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Stella Matutina Academy of Bukidnon, Inc.

Kibawe, Bukidnon
S.Y. 2024-2025

DIASS LESSON 1.4


GRADE 12
LESSON TITLE: Clientele and Audience in Counseling

1. COUNSELING AND ITS CLIENTELE AND AUDIENCES


Individuals and groups of people who receive services 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.

2. Characteristics of clientele and audiences in counseling


The clientele and audience of counseling is normal people. They are not in need of clinical
and medical help.
 They may be a 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 the
application or development of social skills, effective communication. Spiritual
direction, decision-making, and career choices
 Other clientele and audiences of counseling maybe people in need of premarital and
marital counseling, grief and loss (divorce, death, or amputation), domestic
violence, and other type of abuse, or coping with a terminal illness, death, and
dying.

3. Needs of various types of clientele audiences of counseling


The needs vary for each type of clientele and audience of counseling.

 As school guidance counselors, these professionals provide the need for


personal advice by helping students seek more options and find better and more
appropriate ones in dealing with stress or simple decision-making.
 As job-hunting coaches, counselors provide avenues for people to find the
necessary information and get employment that is suitable for them. The services
offered may include technical aspects of how to prepare a curriculum vitae (CV) or a
resume, how to speak to employers, and how to present and conduct one before
employers.
 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 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.
 As abused children’s 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.

The clientele and audience of counseling profession comes to different settings. Counselors deal
with a mixture of people with different concerns and issues.
1. people who abuse drugs 5. older adults
2. people who use tobacco 6. people with aids
3. people who abuse alcohol 7. lgbtqia+ community
4. women and children

1. people who abuse drugs


In our society, there are increasing drug users. Drug abuse is not just harmful to our
physical health but to our mental health as well. It cannot be denied that drug addiction
creates more social problems and contribute to social disintegration. Consequently, more
youth victims cry for help and seek for counselor’s attention.

2. people who use tobacco


Slowly our population recognizes the bad effect to tobacco to our health. However, many
people still use and continue to 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
counselor audience.

3. people who abuse alcohol


Alcoholism is seen as a disease and alcoholics find it difficult to stop drinking on their own.
This requires help to professionals as it requires appropriate treatment. However, an
equally important paradigm is to look at alcoholism as a sleekness of self-control and self-
discipline. Therefore, this requires intervention other that treatment.

4. women and children


Even with the changing role of women in society, men still predominantly control
purchasing and decision-making powers. Most men still have less participation in
household responsibilities and child care. In this case, women’s advancement is
constrained. What complicates this situation is the women perception about themselves
and the society’s expectation. Counselors are responsible in helping women appreciate
their own values. Abilities, aptitudes and interest and to utilize these to develop their full
potential.

5. older adults
The aging population is increasingly and demands more attention. Retires who are
adjusting to life outside work feel lost and ignored. Life for theme suddenly loses meaning.
A transition from a busy life a retirement stage must be institute. This challenge to the
counseling profession. Other aging issues that require attention of counseling include loss
of partner, decline to mental capacity and mobility, increased loneliness.

6. People with aids


Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been labeled as the most feared
diseased due to its curability. Victims of this disease are seeking help to improve their
quality of life to handle their emotional stress and low self-esteem. Counseling approached
requires sensitivity and appreciation of the intricate of the disease. Counselors may also
help in assisting and educating the victim’s support system.

7. LGBTQIA+ community
There are a growing number of gays and lesbians that are coming out. However, there are
still sector in the society, including their own families that avoid and discriminate them.
They are usually the victims of harassment, violence, discrimination, and isolation.

 SUMMARY
Counselors play a significant role in our society. They give guidance and assistance to
those who are in need. These counselors help us in different ways, most of us have this
stigma that if you seek help from a counselor, you are mentally ill or you are an attention
seeker. Let’s abolish that stigma. Let’s end that negative mindset about counseling and if
you are having difficulty in life or you just need someone to talk to, counselors are there
for you.

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