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14DIASS-Lesson 14

Social work serves a wide range of clients including individuals, families, groups, communities, and minorities experiencing problems like job loss, illness, abuse, discrimination, or needing social welfare benefits. The clients' needs generally include wanting empowerment, social inclusion, respect for their rights, justice, and help becoming self-sufficient. Communities make up a large part of social work's clientele, both marginalized communities in need of empowerment and majority communities requiring transformation to better respect minorities.

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14DIASS-Lesson 14

Social work serves a wide range of clients including individuals, families, groups, communities, and minorities experiencing problems like job loss, illness, abuse, discrimination, or needing social welfare benefits. The clients' needs generally include wanting empowerment, social inclusion, respect for their rights, justice, and help becoming self-sufficient. Communities make up a large part of social work's clientele, both marginalized communities in need of empowerment and majority communities requiring transformation to better respect minorities.

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THE CLIENTELE AND

AUDIENCES OF
SOCIAL WORK
Characteristics of Clientele and
Audiences of Social Work
All people with various social concerns share
characteristic qualities of the clientele and audience
of social work: individuals, families, groups, and
communities experiencing being left out or having
some personal social problems like loss of job,
getting sick especially becoming terminally ill, all
those deserving of social welfare benefits.
Characteristics of Clientele and
Audiences of Social Work
Being a minority, a migrant, a divorced woman,
neglected child, sexually, physically, or mentally
abused child, suffering discrimination of any kind
characterize one as clientele and audience of social
work.
Needs of Various Types of
Clientele and Audiences of
Social Work
The needs are generally that of wanting to be
empowered, to be socially included by way of
insuring that one receives what is legally due
him/her and that one receives the necessary care
he/she deserves.
Needs of Various Types of
Clientele and Audiences of
Social Work
Some people need their rights respected,
some need justice, and others need social
welfare help to put them on their feet.
The INDIVIDUAL as Client of
Social Work
The individual level is generally work on an
individual who has to be assisted to fit a larger
environment or someone who has been deprived
space by the larger environment calling for change in
the very environment or simply improving one’s
ability to cope with it.
The GROUP AND ORGANIZATION
as Client of Social Work
Groups are people existing with similar or
common identity.

We classify them as groups because they form


collectivities in terms of level of services they have to
receive.
The COMMUNITY as Client of
Social Work
Community has the largest share in the clientele
and audience of social work because individuals and
families are essentially members of the community.

Everything happens in a community and


everyone claims membership in the community.
The COMMUNITY as Client of
Social Work
A community may exist as a marginalized sector,
and in which case the social work services may gear
toward their emancipation and empowerment.

In some cases. They may constitute the majority


imposing general norms that seek to marginalize
minorities and those different from them.
The COMMUNITY as Client of
Social Work
In this case, social work may focus on community
transformation to cause environmental change so as
to make it possible for individuals and groups on the
minority to achieve social well-being or social justice
and respect for their rights.

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