Disciplines and Ideas in The Applied Social Sciences
Disciplines and Ideas in The Applied Social Sciences
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For the learner:
Welcome to the Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences Alternative
Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Clientele and Audiences in Counseling; Settings,
Processes, Methods, and Tools in Counseling!
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guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to
process the contents of the learning resource while being an active learner.
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Additional Activities
you to enrich your knowledge or skill of the
lesson learned.
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What I Need to Know
This material will serve as a tool for students to continually learn even
during this time of pandemic.
This module is about Clientele and Audiences in Counseling, its settings,
processes, so as methods and tools in counseling. This covers the steps on how
to counsel and the possible results of the therapy made by the counselor.
More so, this module is intended to make the readers appreciate and
understand the role of a counselor in the lives of the many, especially the
students in schools.
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What I Know
Directions: In your notebook, write TRUE if the statement is correct, otherwise FALSE.
_______ 1. The counselor does not deal with a mixture of people with different
concerns and issues.
_______ 2. The guidance and counseling services deals with students’ concern, most
of which are behavioral.
_______ 3. The counselor deals with individuals who suffered from mental
illness/problems.
_______ 4. The counselor can assess and assist any kinds of problems and concern
of individual and group.
_______ 5. The Guidance Counselors can also work in partnership with other
members of the school community.
II. Arrange the counseling steps below in their proper order/rank (1-5).
Goal Setting
Intervention
Relationship Building
Evaluation, Follow-up, Termination or Referral
Problem Assessment
What’s In
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What’s New
What is It
Activity
Individual
Organization
Community
• When can you say that you are just an individual, part of an
organization, or part of a community?
DISCUSSION
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communication, spiritual direction, decision-making, and career choices. Sometimes,
people need to cope with crisis. Other clientele and audiences of counseling may be
people in need of premarital and marital counseling, grief, and loss (divorce, death, or
amputation), domestic violence and other types of abuse, or coping with terminal
illness, death and dying.
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applied to individuals. However, some are very unique to groups and organizational
context.
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Lesbians - Relating to homosexuality between females
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Migrants - A person who goes from one place to another specially to find work.
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Abused or neglected
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Veteran - Man or a woman who serves in the military and is retired already
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3.Community - it is a group of people who live in same area such as city, town, or
neighborhood.
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counselor and the counseling situation. Is the counselor able to empathize with the
client? Does the client view the counselor as genuine?
• Introduce yourself
• Invite client to sit down
• Ensure client is comfortable
• Address the client by name
• Invite social conversation to reduce anxiety
• Watch for nonverbal behavior as signs of client’s emotional state
• Invite client to describe his or her reason for coming to talk
• Allow client time to respond
• Indicate that you are interested in the person
2. Problem Assessment
While the counselor and the client are in the process of establishing a
relationship, a second process is taking place, i.e. problem assessment. This step
involves the collection and classification of information about the client’s life
situation and reasons for seeking counseling.
3. Goal Setting
Like any other activity, counseling must have a focus. Goals are the results or
outcomes that client wants to achieve at the end of counseling. Sometimes, you
hear both counselor and client complain that the counseling session is going
nowhere. This is where goals play an important role in giving direction.
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• Goals should be within the range of the counselor’s knowledge and
skills. Goals should be stated in positive terms that emphasize growth.
• Goals should be consistent with the school’s mission and school health
policy.
4. Intervention
There are different points of view concerning what a good counselor should do
with clients depending on the theoretical positions that the counselor subscribes to.
For example, the person-centered approach suggests that the counselor gets involved
rather than intervenes by placing emphasis on the relationship. The behavioral
approach attempts to initiate
Methods of Counseling
Both Counselors and Psychotherapists work from a variety of Theoretical
Approaches with their clients. These therapies range from the type of Psychoanalysis,
originally practiced by Sigmund Freud and later developed into other forms of
analytic psychotherapy by his pupils, through Humanistic Psychotherapy (based on
personal growth and self-development) to the Behavioral Therapies used for dealing
with specific phobias and anxieties. However, there is evidence that the relationship
between the counsellor and the client is more important than the approach the
therapist uses.
Adlerian Therapy
Adlerian Therapy, originated by Alfred Adler, is also called individual
psychology, and focuses on creating a therapeutic relationship that is co-operative,
encouraging and practical. Adlerian counselors help clients look at their lifestyle and
personal values to help them understand and question their usual patterns of behavior
and hidden goals. It is a learning process that assists the client to move towards useful
involvement and contribution to society.
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Behavioral Therapy
This therapy is based on the belief that behavior is learnt in response to past
experiences and can be unlearnt, or reconditioned, without analyzing the past to find
the reason for the behavior. It works well for compulsive and obsessive behavior,
fears, phobias, and addictions.
Cognitive Therapy
Uses the power of the mind to influence behavior. It is based on the theory that
previous experiences can damage self-image and this can affect attitude, motions,
and ability to deal with certain situations. It works by helping the client to identify,
question and change poor mental images of themselves, thus altering
negative responses and behavior. It can help pessimistic or depressed people to view
things from a more optimistic perspective.
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Eclectic Counseling
An Eclectic counsellor will select from a number of different approaches
appropriate to the client’s needs. This is based on the theory that there is no proof that
any one theoretical approach works better than all others for a specific problem.
EMDR
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of
psychotherapy that was developed to resolve symptoms resulting from disturbing and
unresolved life experiences. EMDR is thought to imitate the psychological state that
we enter when in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Studies show that when in REM
sleep we are able to make new associations between things very rapidly – EMDR may
be tapping into this high-speed processing mode that we all have but often can’t
access. The theory is that EMDR works directly with memory networks and enhances
information processing by creating associations between the distressing memory and
more adaptive information in other memory networks.
Family Therapy
This is used to treat a family system rather than individual members of the
family. A form of Systemic Therapy, it requires specifically trained counsellors.
Gestalt Therapy
The name is derived from the German for “organized whole”. Developed by
Fritz Perls, it focuses on the whole of the client’s experience, including feelings,
thoughts, and actions. The client gains self-awareness in the `here and now’ by
analyzing behavior and body language and talking about bottled up feelings.
This approach often includes acting out scenarios and dream recall.
Humanistic Therapy
Coming from the “personal growth movement” this approach encourages
people to think about their feelings and take responsibility for their thoughts and
actions. Emphasis is on self-development and achieving highest potential. “Client-
Centered” or “Non-Directive” approach is often used, and the therapy can be
described as “holistic” or looking at person as a whole. The client’s creative instincts
may be used to explore and resolve personal issues.
Integrative Therapy
This is when several distinct models of counselling and psychotherapy are used
together.
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Jungian
Carl Jung was the originator of Analytical Psychology, a disciple of Sigmund
Freud and a pioneer of Psychoanalysis.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a specific way of intentionally paying attention. One negative
thought can lead to a chain reaction of negative thoughts. This approach encourages
people to be aware of each thought, enabling the first negative thought to be ‘caught’
so that is seen as just a ‘thought’ and not a fact. This breaks the chain reaction
of negative thoughts giving a mental ‘space’ in which the person can re-center
themselves in the present. Mindfulness-based therapists can work with individuals
and groups and will usually integrate mindfulness into another modality, in which they
are already trained. Mindfulness is likely to appeal to therapists who have developed
a long-term meditation practice.
Person-Centered Therapy
Devised by Carl Rogers and also called “Client-Centered” or “Rogerian”
counselling, this is based on the assumption that a client seeking help in the resolution
of a problem they are experiencing, can enter into a relationship with a counsellor
who is sufficiently accepting and permissive to allow the client to freely express any
emotions and feelings. This will enable the client to come to terms with negative
feelings, which may have caused emotional problems, and develop inner resources.
The objective is for the client to become able to see himself as a person, with
the power and freedom to change, rather than as an object.
Primal Therapy
Primal Therapy is not generally seen as model of therapy that is used on its
own. It is usually an additional way of working within the more general therapeutic
approach in which therapists are trained. This is based on the theory that buried birth
or infancy distress can resurface as neuroses. The therapy takes the client back to the
“primal scene” where trauma can be re-experienced as an emotional cleansing.
Psychoanalysis
This is based on the work of Sigmund Freud, who believed that the
unacceptable thoughts of early childhood are banished to the unconscious mind but
continue to influence thoughts, emotions and behavior. “Repressed” feelings can
surface later as conflicts, depression, etc. or through dreams or creative activities.
The analyst seeks to interpret and make acceptable to the client’s conscious mind,
troublesome feelings and relationships from the past. “Transference” onto the analyst,
of feelings about figures in the client’s life, is encouraged. This type of therapy is often
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used by clients suffering high levels of distress and can be a lengthy and intensive
process.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy/Counselling
This approach stresses the importance of the unconscious and past experience
in shaping current behavior. The client is encouraged to talk about childhood
relationships with parents and other significant people and the therapist focuses on
the client/therapist relationship (the dynamics) and in particular on the
transference. Transference is when the client projects onto the therapist feelings
experienced in previous significant relationships. The Psychodynamic approach is
derived from Psychoanalysis but usually provides a quicker solution to emotional
problems.
Psychosynthesis
Sometimes described as “psychology of the soul”. It is the name given to a
series of actions that lead to a change or development which encourages personal
growth by a bringing together of the whole person – the emotional, the mental, the
physical and spiritual within a safe environment. Psychosynthesis is useful for people
seeking a new, more spiritually oriented vision of themselves.
Re-Birthing
Re-Birthing is not generally seen as model of therapy that is used on its own. It
is usually an additional way of working within the more general therapeutic approach
in which therapists are trained. In this approach, emotional or physical traumas during
birth are said to create feelings of separation or fear in later life. Breathing techniques
are used to release tension whilst the client re-experiences traumatic emotions. A
skilled practitioner is essential.
Systemic Therapies
These are the therapies which have, as their aim, a change in the transactional
pattern of members of a system. It can be used as the generic term for family therapy
and marital therapy.
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Transpersonal Therapy
This describes any form of counselling or therapy which places emphasis on
spirituality, human potential, or heightened consciousness. It includes
psychosynthesis.
What’s More
Task 3: Conduct a survey within your home addressing the counseling needs of
various types of clientele and audiences. Come up with conclusions and
recommendations on their prevalent counseling needs. Show your gathered data in a
comprehensive manner. You may use the sample “Guidance Needs
Assessment”.
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Task 4: From the survey below (hypothetical result), how can your guidance counselor
help you? Please identify the suitable counseling methods that will address the
different needs.
Self-Assessment Tool
Indicators Result/Count
Love Life 12
Academic 10
Choosing My Career 15
Relationship 25
Relationship with myself 30
Spiritual Growth 7
Work 10
Finances 5
Self-love 5
Why is it important to help individuals address their needs and discover their
potentialities?
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What I Can Do
After arranging the words, give its definition based on your understanding.
Assessment
I. True or False
Directions: In your notebook, write TRUE if the statement is correct, otherwise FALSE.
______1. The counselor does not deal with a mixture of people with different concerns
and issues.
______2. The guidance and counseling services deals with students’ concern, most
of which are behavioral.
______3. The counselor deals with individuals who suffered from mental
illness/problems.
______4. The counselor can assess and assist any kinds of problems and concern of
individual and group.
______5. The Guidance Counselors can also work in partnership with other members
of the school community.
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II. Arrange the counseling steps below in their proper order.
Goal Setting
Intervention
Relationship Building
Evaluation, Follow-up, Termination or Referral
Problem Assessment
Additional Activities
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Answer Key
Referral
or Termination Evaluation, Follow-up, 5.
Intervention 4.
Goal Setting 3.
Problem Assessment 2.
Relationship Building 1.
II.
TRUE
TRUE
TRUE
TRUE
FALSE
I.
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