| A measure to determine the relative purchasing power of money at a given time in a given society.
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| A historic institution that was used to maintain the poor.
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| Early stages in human life span characterized by rapid physical growth and efforts to learn how to assume adult roles and responsibility mostly through play and formal education.
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| Carefully designed and implemented procedures and individual or more usually, a group used to bring about short term changes in another group or individual.
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| The term used to describe American citizen of Mexican birth or ethnic heritage.
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| The property of living systems that permits them to reach identical points, although by different routes.
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| A social worker tries to persuade a system to decide in favor of the client.
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| Academy of Certified Social Workers.
A group established by NASW in 1962 to evaluate and clarify the practice compliance of individual social workers.
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| Understanding the complex reality of person-in-situation.
The accumulation of information, assumptions, ideologies and the judgments that have seemed practically useful in fulfilling the expectations of the job.
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| Government sponsored benefits of cash, goods, or services that are due, all people who belong to a specified class.
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| The individual, group, or community to be changed or influenced to achieve social work goals.
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| National Association of Social Workers.
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| A form of group involvement which may/may not have a specifically designed therapeutic purpose in which the participant work on programs of motivation / interest.
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Psychosocial Human Development
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| · Stages of Psychosocial Development.
· Each stage has a psychosocial crisis that must be resolved within a radius of the significant relationship.
· Stage 1 - Trust vs. Mistrust.
· Stage 2 - Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt.
· Stage 3 - Initiative vs. Guilt.
· Stage 4 - Industry vs. Inferiority.
· Stage 5 - Identity vs. Confusion.
· Stage 6 - Intimacy vs. Isolation.
· Stage 7 - Generativity vs. Stagnation.
· Stage 8 - Integrity vs. Despair.
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| A firm of social case work developed primarily by Helen Harris Perlman that draws in concepts in ego, psychology, role theory and implicitly on a consolidation of the diagnostic school in Social Work and the functional school of social work.
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| Used to help clarify and define the objectives they hope to achieve in helping and then to establish the steps that must be taken and the time needed to reach those objectives.
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| A court appointed representative designed to preserve and manage the affairs and property of another person who is considered incapable of managing his/her own affairs in the course of litigation.
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| To fource, to act, or think in a given manner by pressure, threats or intimidation and to dominate, restrain or control forcibly.
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| An explicit statement of the values, principles and rules of a profession regulating the conduct of its members.
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| Individuals who are a part of the Mexican American health belief system that are used to rid a person of the visits of the spirits.
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| A verbal or written agreement between the worker and client. It guides their joint efforts to achieve specific goals.
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| Life Cycle period between childhood and adulthood beginning at puberty and ending with young adulthood.
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| Statistical procedure commonly used in social work research for determining the extent to which two groups differ.
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| Complete care cannot be provided to clients because worker has physical, mental or personal problems.
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| The responsibility to teach clients necessary adaptive skills.
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| Women and men who are committed to improving the status of women in society.
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| Theoretical perspectives concerned with the development of such capacities as learning, memory, attention, thinking and reasoning.
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association.
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| A social work practitioner whose knowledge and skills encompass a broad spectrum and who assesses problems and their solutions comprehensively.
The generalist often coordinates the efforts of specialists by facilitating communication between them, thereby fostering continuity of care.
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| An individual who facilitates the group process.
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| A group of two or more individuals who are related through blood, marriage, or adoption and who share a common household or residence.
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| An orientation and method of social work intervention in which small groups of people who share similar interests or common problems convene regularly and engage in activities designed to achieve their common goals.
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| That quality of measurement method that suggests that the same data would have been collected each time in repeated observations of the same phenomenon.
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| The ethical or unethical practice of assuming a second relationship with a client.
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| The process of permitting the client to express feelings during the description of the problem situation.
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| on individuals expression of mood temperament and feelings: an individuals overt emotional state.
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| Systems that are not interdependent with their environment and do not interact with it.
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| The ethical value in social work and other helping professionals for understanding the client as a unique person or group rather than as one whose characteristics are simply typical of a class.
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| A variable with values that are not problematical in an analysis but are taken as simply given. An Independent variable is presumed to cause or determine a dependent variable.
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| Interceding or coming between groups of people, events, planning activities or an individuals internal conflicts.
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| A level of measurement describing a variable whose attributes are rank-ordered and have equal distances between adjacent attributes.
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| Gradual change in policies and attitudes and behaviors.
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| Procedures used by social agencies to make the initial contacts with the client productive and helpful.
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| The phenomenon that often occurs in social research in which subjects behave differently from their norm because of their awareness of being observed.
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| Pertaining to the culture of Spanish and Portuguese speaking people.
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| One who serves as a leader for some group experience.
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Civil Rights activists who rode busses into the American south to challenge racial segregation laws and practices in the 1960s.
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| A variable assumed to depend on or be caused by another.
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| A prospective form of payment for Medicare incurred charges. A classification scheme whereby hospitals are reimbursed only for the maximum number of days on illness or surgical procedure is designed to take.
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| 1840s was instrumental in movement for human care of the mentally ill - she believed the solution lay in states' federal intervention.
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| When providing treatment, it must be provided in a manner that does not restrict the client any more than necessary.
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| The explicit or implicit standing plan that an organization or government used as a guide for action.
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| A government provision of minimum financial aid to people who have no other means of supporting themselves.
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| Those concepts that emphasize reciprocal relationships between the elements that constitute a whole.
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| Children In Need of Supervision.
This is a statutory label used by Texas state laws for minors whose behavior is injurious to their own welfare.
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| There is a time element of 4 to 8 weeks without appropriate help the result may be a reduced capacity for effective social functioning.
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| Social service programs are most often used by more knowledgeably sophisticated and less needy so that they are less accessible to others.
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| A method of funding social services through which the federal government makes available to the states monies which must be spent for the very narrowly specified service needs.
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| A procedure to plan, seek and monitor services from a variety of agencies and staff on behalf of a client.
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| In experimentation, a group of subjects to whom no experimental stimulus is administered and who should resemble the experimental group in all other respects.
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| An official assurance that someone possesses the attributes they claim to have.
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| Long duration of frequent recurrence.
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| Organizations, agencies, community institutions that provide the auspices and additional resources through which the social worker provides services.
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| An empirical relationship between 2 variables such that:
a) changes in one are associated with changes in the other;
b) particular attributes of one variable are associated with particular attributes of the other.
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| A voluntary Organization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries which attempted to coordinate private charities and promote a scientific approach to philanthropy.
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| Systematic study in which the potential findings are to be used to solve immediate problems.
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| When a worker joins with other systems to work with and through them in order to influence a target system and accomplish goals.
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| The act of directly representing and defending others.
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| Intense conditions / disturbances of relatively short duration.
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| That part of the problem Solving process commonly used in social work practice that is concerned with identifying the problems presented by clients; analyzing the factors associated with their existence and planning interventions that might lead to their amelioration.
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| Recognition of an individuals positive worth as a human being without necessarily condoning the individual actions.
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| The development of one person of attachment to another.
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| The frequency of which a specific behavior/event occurs in a natural state, measured before any attempts are made to influence it.
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| A principle of ethics which the social worker or other professional may not disclose information about the client without the client's consent.
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| A method of funding social programs through which the federal government makes monies available to states for a wide range of service needs, including social service.
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| How much does the program cost in relation to what it returns in benefits?
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| American Social Reformer in the late 18th - the early 19th century, established the Hull House.
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