L19

• Applied social sciences and their disciplinary approaches


  • Enable people to understand that social problems such as criminality, poverty and gender inequality are rooted in certain social, cultural and economic circumstances and not in individual moral defects
  • Explain the projection of an individual's perception of the "self" and how this perception is projected online
• Applied Research in the social sciences


  Allows people to analyze the interface and interaction of communal action
• Self-understanding


  Critical in locating oneself and one's value in family or community
• Disciplines like psychology and sociology


  Were harnessed to better understand the individual and the role that he or she plays in the community
• Value of social science disciplines


  Relevant and critical in understanding individual and social behavior
• Individuals who understand themselves better

  Have more chances of knowing their true capabilities
• Applied social sciences


  • Play critical role in changing the attitudes and values of individuals
  • Help troubled individuals and communities gain better understanding of the underpinning issues and feelings that result in episodes like depression, addiction and substance abuse
• The Philippines is regarded as among the most vulnerable countries that would be affected by climate change
• Communication, particularly public information campaigns in high risk areas


  • Critical in educating individuals and communities about the vulnerability and the possible life dangers brought by the onset of calamity
• Calamities and natural disasters


  • Disrupt the socioeconomic life of communities and individuals
  • The loss of a loved one or a livelihood in a particular is a stressful and traumatic experience for victims of calamities
• Counseling, social work and communication


  Critical to the country's efforts to prevent or mitigate natural or man-made disasters
• Disciplines of counseling and communication


  • Have significant applications in industries and organizations
  • Are important in assessing risk and addressing conflict in the workplace and in the organization
  • Have applications in the arena of national issues, such as the peace-building process in the southern Philippines
• Behavioral change


  A temporary or permanent effect that is considered a change in an individual's behavior when compared to previous behavior. It is sometimes considered a mental disorder, yet it is also a strategy used to improve such disorders.
• Discipline of social work and counseling


  • Enable individuals and communities to cope with the country's changing social and economic realities
  • Enable individuals to deal with long-term separation or absentee parenting
  • Enable many to cope and return to normalcy by undergoing structured and well-informed counselling and therapy sessions in cases of trauma due to crime, domestic violence, or substance abuse
• Structural change


  • A significant modification in the unconscious intrapsychic conflicts underlying symptom formation
  • A dramatic shift in the way a country, industry, or market operates, usually brought on by major economic developments. The key to effect structural change is the dynamism that is inherent in that system.
• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)


  • Helps us identify and map local capacities to cope with hazards
  • Helps us conduct effective disaster response while reducing risks that similar disasters will reoccur
  • Ensures that our emergency response does no harm by replacing or reinstating critical vulnerabilities
  • A systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster. It aims to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them.
• Climate change


  • A change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels
  • A long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth's local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term.