C's Flashcards
(38 cards)
Case manager
A person designated to assume primary responsibility for assessing the needs of a client, arranging and coordinating the delivery of essential goods and services provided by other resources, and working directly with the client to ensure that the goods and services are provided in a timely manner; case managers must maintain close contact with clients (including sometimes acting to provide direct casework services) and with other service providers to ensure that plans for service delivery are in place and are subsequently delivered as planned.
Chain migration
The tendency of immigrants to migrate to areas where relatives and others from their home communities are already living.
Charity organization society (COS)
An English innovation brought to Buffalo, New York, in 1877, when private agencies joined together to provide direct services to individuals and families, and to plan and coordinate the effects of these agencies to combat the pressing social problems of cities.
Charter schools
Publicy funded elementary or secondary schools in the United States that have been freed from te regulations, rules, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results.
Child abuse prevention and treatment act
Passed in January 1974 to provide direct assistance to states to help them develop child abuse and child neglect programs.
Chorionic villi sampling (CVS)
This test helps identify certain fetal abnormalities; it is a prenatal technique that involves taking a sample of cells from the chorionic villus and analyzing it for birth defects.
Classical theory
A theoery, based on hedonistic psychology, arguing that a person makes a decision about whether to engage in criminal activity based on the anctipated balance of pleasure and pain.
Cloning
The process whereby a new organism is reproduced from the nucleus of a single cell.
Cognitive disability
A disability characterized by significantly subaverage intellectual functioning exisitng concurrently with related limitations in two or more of the following applicable adaptive skill areas: communication, self-care, home living, social skills, community use, self-direction, health and safety, functional academics, leisure, and work.
Comarital sex
Mate swapping and toher organized extramarital relations in which both spouses agree to participate.
Coming out
Acknowledging to oneself, and then to others, that one is gay or lesbian.
Commission on Global Social Work Education
A commission of the council on social work education that is composed of educators from around the country who are actively involved in teaching international content and intiating cross-national exchange programs.
Committee
A group formed to deal with specific tasks or matters within an agency or organization.
Community Mental Health Centers Act
An act, passed in 1963, that provided for transferring the care and treatment of the majoirty of mentally ill people from state hospitals to their home communities.
Community organization
Work that is aimed at stimulating and assisting the local community to evaluate, plan, and coordinate efforts to provide for the community’s health, welfare, and recreation needs.
Community practice
The process of stimulating and assisting the local community to evalue, plan, and coordinate its efforts to provide for the community’s health, welfare, and recreation needs; various labels of practice include social planning, community planning, locality development, community action, social action, macro practice, community organization, and community development.
Comparable worth
A concept involving equal pay for comparable work instead of equal pay for equal work.
Computer crime
Crimes that involve the use of computers and the internet to commit acts against people, public order, property or morality.
Confidentiality
The implicit or explicit agreement between a professional and a client to maintain the privacy or information about the client.
Conflict gangs
Gangs that are turf oriented; they engage in violent conflict with individuals of rival groups that invade their neighborhood or commit acts that they consider degrading or insulting.
Conflict habituated relationship
A marriage in which the husband and wife frequently quarrel in private; they may also quarrel in public, or they may put up a facade of being compatible.
Congregate housing facilities
An arrangement that provides housing in private or government subsidized rental apartment complexes, remodeled hotels to meet the needs of independent older adults, or mobile home parks deisgned for older adults. They provide meanls, housekeeping, transportation, social and recreational activities, and sometimes health care.
Conservatives
People who tend to resist change, generally view individuals as autonomous, advocate a residual approach to social welfare programs, and revere the “traditional” nuclear family and try to devise policies to preserve it.
Consultive management
Managers of this type consult with their employees and encourage them to think about job-related issues and contribute their own ideas before decisions are made.
