Clientele and Audiences of Counseling
Clientele and Audiences of Counseling
Audiences of
Counseling GALVE
SORIA
BALBERAN
GUMAPAC
PIDO
PAMAT
At the end of this lesson, the students
should be able to:
1. Describe the characteristics of clientele and audiences of
counseling
2. Explain the needs of various types of clientele and
audiences of counseling
3. Describe the individual as client of counseling
4. Define the group and organization as client of counseling
and
5. Discuss the community as client of counseling
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.
Characteristics of the Clientele and
Audiences of Counseling
• 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.
Needs of Various Types
of Clientele and
Audiences of Counseling
As school guidance 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.
As job-hunting coaches, counselors provide
avenues for people to find necessary
information and get employment that is
suitable to them.
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. They provide ways to manage
conflict constructively.
As human resource 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 aspects of
remunerations, social services,
compensations, conflict resolution, and
discipline. They are designed to keep
workers happy and cared for as humans.
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.
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 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.
The Individual as Client of Counseling
• The most common type of counseling is the individualized
type. The individual who needs to be helped to manage well
a life-changing situation or personal problem or crisis and
other support needs may undergo counseling as an
individual. Problems like alcoholism, loss of job, divorce,
imprisonment, and rehabilitation can cause of shame and
embarrassment. Without acquiring enough strength ad
ability to go through such life experience, people are
vulnerable and may come out worse.
The Group and Organization as Client of
Counseling
• Groups exist in communities, organizations, students in
schools, teachers in school, and departments in workplaces,
and such entity can undergo group counseling to meet
counseling needs on that level. The needs can range from
desire to reduce conflict or manage it, become more
productive as a team or work better 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 Community as Client of Counseling