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Clienteles and Audience in Counseling: Welcome!
Clienteles and Audience in Counseling: Welcome!
MODULE 04
Clienteles and Audience in Counseling
Welcome!
This module introduce you the clienteles and audiences in counseling. This module also
present the characteristics and needs of various types of clienteles and audiences in
counseling.
Objectives:
At the end of this module you will be able to:
1. Describe the clienteles and audiences in counseling.
2. Identify the different types and needs of clientele and audience of counseling.
3. Articulate the characteristics and needs of the different types of clientele and
audiences for counseling
Please be reminded that at the end of this module you should comply the following:
1. Activities
2. Answer a 10-item quiz.
Preliminary Activity
Who-gutin mo ako!
The the following hugot lines represent problems encountered by people. Guess who is
being represented by the hugot line.
4. “Hindi ako sa palagay na isang bagay, lalong hindi rin ako isang hayop, ako
ay tao.”
To understand fully the coverage of this lesson, read silently the material.
Individuals and groups of people who receive service from various counseling
professions constitute the clientele and audience. These individuals and groups vary in
their needs and context where they avail of counseling services.
The clientele and audiences of counseling is normal people. They are not in need
of clinical or mental help. They may be the youth in need of guidance at critical
moments of their growth, anyone in need of assistance in realizing a change in behavior
or attitude, or simply seeking to achieve a goal. What the audience normally calls for in
counseling is application or development of social skills, effective communication,
spiritual direction, decision-making, and career choices. Sometimes, people need to
cope with crisis. Other clientele and audiences of counseling may be people in need of
premarital and marital counseling, grief and loss (divorce, death, or amputation),
domestic Violence and other types of abuse, or coping with terminal illness, death, and
dying.
The needs vary for each type of clientele and audience of counseling. In the
school context, guidance and counselors aim to meet needs such as job-hunting
coaching, conflict management providers, human resources personnel, marriage
counselors, drug abuse and rehabilitation counselors, bereavement counselors, and
abused children caretakers and rehabilitation in government and NGO settings.
As school guidance and counselors, these professionals provide the need for personal
guidance by helping students seek more options and find better and more appropriate
ones in dealing with situations of stress or simply decision making. This may include
career options. Sometimes, they bridge between family and the school in resolving
conflicts that affect students and their families to the extent of becoming a threat to
student development and learning.
As job-hunting coaches, counselors provide avenues for people to find necessary
information and get employment that is suitable to them. The services
Individuals and groups of people who receive service from various counseling
professions constitute the clientele and audience. These individuals and groups vary in
their needs and context where they avail of counseling services.
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The clientele and audiences of counseling are normal people. They are not in
need of clinical or mental help. They may be the youth in need of guidance at critical
moments of their growth, anyone in need of assistance in realizing a change in behavior
or attitude, or simply seeking to achieve a goal. What the audience normally calls for in
counseling is application or development of social skills, effective communication,
spiritual direction, decision-making, and career choices. Sometimes, people need to
cope with crisis. Other clientele and audiences of counseling may be people in need of
premarital and marital counseling, grief and loss (divorce, death, or amputation),
domestic Violence and other types of abuse, or coping With terminal illness, death, and
dying.
The needs vary for each type of clientele and audience of counseling. In the
school context, guidance and counselors aim to meet needs such as job-hunting
coaching, conflict management providers, human resources personnel, marriage
counselors, drug abuse and rehabilitation counselors, bereavement counselors, and
abused children caretakers and rehabilitation in government and NGO settings.
As school guidance and counselors, these professionals provide the need for personal
guidance by helping students seek more options and find better and more appropriate
ones in dealing with situations of stress or simply decisionmaking. This may include
career options. Sometimes, they bridge between family and the school in resolving
conflicts that affect students and their families to the extent of becoming a threat to
student development and learning.
As job-hunting coaches, counselors provide avenues for people to find necessary
information and get employment that is suitable to them. The services offered may
include technical aspects of how to prepare curriculum vitae (CV) or a resume, how to
speak to employers, and how to present and conduct one before employers. These can
even cover such details as how to walk and how to groom one-self to meet expectations
of prospective employers.
As conflict management providers, these professionals provide the need for
principles and theory-based approaches to deal with conflict and deescalate it, if not
revolve it positively. Conflicts are everywhere and they are not always that easy to
avoid. These professionals provide ways to manage conflict constructively.
As human resources personnel, these professionals provide the needs common
to all workplaces and they are employed in almost all workplaces to' deal with various
employee needs that cover aspects of remunerations, social services, compensations,
conflict resolution, and discipline. There is a wide range of services that employment
provide for the work force, which are not directly related to their technical work. They
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are designed to keep workers happy and cared for as humans. They form part of human
resource management.
As marriage counselors, these professionals provide the need for conflict
resolution skills to parties, couples, and children to deal with various stresses and
issues that threaten their unity or peaceful coexistence. Sometimes, their work is to
reconcile couples, while at other times, they work to help them part ways in the best
way possible through available legal instruments such as separation, divorce, or
annulment.
As drug abuse and rehabilitation counselors, these professionals meet the need
to help people overcome their problems or mitigate some of the most negative effects of
drug abuse. Their goal is to facilitate client rehabilitation.
As bereavement counselors, these professionals respond to the need to be
helped to go through loss, such as death in the family, in a way that Will help prevent
depression and other unhealthy ways of dealing or coping with loss such as committing
suicide or giving up on life. Through them, clients are empowered to experience
recovery or some form of healing that will help them cope well with such human
tragedies.
As abused children caretakers and rehabilitation in government and NGO
settings, counselors meet the need to facilitate processing and restoration of abused
children through recognition and implementation of existing laws and recovery
procedures in coordination with relevant units.
together. Some of the group processes and procedures resemble those that are applied
to individuals. However, some are very unique to group and organizational context.
The clientele and audiences of the counseling profession come from different
settings. Counselors deal with a mixture of people with different concerns and issues.
- People who abuse drugs – drug abuse is not just harmful to our
physical health but to our mental health as well. It cannot be denied
that the drug addiction create more social problems and contribute to
social disintegration. Consequently, more youth victims cry for help
and seek for counselors’ attention.
- People who use Tobacco – slowly our population recognizes the bad
effects of tobacco to our health. However, many people still use and
continue use tobacco even if it is deadly. Users find it difficult to stop
smoking. Hence, smokers who desire to quit tobacco were added to
the list of the counselor’s audiences.
- Gay Men and Lesbian Women- they are usually the victims of
harassment, violence, discrimination, and isolation. Gays and lesbians,
like other sectors of the society, suffer from peer denial, family clash,
health uncertainties and prejudgment. Counseling will focus on self-
awareness, self- acceptance and understanding.
Based on what you have read about accomplish the following activity
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Grade & Section: ________________________________Score:_________________
Activity 1.1
Name:_________________________________________Date:_________________
Grade & Section: ________________________________Score:_________________
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Activity 1.2
Generalization
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In summary, the clienteles and audiences in counseling profession come from different
settings. The clienteles and audiences in counseling have different characteristics and
needs to be address.
Assignment
Name:_________________________________________Date:_________________
2. If you are going to be a counselor, which setting would you prefer? Why?
Congratulatory Note
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Reminder:
All exercises and activities done should be submitted before start of the succeeding lesson/s. You may now
proceed to the EVALUATION of the lesson covered in this module!
References
Dela Cruz et al. Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences. Phoenix
Publishing House. Quezon City: 2016
Sampa, E.M. Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences. Rex Book Store, Inc,
Quezon City : 2016
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Quiz No. 3
Test I
True or False
1. The counselor does not deal with a mixture of people with different concerns and
issues.
2. The guidance and counseling services deals with students’ concern, most of
which are behavioural.
3. The counselor deals with individuals who suffered from mental illness/problems.
4. The counselor can assess and assist any kinds of problems and concern of
individual and group.
5. The Guidance Counselors can also work in partnership with other members of
the school community.
Test II
Identification
Identify which clienteles and audiences in counseling is being referred by the following
statements.
4. Jhearl wanted to go out of his closet and show the world that he is a gay.