Senior High School

Disciplines and
Ideas in Applied
Social Sciences
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Counseling as an Applied Social
Science
Disciplines and Ideas in Applied Social Sciences – Grade 12
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 1: Counseling as an Applied Social Science
First Edition, 2020

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Disciplines and
Ideas in Applied
Social Sciences
Quarter 1 – Module 2:
Counseling as an Applied Social
Science
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Disciplines and Ideas in Applied Social Sciences – Grade 12

Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Professional and Practitioners in
Counseling!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by

educators both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or
facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum
while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also
aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module.

You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning.

Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as they
do the tasks included in the module.

For the learner:

Welcome to the Disciplines and Ideas in Applied Social Sciences – Grade 12

Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Professional and Practitioners in
Counseling!!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time.

You will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while
being an active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

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What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
lesson to take. If you get all the answers
correct (100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways such as a
story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an
activity or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of

the lesson. This aims to help you discover
and understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the
answers to the exercises using the Answer
Key at the end of the module.

What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank

sentence/paragraph to be filled in to
process what you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you transfer your new knowledge or
skill into real life situations or concerns.

Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your

level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given

to you to enrich your knowledge or skill of
the lesson learned. This also tends retention
of learned concepts.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

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At the end of this module you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in

developing this module.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of
the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are not
alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning
and gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies.

You can do it!

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 What I Need to Know

Congratulations!

You have been progressing as a senior high school student under the
Humanities and Social Sciences strand.

You are now ready to embark in the new opportunity of learning how
knowledge and skills you acquired from Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences
(DISS) are applied and put into action for the improvement of the society and
providing solutions to social issues.

As a student of Humanities and Social Sciences or HUMSS, it is important

that you understand the purposes of your course, what are the works of the
practitioners of this particular field of science.

In this particular module, you will be introduced to one of the applied social
sciences which is counseling.

This module will help you learn and master the expected learning
competency. Use available resources like dictionary. Remember that you are
expected to submit learning evidences.

Experience the joy of the reasons behind the social sciences wisdom and its
application and you will find the meaning of your course.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. clarify the relationships between social sciences and applied social
sciences
2. identify the goals and scope of counseling
3. explain the principles of counseling

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 What I Know

True or False. Read and study each statement and determine if it is true or false.
Write your answer only.

________1. Counseling does not involve science.

________2. Geography is the scientific study of behavior and mental
processes to better understand human behaviors in relation to his social
environment.
________3. Applied social sciences are founded from the theories and
principles of social sciences and are thus product of social science.
________4. The knowledge, theories and principles of social sciences cannot
be applied to resolve social issues.
________5. Counseling, social works and communications are not related to
social sciences in any way.
________6. Counseling uses psychological theories and principles to eliminate
virus and bacteria.
________7. In counseling sessions, the expert is called counselee.
________8. Counseling does not aim to create positive change in human
behavior but instead it aims to freeze behavioral conditions of the counselee.
________9. Counseling focuses solely on individual development.
________10. Social science deals with discovering and establishing truths
about society.

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Lesson
Counseling as an Applied
1 Social Science
It is good to begin your study by recalling the lessons you had in Disciplines
and Ideas in Social Sciences or DISS. Complete the Review Activity and improve
your understanding of our topic from here. Enjoy!

What’s In

Review Activity : The Web of Social Sciences

Instructions:

1. Write in the boxes the different disciplines of social sciences introduced to

you in your study of Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences.
2. Complete the activity in five minutes.

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 What’s New

Activity 1: Table of Social Sciences Application

Instructions:

1. Study the table on the next page which shows the different disciplines
of social sciences and their focus descriptions.
2. Complete the table by writing your own understanding of the
importance of each discipline and how these disciplines help solve
social issues.
3. On the third column, give an idea of the importance of the said social
science discipline.
4. On the fourth column, explain how that specific social science
discipline can be applied to resolve social issue. You may give social
issue in your localities.
5. Select five disciplines only.
6. Don’t dwell too much for each, just try and express your ideas. The first
row has been filled with information to guide you.
7. Don’t copy the example.
8. Time yourself to work on this.
9. Stop writing after seven minutes and read your answers.
10. Access you own efforts.
11.Discover connections in your answers.
12. For three minutes only, think and write in the last box of the table
your conclusion about social science and how it can be applied.

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 Notes to the Teacher
It would be great for teacher/facilitator to level
expectations and to put less demand to learners to fill out all
boxes. The goal of the activity is to recall Disciplines and Ideas in
Social Sciences and relate if to Disciplines and Ideas in Applied
Social Sciences.

Social Science Focus Importance How the discipline

Disciplines can be applied to
resolve the social
issue

Anthropology It examines human beings It helps people When people know

and their origins to understand the reasons the cultural beliefs in
understand culture in behind cultural beliefs in one locality they will
relation to physical and a certain area. understand and
human environment respect the culture of
the locals.

Economics Economics studies the

production, distribution,
exchange, and
consumption of goods
and services to discover
the most efficient way of
satisfying needs and
wants.

Geography Geography deals with the

relationship between the
environment of the
earth’s surface and
humans, which involves
both physical and cultural
geographic features.

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Social Science Focus Importance How the discipline
Disciplines can be applied to
resolve the social
issue

History History is a study of all

the past events by way of
obtaining the most
accurate details to relate
to the present life of
human beings.

Linguistics Linguistics is the .

scientific study of nature
and characteristics of
language as well as the
relationships between or
among languages

Political science Political science studies

systems of government,
and the analysis of
political activities and
processes that can be
used in policy formations
to influence individuals
and institutions, and
organize societies.
Psychology Psychology is the
scientific study of
behavior and mental
processes to better
understand human
behaviors in relation to
his social environment.

Sociology Sociology studies human

social relations and social
interaction or the
responses of persons to
each other to better
understand social
structures and institutions
and social problems
affect society.

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Social Science Focus Importance How the discipline
Disciplines can be applied to
resolve the social
issue

Demography Demography studies the

size, growth, and
distribution of human
populations to better
understand human
population dynamics and
human population
change.
Write here your realization or conclusion about social science and how it can be applied.

What is It

Thank you for giving your best in completing Activity 1.

Social science deals with discovering and establishing truths about society
including its physical and non-physical elements and the phenomena therein. It is
a broad body of knowledge about the society that it is divided into several
branches. Each branch focuses on a particular aspect of the society following
formalized course of academic and scientific process which makes them a
particular discipline.

As you have discovered in Activity 1, each discipline of social science deals

with unique social concerns. The knowledge, theories and principles of social
sciences can be applied in so many ways that can serve several benefits to human
kind and the world. These applications are of wide range and variety and social
scientists have been progressively working on them which resulted to formalized
and systematized activities following scientific and academic processes and
programs. These activities then follows unique courses and focuses on certain
school of thoughts thus developed into several applied social science disciplines.

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 Applied social sciences are founded from the theories and principles of social
sciences and are thus product of social science. In this course, we will focus on
three of the various disciplines of applied social science namely, Counseling,
Social Work, and Communication.

This module will introduce you into the applied social science discipline
called counseling.

Discover counseling and learn more about it while working and finishing
Activity 2.

You may also check out other available references offline or online. Reach
out to other people like your family, relatives or friends for assistance. They can
help you.

What’s More

Activity 3 Discovering and Describing Counseling

Instructions:
1. Read and understand the following text about counseling.
2. After reading the text, help yourself grasp the concepts presented in the through
accomplishing the graphical organizer that follows.
3. Complete the graphical organizer by supplying the needed
information.

Meaning, Scope and Goals of Counseling

Merriam-Webster defines counseling as a “professional guidance of the individual
by utilizing psychological methods especially in collecting case history data, using
various techniques of the personal interview, and testing interests and aptitudes”.
In counseling, the counselor or the expert in this field, uses the insights and
principles of the different psychological theories that shed light in the understanding of
mental processes and human behaviors to provide appropriate guidance and interventions
to bring about positive changes and improved wellbeing of a patient referred to as the
counselee.
Counseling covers the areas of personal development, career enhancement, and
relationships improvement. Counselors help discover and develop potentialities and skills
of persons. They assist aspirants and professionals in establishing, maintaining and
advancing careers. Experts in the field of counseling help individuals improve
interpersonal skills, adjust and cope with the demands and conditions of relationships.
There are several goals of counseling.12 These include improvement of behavior,
coping mechanism, and guidance in making decisions in personal and professional aspects
of life, understanding of self and potentialities, fix relationship problems among others.
My Graphical Organizer for Discovering
and Describing Counseling

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Activity 4 Question and Answer Portion

Praise yourself for doing a fantastic work of completing the tasks. Pause for
a while and think about the way you learn and what have been learning so far.
Then, answer the following questions on a separate sheet to serve as your Learning
Evidence 4.
1. What did you feel while doing the tasks?
2. What is social science?
3. What are the different disciplines of social science?
4. Which among the social sciences do you think is the best and why?
5. How is social sciences related to applied social sciences?
6. What are the three applied social sciences?
7. Why are they called applied social sciences?
8. What is the scope of counseling?
9. Why is counseling important?
10. Can you explain the principle of counseling?

What I Have Learned

You are fantastic! You are almost done with this module. Express your
understanding and learnings from this module into words by writing three
sentences. Write a sentence about each of the following:

1. Give the relationships between Social Sciences and Applied Social Sciences.
2. The goals and scope of counseling are

3. The principles of counselling are

After answering, read your statements. What can you say about what you
learned?

What I Can Do

You are making great improvement.

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?

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 Assessment

True or False. Read and study each statement and determine if it is true or false.
Write your answer only.

_____1.Social science deals with discovering and establishing truths about society.

_____2. Geography is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes to better
understand human behaviors in relation to his social environment.

_____3. The knowledge, theories and principles of social sciences cannot be applied
to resolve social issues.

_____4. Applied social sciences are founded from the theories and principles of
social sciences and are thus product of social science.

______5. Counseling, social works and communications are not related to social
sciences in any way.

______6. Counseling uses psychological theories and principles to eliminate virus

and bacteria.

______7. In counseling sessions, the expert is called counselee.

______8.Counseling does not aim to create positive change in human behavior but
instead it aims to freeze behavioral conditions of the counselee.

______9. Counseling focuses solely on individual development.

______10.Counseling does not involve science.

Additional Activities

Talk to one member of your family, relative or friend about the three
sentences you have written about what you learned from this module.
Ask that person for feedback.

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 Answer Key

Assessment What's More What I Know

1. True Question and Answer Portion 1. False

2. False 2. True
3. False 1. Answers may vary 3. False
4. True 2. Answers may vary 4. False
5. False 3. Answers may vary 5. True
6. False 4. Answers may vary 6. False
7. False 5. Answers may vary 7. False
8. False 6. Answers may vary 8. False
9. False 7. Answers may vary 9. False
10. False 8. Answers may vary 10. True
9. Answers may vary
10. Answers may vary

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References

Jose, Jobin, “Describing concept, scope & use of guidance and counseling”. IndiaStudyChannel.com.
September 13, 2010. Accessed July 23, 2020.
https://www.indiastudychannel.com/resources/126909-Concept-scope-use-of-guidance-and-
counseling.aspx

Mañebog, Jensen.” The Nine Social Science Disciplines”. OurHappySchool. August 4, 2016.
Accessed July 23, 2020. https://ourhappyschool.com/ap-social-studies/nine-social-science-
disciplines

Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, s.v. “counseling,” accessed July 23, 2020, https://www.merriam-

webster.com/dictionary/counseling.

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