Holy Trinity University

Puerto Princesa City, Palawan

Title : Professional - Client Relationships

Subject : Soc Philo 1 – Philosophy of Man

Professor : Mr. Carlos Salvador

Reporters : Dacuan and Excija

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Professional: A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the
character of an amateur; a professional worker.

Client: One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.

Both Professionals and Clients are beings of social nature that depends on one another for:

(1)Existence

(2)Social affirmation

(3)Need

They are mutually related based on a number of relationships but here we will focus on the:

Existential relationship; and

Relationship of growth and development

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EXISTENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Existence: Specific presence; occurrence:

Also called as Social Relationship because of having two social beings needing one another.

The presence of one to the other, and vice versa is a necessity for their existence.

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 Example:

1. A teacher cannot be a teacher if there are no students/pupils for him/her to teach.

2. Students/pupils in the other hand cannot be such if there are no teachers to teach them.

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RELATIONSHIPS OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Professionals and Clients have relationships that are expected to beget growth and development on them.

Aspects of Growth and Development are:

(1)Emotional (5) Psychological

(2)Physical (6) Spiritual

(3)Mental (7) Biological

(4)Socio-economic (8) Knowledge and Skill

Example:

1. Growth and development – focus on the Client

PROFESSIONAL CLIENTELE EXPECTED

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Teacher Student Trained, knowledgeable, educated,
creative, productive, responsible, and
mature. An asset. Improving quality of life.
Healthy and happy.
Physician Patient Improving health condition. Feeling well
and strong. Happy. Becoming productive.
Lawyer Legal Client Legal problems resolved. Guilty persons
punished in court, innocent ones
acquitted. Justice done to persons
concerned. Justice done enables on to
grow and develop.

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2.Growth and development – focus on the Professional

CLIENTS PROFESSIONALS EXPECTED

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Students, Patients, Proffessors, Work from which fee/salary/wage is
customer, et. al. doctors, engineers, earned for a living is obtained.
priests, et. al.
Knowledge acquired from various
personalities and socio-cultural
background from clients.

As a result from the contact and

experience with clients, the professionals
learn and develop professional maturity
and moral responsibility over clients and
society.

Professional practice makes the

professional feel self-fulfilled and happy.

Reference:

Professional Ethics with Introductory General Ethics by Gualdo, pages 108-111