Laws Flashcards
(139 cards)
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This is “AN ACT DEFINING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN, PROVIDING FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR VICTIMS, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFORE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”
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Republic Act No. 9262
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This refers to any act or a series of acts committed by any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom he has a common child, or against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the family abode, which result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
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Violence Against Women and their Children
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This refers to acts that include bodily or physical harm
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Physical Violence
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This refers to an act which is sexual in nature, committed against a woman or her child.
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Sexual Violence
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This refers to acts or omissions causing or likely to cause mental or emotional suffering of the victim such as but not limited to intimidation, harassment, stalking, damage to property, public ridicule or humiliation, repeated verbal abuse and mental infidelity.
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Psychological Violence
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This refers to acts that make or attempt to make a woman financially dependent.
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Economic Abuse
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This refers to an act of inflicting physical harm upon the woman or her child resulting to the physical and psychological or emotional distress.
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Battery
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This refers to a scientifically defined pattern of psychological and behavioral symptoms found in women living in battering relationships as a result of cumulative abuse.
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Battered Woman Syndrome
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This refers to an intentional act committed by a person who, knowingly and without lawful justification follows the woman or her child or places the woman or her child under surveillance directly or indirectly or a combination thereof.
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Stalking
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This refers to a situation wherein the parties live as husband and wife without the benefit of marriage or are romantically involved over time and on a continuing basis during the course of the relationship.
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Dating Relationship
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This refers to a single sexual act which may or may not result in the bearing of a common child.
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Sexual Relations
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This refers to any home or institution maintained or managed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) or by any other agency or voluntary organization accredited by the DSWD for the purposes of this Act or any other suitable place the resident of which is willing temporarily to receive the victim.
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Safe Place or Shelter
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This refers to those below eighteen (18) years of age or older but are incapable of taking care of themselves as defined under Republic Act No. 7610. As used in this Act, it includes the biological children of the victim and other children under her care.
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Children
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This is an order issued for the purpose of preventing further acts of violence against a woman or her child specified in Section 5 of Republic Act No. 9262 and granting other necessary relief.
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Protection Order
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Who issues Barangay Protection Order?
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Punong Barangay
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In case the Punong Barangay is unavailable to act on the application for a BPO, the application shall be acted upon by any available ___________.
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Barangay Kagawad (but it should be accompanied by an afestation that that the Punong Barangay was unavailable at the time for the issuance of the BPO)
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This protection order is effective for 15 days.
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Barangay Protection Order
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This refers to the protection order issued by the court on the date of filing of the application after ex parte determination that such order should be issued.
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Temporary Protection Order
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This refers to protection order issued by the court after notice and hearing.
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Permanent Protection Order
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Any barangay official or law enforcer who fails to report the incident shall be liable for a fine not exceeding _____________ or whenever applicable criminal, civil or administrative liability.
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Ten Thousand Pesos (P10,000.00)
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This council is composed of agencies which are tasked to formulate programs and projects to eliminate VAW based on their mandates as well as develop capability programs for their employees to become more sensitive to the needs of their clients. The Council will also serve as the monitoring body as regards to VAW initiatives.
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Inter-Agency Council on Violence Against Women and Their Children (IAC-VAWC)
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All records pertaining to cases of violence against women and their children including those in the barangay shall be confidential and all public officers and employees and public or private clinics to hospitals shall respect the right to privacy of the victim. Any person who violates this provision shall suffer the penalty of one (1) year imprisonment and a fine of not more than ___________________.
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Five Hundred Thousand pesos (P500,000.00)
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This is “AN ACT ESTABLISHING A COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE JUSTICE AND WELFARE SYSTEM, CREATING THE JUVENILE JUSTICE AND WELFARE COUNCIL UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.”
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Republic Act No. 9344
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Short title of Republic Act No. 9344.
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Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006
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This refers to the security given for the release of the person in custody of the law, furnished by him/her or a bondsman, to guarantee his/her appearance before any court.
Bail
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This refers to the totality of the circumstances and conditions which are most congenial to the survival, protection and feelings of security of the child and most encouraging to the child's physical, psychological and emotional development. It also means the least detrimental available alternative for safeguarding the growth and development of the child.
Best Interest of the Child
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This refers to a person under the age of eighteen (18) years.
Child
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This refers to a child who is vulnerable to and at the risk of committing criminal offenses because of personal, family and social circumstances.
Child at Risk
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This refers to a child who is alleged as, accused of, or adjudged as, having committed an offense under Philippine laws.
Children in Conflict with the Law
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This refers to the programs provided in a community setting developed for purposes of intervention and diversion, as well as rehabilitation of the child in conflict with the law, for reintegration into his/her family and/or community
Community-based Programs
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This refers to any form of detention or imprisonment, or to the placement of a child in conflict with the law in a public or private custodial setting, from which the child in conflict with the law is not permitted to leave at will by order of any judicial or administrative authority.
Deprivation of Liberty
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This refers to an alternative, child-appropriate process of determining the responsibility and treatment of a child in conflict with the law on the basis of his/her social, cultural, economic, psychological or educational background without resorting to formal court proceedings.
Diversion
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This refers to the program that the child in conflict with the law is required to undergo after he/she is found responsible for an offense without resorting to formal court proceedings.
Diversion Program
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This refers to the apprehension or taking into custody of a child in conflict with the law by law enforcement officers or private citizens. It includes the time when the child alleged to be in conflict with the law receives a subpoena under Section 3(b) of Rule 112 of the Revised Rules of Criminal Procedure or summons under Section 6(a) or Section 9(b) of the same Rule in cases that do not require preliminary investigation or where there is no necessity to place the child alleged to be in conflict with the law under immediate custody.
Initial Contact with the Child
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This refers to a series of activities which are designed to address issues that caused the child to commit an offense. It may take the form of an individualized treatment program which may include counseling, skills training, education, and other activities that will enhance his/her psychological, emotional and psycho-social well-being.
Intervention
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This refers to a system dealing with children at risk and children in conflict with the law, which provides child-appropriate proceedings, including programs and services for prevention, diversion, rehabilitation, re-integration and aftercare to ensure their normal growth and development.
Juvenile Justic and Welfare System
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This refers to the person in authority or his/her agent as defined in Article 152 of the Revised Penal Code, including a barangay tanod.
Law Enforcement Officer
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This refers to any act or omission whether punishable under special laws or the Revised Penal Code, as amended.
Offense
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This refers to an undertaking in lieu of a bond assumed by a parent or custodian who shall be responsible for the appearance in court of the child in conflict with the law, when required.
Recognizance
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This refers to a principle which requires a process of resolving conflicts with the maximum involvement of the victim, the offender and the community. It seeks to obtain reparation for the victim; reconciliation of the offender, the offended and the community; and reassurance to the offender that he/she can be reintegrated into society. It also enhances public safety by activating the offender, the victim and the community in prevention strategies.
Restorative Justice
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This refers to offenses which discriminate only against a child, while an adult does not suffer any penalty for committing similar acts. These shall include curfew violations; truancy, parental disobedience and the like.
Status Offenses
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This refers to a 24-hour child-caring institution managed by accredited local government units (LGUs) and licensed and/or accredited nongovernment organizations (NGOs) providing short-term residential care for children in conflict with the law who are awaiting court disposition of their cases or transfer to other agencies or jurisdiction.
Youth Detention Home
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This refers to a 24-hour residential care facility managed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), LGUs, licensed and/or accredited NGOs monitored by the DSWD, which provides care, treatment and rehabilitation services for children in conflict with the law. Rehabilitation services are provided under the guidance of a trained staff where residents are cared for under a structured therapeutic environment with the end view of reintegrating them into their families and communities as socially functioning individuals. Physical mobility of residents of said centers may be restricted pending court disposition of the charges against them.
Youth Rehabilitation Center
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This refers to offenses where there is no private offended party.
Victimless Crimes
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What is the minimum age of criminal liability?
15 years old
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The Council chaired by the Undersecretary of DSWD, and is attached to the Department of Justice, which is mandated to ensure the implementation of Republic Act No. 9344.
Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council
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This institution is responsible for the primary nurturing and rearing of children which is critical in delinquency prevention.
The Family
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No personnel of rehabilitation and training facilities shall handle children in conflict with the law without having undergone this program.
Gender Sensitivity Taining
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This is "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN"
Republic Act No. 9710
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This refers to the provision, availability, and accessibility of opportunities, services, and observance of human rights which enable women to actively participate and contribute to the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the nation as well as those which shall provide them equal access to ownership, management, and control of production, and of material and informational resources and benefits in the family, community, and society.
Women Empowerment
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This refers to any gender-based distinction, exclusion, or restriction which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil, or any other field.
Discrimination Against Women
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This refers to a condition where a whole category of people is excluded from useful and meaningful participation in political, economic, social, and cultural life.
Marginalization
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This refers to the basic, disadvantaged, or vulnerable persons or groups who are mostly living in poverty and have little or no access to land and other resources, basic social and economic services such as health care, education, water and sanitation, employment and livelihood opportunities, housing, social security, physical infrastructure; and the justice system.
Marginalized
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This refers to those who are engaged directly or indirectly in small farms and forest areas, workers in commercial farms and plantations, whether paid or unpaid, regular or season-bound.
Small Farmers and Rural Workers
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This refers to those directly or indirectly engaged in taking, culturing, or processing fishery or aquatic resources.
Fisherfolk
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This refers to those residing in urban and urbanizable slum or blighted areas, with or without the benefit of security of abode, where the income of the head of the family cannot afford in a sustained manner to provide for the family's basic needs of food, health, education, housing, and other essentials in life.
Urban Poor
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This refers to those who are employed by any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee and shall include the government and all its branches, subdivisions, and instrumentalities, all government- owned and -controlled corporations and institutions, as well as nonprofit private institutions or organizations.
Workers in the Formal Economy
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This refers to self-employed, occasionally or personally hired, subcontracted, paid and unpaid family workers in household incorporated and unincorporated enterprises, including home workers, micro-entrepreneurs and producers, and operators of sari-sari stores and all other categories who suffer from violation of workers' rights.
Workers in the Informal Economy
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This refers to Filipinos who are to be engaged, are engaged, or have been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which they are not legal residents, whether documented or undocumented.
Migrant Workers
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This refers to a group of people or homogenous societies identified by self- ascription and ascription by other, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, occupied; possessed customs, tradition, and other distinctive cultural traits, or who have, through resistance to political, social, and cultural inroads of colonization, non- indigenous religions and culture, became historically differentiated from the majority of Filipinos.
Indigenous People
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This refers to native peoples who have historically inhabited Mindanao, Palawan, and Sulu, and who are largely of the Islamic faith.
Moro
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This refers to those who are below eighteen (18) years of age or over but are unable to fully take care of themselves or protect themselves from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation, or discrimination because of a physical or mental disability or condition.
Children
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This refers to those sixty (60) years of age and above.
Senior Citizens
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This refers to those who are suffering from restriction or different abilities, as a result of a mental, physical, or sensory impairment to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.
Persons with Disability
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This refers to the full and equal enjoyment of rights and freedoms contemplated under this Act. It encompasses de jure and de facto equality and also equality in outcomes.
Substantive Equality
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This refers to the principle asserting the equality of men and women and their right to enjoy equal conditions realizing their full human potentials to contribute to and benefit from the results of development, and with the State recognizing that all human beings are free and equal in dignity and rights.
Gender Equality
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This refers to the policies, instruments, programs, services, and actions that address the disadvantaged position of women in society by providing preferential treatment and affirmative action. Such temporary special measures aimed at accelerating de facto equality between men and women shall not be considered discriminatory but shall in no way entail as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate standards. These measures shall be discontinued when the objectives of equality of opportunity and treatment have been achieved.
Gender Equity
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This refers to the development perspective and process that are participatory and empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-determination and actualization of human potentials.
Gender and Development
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This refers to the strategy for making women's as well as men's concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programs in all political, economic, and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated.
Gender Mainstreaming
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This refers to a variety of legislative, executive, administrative, and regulatory instruments, policies, and practices aimed at accelerating this de facto equality of women in specific areas. These measures shall not be considered discriminatory but shall in no way entail as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate standards. They shall be discontinued when their objectives have been achieved.
Temporary Special Measures
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This refers to women employed in the military, both in the major and technical services, who are performing combat and/or noncombat functions, providing security to the State, and protecting the people from various forms of threat. It also includes women trainees in all military training institutions.
Women in Military
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This refers to policies and programs that seek to reduce poverty and vulnerability to risks and enhance the social status and rights of all women, especially the marginalized by promoting and protecting livelihood and employment, protecting against hazards and sudden loss of income, and improving people's capacity to manage risk. Its components are labor market programs, social insurance, social welfare, and social safety nets.
Social Protection
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Who is the primary duty-bearer in implementing Republic Act No. 9710.
The State
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A woman employee having rendered continuous aggregate employment service of at least six (6) months for the last twelve (12) months shall be entitled to a special leave benefit of how many months with full pay based on her gross monthly compensation following surgery caused by gynecological disorders.
Two months
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The cost of implementing GAD programs shall be the agency's or the local government unit's GAD budget shall be at least how many percent of the agency's or the local government unit's total budget appropriations?
5%
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The ____________ shall be composed of the agency head or local chief executive, an executive committee with an Undersecretary (or its equivalent), local government unit official, or office in a strategic decision-making position as Chair; and a technical working group or secretariat which is composed of representatives from various divisions or offices within the agency or local government unit.
GAD Focal Point System
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Who signed into law the Republic Act No. 9710 on August 14, 2009?
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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An Act Establishing a National Mental Health Policy for the Purpose of Enhancing the Delivery of Integrated Mental Health Services, Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Persons Utilizing Psychosocial Health Services, Appropriating Funds Therefor and Other Purposes
Republic Act No. 11036
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What is the short title of Republic Act No. 11036?
Mental Health Act
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This refers to a primary chronic relapsing disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry. Dysfunctions in the circuitry lead to characteristic biological, psychological, social, and spiritual manifestations. It is characterized by the inability to consistently abstain impairment and behavioral control, craving, diminished recognition of significant problems with one's behavior and interpersonal relationships and a dysfunctional emotional response.
Addiction
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This refers to the person, who may or may not be patient's next-of-kin or relative, who maintains a close personal; relationship and manifests concern for the welfare of the patient.
Carer
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This refers to ensuring that all relevant information related to persons with psychiatric, neirologic, and psychological health needs is kept safe from access or use by, or disclosure to, persons or entities who are not authorizes to access, use, or possess such information.
Confidentiality
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This refers to the process of transitioning service users, including persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities, from institutional and other segregated settings, to community-based settings that enable social participation, recovery-based approaches to mental health, and individualized care in accordance with the service user's will and preference.
Deinstitutionalization
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This refers to any distinction, exclusion or restriction which has the purpose or effect of nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal basis with others, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social cultural, civil or any other field.
Discrimination
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The general intent is to enable the patient to confront the psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical consequences. Treatment includes medication for co-morbid psychiatric or other medical disorders, counseling by experts and sharing of experience with other addicted individuals.
Drug Rehabilitation
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This refers to consent voluntarily given by a service user to a plan for treatment, after a full disclosure communicated in plain language by the attending mental health service provider, of the nature, consequences, benefits, and risks of the proposed treatment, as well as available alternatives.
Informed Consent
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This refers to a person designated by the service user, appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, or authorized by R.A. No. 11036 or any other applicable law, to act on the service user's behalf.
Legal Representative
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This refers to a state of well-being in which the individual realizes one's own abilities and potentials, scopes adequately with the normal stresses of life, displays resilience in the face of extreme life events, works productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a positive contribution to the community.
Mental Health
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This refers to a neurologic or psychiatric condition characterized by the existence of a recognizable, clinically-significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotional regulation, or behavioral that reflects a genetic or acquired dysfunction in the neurological, psychosocial, or developmental process underlying mental functioning. The determination of neurologic and psychiatric conditions shall be based on scientifically-accepted medical nomenclature and best available scientific and medical evidence.
Mental Health Condition
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This refers to any establishment, or any unit of an establishment, which has, as its primary fucntion, the provision of mental health services.
Mental Health Facility
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This refers to a medical doctor, psychologist, nurse social worker or any other appropriately -trained and qualified person with specific skills relevant to the provision of mental health services.
Mental Health Professional
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This refers to an entity or individual providing mental health services as defines in R.A. No. 11036, whether public or private, including, but not limited to mental health professionals and workers, social workers and counselors, informal community caregivers, mental health advocates and their organizations, personal ombudsmen, and persons or entities offering nonmedical alternative therapies;
Mental Health Service Provider
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This refer to psychosocial psychiatric or neurologic activities and programs along the whole range of the mental health support services including promotion, prevention, treatment, and aftercare, which are provided by mental health facilities and mental health professionals.
Mental Health Service
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This refers to a trained person, volunteer or advocate engaged in mental health promotion, providing support services under the supervision of a mental health professional.
Mental Health Worker
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This refers to a condition presenting a serious and immediate threat to the health and well being of a service user or any other person affected by a mental health facilities and mental health condition, or any other person affected by a metal condition, or to the health or well-being of others, requiring immediate medical intervention.
Psychiatric or Neurologic Emergency
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This refers to a condition that indicates the existence of dysfunctions in a person's behavior, thoughts and feelings brought about by sudden extreme, prolonged or cumulative stressors in the physical or social environment.
Psychosocial Problem
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This refers to an approach to intervention and treatment centered on the strengths of a service user and involving the active participation, as equal partners in care, of persons with lived experiences in mental health. This requires integrating a service user's understanding of his or her condition into any plan for treatment and recovery.
Recovery-based Approach
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This refers to a person with lived experience of any mental health condition including persons who require or are undergoing psychiatric, neurologic or psychosocial care.
Service User
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This refers to the spectrum of informal and formal arrangements or services of varying types and intensities, provided by the State, private entities, or communities, aimed at assisting a service user in the exercise of his or her legal capacity or rights, including; community services; personal assistants and ombudsman; powers of attorney and other legal and personal planning tools; peer support; support for self -advocacy; nonformal community caregiver networks; dialogue systems; alternative , and manual communication; and the use of assistive devices and technology.
Support
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This refers to the act of assisting a service user who is not affected by an impairment or loss of decision-making capacity, in expressing a mental health-related preference, intention or decision. It includes all the necessary support, safeguards and measures to ensure protection from undue influence, coercion or abuse.
Supported Decision-Making
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What is the short title of Republic Act No. 11642?
Domestic Administrative Adoption and Alternative Child Care Act
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This agency is mandated to exercise all powers and functions relating to alternative child care including, declaring a child legally available for both domestic, administrative adoption and inter-country adoption, foster care, kinship care, family-like care, or residential care.
National Authority for Child Care (NACC)
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This refers to a child who has no proper parental care or guardianship, a foundling, or on who has been deserted by one’s parents for a period of at least three (3) continuous months.
Abandoned Child
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This refers to an unregistered or undocumented child found outside the Philippine territory, with known or unknown facts of birth, separated from or deserted by the biological Filipino parent guardian, or custodian for a period of at least three (3) continuous months and committed to a foreign orphanage or charitable institution or in a temporary informal care.
Abandoned Filipino Child in Foreign Country
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This refers to the guardian or spouses who raised a child or person and consistently treated the child as their own.
Actual Custodian
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This refers to the socio-legal process of providing a permanent family to a child whose parents had voluntarily or involuntarily given up their parental rights, permanently transferring all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, making the child a legitimate child of the adoptive parents.
Adoption
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This is an unregistered and unlicensed social work practitioner who ideally has three (3) years of experience in handling alternative child care or adoption cases, or both
Adoption para-social worker
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This refers to an individual who is registered and licensed by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), in accordance with Republic Act No. 9433, otherwise known as the “Magna Carta for Public Social Workers” and who ideally has three (3) years of experience in handling alternative child care or adoption cases, or both.
Adoption social worker
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This refers to the provision of planned substitute parental care to a child who is orphaned, abandoned, neglected, or surrendered, by a child-caring or child-placing agency. This may include foster care, kinship care, family-like care, and residential care.
Alternative Child Care
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This refers to a child in whose favor a certification was issued by the NACC that such child is legally available for adoption after the fact of abandonment or neglect has been proven through the submission of pertinent documents, or one who was voluntarily committed by the child’s parents or legal guardians.
Child Legally Available for Adoption
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This refers to the final written administrative order issued by the NACC declaring a child to be abandoned and neglected, and committing such child to the care of the NACC through a foster parent, guardian, or duly licensed child-caring or child- placing agency.
Certificate Declaring a Child Legally Available for Adoption (CDCLAA)
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This refers to a duly licensed and accredited agency by the DSWD that provides twenty- four (24)-hour residential care services for abandoned, orphaned, neglected, or voluntarily and involuntarily committed children.
Child Caring Agency
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This refers to a written report prepared by an adoption social worker containing all the necessary information about a child, including the child’s legal status, placement history, past and present biopsychosocial and spiritual aspects, case background, ethno-cultural background, and biological family background or history
Child Case Study Report
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This refers to a private nonprofit or charitable or government agency duly licensed and accredited agency by the DSWD to provide comprehensive child welfare services including receiving and processing of petitions, for adoption and foster care, evaluating the prospective adoptive parents (PAPs) or foster parents, preparing the child case study report and home study report.
Child Placing Agency
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This refers to the committee under the supervision of the Deputy Director for Services composed of a child psychiatrist or psychologist, a medical doctor, a lawyer, an adoption social worker, a representative of nongovernmental organization (NGO) engaged in child welfare, and any other professional as may be needed, to provide the necessary assistance in reviewing petitions for adoption.
Child Placement Committee
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This refers to the notarized instrument relinquishing parental authority and committing the child to the care and custody of the NACC or child-placing or child-caring agency, executed by the child’s biological parents or by the child’s legal guardian in their absence, mental incapacity or death, to be signed in the presence of an authorized representative of the NACC, after counseling and other services have been made available to encourage the child’s biological parents or legal guardian to keep the child.
Deed of Voluntary Commitment
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This refers to an administrative adoption proceeding where the Order of Adoption is issued within the Philippines and is undertaken between a Filipino child and eligible adoptive parents.
Domestic Adoption
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This refers to the provision of planned temporary substitute parental care to a child by a foster parent
Foster care
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This refers to a person, duly licensed by the NACC, to provide foster care.
Foster Parent
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This refers to a deserted or abandoned child of unknown parentage and whose date or circumstances of birth on Philippine territory are unknown and undocumented. This shall also include those with the above circumstance of birth during their infancy and/or childhood, and have reached the age of majority without benefiting from adoption procedures.
Foundling
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This refers to a written report prepared by an adoption social worker relative to the motivation and capacity of the prospective adoptive or foster parents to provide a home that meets the needs of a child.
Home Study Report
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This refers to the socio-legal process of adopting a child by a foreign national or a Filipino citizen habitually a resident outside Philippine territory which complies with the principles stated in the Hague Convention of 1993.
Inter-country Adoption
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This refers to one who has been permanently deprived of parental authority due to: abandonment; substantial, continuous, or repeated neglect; abuse or incompetence to discharge parental responsibilities, of known or unknown parents.
Involuntary Committed Child
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This refers to a person who is a duly licensed social worker and appointed by the local chief executive to head the provincial, city, or municipal social welfare development office which serves as the frontline of the local government unit (LGU) in the delivery of social welfare and development programs and services.
Local Social Welfare and Development Officer
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This refers to the judicious selection from the regional or interregional levels of a family for a child based on the child’s needs and best interest as well as the capability and commitment of the adoptive parents to provide such needs and promote a mutually satisfying parent-child relationship.
Matching
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This refers to a child whose physical and emotional needs have been deliberately unattended or inadequately attended within a period of three (3) continuous months. A child is unattended when left without the proper provisions or proper supervision.
Neglected Child
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This refers to the duly accomplished application from for the foster case or adoption, including the social case study report and its supporting documents from an authorized or accredited agency or central authority.
Petition
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This refers to the physical entrustment of the child with the foster parent or to the adoptive parents.
Placement
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This refer to psychosocial services and support services provided by adoption social workers after the issuance of the Order of Adoption by the NACC or Final Decree of Adoption or its equivalent.
Post-adoption services
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This refers to the matching committee organized by the NACC, through the RACCO, that is tasked to deliberate the regional and interregional matching of children legally available for adoption and approved prospective adoptive parents.
Pre-adoption Placement Authority
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This to someone other than family members, within fourth (4th) degree of consanguinity or affinity.
Relative
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This refers to the tampering of the civil registry to make it appear in the record of birth that a child was born to a person who is not such child’s biological mother, causing the loss of the true identity and status of such child.
Simulation of Birth Records
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This refers to the report prepared by the adoption social worker on the PAP’s capacity to raise the child; the social agency efforts to locate the child’s biological parents or relatives; interventions given to the child and the family; and the adoption social worker’s assessment of the case. It shall include both the child case study report and the home study report.
Social Case Study Report
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This refers to a parent who is married to the mother or father of a child, but who is not that child’s biological mother or father.
Step-parent
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This refers to the period of time after the placement of a child in an adoptive home whereby an adoption social worker helps the adoptive family and the child in the adjustment process to facilitate the legal union through adoption.
Supervised Trial Custody
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This refers to everything indispensable for the full and harmonious development of the child, including sustenance, dwelling, clothing, medical attention, and education, in keeping with the financial capacity of the family.
Support
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This refers to the one whose parent or legal guardian knowingly and willingly relinquished parental authority to the NACC, the DSWD, or any duly accredited child-placing or child-caring agency or institution.
Voluntary Committed Child
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What office is tasked to ensure a well-functioning system of receipt of local petitions for CDCLAA and adoption, and other requests regarding alternative placement and well-being of children?
Regional Alternative Child Care Office
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Who signed into law the Republic Act No. 11642 on January 6, 2021?
Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
