Discipline and Ideas in Applied Social Sciences

The applied social sciences also allows us to understand better and probe deeper into the different problems and issues affecting an individual, group, and society.

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Counseling allows us to understand one's personality including various problems and issues that may affect an individual.

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• False

Social work focuses only on individual and personal problems.

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The following are social workers' roles in direct service: social broker, enabler, therapist, documenter, and mobilizer.

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Primary settings in social work practice include the schools, hospitals, correlational facilities, human resource departments, corporations, government planning departments, and political offices.

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The applied social sciences can introduce ways to achieve long lasting peace through a practitioner's knowledge and application of the political processes that include peace-building processes and conflict management mechanisms.

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Disaster risks cannot be prevented and mitigated through the use of the applied social sciences.

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The impact of climate change to society and its overarching effect on the Philippines can be easily understood through the application of the social sciences.

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The applied social sciences can help persuade people to change their beliefs, attitudes and behavior.

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The surveillance function of the media refers to the importance of the mass media to national security.

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