DIASS

• Applied Social Sciences: Counseling, Social Work, Communication
• Counseling: A process that involves a trained counselor helping an individual who is called a client to find ways to work through and understand their problem.
• Social Work: A practice-based profession and a discipline that promotes social change and development
• Communication: A discipline that focuses on how humans use verbal and non-verbal messages to create meaning in various settings.
• Applied social science is the application of social science theories, concepts, methods, and findings to problems identified in the wider society.
• Goals of Counseling: Behavior change, promote decision-making, facilitate client's potential, enhancing coping skills, improving relationships
• Roles of a Counselor: Facilitator/Moderator, Leader, Role Model, Advocate, Motivator, Process Observer
• SPECIFIC WORK AREAS IN WHICH COUNSELORS WORK: Hospitals, Rehabilitation Centers, Mental Health Facilities, Prisons, Businesses, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), Schools or Educational Systems
• Counselor guide in dealing with clients: Principle of individual difference or uniqueness, Principle of Holistic Development, Principle of Flexibility, Principle of Justice
• Principle of individual difference or uniqueness - As a counselor, you look at your client as unique which means that there is no one else who is completely the same as he or she.
• Principle of Holistic Development - A counselor sees a client as individual with body, mind and soul.
• Principle of Flexibility - A counselor is always open to changes and adjustments in the duration of the process.
• Principle of Justice - Everyone deserves a fair and equal treatment. More so, the client in a counseling process.
• Hans H. Strupp and Suzanne W Hadley proposed a tripartite model of counseling outcomes.
• TRIPARTITE MODEL: Client's Perspective, Counselor's Perspective, Society's Perspective
• PROCESSES: Relationship Building, Problem Assessment, Goal Setting, Counseling Intervention, and Evaluation, Termination or Referral
• Four Stages of Counseling Needs Assessment: Identifying Guiding Questions and Goals, Identifying Populations to be Assessed, Collecting Needs Assessment Data, Analysis and Interpretation of Data
• Methods/Approaches: Psychodynamic, Interpersonal Counseling, Client-Centered Therapy, Existential Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy, Reality Therapy, Constructionist Therapy, Systemic Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Creative Therapy
• Rational-Emotive Therapy - Focused on how faulty thinking leads to distress.
• Reality Therapy - Focused on the present day
• Constructionist Therapy - Focused on how cultural influences and interpretations shapes meanings
• Systemic Therapy - Focused on how systems (e.g family, work) affect underlying issues.
• Narrative Therapy - Focused on the story we tell ourselves about who we are.
• Creative Therapy - Focused on the use of artistic expression as a cathartic release of positive feelings.
• Psychodynamic - Focused on how experiences affect current problems.
• Interpersonal Counseling - Diagnosis focused
• Client-Centered Therapy - Humanistic Approach
• Existential Therapy - Focused on what it means to be alive.
• Cognitive-Behavioral Theory - Focused on how thoughts and behaviors affect outcomes.
• Mindfulness-based Counseling - Focused on feelings and thoughts in the moment, without judgement.
• The purpose of evaluation is to determine the value of the program,

  its activities, and staff in order to make decisions or to take actions regarding the future. One of its purposes is to prevent the mistake of providing a label to a client.
• There is a method being followed in evaluating counseling: Exploring Stage, Understanding stage, and Acting Stage.
• PROCESSES: Relationship Building, Problem Assessment, Goal Setting, Counseling intervention, and Evaluation, Termination or Referral
• Four Stages of Counseling Needs Assessment: Identifying Guiding

  Questions and Goals, Identifying Populations to be Assessed, Collecting Needs Assessment Data, and Analysis and Interpretation of Data
• Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) - It is an executive department of the Philippine Government responsible for the protection of the social welfare rights of Filipinos and to promote social development.
• SOCIAL WORK - It refers to various professional activities or methods concretely concerned with providing social services and especially with investigation, treatment, and material aid of the economically, physically, mentally, or socially disadvantaged.
• It is not only something social workers do, it is a phenomenon consisting of three parts: Research, Education, and Professional Practice
• Advocator - The social worker fights for the rights of those disempowered by society with the goal of empowering the client.
• Counselor - A key function of this role is to empower people by affirming their personal strengths and their capacities to deal with their problems more effectively.
• Mediator - The social worker intervenes in disputes between parties

  to help them find compromises, reconcile differences, and reach mutually satisfying agreements.