E's Flashcards
(28 cards)
Ecological approach
An approach to human behavior that inegrates both treatment and reform by conceptualizing and emphasizing the dysfunction transactions between people and their physical and social environments.
Economic justice
A ideal condition in which all members of a society have the same opportunities to attain material goods, income, and wealth.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Enacted in 1975, this mandates that all local school districts provide full and appropriate educational opportunities to all childre, including those with a disability.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Enacted in 1975, this mandates that all local school districts provide full and appropriate educational opportunities to all childre, including those with a disability.
Education groups
The focus of such groups is for members to acquire knowledge and learn more complex skills.
Educational neglect
When a child is wllowed to be excessively absent from school.
Education Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS)
The Council on Social Work Education’s document that delineates the requirements for accreditation and reaccreditation of baccalaureate and master’s programs in social work.
Educator
A worker who gives information to clients and teaches them adaptive skills.
Elder abuse
The physical or psychological mistreatment of older adults.
Elizabethan Poor Law
Enacted in England in 1601; included three categories of relief recipients (the able-bodied poor, the impotent poor, dependent children); these fundamental provisions were incorporated into the laws of the American colonies.
Embezzlement
An offense in which an employee fraudulently converts some of the employer’s funds to personal use through altering company records.
Embryonic stem cells
Come from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, the term for a fertilized egg 4 days after conception.
Emergency contraception
The three methods available (combined birth control bills, progestin-only pills, and IUDS) work either by preventing ovulation or by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus.
Emotional neglect
Failure to provide the child the emotional nurturing or emotional support necessary for the development of a sound personality.
Employee assistance programs (EAPSs)
Most social services in the workplace are currently provided by EAPs, and include alcohol and drug abuse counseling, counseling for emotional difficulties, family counseling, career and education counseling, credit counseling, and retirement planning.
Empowerer
A worker who helps individiduals, families, groups, organizations, and communities increase their personal, interpersonal, socioeconomic, and political strength and influence through improving their circumstances.
Empty-shell marriages
The spouses feel no strong attachments to each oter, and outside pressures keep the marriage together rather than feelings of warmth and attraction between the partners.
Enabler
A worker who helps individuals or groups to articulate their needs, clarify and identify their problems, explore resolution strategies, select and apply a strategy, and develop their capacities to deal with their own problems more effectively.
Environmental neglect
A type of neglect in which the parents or guardians let a child live in filth, without proper clothing, unattended, unsupervised, or without proper nourishment
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Agency established in 1970 that was empowered to set and enforce standards of environmental quality; however, since the 1980s, political opposition to environmental concerns has intensified.
Ethnic group
A group of people who share cultural characteristics, such as religion, language, dietary practices, national origin, and a common history, and who regard themselves as a distinct group.
Ethnic-sensitive practice
Social work practice that seeks to incorporate understanding of diverse ethnic, cultural, and minority groups into the theories and principles that guide social work practice.
Ethnocentrism
A orientation or set of beliefs that hold one’s own culture, ethnic or racial group, or nation to be superior to others.
Extended family
Consists of a number of relatives living together, such as parents, children, grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, in laws, and cousins.
