1st Quarter DIASS Reviewer PDF

Social - means relating to human society. Science - refers to study of phenomena using systematic ways. Social Science - is the study of society and the manner in which people behave and influence the world around us. Applied Social Sciences - refers to the study of the society we liv...

Social - means relating to human society. Science - refers to study of phenomena using systematic ways. Social Science - is the study of society and the manner in which people behave and influence the world around us. Applied Social Sciences - refers to the study of the society we live in and the relationships people have within that society. - is an integrated science cutting across and transcending various social science disciplines in addressing a wide range of issues in contemporary, innovative, and dynamic way. Three Main Career Tracks for Applied Social Science 1. Counseling - is one of the fields of applied social sciences as an application of the social sciences, provides guidance, help and support to individuals. 2. Social Work - practitioners help individuals, families, groups, and communities to improve their individuals and collective well-being. 3. Communication Studies - provide adequate training for careers in the field of journalism and mass communication. Counseling as an: 1. As an art - the subjective dimension of counseling. 2. As an science - the objective dimension of the counseling process. Informal Helping - is a kin with formal helping in some ways such as presence of good listening skills, empathy and caring capacity.  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. 3. Enhancement Goals - enhance special skills and abilities. 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. 6. Reinforcement Goals - helps client in recognizing that what they are doing, thinking and feeling is fine. 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. Guidance and Counseling Act of RA 9258 of 2004 - is defined as a profession involving an integrated approach to the development of a well-functioning individual primarily by helping him/her to utilize potentials to the fullest and plan the future in accordance to the abilities, interests and needs.  Aspects that Covers Counseling 1. Consultant - counselor serve as student advocates by consulting with students, parents, teachers, and others regarding strategies to help students and their families. 2. Teacher - a set curriculum that is mandated by DepEd. 3. Personal Counselor - serves as mentors, role models, and a confidante to students and faculty members who need someone to share their burdens with during various times of their lives. 4. Peer Facilitator - counselors can train students as peer mediators, conflict managers, tutors, and mentors. 5. Test Coordinator - counselors serve as school test coordinators for the Department of Educations testing program. 6. Career Counselor - help students investigate the world of work as well as their personal interests, develop job skills, apply for jobs, write resources, and seek employment. 7. Program Manager - a counselor must be organized and up-to date on the latest curriculum and standards given by the state and local systems in order to develop a well rounded program. 8. Researcher - counselors must analyze their individual school’s data results from testing. 9. Public Relations Consultant - helps others in the school understand the counseling program. 10. Counselor - provide short-term counseling in the school. Therapy - addresses serious disorders and personality problems. - addresses unconscious concerns as well as conscious concerns. - assist with personality reconstruction and other serious problems. The Four Institute of Guidance Counselor’s Code (Code of Ethics) Principle 1: Respect for the Rights and Dignity of the Client. Principle 2: Competence Principle 3: Responsibility Principle 4: Integrity Social Work - promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. - aims to protect vulnerable people from abuse, neglect, or self-harm and to help enhance their well-being and quality of life. Compassion - can be considered as an important value for all humankind. Service - directs social workers to go beyond purely performing a service for a pay and allow to be generous with their time. Social Justice - a basis of their understanding of the need to ensure that everyone get serviced and that everyone get a share of what the community posses I material and non-material assets. Integrity - nothing can be accomplished without integrity. Competence - a very important value for social work because it separates social caregiving from social work professional practice.  The Roles, Functions and Competencies of Social Work 1. Broker - social worker links clients to appropriate human services and other resources. 2. Advocate - assists clients in upholding their rights to receive resources and services and to actively support causes intended to make policies and programs more responsive to client. 3. Staff Developer - to facilitate the professional development of staff through training, supervision, consultation and personal management. S – serving O – others with C – compassion and I – intellect to give them A – a chance at a better L – life; W – working O – on any occasion; R – reacting K – kindly and with E – energy R – regardless of feelings. When interventions are designed, the implementation stage follows. Monitoring - both the planned and unplanned occurrences in the process are documented. - is done during the implementation phase. Evaluation - examines the results and finds out if the intended results are being met or not.  Needs of Various Types of Clientele and Audiences of Counseling 1. As job hunting coaches - counselors provide avenues for people to find necessary information and get employment that is suitable to them. 2. As human resources personnel - provide the needs common to all workplaces and they are employed in almost all workplaces. 3. As marriage counselors - provide the need for conflict-resolution skills to parties, couples, and children to deal with various stresses and issues that threaten their unity or peaceful coexistence. 4. As drug abuse and rehabilitation counselors - meet the need to help people overcome their problems or mitigate some of the most negative effects of drug abuse. 5. As bereavement counselors - respond to the need to be helped through loss, such as death in the family. Clients of Counseling 1. As an Individual - the most common type of counseling. 2. As a Group and Organization - communities, organizations, students in schools, teachers in school, and departments in workplaces. 3. As a community - when people experience something collectively.