Items

• program developer

  Designs/implements targeted service interventions.
• progress report

  Updates documenting intervention status/achievements.
• psychosocial support

  Emotional/social/psychological assistance in crises.
• purpose of social work

  Enhance well-being/justice via person-environment focus.
• qualitative research

  Explores experiences/perceptions via non-numerical data.
• quantitative research

  Measures variables statistically for generalizable findings.
• race

  Social construct categorizing by physical differences.
• racism

  Belief in racial superiority justifying discrimination.
• radical social work

  Challenges structural inequalities via activism.
• rape

  Non-consensual sexual penetration (violent crime).
• rapport

  Trusting, empathetic worker-client relationship.
• rationalization

  Justifying unacceptable behavior with plausible excuses.
• reaching out

  Proactively contacting at-risk individuals/groups.
• recidivism

  Reoffending after criminal justice intervention.
• recognition

  Acknowledging client strengths/progress/achievements.
• reconstruction services

  Restoring function post-trauma/disaster.
• redistribution

  Reallocating resources for greater equity.
• referral

  Directing client to appropriate specialized service.
• reflection

  Critical self-examination improving practice.
• reflexivity

  Ongoing awareness of researcher's influence/bias.
• reflexive social work

  Approach emphasizing continuous self-examination of practice, values, power dynamics.
• reform school

  Historical institution for juvenile offenders emphasizing discipline/reform.
• reframing

  Shifting client perspective on problems to reveal new meanings/solutions.
• refugee

  Person fleeing persecution/war unable to return home safely.
• region

  Geographic area sharing cultural/economic/political characteristics.