DIASS 4

• Clientele & audiences of counseling

  Normal people, not in need of clinical or mental help, simply seeking to achieve a goal, anyone in need of realizing a change in behavior or attitude
• Characteristics of the clientele & audiences of counseling

  • They are not in need of clinical or mental help, they are simply seeking to achieve a goal
• Role of school guidance counselor


  Provide personal guidance, help students seek more options, serve as a bridge between family and school to resolve conflicts
• Role of job-hunting coach


  Provide avenues for people to find necessary information and get employment suitable to them, help with preparing CV/resume, speaking to employers, presenting and conducting oneself
• Role of conflict management provider


  Provide principles and theory-based approaches to deal with conflict constructively
• Role of human resource personnel


  Provide for employee needs that cover social services, conflict resolution and discipline, compensations
• Role of marriage counselor


  Provide conflict resolution skills to parties, couples, and children to deal with various stresses and issues that threaten their unity or peaceful coexistence
• Role of drug abuse and rehabilitation counselor


  Help people overcome their drug abuse problems or mitigate some of the most negative effects
• Role of bereavement counselor


  Help clients go through loss.
• Role of counselor for abused children


  Facilitate processing and restoration of abused children
• Individual as client of counseling


  The individual who needs to be helped to manage well a life-changing situation or personal problem or crisis, and may undergo counseling for issues like alcoholism, loss of job, divorce, imprisonment, rehabilitation
• Group and organization as client of counseling


  Groups in communities, organizations, schools, workplaces that undergo group counseling to reduce conflict, manage it, become more productive as a team or work better together
• Community as client of counseling


  When people experience something collectively that is socially troubling and blocks their collective capacity to move on, counseling is necessary to be undertaken on a community level
• Different types of special counseling population


  • People who abuse drugs, people who use tobacco, people who abuse alcohol, older adults, people with AIDS, victims of abuse, gay men and lesbian women
• Counselors must observe confidentiality at all times, not expose anything they hear from clients, live and work in accordance with professional standards of conduct, not harm clients, be people of high moral standing, maintain a special relationship of trust with clients, and have social regard for the context of their work
• Four overall ethical principles for counselors

  • Respect for the right and dignity of the client, competence, responsibility, integrity