Social Work

Items

• disrepute

  Loss of reputation or professional standing.
• distribution

  Allocating welfare resources via agency collaboration.
• diversion program

  Alternatives to incarceration promoting offender rehabilitation.
• diversity

  Variety in human characteristics, cultures, identities.
• divorce mediation

  Facilitated negotiation resolving divorce issues amicably.
• domain of social work

  Scope encompassing practice methods, ethics, interventions.
• domestic violence

  Abuse within intimate/family relationships.
• dream

  Aspirational vision guiding personal/community goals.
• dreaming

  Imagined scenarios processing emotions/experiences.
• drop-in centre

  Accessible facility offering immediate support/services.
• drug

  Substance altering mood/physiology, legally/illegally used.
• drug abuse

  Harmful substance misuse impairing functioning.
• drug policy

  Laws/regulations governing substance production/use.
• drug trafficking

  Illegal production/transport/sale of controlled substances.
• dual/multiple relationship

  Professional holding concurrent personal/other roles with client.
• duty to warn

  Obligation reporting imminent client harm to others.
• ecological perspective

  Views humans interacting within environmental systems.
• ecomap

  Visual diagram mapping client relationships/systems.
• ecosystem

  Interconnected social/environmental systems affecting individual.
• educator

  Professional facilitating learning/development.
• efficacy

  Effectiveness of interventions in achieving outcomes.
• ego

  Conscious sense of self mediating reality/id/superego.
• ego strength

  Capacity coping with stress maintaining functioning.
• egocentricity

  Excessive self-centered focus ignoring others' perspectives.
• eligibility criteria

  Specific requirements individuals/families must meet to qualify for services/programs.