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• Social Sciences


  Disciplines concerned with the systematic study of social phenomena
• Applied Social Sciences


  An integrated science cutting across and transcending various social science disciplines in addressing a wide range of issues in a contemporary, innovative, and dynamic way
• Relationship between Social Sciences and Applied Social Sciences

  Social sciences are more specific and focused on a distinct facet of a social phenomenon while applied social science attempts to focus on a distinct issue but use insights arising from various social science disciplines
• When social science theories, concepts, methods, and findings gain application to problems identified in the wider society, then applied social science is achieved
• Three Main Career Tracks for Applied Social Scientist

  • Counseling
  • Social Work
  • Communication Studies
• Counseling


  Application of the social sciences; provides guidance, help, and support to individuals who are distraught by a diverse set of problems in their lives
• Social Work


  Practitioners help individuals, families, and groups, communities to improve their individual and collective well-being; promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being; utilizes theories of human behavior and social systems, intervening at the points where people interact with their environments
• Communication Studies


  Applied social science provides adequate training for careers in the fields of journalism and mass communication because of multidisciplinary knowledge and skills that graduates learn from social sciences
• Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work
• Counseling


  A process that occurs when a client and counselor set aside time in order explore difficulties which may include the stressful or emotional feelings of the client
• Goals of Counseling


  • Enhances coping skills
  • Facilitates behavioral change
  • Promotes decision making
  • Improved relationships
  • Facilitates the client's potential
• Enhances coping skills


  • Persons inevitably run into difficulties in the process of growing up
  • Inconsistency on the part of the significant others may result in children learning behavior patterns that are inefficient, ineffective or both
  • Children who have grown up in excessively strict homes frequently adjust to such training measures by developing certain forms of inhibited behavior
• Facilitates behavioral change


  • The goal of counseling is to bring about change in behavior which will enable the client to be more productive while the client defines their life within society's limitations
  • The counselor must establish specific goals, from general goals to specific goals to enable the client and counselor to understand the specific change desires
• Promotes decision making


  • The goals of counseling is to enable the individual to make critical decisions but not to decide which decisions the clients should make or to choose alternative courses of action
  • This helps individual to obtain information and clarify and resolve personal characteristics and emotional concerns that may interfere with or related to the decisions involved
• Improved relationships


  • Counseling can educate and assist people's relationship with understanding the process of regaining the trust, and provides tools and direction to help
  • Some of the typical difficulties would be family and marital problems to the peer group interaction
• Facilitates the client's potential


  • Counseling seeks to maximize an individual's freedom by giving him or her control over their environment while analyzing responsiveness and reaction to the changes around her
  • Counselor will also assist in overcoming sexual dysfunctions, drug addiction, compulsive gambling, obesity, fears and anxieties
• Scope of Counseling


  • Individual Counseling
  • Group Counseling
  • Marital and Pre-marital Counseling
  • Family Counseling
• Group Counseling


  • A form of therapy where small group of clients meet regularly to talk, interact and discuss problems with each other
  • Group counseling is usually comprised of six to eight students who meet face to face with one or two trained group therapists and talk about what most concerns them
  • Members listen to each other and openly express thoughts and feelings about what other members do or say
• Areas of Counseling


  • adolescent identity, concerns, teen-parent relationship, peer relationships
  • anxiety, anger management, depression, stress management
  • children's concerns within the family unit, sibling relationship, family of origin dynamics and issues
  • grief and bereavement
  • relationships: personal and interpersonal dynamics
  • Sexual abuse recovery
  • workplace stress and relationships
  • Marital and relational dynamics
  • extended family members
  • Fertility issues
  • adolescents and child behaviors within family dynamics, adult children
  • divorce and separation issues and adjustments
  • Family dynamics: estrangement, conflict, communication
  • life stages and transitions, parenting patterns: blended, single, co-parenting families
• Core Values of Counseling


  • Counselors believe in saving marriages, and in the restoration of relationships
  • Therapists believes in saving marriages and relationships, and although it does take a strong commitment from both people and willingness to work to make changes, if there is a way, our heart is to help you discover it
  • Counselors believe in the rights and dignity of human beings, that all people have meaning and purpose, and that no individual is without value regardless of who the clients are where they have been
  • All children would be loved and raised by their parents, even though in reality counselors know this often is not the case
  • Counselors affirm individual responsibility and the need and power of forgiveness, acknowledging that right and wrong exists
  • Counselors believe in resolving underlying problems of clients
  • Counselors share common values, but clients need not
• Crisis Intervention Skills in Counseling

  • Pattern Change: is focused on minimizing the stress of the event, providing emotional support and improving the individuals coping strategies. These also mean facilitating the ability to establish a working alliance by using interest f survivors or victims
  • Change: strategies to help the survivor return to previous self-open and closed-ended questions; information gathering; cognitive focus; behavioral, feeling, and relationship focus
  • Termination: attempt to separate from survivor and to help maintain gains in coping and adapting post disaster. This is clarification, reality testing reinforcement and encouragement offering insight connection
• Roles of Counselors


  • Assist clients in reaching their optimal level of psychological functioning
  • Resolving negative patterns
  • Prevention
  • Rehabilitation
  • Improving quality of life
• Types of Counselor Roles

  • Counseling
  • Consultation
  • Facilitation
• Counseling Roles


  • Not provided
• Consultation Roles


  • Not provided
• Facilitation Roles


  • Not provided
• Competence of a Counselor

  • Educational Qualification
  • Work Experience
  • Honors and Awards
  • Skills
  • Counseling License, etc.
• Educational Qualification


  • Graduate of bachelor's degree in guidance and counseling as a minimum requirement
  • They must hold a master's degree, if not a masteral degree units in guidance and psychology will do
• Work Experience


  • Counselor must have work experience
  • Relevant experience in a helping capacity is very desirable, particularly useful if they can demonstrate experience in working with diverse range clients-cultural diversities, levels of education (elementary to college), personalities, occupation, etc.
• Honors and Awards


  • It could also help if counselor already obtained honors and awards, especially related to counseling and social work
• Skills


  • Non-judgmental outlook- a willingness to work with all kind of people
  • Excellent observation and listening skills
  • Patience, tolerance, and sensitivity
  • Understanding of their own attitudes and responses
  • A belief that all clients are able to make positive changes
  • An appreciation of confidentiality issues
• Roles of Counselors in Schools

  • Act as an advocate for students
  • Develop realistic interventions upon listening to the needs of students and concerns of parents/guardians
  • Provide short term personal crisis counseling
  • Report and/ or refer a case when a person's welfare is in jeopardy
  • Assist students in setting realistic goals, and becoming responsible young adults
  • Assist in the identification of problems that arise in school and to help provide recommendations that lead to solutions
  • Develop educational strategies to accommodate the needs of students who are experiencing difficulty
  • Collaborate with special teachers to aid in the of educational plans that needs of special education students
  • Advocate for appropriate student placement
  • Assist in the coordination of school meetings with parents, teachers, and students, as requested
  • Coordinate yearly course selections and course changes
  • Pursue parent/guardian outreach for the purpose of development education regarding pertinent adolescent issues
  • Review and maintain all records, report cards, progress reports and test scores
  • Communicate with teachers, parents, and students regarding academic status
• Rights of Counselor


  • The right to receive adequate salary commensurate to their qualifications, training and experience
  • The right to legal working hours
  • The right to receive other benefits such as vacation leave, maternity leave for women, paternity for men, 13 month, bonuses, performance pay, among others
  • The right to be respected with honor and dignity by their superiors, clients, co-employees and the public
  • The right for the professional development such as to be sent for training and if possible to be on scholarship grant studies
• Codes Of Ethics For Counselor


  • The role of the guidance counselor is significant in the lives of the people
  • The nature of their work demands competence, excellence, integrity, trust and service
  • The ethical principles of guidance counselors must be observed
• Specific Areas of Counselors Work


  • Hospitals
  • Inpatient or outpatient detoxification centers
  • Mental health Facilities and Agencies
  • Residential care facilities
  • Half way houses
  • Geriatric-Related Facilities
  • VA Medical Hospitals and outpatient clinics
  • Correctional Facilities and/ or Prisons
  • Retail Businesses
  • Educational system and etc.
• Principles in Counseling


  • Not provided
• Social work


  An academic and professional discipline that seeks to facilitate social the welfare of communities, individuals, and societies. It facilitates social change, development, cohesion, and empowerment.

  
• Social work was defined as a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people.

  
• Objectives of social work

  • To prepare practitioners who engage in evidence-based beginning-level generalist practice with systems of all sizes and diverse populations
  • To prepare practitioners who understand and value human diversity
  • To prepare practitioners who understand and appreciate the role and value of systematic data collection and analysis in systems of all sizes for the purpose of promoting the goals of the profession of social work
  • To encourage the development of a strong professional identity and a commitment to the values and ethics of social work profession in future practitioners
  • To prepare the students to understand the dynamics and consequences f social and economic injustice of alleviating injustice and oppression

  
• Goals of social work

  • Service - to provide help, resources, and benefits to help people achieve maximum potential
  • Social Justice - to uphold equal rights, protection, opportunity, social benefits to everyone
  • Dignity and worth - every person is unique and worthwhile
  • Importance of Human Relationship - to value the exchange between social worker and client
  • Integrity - Maintain trustworthiness
  • Competence - Practice with the scope of unknown skills and abilities