Social Work

Items

• expertise

  Demonstrated high-level skills/knowledge in social work practice.
• explore

  Investigate client situations systematically for understanding.
• extended family

  Relatives beyond nuclear family providing support network.
• external locus of control

  Belief external factors determine life outcomes.
• facilitation

  Guiding group process without directing content.
• facilitator

  Neutral guide enabling group discussion/decision-making.
• factor analysis

  Statistical method identifying underlying variables in data.
• family of origin

  Birth family influencing adult patterns/relationships.
• family preservation

  Services preventing unnecessary child removal from home.
• family reconstruction

  Therapeutic recreation of family experiences/history.
• family reunification

  Restoring children to family after separation.
• family therapy

  Treatment addressing family system dynamics/patterns.
• feedback

  Client/practitioner information improving services.
• female genital mutilation

  Harmful traditional practice damaging female genitalia.
• feminism

  Advocacy for women's rights/equality across systems.
• feminization of poverty

  Increasing proportion of women in poverty.
• field practice

  Supervised real-world social work experience.
• fixation

  Persistent attachment to developmental stage/person.
• focus group

  Small group discussion yielding qualitative insights.
• focusing

  Technique concentrating client attention on key issues.
• forensic social work

  Applying social work in legal/criminal justice contexts.
• foster care

  Temporary family care for children unable to live at home.
• gambling

  Risking valuables on uncertain outcomes (addictive potential).
• gate keeper

  Person controlling service access/eligibility decisions.
• gay

  Person attracted emotionally/sexually/romantically to same gender (primarily men attracted to men).