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Disciplines and Ideas

in the Applied Social
Sciences
Quarter 1- Week 4- Module10
NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS, GROUP,
ORGANIZATION, AND COMMUNITY IN
COUNSELING

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Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences – Grade 12
Quarter 1-Week 4- Module 10: Needs of Individual, Groups, Organization, and
Community

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Module 10
DISTINGUISH THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUAL, GROUPS,
ORGANIZATION, AND COMMUNITY

Introduction: (GET STARTED)

In this Module it figures out the difference between the needs of individuals in the
counseling process, Likewise, groups, organizations and communities as clients for
counseling, their needs are quietly apparent so as the counselors may come up on what
approach they intended to utilize.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the lesson the learners are expected to demonstrate the various
competencies:

1. To differentiate the concept of needs of individuals, groups,

organization, and communities
2. To describe the needs of individual, group, organization and community
as a client in counseling.

Vocabulary:

Some of the words to recall and to understand. These, terminology are

something to do with the topic to familiarize the learners of the terms that is well founded
in the lesson.

Needs - As a physiological or psychological deficiency that a person

feels the compulsion to satisfy.
Individual - is that which exists as a distinct entity, or a person separate
from other people and possessing their own needs or
goals, rights and responsibilities.
Group - is a number of people or things that are located, gathered,
or classed together.
Organization - is an entity, such as a company, an institution, or an
association, comprising one or more people and having a
particular purpose
Community 1.
- is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality
such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity.

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 Client - A someone who pays for services or advice from a
professional person or organization.
Counseling - Refers to guidance or advice provided to help someone
resolve difficulties or decide issues.
Counselor - A person who give advice or counselling
Individualized - Those individuals who needs to be helped to manage well
Counseling a life – changing situation or personal problem or crisis and
other support needs.
Community - When people experience something collectively, which
Counselling- may be socially troubling and constitute the danger of
blocking their collective capacity to move on.
Group Counselling- - This is a type of counseling extended to organizations,
- groups, in communities, students in schools, teachers in
school, and departments in workplaces, and other entity,
the desire to reduce conflict or manage it, become more
productive as a team or work better together.
Workplace - is a therapy offered to employees of a company, often
Counseling through an employee assistance program, that provides
employees with a safe place to discuss any issues that
they’re struggling with.

PRE-TEST (TEST YOUR STOCK KNOWLEDGE)

Direction: Identify the correct answer based on the given question. Write your answer on
the line before the question.

________________1. Type of counseling extended to organizations, groups in the

communities, students in school, teachers and other entity, the desire to reduce conflict or
manage it become more productive s a team or work better together.

________________2. Those individuals who needs to be helped to manage well a life –

changing situation or personal problem or crisis and other support needs.

________________3. is that which exists as a distinct entity, or a person separate from

other people and possessing their own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities.

________________4. When people experience something collectively, which may be

socially troubling and constitute the danger of blocking their collective capacity to move
on.

________________5. A person who give advice or counselling.

________________6. is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as

norms, religion, values, customs, or identity.

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________________7. is a therapy offered to employees of a company, often through an
employee assistance program, that provides employees with a safe place to discuss any
issues that they’re struggling with.
________________8. A someone who pays for services or advice from a professional
person or organization
________________9 is a number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed
together.
________________10. is an entity, such as a company, an institution, or an association,
comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.

Discussion: Presentation of Concepts:

The individual needs to be helped to manage well a life changing situations or

personal problem or crisis and other support needs may undergo counseling as an
individual. This is a common type of counseling the individualized type. The individual
needs capacitation to be able to manage well their unique circumstances, which may
very difficult to endure alone.
Group exists in communities, organization, students in schools, teachers, in school,
and departments in workplaces, and such an entity can undergo group counseling. The
needs can range from desire to reduce conflict or manage it, become more productive as
a team or work better together.
When people experience something collectively, which can be socially troubling
and constitute the danger of blocking their collective capacity to move on, counseling is
necessary to be undertaken on a community level.

LEARNING ACTIVITY

In the box below, list down five instances that show the concepts of the needs of
individual, groups or organization and community as clients in counseling.

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Practice Task 1. (know your Target)

Directions:

1. Based on the previous exercise, differentiate the needs of individual, groups or

organization and community as clients for counseling.

GROUP/
INDIVIDUAL NEEDS ORGANIZATIONAL
NEEDS

COMMUNITY NEEDS

PRACTICE TASK 2.
List down specific needs of the types of clientele you mentioned above

CLIENTELE NEEDS
INDIVIDUAL

PRACTICE TEST 3

A. Describe the individual as client of counseling? Cite 2 instances when an

individual would benefit from counseling?

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 ___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
.
B. Describe the group and organization as client of counseling. Give two
instances when a group or organization would benefit from counseling?
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
_______________________________.
C. Describe the community as client of counseling. Give two instances when
a community would benefit from counseling.
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
_______________________________.

POST- TEST (CHECK YOUR LEARNINGS)

DIRECTION: Read and analyze each statement. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. These are individuals and groups of people who receive from various
counseling professions.
a. Therapist c. Counsellor
b. Clients and Audience d. Psychologist
2. Needs helped to manage well a life changing situation or personal problem
or crisis and other support needs.
a. Organization c. Primary Group
b. Individual d. Organization
3. Examples of Individual problems that may be difficult to endure alone.
a. Alcoholism, loss of job, divorce c. Civil War, Mass Killing,
Genocide
b. Bankruptcy, Group conflict d. Social Deviation, Ethnic
Conflict
4. When people experience something collectively, which may be socially
troubling and constitute the danger of blocking their collective capacity to
move on.
a. Individual Counseling c. Psychotherapy
b. Group Counseling d. Community counseling

5. An entity, such as a company, an institution, or an association, comprising

one or more people and having a particular purpose.
a. Community c. Organization
b. Cooperative d. Individual

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6. is a therapy offered to employees of a company, often through an employee
assistance program, that provides employees with a safe place to discuss
any issues that they’re struggling with.
a. Workplace Counseling c. Community Counseling
b. Individual Counseling d. None of the Above
7. These professionals provide the need for conflict resolution skills to parties,
couples, children to deal with various stresses and issues that threaten their
unity or peaceful coexistence.
a. Drug Abuse Counselors c. Human Resource
Personnel
b. Bereavement Counselors d. Marriage Counselors
8. A social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as norms,
religion, values, customs, or identity
a. Community c. Tribe
b. Society d. Organization

9. Without acquiring enough strength and ability to go through in life

experience, such as alcoholism, divorce and imprisonment, these people
are?
a. Prone to sickness and illness c. Vulnerable and may come
out worse
b. Susceptible to accident d. All Of the above
10. What does the individual needs in an individualized type of counseling?
a. Ability to control self- emotions
b. Capacity to discover self-identity
c. Capacity to be able to manage well their unique circumstances
d. Capability to embrace changes

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 Key to Correction

Pre- Test
1. Group Counseling
2. Individual Counseling
3. Individual
4. Community Counseling
5. Counselor
6. Community
7. Work place Counseling
8. Client
9. Group
10. Organization

Learning Activity

1. Needs to be helped life changing situations

2. Needs capacitate to be able to manage well their unique
circumstances
3. Needs to minimize conflict and tensions, to become more productive
as a team or work
4. Needs to restore trust and confidence in communities
5. The need to remove the danger of blocking the collective capacity of
the community.

Practice Task 1

Individual Needs- needs to be helped to manage well a life- changing situations or

personal problems or crisis and other support needs.

Group or Organization Needs- The needs can range from desire to reduce conflicts or
manage it, become more productive as a team or work better together.

Community- need to helps restore trust and confidence in communities.

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Practice Task 2
List down specific needs of the types of clientele you mentioned above

CLIENTELE NEEDS
INDIVIDUAL Needs to be helped and manage life changing
situations
Organizations Needs and minimize conflict and tensions, and
become more productive as a team or work.
Abused Children Need to facilitate processing and restoration
through recognition and implementation of
existing laws and recovery procedure in
coordination with relevant units.
Employees Needs that covered aspects of remuneration,
social services, compensation, conflict
resolutions and discipline.

Post – Test

1. B
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. A
9. C
10. C

References:
- Discipline and Ideas on Applied Social Sciences
By: Elias M. Sampa
- http//www.meriam.webster.com
- http//www.wikipedia.org

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