F's Flashcards
Family group counseling
An approach to prevent child abuse or neglect that originated in New Zealand, and involvesd the parents’ extended kinship network.
Family Planning Services and Population Research Act
Passed in 1970, it recognized that family planning was part of the delivery of comprehensive health services for all; in 1972 contraceptive policy lifted restrictions on marital status and age for receiving birth control information and devices.
Family preservation program
A model of intervention developed specifically for work with families in which the placement of one or more of the children is imminent; services are provided in the client’s home.
Family sculpting
An assessment tool that involves a physical arrangement of the numbers of a family, with the placement of each person determined by an individual family member acting as director; the resulting tableau represents that person’s symbolic view of family relationships.
Family therapy
A type of group therapy aimed at helping families with interactional, behavioral, and emotional problems.
Female genital mutilation (FGM)
A practice, commonplace in more than half of the African countries and in part of the Middle East, in which all or part of a girl’s external genitalia is cut away to diminish sexual appetite in order to maintain a girl’s virginity and marriageability.
Feminine mystique
The negative self-concept, lack of direction, and low sense of self-worth among women.
Feminist therapy
A psychosocial treatment orientation in which the professional helps the client in individual or group settings to overcome the psychological and social problems largely encountered as a result of sex discrimination and sex-role stereotyping.
Financial abuse
The illegal or improper exploitation of the victim’s assets or property.
Food stamps
A public assistance program designed to combat hunger and to improve the diets of low income households by supplementing their food purchasing ability. The program is now called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Foster care
Type of service in whic the goals are to protect the children, to rehabilitate the parents, and generally to return the children to their genetic parents as soon as it is feasible.
Foster care homes
Usually single family residences where the owners of the home take in an unrelated older adult and are reimbursed for providing housing, meals, housekeeping, and personal care.
Foster Grandparent Program
Pays older adults for part time work in which they provide individual care and attention to ill and needy children and youth.
Frustration-aggression theory
Asserts that some frustrated people displace their anger and aggression onto a scapegoat; the scapegoat may not be limited to a particular person but may include a group of people, such as a minority group.
Gay
The term preferred by many people with a same sex orientation, primarily males, in describing themselves and their sexual orientation; gay men prefer the term gay instead of homosexual because it does not have the negative connotations frequently associated with the word homosexual; the term gay is sometimes used to refer to both males and females who have a same sex orientation.
