HUMSS/ DIASS.

HANDOUT #4
CLIENTELE AND AUDIENCES IN COUNSELING

Characteristics and Needs of various Types of Clientele and Audiences.

Individuals

1. Assistance is given to the individual

2. One session to an individual in a formally in a counseling office
3. Series of counselling activities covering a period of months or years.

Group or Organizations

1. Discuss problems common to the group and organizations and to develop awareness that
problems are also shared by others.
2. Enable each individual to understand how other have met and solved the same problems
that confronts him or her
3. Broaden the horizons of pupils with reference to occupations available to them
4. Group approach should be regarded as a supplement to counseling not as a substitute for it.

Communities

1. Discuss problems in the community and to develop positive outcome

2. Organize in the community the counseling process and procedure as to the needs of various
types of clientele and audiences.
3. Establish in the community the harmonious relationship as to establish counseling process.

HANDOUT #5
SETTINGS OF COUNSELING

Government

1. Free counseling to those who are in depressed situation

2. Giving free suggestions and feedbacks
3. Social workers counsel and assess the needs of clients.

Private Sector

1. Assist you with any career – related issues; self-assessments, resume and cover
letter review, preparing for interviews.
2. Help employee over hurdle as they choose individualized learning experiences
3. Engaging employer in training and other youth employment interventions
 4. Employment services for youth, which match job seekers to firms while also
potentially providing a range of individualized counseling services.

Civil Society

1. To establish conditions as well as provide the means, which allow internally

displaced persons to return voluntarily, in safety and with dignity to their homes or
places of habitual residence or to resettle voluntarily in another part of the country.
2. Direct supervisory power of the people on the rulers and authority’s performance
and gain their power by people’s integration and movement.
3. Democratic societies. Values such as political participation, government
accountability and political generalizing are followed by civil society without the
support of expression freedom rights.

Schools

1. Help students overcome behavioral problems and career goals.

2. School counselors may also liaise with teachers and parents in cases concerning
students with mental health issues or those with severe behavioral issues.
3. School counselors are an integral part of school’s student welfare and learning
support committees.
4. It is a school’s counselor’s responsibility to cast a critical eye over existing counseling
practices and identify areas that could be improved.

Community

1. Counseling sessions for individuals, couples and families for grief/loss, separation,
divorce and co-parenting stress, abuse relationship concerns, parent child conflicts.
2. Therapeutic play for children aged 6 and older.
3. Addiction treatment referrals.
4. Supportive counselling through detoxification and other medical procedures
5. Crisis intervention
6. Referrals to other agencies as required.
7. Consultation with and for other service providers in the areas of addiction and
mental health
8. Preventative services such as presentations, workshops and groups on a variety of
educational and therapeutic topics