique: Situation Analysis

Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION

Situation Analysis
The youth is the future of our society. However, with the kind of environment they have now, they may not be spared from different crimes, delinquencies and misbehaviors. Adolescents display different forms of outlandish behavior. They are not just carefree novelty seekers and risk takers, but they are also uniquely vulnerable to anxiety and have a hard time learning to be unafraid of passing dangers (Friedman, 2014). Unfortunately, some of the risks that adolescents pursue may create a real threat to their holistic individuality.
Truly there are a lot of factors affecting students’ mind, behavior, or simply the way they act. One factor is their family. The family being the basic unit of

Compared with most animals, human beings engage in a host of behaviors that are destructive to their own kind and to themselves. People lie, cheat and steal, carve ornamentations into their own bodies, stress out and kill themselves, and of course kill others. Science has provided much insight into why an intelligent species seems so nasty, spiteful, self-destructive and hurtful (Rey, 2013). Hence, the goals of Reality Counseling Technique (RCT) include the following: to help individuals or clients meet their psychological needs for belonging, power, freedom, and fun; to challenge the clients to make an assessment of their current behavior to determine if such ways of acting are getting them what they want from life; and the counselor assists the counselees in making plans to change specific behaviors that are not working for

Mapandan National High School (MNHS) which is located in Pangasinan has around 2000 students as of SY 2015-2016. The school is also near different amenities such as park, computer shops, billiard houses, nearby stores and river where students could easily visit. MNHS has an almost equal number of male and female students. This is unlike the average gender breakdown in Mapandan, which sees on average 0.9 female students per male. It is common in big schools to have diverse students with different backgrounds.
At the time when the researcher was still the guidance counselor of the said school, the researcher conducted a survey on the different offenses committed by the students of MNHS, which was then submitted to the principal during their scheduled monitoring conducted by the Department of Education of Pangasinan I. The following are the major offenses arranged in chronological order: fighting with other students or bullying, absenteeism/ irregular attendance/ cutting classes, and misbehavior and non-wearing of prescribed uniform. Some of these students have alarming behavior problems that school officials need to address. In this light, the researcher decided to conduct an investigation that aims to determine the effectiveness of reality counseling