CLIENTELE AND

AUDIENCES
IN SOCIAL WORK

QUARTER 2/LESSON 2

RUBY B. HERAMIA
 REVIEW

• Ethical and Unethical

Behaviors among Social
Workers
 OBJECTIVE

• describe the clientele of

social work
GUIDE QUESTION

Who are the clientele and

audiences in social work?
 POSSIBLE CLIENTS
• Marginalization, social justice, and universal human rights and
dignity as a starting point, displays right away several classes of
people
• The minorities, elderly, women, children, the poor, people with
disability, people with mental health issues, the terminally ill,
people in conflict with the law, those with substance abuse and
addiction, and people in workplaces who are affected internally or
externally with issues that reduce their productive capacities.
• All of them and many more may constitute the clientele and
audience of professional social work.
 TYPES OF CLIENTS
1. SOCIAL WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS

• Social work with individuals goes into the micro level of

the social system.
• Levels of practice are often combined to maximize the
services provided to clients.
• The approach intended for individual is clinical social
work.
 CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK
• is a method of practice employed by thousands of social workers in
a wide variety of social services, institutional settings, and private
practice.
• Goal: enhancement and maintenance of psychosocial
functioning of individuals, families, and small groups.
• It is the professional application of social work theory and methods
to the treatment and prevention of psychosocial dysfunction,
disability or impairment, including emotional and mental disorders.
• It is based on knowledge of one or more theories of human
development within a psychosocial context.
 TYPES OF CLIENTS
2. SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS

• A popular method used by social workers

• It is a method of working with people in groups for skill
and development, personal growth through insight, the
enhancement of social functioning, the achievement of
socially desirable goals, and the accomplishment of task.
• Group work is based on the knowledge of people's needs
for each other and their interdependence.
• It is a method of reducing or eliminating roadblocks to
social interaction and for accomplishing socially and
desirable purposes.
 TYPES OF CLIENTS
3. SOCIAL WORK WITH COMMUNITIES

• Community work can be very satisfying if the social

worker understands both the knowledge and process
variables needed to be effective in this area.
 PRINCIPLES IN COMMUNITY WORK
1. Community organization for social welfare focuses on
the needs of people. Its objective is to improve life by
bringing about a positive interaction between the social
welfare needs in the community and available
resources.
2. The client, in the community organization for social
welfare, is primarily the community.
3. All the people of the community represent the interests
and elements concerning health and welfare services.
 PRINCIPLES IN COMMUNITY WORK
4. The community is to be understood and accepted
however and wherever it is.
5. Ever-changing human needs and the relationships
between people and groups are dynamic and expected
aspects of the community organization process.
6. Accepting the interdependence of all aspects of social
welfare organization is fundamental.
7. The process of community organization for social welfare
is a part of traditional social work.
 LET’S ANALYZE

• Do you think you can be a possible clientele in

social work?
• In what situation in life do think you need help
from a social worker?
I learned that…
 ASSESSMENT
CLIENTS DESCRIBE THE CHARACTERISTICS

INDIVIDUAL
1.
2.

GROUPS
1.
2.

COMMUNITIES
1.
2.