Items

• support

  Resources/relationships aiding coping/functioning.
• support function

  Services maintaining/facilitating system stability.
• survival

  Meeting basic physiological/safety needs.
• sustainability

  Long-term viability of interventions/systems.
• sustainable development

  Progress meeting present needs without future harm.
• sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA)

  Framework building resilient household economies.
• sympathy

  Feeling sorrow/pity for another's suffering.
• system

  Interconnected elements functioning interdependently.
• system theory

  Framework analyzing entities through relationships/boundaries.
• tangible

  Concrete, measurable intervention outputs/products.
• target group

  Specific population intervention designed to serve.
• task centred approach

  Short-term, goal-focused problem-solving method.
• termination

  Planned ending of professional helping relationship.
• theoretical framework

  Structure organizing concepts guiding practice/research.
• theories of human behaviour

  Explanations predicting/mapping individual/group actions.
• theory

  Systematic explanation of observed phenomena.
• therapeutic affinity

  Natural helping inclination/empathic connection.
• therapy

  Structured process alleviating psychological distress.
• tolerance

  Acceptance of differing beliefs/behaviors.
• tradition

  Culturally transmitted beliefs/practices over time.
• transactional analysis

  Theory analyzing interaction ego states.
• transference

  Client redirecting past feelings onto practitioner.
• transgender/transexual

  Gender identity differing from assigned sex.
• transition

  Process moving between life phases/roles.
• turning point

  Critical event altering life trajectory.