Social Work

Items

• child protection register

  National database tracking abused/at-risk children.
• child rearing

  Raising children from infancy to adulthood.
• child socialization

  Learning societal values, norms, and skills.
• child welfare

  Broad services ensuring child safety, health, and development.
• children’s court

  Court handling child protection/welfare cases per Child Care Act.
• children’s home

  Facility housing >6 children for care/education.
• children working and living on the street

  Children in unstable street situations needing comprehensive support.
• chronically ill person

  Person with long-term condition unable to self-support.
• citizenship

  Legal status/membership in a country with rights/responsibilities.
• civil rights

  Legal freedoms ensuring equal societal participation.
• clarification

  Making concepts clear through explanation.
• class

  Social/economic stratification.
• classism

  Discrimination based on social class.
• client

  Individual/group receiving social work services.
• client centered approach

  Therapy prioritizing client's needs/perspective.
• client self-determination

  Client right to make own choices.
• client system

  Individual/family/group benefiting from services.
• clinical social work

  Advanced practice treating mental/physical conditions.
• closed system

  Controlled context with tight boundaries.
• closure

  Resolution providing finality to move forward.
• cluster sampling

  Dividing population into groups, randomly selecting clusters.
• code of ethics

  Professional guidelines for integrity.
• co-dependant

  Person enabling another's dysfunction.
• coexist

  Entities living harmoniously together.
• cognition

  Mental processes of acquiring, processing, storing, and using knowledge (perception, memory, reasoning).