Items

• community development

  Social work method enhancing community functioning via joint action, resources, and participation.
• community participation

  Broad population involvement in planning, executing, and evaluating welfare programs.
• community profile

  Data on community demographics, institutions, problems, and potential for welfare planning.
• community self-reliance

  Community capacity to meet needs independently via local resources and sustainability.
• community work

  Primary social work method promoting community functioning at micro/meso/macro levels.
• competence

  Ability to perform tasks via skills, knowledge, and attitudes effectively.
• conceptual framework

  Structured system of concepts/theories guiding research or analysis.
• confidentiality

  Non-disclosure of client information without permission in professional relationships.
• conflict

  Contradictory needs/values/interests between individuals or groups.
• conflict management

  Organizational processes controlling/resolving conflict for satisfaction and goals.
• conflict resolution

  Specific actions/skills eliminating conflict between parties.
• confrontation

  Technique presenting clients with contradicting realities without explanation.
• congruence

  Harmony/consistency between values, beliefs, behaviors, or systems.
• connecting stage

  Cluster sampling: Dividing population into groups, randomly selecting clusters for study.
• conscientisation

  Process mobilizing community forces for democratic decision-making and self-help.
• contemporary

  Co-enabler perpetuating unacceptable behavior, often in addiction contexts.
• context specific

  Tailored to particular circumstances or settings.
• 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.