DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS

IN APPLIED
SOCIAL SCIENCES
✗ Lesson 1
- Social Sciences and
Applied Social Sciences;
Disciplines of Counseling

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1 Social sciences
a branch of science which deals
with the study of society and the
relationship of individuals to their
environment.
 Anthropology History Political Science
refers to the study of
humans.
is a study of past, it studies the
principally how it systems of
Economics relates to human. government, and
studies the production, analysis of political
distribution, exchange, and Linguistics activity and
consumption of goods and behaviour.
services.
is the scientific study Psychology
Geography of language and its
it studies the distribution structure. is the scientific
and arrangement of all study of behaviour
elements of the earth’s and mental
surface.
processes

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 Sociology
is the study of human social relationships or group of life. It
primarily deals with social interaction or the responses of persons
to each other.

Demography
is the interdisciplinary study of the size, growth, distribution of
human populations. It also involves the study of the structure of
populations and how populations change over time due to births,
deaths, migration, and aging.
2 are social
APPLIED Social sciences
sciences that apply
social scientific theories and
knowledge from social sciences
to the physical environment or
society.
3 disciplines
under applied
COUNSELING

SOCIAL WORK
social
COMMUNICATION
sciences
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1 counseling
from a Latin word “Consilium”
meaning plan, council, wisdom
and advice.
1 counseling
is a profession and a helping relationship
that facilitates the development of
individuals, groups and families that are
based on the principle of empowerment
that helps achieve personal, social,
educational and career development.
People who use counseling in their work
- Clinical Psychologist
- Welfare Workers
- Teachers
- Nurses, Health visitors and midwives
- Occupational and speech therapists
- Social Workers
- Physiotherapists
- Voluntary and Youth workers

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SOME GOALS OF COUNSELING

- Facilitate change behaviour

- Promote decision making

- Enhance coping skills and adjustment

- Improve relationship skills

- Facilitate counselee or client potential

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Facilitate change behavior
this specific goal will help both
the client and the counselor
understand what specific
change of behaviour is desired.
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Promote decision making
enables individual to make
critical decisions that acquire
understanding both his/her
physical and mental
capabilities.
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 Enhance coping skills and adjustment
to empower individuals that one
can enhance coping skills and
adjustment to be able to adapt
and survive in this complex
society we are living.
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Facilitate counselee or client potential
to help an individual maximize his
freedom and seek individual’s
effectiveness by giving him/her
control over his environment
and/or overcome it.
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SCOPE OF COUNSELING

-INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING
- MARITAL AND PRE-MARITAL
COUNSELING
- FAMILY COUNSELING

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 Individual
counseling
is a process through which clients
work one-on-one with a trained
mental health clinician in a safe,
caring, and confidential
environment.
 Identity problems, relationships, anxiety,
depression, family problems, behavior
management, gender (identity and sexuality),
grief/bereavement, sexual
abuse recovery, workplace stress and
relationships, drug abuse, eating disorders,
HIV, spirituality, status and middle age
syndrome
.
for married couple and couple
that about to build their own
family that tries to resolve
problems in the relationship.
 • Marital and relationship
dynamics
• Relationship and fertility
issues
 focuses on the family
members that help improve
communication and resolve
conflicts.
 • Children and adult behaviors,
• divorce/annulment
• separation problems and
adjustments
• family problems
• life stages and transitions
• parenting and remarriage relationship
counseling
PRINCIPLES OF COUNSELING
- Listening Skills
- Resistance
- Respect
- Empathy or Unconditional Positive
Regard
- Clarification, confrontation, interpretation
- Transference and Counter-transference
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 LISTENING SKILLS
- This is the number one skill that a
counselor should always consider in a
counseling process.
- When listening attentively to the client to
show
that we are interested and we respect
him/her whatever situation he/she have right
now.
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 RESISTANCE
- human behavior is very complex, and
people respond to things differently.
- It is important for counselors not to take
client’s resistance personally since some
resistance to therapeutic change is
natural.
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 RESPECT
- Counselor should have respect for
his/her client no matter how weird,
strange, peculiar, different the customer
is with you.
- A counselor should be neutral and must
be objective no matter what.
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 Empathy or unconditional positive regard
- Empathy requires listening and understanding
client’s feeling and their perspective.
- This principle should be part of the
counselor’s characteristics since the success
of counselee-counselor relationship will
depend on the quality of rapport built along
the process.
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 Clarification,
confrontation,
interpretation
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 Transference and countertransference
- Transference when someone redirects their
feelings about one person onto someone
else. During a therapy session, it usually
refers to a person transferring their feelings
about someone else onto their therapist.
- Countertransference is when a therapist
transfers feelings onto the patient.
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 Don’t compare yourself
with other people; compare
yourself with who you
were yesterday.
Jordan Peterson

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Activity 1:
My Graphical Organizer for Discovering and
Describing Counseling
 Questions:
1. Which among the social sciences do
you think is the best and why?
2. Why is counseling important?
3. Can you explain the principle of
counseling?
Reflect on how you are doing as a HUMSS
student. Write your answer to following
questions:
In what aspect of your life do you think
you need to consider asking for
guidance counseling? Is it personal
development, career or relationship?