Applied social sciences aim to improve well-being and social functioning through advocacy, counseling, case management and other skills. Professionals in this field can work in roles like caseworkers, counselors, and community social workers. They observe standards of social justice, dignity, and competence. Self-awareness and understanding how social and individual factors influence behaviors are important for professionals to effectively facilitate individual and social change. Changes in attitudes, behaviors, and structures over the long term are needed to achieve equity and sustainability.

1. EFFECTS OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES
PROCESSES

2. DIRECTION: In your own opinion,
1. What can you say about our law in our country in
protecting children who are prone to abuses in
our society? Based on RA 7610
2. How about 9262, For women?

3. Applied social sciences come with a wide
range of practitioner skills in areas such as
advocacy, counseling, and case management, and
the knowledge and experience to be able to work
with individuals, groups, and communities to
improve their well-being and social functioning.

4. Professionals here are eligible to apply for roles
such as alcohol and drug worker, caseworker, school
counselors, client service officers, community social
workers, contact supervisors, and rehabilitation
officers, among others. They can also fit well in all
other sectors requiring the application of psychological
knowledge, including the human resource offices,
personnel, market research, community services, health,
and social welfare.

5. With the applied social sciences processes, standards in
social service delivery are observed. A set of core values is
considered in the delivery of human and social services.
Services are given with quality. Social justice is pursued. Every
person is considered to have dignity and worth. The
importance of human relationships is a factor in social service
delivery. Integrity and competence are expected of all
professionals in the practice of social service. They are
expected to work within their areas of competence and to
develop and enhance their professional expertise. People in
need are helped by social workers to address social problems.
Social injustice is challenged.

6. Social Awareness, Self-awareness, and Self-knowledge
Social awareness, self-awareness, and self-knowledge are
very essential for quality participation and functioning in
society for they incorporate one’s appreciation of both the
inner-ecology and the social ecology. We become aware of
who we are as individuals, because of the presence of others
with whom we share our existence. When we come to
recognize that there are other people and that they are
essentially distinct and different from us, that is the start of
our social awareness that simultaneously leads us to become
conscious and aware of ourselves as beings or persons.

7. Self-awareness is an important step toward self-
understanding and self-mastery and it forms an
essential part of intrapersonal and emotional
intelligence. It means having the capacity to understand
your personality, behaviors, habits, and emotions. It
includes being conscious of what you are good at
(strengths) as well as of what you are not good at
(weaknesses). As a student, it also involves identifying
and describing the factors that influence your
emotional responses as well as develop a realistic sense
of your personal.abilities, qualities, and strengths.

8. This is done through knowing what you are feeling in the
moment, and having a realistic assessment of your own
abilities resulting in a well-grounded sense of self-knowledge
and self-confidence. It involves reflecting on and evaluating
your learning, identifying personal characteristics that
contribute to or limit your effectiveness, learning from
successes or failures, and being able to interpret your own
emotional states, needs, and perspectives. A self-aware
individual acts with personal and social capability through
recognition of emotions, recognition of personal qualities and
achievements, understanding oneself as learner, and
developing a reflective practice.

9. Attitude and Value Change
Tensions emanating from technological, social, and
economic change bring about attitude and value change.
With all changes happening especially in the climate
change context, social and cultural values that may not
be in support of survival need to give way to those that
are life nurturing. Two frameworks for climate change
resiliency suggested ask either for mitigation strategies
or adaptation strategies to ensure human survival and
prosperity.

10. Relying only on disaster risk reduction and
effective management of climate change is not
adequate; there is a need to have attitudinal and value
transformation on negative inclinations like the “bahala
na” attitude; these cannot lead to individual, group, or
community sustainability. Our attitudes and values
must change with time, so as to allow our new abilities
to survive to emerge. Our lifestyles are as good as they
are sustainable and supported by our life means.

11. Behavioral Change
Behavior is acquired or developed slowly and once it’s
part of your life, you will learn the difficulty of behavioral
change. It is hard to break old habits or adopt new ones.
Making a permanent change in behavior is never a simple
process, and it requires a substantial commitment of
time, effort, and emotion. Sometimes, one has to make
several tries before succeeding. Achieving behavioral
change demands multiple solutions and even several
different techniques.

12. Often, in the process of trying to change, many people
become less motivated, discouraged, and give up on their
goals to change their behaviors. Generally, behavioral change
is highly transactional. The motivation is sustained by cost
analysis. If change is perceived to bring immediate
gratification with good benefits compared to the status quo,
the behavioral change process tends to be sustainable.
Behavioral change management is never easy, but
psychologists, therapists, physicians, and teachers have
developed a number of ways to effectively help people change
their behaviors.

13. Research has produced theories to explain how
change occurs. In the late 1970s, researchers James
Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente were studying ways to
help people quit smoking and ended up developing one
of the best known approaches to change, called the
Stages of Change model or The Transtheoretical Model
(TTM). This model demonstrates that change is not easy
and requires a gradual progression of small steps
toward a larger goal.

14. The model has been found to be an effective aid in
understanding how people go through change in behavior. Based
on this model, there are three most important elements in
changing a behavior: (1) readiness to change; (2) barriers to
change; and (3) expect relapse. One needs to have resources to aid
change. These may include both economic and social capital, a
support network, and an enabling environment. Change happens
in a gradual way. Relapses are considered an inevitable part of the
change process in achieving a lifelong change. Unwillingness and
resistance to change are very normal during the early stages. In
the process, one becomes accustomed to the process and
increases the commitment to achieving behavioral change goals.

15. Self-change can be hard and so is
changing others. Individual behavior and
collective behavior all need to change if the
behavior in question is not positive. Applied
social sciences bring in a wealth of
approaches, techniques, and tools to
facilitate change on the individual level and
on the group level.

16. Behavioral change has been rightly associated with the
role of the applied social sciences processes. There is more
discourse on power and corruption, conflict management and
peacebuilding process, and risk assessment behavior. The
media have made issues of power and corruption to become a
public matter leading to arrests and detention and trials of the
powerful political individual like the three Philippine senators
who were tried for plunder cases in 2014 (Former Senate
President, Sen. Ponce Enrile, former Senate Minority Leader,
Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, and Sen. Bong Revilla).

17. The practice and insights from social work and
counseling are influencing progress in conflict
management and peacebuilding in Mindanao and
across society. Counselors and social workers are more
and more impacting public response to risk assessment
behavior on individual, group, and community levels.
The campaign against the spread of HIV and prevention
as well as care for the afflicted is largely due to the
input from applied social sciences and the work of the
professionals in the practice.

18. Structural Change
Structural change refers to the radical shift in the way
reality is organized and does not necessarily include
substantive change. Structural change, in economic terms,
is the transformation of policy, legal, social, cultural,
economic, and/or physical aspects of an environment that
impede or hinder equity for all. As such, it requires long-
term interventions that build on knowledge, behavior, and
attitude modification across multiple domains: public and
private institutions, civil society, community groups, and
the general population.

19. Normally, this is only realizable when there is the
transformation in dominant sectors that help to
remove barriers to equity for all in every opportunity
area such as health and safety, education, employment,
housing, and income and wealth. The complexity of
issues may require starting in one institution and
breeding to another institution as well as long-term
close monitoring of public policies.

20. In many countries, women were not allowed to
hold public office and they were made to look
incompetent using a social structure, for example, that
prevented them to go further in education or have
exposure to public service. Systemically, their exposure
was in the kitchen and domestic context. To change
this, there are global efforts from public policy to social
awareness campaign and education where
organizations and companies are required to have
women representation in workplace and public affairs.

21. In the recent past, the family structure did not just
describe the biological and marital relationship that
bonded people together but it included the aspects of
living together under the same roof or very close
proximity. Today, the concept of family remains to be
the basic unit of human relations but does not
necessarily imply living together. Furthermore, the
institution of marriage was confined to opposite-sex
partners but today, there is a growing acceptance of
same-sex unions and marriages across the globe.

22. Evidently, personal and family relations, gender, overseas
migration of Filipino workers, domestic violence, single
parenting, community life, criminality, and substance abuse
are not only changing in the structure; they are also becoming
more common and normal. Applied social sciences are
facilitating much of people’s struggle to live with these
changes. Social work, counseling, and communication are
making common issues more of a public discourse leading to
greater acceptance and better understanding and coping on
the individual, group, and community levels. Social science
concepts and theories have provided the foundation and tools
to deal with changes in a more comprehensive way.

23. Synthesis of the Effects of Applied Social Sciences
Social sciences, in their broadness, provide a huge theoretical resource to
explain much of the social phenomena that affect individuals, families, groups,
and communities. Applied sciences raise the social science to a practical science
to address personal, family, group, and community problems by helping
individuals develop their capacity to fit well in the environment and by
challenging the environment to become better for individuals to flourish.
Guidance and counseling, social work, and communication and journalism
provide the mechanism, tools, methods, and processes to bridge the individual
and his / her community. Applied social sciences are rooted in the principles of
human rights, social justice, and inclusion as well as empowering individuals,
groups, and communities to develop their full potential and well-being. When
these are not realized, denied, or violated, then applied social sciences set in
with appropriate measures to transform humanity.

24. Activity
Direction: Please make a list of…
1.Personal struggles that need solutions?
2.What initial solution did you make?
3.Do you need professional assistance? Why?

25. Quiz
1. These are very essential for quality participation
and functioning in society for they incorporate
one’s appreciation of both the inner-ecology and
the social ecology except:
A. Social awareness
B. Self-awareness
C. Self-knowledge
D. Self-priority

26. 2. Applied social sciences come with a wide range of
practitioner skills in areas such as…
A. Advocacy
B. Counseling, and case management
C. Knowledge and experience
D. All of the above

27. 3. Professionals here are _________ to apply for roles
such as alcohol and drug worker, caseworker, school
counselors, client service officers, community social
workers, contact supervisors, and rehabilitation
officers, among others
A. Accountable
B. Credible
C. Eligible
D. Responsible

28. 4. With the applied social sciences processes, standards
in social service delivery are observed. A set of
_____________ is considered in the delivery of human
and social services
A. Core values
B. Core group
C. Care group
D. Core organizations

29. 5. Self-awareness is an important step toward…
A. self-understanding and self-mastery
B. Self-principles and beliefs
C. Self-initiative and volunteerism
D. Self-centeredness and pride

30. ACTIVITY:
In your own words, please explain the statement
below base from our previous lesson. (At least 100
words). Just do in a whole sheet of paper.
“Behavior is acquired or developed slowly and once it’s
part of your life, you will learn the difficulty of behavioral
change”

31. QUIZ
1. Give at least TWO political leaders mentioned in our
discussion.
2. What case being filed to them?

32. 3. Base from our discussion, In many countries,
________ were not allowed to hold public office and
they were made to look incompetent using a social
structure, for example, that prevented them to go
further in education or have exposure to public service.
A. Foreigner
B. Women
C. Men
D. children

33. 4. The concept of family remains to be the basic ______
of human relations but does not necessarily imply living
together.
A. Concept
B. Needs
C. Part
D. Unit