DIASS - Module 8 - The Clientele of Counseling

Objectives | Review
THE CLIENTELE
OF COUNSELING Module
Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences 8
REVIEW
 Applied Social Sciences - branch of study that applies the different concepts,
theoretical models, and theories of the social science disciplines to help society
and the different problems and issues. The applied social is utilized to provide
alternative solutions to the diverse problem of the society. These are those
social science disciplines, professions and occupations which seeks to use
basic social science research and theory to improve the daily life of
communities, organizations and persons. This is about putting theories in to
practice and interfacing directly with the public.
REVIEW
Three main career tracks for applied social scientist:
1. Counselling - is one of the fields of applied social sciences as an
application of the social sciences, counselling provides guidance, help, and
support to individuals who are distraught by a diverse set of problems in
their lives.
Counselling can be done through the following:
 Guidance counselling
 Life coaching
 Career counselling
 Personal growth counselling
REVIEW
Three main career tracks for applied social scientist:
2. Social work - practitioners help individuals, families, and groups,
communities to improve their individual and collective well-being.
3. Communication Studies - applied social science provide adequate training
for careers in the field of journalism and mass communication because of
multidisciplinary knowledge and skills that graduates learn from social
sciences.
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the learners can:
1. Describe the characteristics of clientele and audiences of counseling
2. Explain the needs of various types of clientele and audiences of counseling
3. Analyze the importance of the client perspective in a counseling process
VOCABULARY
 Counseling - process of assisting and guiding clients, especially by trained
persons on a professional basis to resolve especially personal, social, or
psychological problems
 Counselor - in Psychology, the Professional Psychologist to help people with
physical, emotional, and mental health issues improve their sense of well-
being, alleviate feelings of distress and resolve crisis.
VOCABULARY
 Clientele - refers to a class or group of persons who are receiving services
from a professional therapist.
 Voluntary Clients - those who voluntarily seek assistance of the worker or the
services of the agencies due to problems or difficulty which they think they
cannot do it on their own.
 Involuntary Clients - those individual in need who may not even consider
asking help because they think that they are doing fine and will survive
somehow or they are unaware of the agencies that can provide them
help/assistance.
VOCABULARY
 Client - it refers to a person who is receiving services from a therapist or
mental health doctors. The term client is often used interchangeably with the
word patients.
 Audience - individuals and groups of people who receive service from various
counseling professions. These individuals and groups vary in their needs and
context where they avail of counseling services.
TYPE OF CLIENTS
TYPE Characteristics Understand and Help
• Overthinking
• The neurotic client is best described as the
• Over worrying
client who does not practice basic coping skills
• Overanalyzing
even if they know and agree with them.
• Trying a lot of the time
• Look for the ego payoffs for the clients
• Other-focused or self-absorbed
Neurotic maintaining their problems, such as feeling
• Self-defeating
superior to those they blame for their problems.
• Self-deprecating
• Help them recognize, remove, and replace their
• Lost in negative ego-story
ego payoffs and apply new and old coping skills
• Bad acting because they are
to everyday life situations.
watching themselves act
TYPE OF CLIENTS
• Out of touch with reality

• The psychotic client is best described as
• Distorted to the extreme
the client who does not reality-check.
• Lost in the internal world
• Psychotic clients check their thinking
• Fragmented ego-self into several roles
against their thinking, not against their
• Inner world is invaded by outside
experience.
forces
Psychotic • Help them learn to test their thinking
• Lives in their own inner world, not
using experience by reminding them of
shared
when they already do this, for example,
• Magical explanations & theories
when looking for misplaced car keys.
• Self-destruction
• This practice will take time and patience
• Delusions as reality
but can show remarkable results.
• Impractical & impossible ego-stories
TYPE OF CLIENTS
• Lying
• Faking
• The personality-disordered client is best described as
• Phony
the client whose sense of self and personality are in
• Using others
conflict and a struggle with society.
• Pretending
• The personality-disordered client can be helped by
• Manipulating
encouraging them to define and find themselves in
Personality • Deceiving
relation to other than society, for example, in relation to
Disorder • Self in conflict with society & life
God, philosophy, virtue, reason, or some overarching
• Odd ways of relating
value that they strongly agree with.
• Odd ways of making sense
• Without their self being challenged by society (in their
• Odd beliefs & attitudes
mind and emotions), this client will adjust to society
• Proud of being strange
more effectively and naturally.
• Self-sabotaging
• Bizarre self-narratives & ego-stories
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
CLIENT’S PERSPECTIVE
 According to Hall an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling at
Xavier University in Cincinnati, “We must examine clients within the context
of their lives because it is within this context that they grow, develop, suffer,
and change.”
 She says, “When we strive to understand and help people, we cannot

underestimate the impact that their environment has had and will continue to
have on their well-being and development...Most clinical and nonclinical
concerns do not rest solely within an individual ; therefore, interventions
should not solely target the intrapersonal.”
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