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Relative Confidentiality
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An ethical, practical form of confidentiality held by professionals about a client.
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ASBSW
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Academy of Certified Baccalaureate Social Workers
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Abnormal
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A term denoting fuctioning that usually is seen as maladaptive. In assessing SW use DSM or person-in-enviornment (PIE).
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Abortion
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Termination of pregnancy befor the fetus has develped enough to survive outside a woman's body.
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ACSW
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Academy of Certified Social Workers
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Accomodation
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In developmental and Piagetian theory an individual's growing ability to modify current thought structure to deal with new or newly perceived features of the enviornment.
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Accontability
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The state of being answerable to the community; to providce assurances to clients that its practitioners meet specific standards of comtetence.
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Accreditation
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Verification that an organization fulfills explicit specified standards.
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CSWE-Council on Social work Education
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Acculturation
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The adoption by one cultural group or individual of the culture of another.
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Like socialization
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ACOA
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Adult Children of Alcoholics
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Acetylcholine
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a biochemical that transmits information between nerve cells.
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Aquaintace rape
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Forced or coersed sexual intercourse by someone who is know to the victim. Perpertrator ignores protests, often victims do not report the event. Many times the event is not thought of as rape.
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Date Rape
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ACSW
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Academy of Certified Social Workers
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Acquittal
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Set free or discharged from further legal prosecution for a charge of criminal conduct. Same as a not guilty verdict.
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Same as a not guilty verdict.
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Action System
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The people and resources in the community with whom the social worker deals to achieve desired changes.
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Action Theory
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The group of concepts used by social scientist to understand social and personality systems by analyzing acts of a person. It differs from Behaviorism because it emphasizes the value-motivated behavior of individuals and the subjective meanings attached with the action.
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Activism
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Planned behavior designed to achieve social or political objectives through activities.
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Activist
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a person who works to bring about social change
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Activities of daily living (ADL)
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Perfomance of basic self-care and family-care responsibilities necessary for independent living.
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Like meal preparation, bathing, dressing, shopping, cleaning, attending to financial matters.
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Activity group
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A formed group which may or may not have a specifically designed therapeutic purpose, but work on programs of mutual interest. A means of learning social skills, engaging in democratic decision making and developing efgective relationship capacities.
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