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
• Applied Social Sciences equip students with the ability to develop practical and effective solutions to societal issues and concerns
• Applied Social Sciences develop the students’ research skills and give them the opportunity to conduct studies on social realities
• Applied Social Sciences 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 uses insights arising from various social science disciplines
• Functions of Applied Social Sciences

  • Behavior
  • Beliefs
  • Level of emotional distress
• Behavior


  Overt changes in the client’s actions, coping skills, decision-making skills, and interaction skills
• Beliefs


  Ways of thinking about oneself, others, and the world, or emotional concerns relating to these perceptions
• Level of emotional distress


  Uncomfortable feelings or reactions to environmental stress
• Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004 is an important law of counseling in the Philippines
• Social sciences are described as generators of knowledge about the social world to cause understanding
• Applied social sciences transcend the level of social sciences but remain essentially providers of focus
• Applied social sciences embrace the active mode when they migrate into the applied space
• 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 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 as a profession 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
• Development Goals


  Assist in meeting or advancing the client’s human growth and development including social, personal, emotional, cognitive, and physical wellness
• Preventive Goals


  Helps the client avoid some undesired outcome
• Enhancement Goals


  Enhance special skills and abilities
• Remedial Goals


  Assisting a client to overcome and treat an undesirable development
• Exploratory Goals


  Examining options, testing of skills, trying new and different activities
• Reinforcement Goals


  Helps the client in recognizing that what they are doing, thinking, and feeling is fine
• Cognitive Goals


  Involves acquiring the basic skills