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The Client Modes of Adaptation

The document discusses the various types of clients in social work, including those facing abandonment, abuse, and emotional issues, emphasizing the need for social workers to understand clients' behaviors in relation to their problems. It highlights the biopsychosocial model, which considers the interplay of physical, psychosocial, and social factors in a person's functioning. Additionally, it outlines modes of adaptation to stress, the importance of client motivation and capacity, and the various aspects of emotional, social intelligence, and physical capacities that influence the helping process.

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The Client Modes of Adaptation

The document discusses the various types of clients in social work, including those facing abandonment, abuse, and emotional issues, emphasizing the need for social workers to understand clients' behaviors in relation to their problems. It highlights the biopsychosocial model, which considers the interplay of physical, psychosocial, and social factors in a person's functioning. Additionally, it outlines modes of adaptation to stress, the importance of client motivation and capacity, and the various aspects of emotional, social intelligence, and physical capacities that influence the helping process.

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THE CLIENT PERSON

THE CLIENT PERSON

 In casework the individual is the participant


client. Helping efforts are focused on him. Among
this individuals may be found abandoned,
neglected, orphaned, abuse or exploited
children, youth with behavior or emotional
problems, jobless or unemployed family heads,
disadvantage women, adults without any means
of support, single or solo parents, married
couples or members of families with problems of
relationship, the physically, socially, or mentally
handicapped, the elderly without families,
displaced persons, victims of natural calamities
and disasters, victim of armed conflicts and
many others.
THE CLIENT PERSON

 In order to help the client the social worker must


understand the person’s behavior in relation to
the problem he is presently encountering. To do
this must possess some basic knowledge of
human behavior, of stress and the human
being’s response to it.
THE CLIENT PERSON

 For the start the worker must know that the


person is a biopsychosocial being. It means that
the human being is made up of at least three
parts or subsequence, the physical, the
psychosocial and the social. Each part affects
and is in turn being affected by the others so that
it is their totality as a system that determines the
person’s functioning rather than the idiidualized
operation or working of each subsystem. Thus
social casework is more client or person centered
rather than problem focused.
SOCIAL ROLES

 The person’s social role consist of the major


function he caries at a given time with its broadly
designated behaviors, responsibilities, and
rewards.
There are three aspects in the performance of a
role with affect the actual performance

The prescribed
role

Is that which
expected by the
norms and The subjective
expectations of role
society.
Is what the
person ascribes
to himself in a
The enacted role
specific role.
Which the person
performs in that
what he thinks
the role entails.
Is an state or strain on the
STRESS body of mind, sometimes on
both. It is any kind of pressure
that affects a person in his
daily life, most especially when
he is facing a problem which
he cannot handle himself.
The stress factor which
threatens the person’s well-
being

The value which is being


STRESS
threatened
COMPONENTS

The person’s reaction to stress


MODES OF
ADAPTATION
MODES OF ADAPTATION

 In casework it is important to know that the


person’s present behavior is a manifestation of
his own mode of adaptation to his present
situation, one which is causing him discomfort or
stress.

 Faced with a threatening situation the person will


try first to use his accustomed modes of
adaptation. When these fail he will regress to
modes of adaptation used in earlier life. These
are fight, flight, or pairing.
May mean physical or verbal
FIGHT projection of angry feelings
on others.
May be manifested by
FLIGHT physically moving away from
the problem, or restoring to
drugs or alcohol or substances
that will make one forget the
presence of a stressful situation
As a model of adaptation entails
PAIRING the entrance into a relationship
with another person perceived
as stronger and able to help
him handle the situation.
CLIENT’S MOTIVATION AND CAPACITY

 The client himself is the most important


element in the helping process. This
ability is a combination of motivation and
capacity that will enable a person to
engage himself with greater or lesser
degrees of effort, effectiveness, with the
worker and the means of solving his
problem.
Refers to a person’s taking
MOTIVATION action based on his thoughts
and feelings. These are
prompt him to act.
EMOTIONAL CAPACITY

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
CAPACITY
CAPACITY

PHYSICAL CAPACITY
EMOTIONAL CAPACITY

A person is said to posses


emotional capacity when he is
able to relate to, i.g. have a
social connection with another
CAPACITY person. He relates satisfactorily
to himself, to his family, to
others, to his situations, to the
community, and even to the
worker. He is able to
communicate with others his
positive feelings attitudes and
thinking. He perceives and
reacts to realistic situation with
consideration for others.
SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
CAPACITY

Perceptiveness – refers to the


person’s capability to distinguished
or discern, to know and understand,
the reality of his situation

CAPACITY
Ability to communicate – both within
himself and to others.

Capacity for attention – it is assumed


that a person has this capacity when
he is motivated, interested and
participates actively in the solution of
his problem

Capacity to think constructively – a


combination of the three capacities.
PHYSICAL CAPACITY

The physical capacity of the


CAPACITY person is relatively the earliest
to assess. Compared with
emotional capacity and the
social intelligence capacity.
Usually the signs are visible
and can spotted right away.

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