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• Applied Social Science


  The discipline that applies social science principles and methods to address real-world problems and improve people's lives
• Functions of Applied Social Science

  • Self Development
  • Persuasion
  • Art and Entertainment
  • News and Information
  • Organizing, Advocacy and Mobilization
  • Education
• Self Development


  • Counseling - offers guidance to individuals in various situations of conflict, confusion and crisis and provides the tools for the individual to address issues of self development
  • Social Work - offers a wide range of services, in giving aid to marginalized individuals and facilitating participation in the public goods and services that are necessary for self-development
  • Communication - empowers individuals with listening and speaking skill in order for them to be effective
• Persuasion


  Being able to convince other people to change their attitudes or behavior regarding an issue through the communication of messages
• The heart of persuasion is the ability to understand well one's audience and its complexity
• Art and Entertainment


  • Reflects a country's culture, needs an understanding and analysis for development and new trends
• News and Information


  • Emphasizes a need for balance, truthfulness and objectivity in rendering political and social services and write reports with accuracy, passion and objectivity
• Organizing, Advocacy and Mobilization

  • To inform and educate on public issues through community organization and mobilization, build power, providing right information on political, social and economic issues affecting them
• Education


  • A multidisciplinary approach that can equip students with the skills and expertise to work in schools, colleges and universities
• Socialization


  Helps individual families, groups and communities to improve their individual and collective well being and through this, people enhance their skills and ability to use their own resources and those of the community to resolve issues and problems
• Types of Self Development

  • Life Coaches for Personal Development
  • Career Counseling for Personal Development
  • Hypnotherapy
  • Personal Growth Counseling for Personal Development
• Life Coaches for Personal Development

  Addresses specific personal projects, business success, general conditions and transitions in a person's personal life, relationship and profession
• Career Counseling for Personal Development

  Needed by people who wanted to enter the job market, looking for career changes and wanted to advance within their present careers where in counselors look into their client's personal strengths and weaknesses in the job market, goals and options and life
• Hypnotherapy


  A complementary therapy that uses the power of positive suggestions to bring about subconscious change to one's thoughts, feelings and behavior. It aims to alter one's state of consciousness to relax the conscious part of the mind while stimulating and focusing the subconscious part and make appropriate suggestions
• Personal Growth Counseling for Personal Development


  Focuses on the evaluation of a client's life, goals and the different aspects of life
• On Organizing, Advocacy and Mobilization


  • Community organizing and mobilization
  • Information Dissemination
  • Research
  • Training
• The Four Pillars of Education

  • Learning to Know
  • Learning to Do
  • Learn to Live Together
  • Learning to Be