CLIENTELE & AUDIENCES OF

COUNSELING
CHARACTERISTICS OF CLIENTELE AND AUDIENCES

•NEUROTIC DISORDER- is a long-term tendency to be in a

negative emotional state. People with neuroticism tend to have more
depressed moods- they suffer from feelings of guilt, envy, anger,and
anxiety more frequently and more severely than other individuals.
Neuroticism is the state of being neurotic.
•PSYCHOTIC- Psychotic Disorders are severe mental disorders
that cause abnormal thinking and perceptions. People with
psychoses loses touch with reality. The two main symptoms are
dellusions and hallucinations.
•PERSONALITY DISORDER- involves long-term patterns of
thoughts and behaviors that are unhealthy and flexible. The behaviors
cause serious problems with relationships and work. People with
personality disorders have trouble dealing with every day stresses.
 NEEDS OF CLIENTELE & AUDIENCES

 Be genuinely engaged in therapeutic claims

Have unconditional positive regard for the client

Feel emphaty for the client

Clearly communicate these attitudes

 TYPES OF CLIENTELE & AUDIENCES

 People who abuse drugs

People who abuse alcohol
People who abuse tobacco
People with AIDS
Women
Older Adults
Gay men and Lesbian Women
Victims of Abuse
 School Guidance & Counselors
•provide needs for special guidance
•help deal with stress and decision-making
•serve as bridge between family and the school
 JOB-HUNTING COACHES

• helps people have places to find specific information and get employment
• they offer help on how to do technical aspects that are needed to be taken
notice of while job-hunting
 CONFLICT MANAGEMENT PROVIDERS
•provide need for principles and theory-
based approaches in dealing with conflict
•help manage conflict constructively
 HUMAN RESOURCES PERSONNEL

• employed in almost all workplaces

• deal with various need of employees
• form part of human resource management
 MARRIAGE COUNSELORS

• provide need for conflict-resolution amongst parties, couples, and

children
• either reconcile couples or allow a peaceful separation
 DRUG ABUSE & REHABILITTION COUNSELOR

•help overcome and mitigate negative

effects of drug abuse
 BEREAVEMENT COUNSELORS

• helps in overcoming loss

• prevents depression and other unhealty ways of dealing with grief
ABUSED CHILDREN CARETAKERS AND REHABILITATION IN
GOVERNMENT AND NGO SETTINGS

• facilitate processing and restoration of abused children

THE INDIVIDUAL AS A CLIENT OF COUNSELING

•the most common type of counseling

•individual needs capacitation
•includes those who need help in managing a life-changing
situation, personal problem or crisis
THE GROUP, ORGANIZATION AND COMMUNITY AS CLIENT
OF COUNSELING

•It becomes more productive if problem is taken as a team

•counseling as a community is necesary when people experience
something collectively and is endangered as a whole
THE END