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Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied
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DISCUSSION
 Lesson 1
Social Science, Applied Social
Science and It’s Discipline
(Counseling)
 SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Social Science is fluid and may pertain to
any field of inquiry that is outside the
realm of the natural sciences, or what
others refer to as the “hard sciences.”
The latter sees to explain the occurrence
of natural phenomena and includes
physics, chemistry, and geology, to name
a few.
✔Social Sciences are disciplines
concerned with the systematic study of
social phenomena.
Social Science
✔As a body of scientific knowledge, the
Study of human society
social science provide a diverse set of
lens that help us understand and
explain the different facets of human
society.
 BRANCHES OF SOCIAL
SCIENCES
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History
Geography Sociology
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events in
the development of
societies.
 APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCES
This is the study of the society
we live in and the
relationships people have
within that society.
This course is built around the core
disciplines of psychology and sociology,
providing the best possible launching pad for
career in these fascinating areas.
 APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCES
It was introduced as a reaction to the
highly segmented and
compartmentalized division of the
social science disciplines that
dominated western research training
during the late 1990s and until the
end 20 century.
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 APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Compared to the social sciences that
focus on the theoretical study of
society, the applied social sciences
focus on the use and application of the
different concepts, theoretical models,
and theories of the social science
disciplines to help understand society
and the different problems and issues it
faces.
~ Gouldner, 1989.
 FIELDS OF APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCES
COUNSELIN SOCIAL
G WORK
COMMUNICA
TIONS
 THE DISCIPLINE OF
COUNSELING
Counseling is basically an art
and a science where you
endeavor to weigh the
objectives and subjective
facets of the counseling
process.
 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 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.
 “The profession that involves the use of an
integrated approach to the development of a
well-functioning individual primarily by
helping him/her to utilize his/her potentials
to the fullest and plan/his/her present and
future in accordance with his/her abilities,
interests and needs.”

R.A 9258: Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004

THE GOALS OF
COUNSELING
 List of Common Counseling
Goals
✔Developmental Goals – assist in meeting
or advancing the clients human growth and
development including cognitive, and
physical wellness.
✔Preventive Goals – help the clients avoid
some undesired outcome.
✔Enhancement Goal – enhance special
skills and abilities
 List of Common Counseling
Goals
✔Remedial Goals – assist a client to
overcome and treat an undesirable
development.
✔Exploratory Goals - examine options,
testing of skills, trying new and different
activities.
✔Reinforcement Goals – help client in
recognizing, that what they are doing,
thinking and feeling is fine.
 List of Common Counseling
Goals
✔Cognitive Goals – involve acquiring the
basic foundation of learning and cognitive
skills.
✔Physiological Goals – involve acquiring
the basic understanding and habits for
good health
✔Psychological Goals – aid in developing
good social interaction skills, and learning
emotional control.
 Five Commonly Goals of
Counseling
1. Facilitating behavior change

Example:
Ms. Cy a counselor, uses specific goals
rather than general ones to measure more
specific the problems of clients and the clients
can measure their own progress.
2. Improving the client’s ability to establish
and maintain relationships.

Example:
A store manager Mr. Lim is a self-
oriented person who had problems with his
staff because of his lack of social skills.
3. Enhancing the client’s effectiveness and
ability to cope.

Example:
A newly hired teacher in the public
school who came from a private school
encountered new situations and
challenges decided to talk to the guidance
counselor regarding the problems he/she
encountered.
4. Promoting the decisions-making
process and facilitating client potential.
Example:
At school one of the students went to the
guidance office because of his/her problems
regarding his/her study habit. Mr. Jay assisted
the students explore more range of
options and enables the students to see
how their attitudes and values influence their
decisions and choices.
5. Developing
 Counseling goals can be classified
according to three categories:
✔Ultimate goals are philosophical ideas that can be reasonably
expected from counseling. These goals include helping individuals to
realize their full potential or to become self-actualized.
✔Intermediate goals relate to the reasons for seeking counseling and
usually require several sessions to achieve them. Helping the
individual develop to become and remain a well-adjusted, mentally
healthy persons and to achieve his/her potentialities, would classify as
an intermediate goal.
✔Immediate goals, on the other hand, are the moment by moment
intentions of counseling, for example encouraging the client to
verbalize an unexpressed feeling.
THE SCOPE OF
COUNSELING
 THE SCOPE OF
COUNSELING
Academic Difficulties
Includes the student’s
difficulties in accomplishing
various requirements like
meeting the standards of
education, adjusting to teaching
methods used, handling
academic pressures, maintaining
good grades, managing time,
learning how to focus and
ensuring effective study skills.
 THE SCOPE OF
COUNSELING
Personal concerns
These include clients
who have difficulty in
planning and setting life
goals, how to handle
stress, maintain
motivation, know priorities
and how to solve problems.
 THE SCOPE OF
COUNSELING
Social concerns
These are difficulties
encountered by clients in
relating with others such as
dealing with rejections,
handling peer pressure,
coping with the challenges of
romantic relationship, and
bullying.
 THE SCOPE OF
COUNSELING
Emotional difficulties
Emotion related problems
encountered by the client
which includes anxiety,
nervousness, and heartaches;
coping with loneliness due to
homesickness and rejection;
managing negative emotions,
such as depression, anger and
fear; attaining emotional
stability.
 THE SCOPE OF
COUNSELING
Psychological
challenges
These include handling
persistent suicidal behaviors,
managing some forms of
addiction, such as smoking,
drinking and computer
gaming; dealing with eating
and sleeping problems;
understanding one’s identity
and handling painful
experiences.
 THE SCOPE OF
COUNSELING
Family problems
These usually involves
broken family, absence of
parents due to work abroad,
single parenting, infidelity,
hostile parenting, favoritism
in family, early pregnancy
and unpleasant home
environment.
 THE SCOPE OF
COUNSELING
Career-related
concerns
These difficulties can be
addressed by identifying
the clients’ strength,
interest and personal traits
and matching them with
career choices; identifying
unclear career goals and
lack of career plans.
THE PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
 THE PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
AUTONOMY
Is about the freedom of clients to
choose their own direction. Counselors
should respect their ability to make
choices free from the constraints of
others.
(Welfel, 1998; Corey, Corey and Callanan,
2007).
 THE PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
NON-MALEFICENCE
Means to do no harm. Counselor should
avoid utilizing interventions that could
harm clients.

(Welfel, 1998; Corey et al., 2007)

 THE PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
BENEFICENCE
Means responsibility to do good and to
contribute to the welfare of the
client. The Counselor is expected to
do the best for the client and if
unable to assist, to offer alternatives
as appropriate.
 THE PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
JUSTICE
Means to act in a fair or just manner.
It is expected that Counselors will act
in a non-discriminatory manner to
individuals or groups.
 THE PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
FIDELITY
Implies strict and continuing
faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or
duty. The interest of the client is the
priority even if such loyalty (towards
the client) is inconvenient or
uncomfortable to the Counselor.
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OR
CLARIFICATION?
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listening