LEARNER’S ACTIVITY SHEET FOR QUARTER 1, WEEK 1

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DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES

Name:__________________________________ Grade & Section: ______________________

School: _________________________________ Teacher: ______________________________

Competency: Clarify the relationships and differences between social sciences and applied
social sciences HUMSS_DIASS12-Ia-1;
Identify the goals and scope of counseling HUMSS_DIASS12Ia-2;
Explain the principles of counseling HUMSS_DIASS12Ia-2

General Reminders: Use this activity sheet with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s
on any part of the activity sheet. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the
exercises. Read the directions carefully before doing each task. Return this activity sheet
to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.

Explore

I. Directions: Based on what you learned as the goals and scope of counselling, analyze
each situation below and put a check mark (/) if it is reasonably within a counsellor’s
jurisdiction, and put a cross mark (x) if it is not.
/ 1. Kathy feels insecure and an outcast in school because she thinks her classmates talk
negatively about her.
X 2. Mike needs to raise funds for his college tuition next year.
/ 3. Bobbie thinks he is addicted to video games and wants to control it to become more
productive with his school work.
/ 4. Allan is overly jealous when it comes to the friends of his girlfriend. He cannot seem
to accept the fact that his girlfriend enjoys very much the company of others.
/ 5. Rita is overly scared of men because of a traumatic experience she had as a little girl.
She witnessed how three men robbed and stabbed her father to death.
II. Directions: Identify each statement on the scope and goals of counselling whether it is a
FACT or a BLUFF.
Fact 1. Counselling is a helping profession.
Bluff 2. Counselling deals with clinical cases such as mental illness.
Fact 3. One of the goals of counselling is to lead an individual client or group to self-
emancipation in relation to a felt problem.
Bluff 4. Counselling is a professional relationship that does NOT require an eventual
closure and termination of the counselee-counsellor relationship.
Fact 5. In counselling, the client should attain insight and understanding of
oneself, achieve better self-awareness and look at oneself with increased
self-acceptance and appreciation, and be able to manage oneself.
 Learn
Definition of Social Sciences
Social sciences are disciplines concerned with the systematic study of social phenomena.
Basically, the term ‘social sciences’ is defined as the study of human society; that particular
area of study that relates to human behavior and society. In a broader sense, it is the branch
of science that deals with the institutions, the functioning of human society and with the
interpersonal relationships of individuals as members of society. There are distinct disciplines
or branches dealing with a particular phase or aspect of human society such as socio-
cultural aspects of human behavior.
The social sciences include the following academic disciplines:
 Political Science is the discipline that studies the state and its basic elements such as
people, territory, government, and sovereignty. It is concerned with politics focusing on
decision-making and governance.
 Economics is the field that analyses how individuals interact with society to address
major issues about the use of economic resources for production and the exchange of
goods and services.
 Demography is the study of population changes and trends, including migration from
rural to urban areas, urbanization and human ecology, and population and its
relationship to development. It uses statistical tools in the collection and analysis of
data pertaining to population, birth and death rates, and unemployment and
underemployment.
 Geography studies the world, its people, and its communities. Human geography, in
particular, focuses on human activities and their impact on environmental change and
other related issues.
 Anthropology studies the origins and the cultural and physical characteristics of
human beings, as well as the social norms that they observe.
 Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It studies the structure and functions of
words, sentences, and other spoken sounds and utterances.
 Law is the discipline that studies the rules formulated and implemented by
governments to uphold order and equitability in society. One of the most important
subjects of law is the constitution, which is the fundamental law of the land.
 History studies the past to better understand contemporary society and anticipate
changes and developments in the future. History looks into the significant events and
achievements in the human experience and how these are all interconnected with one
another
 Public Administration is the field that deals with the implementation of public
policies and the government agencies that enact these.
 Psychology studies the human mind and human behavior. It examines how people
think, act, and feel, with the end goal of creating intervention programs that would
help improve human behavior.
 Sociology is the systematic study of society and social relations. It seeks to
understand how individuals relate with one another and how they function in society.

Definition of Applied Social Sciences

The Applied Social Sciences draw heavily from the theories of the various social sciences
(e.g, psychology, sociology and political science) to critically study society and the
 relationships among the people within. The Applied social sciences equip students with the
ability to develop practical and effective solutions to societal issues and concerns. They also
develop the students’ research skills and give them the opportunity to conduct studies on
social realities. They prepare students to tackle some of the most crucial and pressing
social, economic, political, and ecological issues of our times. Finally, the applied social
sciences prepare students toward becoming effective leaders in society.
The Three important fields in the applied social sciences are counselling, social work
and communication studies.
 Counselling draws heavily from the theories of Psychology and the other behavioral
sciences. Counselling seeks to improve the clients’ mental health and well-being by
discussing his or her emotional problems to help him or her cope with them.
 Social Work is a practice-based profession that seeks to improve the welfare of
communities, individuals, families, and other groups in society. It draws heavily from
the social and behavioral sciences for its theoretical and knowledge base.
 Communication involves the sharing of symbols to create meaning. The discipline
covers a number of topics, including face-to-face conversations and mass media such
as television, radio, newspapers, the internet, social media, and electronic mail.

COUNSELING
Counselling is closely related psychotherapy. While the latter focuses on the treatment of
mental illness, counselling address a much wider range of concerns apart from treating
the mentally ill. Counselling includes activities that address the well-being of the
individual not only in the medical or clinical setting, but also in other settings such as
education, business, community, and family. Thus, a person who undergoes counselling
should not be thought of as being mentally ill. In fact, counselling is a normal and
necessary activity which ensures the well-being of the individual.
Goals of Counseling
The primary goal of counseling is to help people utilize their prevailing social skills and
problem-solving skills more functionally or to cultivate new surviving and coping skills.
Other counseling goals identified by Gibson and Mitchell (2003) are:
 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 helps enhance special skills and abilities
 Remedial Goals assisting a client to overcome and treat an undesirable development
 Enlightenment. Assisting the client to arrive at a higher state of spiritual awakening.
 Exploratory Goals examining options, testing of skills, trying new and different
activities.
 Reinforcement Goals helps client in recognizing that what they are doing, thinking,
and feeling is fine.
 Cognitive Goals involves acquiring the basic foundation of learning and cognitive
skills
 Restitution. Helping the client to make amends for previous destructive behavior.
 Physiological Goals involves acquiring the basic understanding and habits for good
health
 Psychological Goals aids in developing good social interaction skills learning
emotional control, and developing positive self-concept
 Scope of Counseling
 It involves application of some psychological theories and recognized communication
skills.
 It does not deal with clinical cases such as mental illness.
 It is a professional relationship that requires an eventual closure and termination of
the counselee-counselor relationship.
The Principles of counseling are:
 Advice-giving. Counseling may involve advice-giving as one of the several functions
that counselors perform.
 Reassurance. Counseling involves providing clients with the reassurance, which is a
way of giving them courage to face a problem or confidence that they are pursuing a
suitable course of action.
 Release of emotional tension. Counseling provides clients the opportunity to get
emotional release from their pent-up frustrations and personal issues.
 Clarified thinking. This tends to take place while the counselor and counselee are
talking and therefore becomes a logical emotional release. It also encourages a client
to accept responsibility for problems and to be more realistic in solving them.
 Reorientation. This involves a change in the client’s emotional self through a change
in basic goals and aspiration.
 Listening skills. Listening attentively to client is the counselor’s attempt to
understand both the content of the client’s problem as they see it, and the emotions
they are experiencing related to the problem.
 Respect. Clients must be treated with respect no matter how peculiar, strange,
disturbed, weird, or utterly different from the counselor.
 Empathy and positive regard. The two principle that should go along with respect
and effective listening skills. Empathy requires the counselor to listen and
understand the feelings and perspective of the client and positive regard is an aspect
of respect.
 Clarification, confrontation, and interpretation. Clarification is an attempt by
the counselor to restate what the client is either saying or feeling, so the client may
learn something transference and countertransference.

Practice exercise/Activity
Directions: Analyze the situation below. Write T if the statements are true and F if its
false.
T 1. Counselors act with care and respect for individual and cultural differences.
F 2. Counselors can harm their clients provided with valid and legal reasons.
F 3. Counselors can divulge information regarding their clients.
T 4. Counselors can make-up stories to protect the interest of his or her profession.
T 5. Counselors practice within the scope of their competence.
F 6. Mental illness is solely based on the genetic make-up of a person.
T 7. One’s positive self-concept is considered a protective factor in developing against poor
mental health.
T 8. A resilient person is flexible.
 T 9. Severe depression can lead to suicide.
T 10. Social support is important in developing good mental health.

Engage

Directions: Using a T-Chart, cite the comparison and differences of social sciences and
applied social sciences.

Social Science Comparison Applied Social Science

Theory proven Based on scientific research Solving problem

Trigger Curiosity Have contribution to Problems to be solved or

civilization needs to be developed

Object are people Necessary to human life Object are system

Qualitative Root of science Both quantitative and

qualitative

Qualified hypothesis or Been done by scientific Technology, invention

behavioral theory methodology

Apply

Directions: Answer the question below.

1. How do the social sciences and applied social sciences contribute to your development as a HUMSS
student?
- Social sciences and applied social sciences contribute to my development as a HUMSS student, by
allowing me to understand what the life is I am into, and the society where I’m leaving in. it also
helps me understand how to interact with the social world, how to influence policy, developed
network, increase government accountability.

2. If you have a friend who’s thinking of dropping or cutting classes from your class, how will you help
him/her using different concepts of counselling?
- If I have a friend who is thinking of dropping or cutting classes in our class, I can assist him/her by
inquiring about his/her future plans and aspirations in life. If it is to graduate, cutting class will have an
impact on his/her graduation. He/she may wish to consult with a guidance counselor. I’ll acquire if they
want my opinion. In they’re action, this is the best offer I can give.
 Post Test

I. Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a separate
sheet of paper.
1. It is defined as the study of human society; that particular area of study that relates to
human behavior and society.
a. Applied social sciences c. Social science
b. Humanities d. Anthropology
2. This discipline draw heavily from the theories of the various social sciences (e.g,
psychology, sociology and political science) to critically study society and the
relationships among the people within.
a. Applied social sciences c. Humanities
b. Social sciences d. Anthropology
3. It is a practice-based profession that seeks to improve the welfare of communities,
individuals, families, and other groups in society.
a. Communication studies c. Social work
b. Counselling d. Public Administration
4. The discipline covers a number of topics, including face-to-face conversations and mass
media such as television, radio, newspapers, the internet, social media, and electronic
mail.
a. Communication studies c. Social work
b. Counselling d. Public Administration
5. This practice seeks to improve the clients’ mental health and well-being by discussing
his or her emotional problems to help him or her cope with them.
a. Communication studies c. Social work
b. Counselling d. Public Administration
6. Which of the following is NOT true about counselling?
a. It is a helping profession
b. Cure mental illnesses
c. Seeks to improve client’s Mental health and well being
d. Give love and consider the interest of others
7. The following are scope of counselling EXCEPT____________.
a. Anger management c. Parenting
b. Marital issues d. Mental illnesses
8. It helps the client recognize and accept his or her own limitations.
a. Clarification c. Reassurance
b. Reorientation d. Empathy
9. This skill helps counsellors to understand the concerns being presented by a counselee.
a. Listening skill c. Clarified thinking
b. Empathy d. Advice
10. Counselling is an exchange of ideas and feelings between two people-the counsellor and
the client. This principle refers to_________.
a. Empathy c. Communication
b. Clarified thinking d. Reorientation