Disciplines and

Ideas in the Applied

Social Sciences

Ms. Gia Marie S. Panaligan

LESSON Clarify the relationships between
OBJECTIVES 1 Social Sciences and Applied
Social Sciences

Cite differences among

2 Applied Social Sciences
APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES
THEORIES OF VARIOUS SOCIAL
SCIENCES
SOLUTIONS TO SOCIETAL
ISSUES AND CONCERNS

RESEARCH SKILLS

SOCIAL REALITIES
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND APPLIED
SOCIAL SCIENCES

SOCIAL SCIENCES
broad, theoretical, 9 disciplines.

APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES

focus on a distinct issue, but
use insights from social
science discipline.
3 MAIN CAREER TRACKS
FOR APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENTISTS COUNSELING

SOCIAL WORK

COMMUNICATIONS
 COUNSELING
It provides guidance,
help, and support to
individuals who are
distraught by a
diverse set of
problems in their
lives.
LIFE COACH
analyze the present
condition of the client,
discovers diff erent
obstacles or
challenges that clients
faces, and provides a
certain course of
action to make the
client’s life better.
 CAREER COUNSELING
is needed by people
who are in the process
of entering the job
market, searching for
possible career
change, or those
wanting career
advancement.
PERSONAL GROWTH COUNSELING

concentrates on the
evaluation of the
diff erent aspects of a
client’s life.
 SOCIAL WORK
-participate help
individuals, families,
groups, and communities
to improve their individual
and collective well being.

-The Disiciple of Social Work

is closely associated with
government welfare and
social programs aimed at
achieving social justice.
C O M M U N I C AT I O N S T U D I E S
-applied social science
provide adequate training
for careers in the fi eld of
journalism and mass
communication because
of the multidisciplinary
knowledge and skills that
graduates learn from
social sciences.
 The Discipline of
Counseling
Prepared by: Ms. Gia Marie S. Panaligan, T-III
 SEATWORK
 Think of a time in your life when you felt
you were in crisis. What constituted that
crisis? Who did you approach during those
trying moments? Did seeking help relieve
you from the crisis? Share your insights.
 Meaning of Counseling

Michael S. Nystul (2003) defined

counseling as basically an art and science
wherein you endeavor to weight the
objective and subjective facts of the
counseling process.
Counseling as an art is subjective
dimension of counseling.
Counseling as a science, on the other
hand is the objective dimension of the
counseling.
 Meaning of Counseling

In practical terms, counseling happens

when a person who is distressed asks for
help and permit another person to enter
into a kind of connection with him/her. It
is indicative with formal of someone in
search of counseling requests for time
and attention from person who will
listen, who will allow him/her to speak
and who will not condemn and criticize
him/her.
 Meaning of Counseling

Counseling is not to be confused with

psychiatry, which is a branch of
general medicine that deals with the
treatment of the mentally ill by
medically trained professionals using
clinical interventions including drugs,
surgical and non physical procedures.
 Meaning of Counseling

Psychometrics is a branch of
psychology that deals with the
design, administration, and
interpretation of quantitative tests for
the measurement of psychological
variables such as intelligence,
aptitude, interests, and personality
traits.
 Meaning of Counseling

Philippine Republic Act No. 9258

(Guidance Counseling Act of 2004)
Guidance and counseling is the profession
that implicates the application of “ an
integrated approach to the development
of a well-functioning individual “ through
the provision of support that aids an
individual to use his/her potential to the
fullest in accord with his/her interest ,
needs and abilities.
 Goals of Counseling
1. Development Goals – assist in meeting
or advancing the clients human growth
and development including social,
personal, emotional, cognitive, and
physical wellness.
2. Preventive Goals – helps the client
avoid some undesired outcome. E.g.
failing grades,
3. Enhancement Goals- enhance special
skills and abilities.
 Goals of Counseling
4. Remedial Goals – assisting a client to
overcome and treat an undesirable
development
5. Exploratory Goals- examining options,
testing of skills, trying new and different
activities, etc.
6. Reinforcement Goals- helps client in
recognizing, that what they are doing,
thinking, and feeling is fine.
 Goals of Counseling
7. Cognitive Goals-involves acquiring the
basic foundation of learning and
cognitive skills.
8. Physiological Goals – involves acquiring
the basic understanding and habits for
good health
9. Psychological Goals – aids in
developing good social interaction skills,
learning emotional control, and
developing positive self – concept