Social Work

Items

• continuum of care

  Range of services ensuring ongoing support across health/social needs.
• control group

  Baseline group in experiments without intervention for comparison.
• coordination

  Organizing resources/actions for effective service delivery.
• coping

  Magistrate for correctional supervision under child welfare laws.
• correctional supervision

  Community-based monitoring as alternative to incarceration.
• counselling

  Therapeutic process addressing emotional/social issues.
• countertransference

  Therapist's emotional reaction to client based on therapist's experiences.
• crisis

  Process social workers use to prevent/alleviate community problems.
• crisis intervention

  Immediate, short-term help stabilizing individuals in acute distress.
• critical outcomes

  Key results demonstrating program effectiveness.
• critical reflexivity

  Self-aware practice questioning assumptions and power dynamics.
• critical appraisal

  Systematic evaluation of evidence quality and applicability.
• cross-cultural competence

  Skills working effectively across diverse cultural backgrounds.
• cultural affinity

  Natural connections/affinities with cultural groups/activities.
• cultural biases

  Prejudices favoring own culture over others.
• culture

  Shared beliefs, values, norms, and practices of a group.
• culture of poverty

  Learned helplessness from generational poverty experiences.
• culture-sensitive practice

  Services adapted to clients' cultural contexts and values.
• custody

  Legal right/responsibility for child's care and control.
• customary marriage

  Traditional marriage per cultural/religious rites.
• cycle of change

  Stages individuals progress through for behavioral change.
• decentralisation

  Dispersing power/authority from central to local levels.
• defence mechanism

  Unconscious strategies protecting ego from anxiety.
• de-institutionalization

  Shifting care from institutions to community-based services.
• delusion

  Irrational belief based on false perception of reality.