Social Work

Items

• probation

  Community supervision alternative to incarceration.
• probation officer

  Supervises offenders ensuring court condition compliance.
• probing

  Targeted questions deepening issue exploration.
• problematic family

  Family facing multiple/chronic dysfunctions.
• problem solving

  Systematic process identifying/resolving issues.
• process

  Series of steps/actions achieving intervention goals.
• process report

  Written account of intervention methods/activities.
• professional relationship

  Ethical, purposeful social worker-client interaction.
• program developer

  Designs/implements targeted service interventions.
• progress report

  Updates documenting intervention status/achievements.
• psychosocial support

  Emotional/social/psychological assistance in crises.
• purpose of social work

  Enhance well-being/justice via person-environment focus.
• qualitative research

  Explores experiences/perceptions via non-numerical data.
• quantitative research

  Measures variables statistically for generalizable findings.
• race

  Social construct categorizing by physical differences.
• racism

  Belief in racial superiority justifying discrimination.
• radical social work

  Challenges structural inequalities via activism.
• rape

  Non-consensual sexual penetration (violent crime).
• rapport

  Trusting, empathetic worker-client relationship.
• rationalization

  Justifying unacceptable behavior with plausible excuses.
• reaching out

  Proactively contacting at-risk individuals/groups.
• recidivism

  Reoffending after criminal justice intervention.
• recognition

  Acknowledging client strengths/progress/achievements.
• reconstruction services

  Restoring function post-trauma/disaster.
• redistribution

  Reallocating resources for greater equity.