DIASS

• Applied Social Sciences


  • Draw heavily from the theories of the various social sciences to critically study society and the relationships among the people within
  • Equip students with the ability to develop practical and effective solutions to societal issues and concerns
  • Develop the students' research skills and give them the opportunity to conduct studies on social realities
  • Tackle some of the most crucial and pressing social, economic, political, and ecological issues of our times
• Social sciences

  More specific and focused on a distinct facet of a social phenomenon
• Applied social science


  Attempts to focus on a distinct issue but use insights arising from various social science disciplines
• Functions and Effects of Applied Social Sciences

  • Behavior
  • Beliefs
  • Level of emotional distress
• Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004 - guidance
• Social sciences


  Generators of knowledge about the social world to cause understanding
• Applied social sciences


  Transcend the passive stage of social sciences to embrace the active mode when they migrate into the applied space
• Three main career tracks of Applied Social Sciences

  • Counseling
  • Social Work
  • Communication
• Counseling


  Draws heavily from the theories of psychology and the behavioral sciences
• Social Work


  A practice-based profession that seeks to improve the welfare of communities, individuals, families, and other groups in the society
• Communication


  Includes face-to-face conversations and mass media such as television, radio, newspapers, the internet, social media, and electronic mail
• The magnitude and prevalence of social problems have real and profound effects on people's psychological conditions
• Counseling


  A profession that evolved out of the need for institutionalized services to assist and help individuals who are going through distress situations in life
• Counselors


  Professionals in the counseling industry
• Counseling


  An interactive process characterized by a unique relationship between the counselor and counselee
• Goals of Counseling


  • Development Goals
  • Preventive Goals
  • Enhancement Goals
  • Remedial Goals
  • Exploratory Goals
  • Reinforcement Goals
  • Cognitive Goals
  • Physiological Goals
  • Psychological Goals
• Principles of Counseling


  • Advice
  • Reassurance
  • Release of emotional tension
  • Clarified thinking
  • Reorientation
  • Listening skills
  • Respect
  • Clarification, confrontation and interpretation
• Roles of Counselors


  • School counselors
  • Career counselors
  • Child abuse counselors
  • Child counselors
  • Geriatric counselor
  • Depression counselors
  • Community mental health counselors
  • Legal counselors
  • Grief counselors
  • Hospital counselors
  • Drug abuse counselors
  • Residential care facilities counselor
  • Religious or spiritual counselors
• Functions of Counselors


  • Helping a client develop potentials to the fullest
  • Helping a client plan to utilize his or her potentials to the fullest
  • Helping a client plan his or her future in accordance with his or her abilities, interests, and needs
  • Sharing and applying knowledge related to counseling such as counseling theories, tools, and techniques
  • Administering a wide range of human development services
• Beneficence


  The order to promote human welfare
• Ethical Principles of the Institute of Guidance Counselors' Code

  • Respect for the rights and dignity of the client
  • Competence
  • Responsibility
  • Integrity
• Autonomy of Individuals


  The right to freedom of action and freedom of choice in so far as the pursuit of these freedom does not interfere with the freedom of others
• Principle of Justice


  Concerned with the fair distribution of resources and services, unless there is some acceptable reason for treating them differently
• Principle of Fidelity


  Shares to the presence of loyalty, reliability, dependability and action in good faith
• Principle of Nonmaleficence


  Instruction to all helpers or healers that they must, above all, do no harm
• Clientele of Counseling


  • People who use tobacco
  • People who abuse alcohol
  • Women
  • Elderly people
  • People with AIDS
• People who use tobacco

  Users find it difficult to stop smoking
• People who abuse alcohol


  Alcoholism is seen as a disease and alcoholics find it difficult to stop drinking on their own
• Women


  Transition from a busy life to retirement stage must be instituted
• Elderly people


  Loss of partner, decline mental capacity and mobility, increased loneliness, decline in financial security
• People with AIDS


  Counselors help to improve their quality of life and to handle their emotional stress and low self-est
• Transition from a busy life to retirement

  • Must be instituted
• People with AIDS


  Counselors help to improve their quality of life and to handle their emotional stress and low self-esteem
• Counseling approach for people with AIDS

  Requires sensitivity and appreciation of the intricacies of the disease
• Counselors for people with AIDS

  Aid in assisting and educating the victim's support system
• Victims of Abuse


  Represents victims of domestic violence characterized by spouse and child abuses
• Spouse abuse


  Often associated with poverty drug abuse and career disappointments
• Causes of spouse abuse

  Psychological damage to the victims
• Counselors for victims of abuse


  Increasingly being utilized to help the victims
• Gay Men and Lesbian Women

  Discrimination, harassment, violence, discrimination and isolation, Suffer from peer denial, family clash, health uncertainties and prejudgment