Items

• family preservation

  Services preventing unnecessary child removal from home.
• family reconstruction

  Therapeutic recreation of family experiences/history.
• family reunification

  Restoring children to family after separation.
• family therapy

  Treatment addressing family system dynamics/patterns.
• feedback

  Client/practitioner information improving services.
• female genital mutilation

  Harmful traditional practice damaging female genitalia.
• feminism

  Advocacy for women's rights/equality across systems.
• feminization of poverty

  Increasing proportion of women in poverty.
• field practice

  Supervised real-world social work experience.
• fixation

  Persistent attachment to developmental stage/person.
• focus group

  Small group discussion yielding qualitative insights.
• focusing

  Technique concentrating client attention on key issues.
• forensic social work

  Applying social work in legal/criminal justice contexts.
• foster care

  Temporary family care for children unable to live at home.
• gambling

  Risking valuables on uncertain outcomes (addictive potential).
• gate keeper

  Person controlling service access/eligibility decisions.
• gay

  Person attracted emotionally/sexually/romantically to same gender (primarily men attracted to men).
• gender

  Socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, attributes deemed appropriate for men/women/non-binary individuals.
• gender-based violence

  Harmful acts targeting individuals based on gender, rooted in power imbalances (physical, sexual, psychological, economic).
• gender equity

  Fair treatment ensuring equal outcomes by addressing different needs/circumstances (vs. equality).
• gender role

  Societal expectations of behavior/attributes based on perceived gender.
• gendered

  Shaped by or reflecting gender norms/expectations.
• generalist

  Social worker with broad skills across practice levels (micro, mezzo, macro).
• genogram

  Multigenerational family diagram mapping relationships/patterns.
• genuine

  Authentic congruence between social worker's feelings and expressions.