Social Work

Items

• strengths-based perspective/approach

  Focus emphasizing client assets over deficits.
• stress

  Physiological/psychological response to demands.
• structural factors

  Institutional/systemic influences shaping opportunities.
• subculture

  Group values/norms diverging from mainstream culture.
• suboptimal thinking

  Problem-focused mindset limiting positive outcomes.
• sub-systems

  Components/interacting parts within larger system.
• summarise

  Condense information capturing essential points.
• supervision

  Professional oversight/guidance for skill development.
• support

  Resources/relationships aiding coping/functioning.
• support function

  Services maintaining/facilitating system stability.
• survival

  Meeting basic physiological/safety needs.
• sustainability

  Long-term viability of interventions/systems.
• sustainable development

  Progress meeting present needs without future harm.
• sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA)

  Framework building resilient household economies.
• sympathy

  Feeling sorrow/pity for another's suffering.
• system

  Interconnected elements functioning interdependently.
• system theory

  Framework analyzing entities through relationships/boundaries.
• tangible

  Concrete, measurable intervention outputs/products.
• target group

  Specific population intervention designed to serve.
• task centred approach

  Short-term, goal-focused problem-solving method.
• termination

  Planned ending of professional helping relationship.
• theoretical framework

  Structure organizing concepts guiding practice/research.
• theories of human behaviour

  Explanations predicting/mapping individual/group actions.
• theory

  Systematic explanation of observed phenomena.
• therapeutic affinity

  Natural helping inclination/empathic connection.