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Early pioneers were responsible for influencing and crafting the counseling and guidance culture • Professional identity reflects that graduates are trained to perform counseling and guidance tasks within the educational system and other professional and organizational agencies. • Counseling professionals help people develop within the social environment, and assist with the processes of psychosocial functioning and effectively dealing with developmental changes and stressful life events. • Professional counselors trained at the University of Zulia are competent in forming counseling tasks such as designing, implementing, and evaluating counseling services. Graduates provide counseling services in different areas of human services including personal-social counselors, academic counselors, vocational counselors, work counselors, community and recreational counselors and provide counseling services for community life enhancement. Graduates are trained in three core counseling professional competencies, including: • Human system diagnostics: use of diverse tools for diagnosing human systems and individual psychological, educational, social and developmental characteristics. • Program and service design: conceptualize and evaluate human processes in order to design and administer counseling services for individuals, groups, communities, and organizations. • Counseling and consultation: provide professional services concerning human potential development and to meet psychological, emotional, behavioral, educational, social, organizational, and community needs. TPC Digest