Items

• 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.
• departing

  Connecting: engaging and associating with others to enter relationships.
• depression

  Intense despondency with helplessness, pessimism, social withdrawal, and reduced activity.
• deprivation

  Lack of essential supports (income, housing, education, care) for human existence.
• deprivation trap

  Self-perpetuating cycle where initial disadvantages lead to further hardship.
• desertion

  Wilful abandonment of spouse, child, or duty violating moral/legal obligations.
• deliver

  To carry out or implement services/resources effectively.
• design

  Preliminary plan or intention outlining actions or programs.
• detoxification

  Medical treatment counteracting drug poisoning effects.