Chap 1 Key Terms- Intro to HMS

Anthropology: Study of the cultural, physical, and social development of humans and the variation in their customs and beliefs.

Case management:  The activities of planning and coordinating and, in some cases, delivering treatment strategies.

Evidence-based practice: A growing trend in the human services to provide services to clients based upon knowledge about their effectiveness.

Generalist approach: The knowledge, values, and skills to perform several job functions in many human service settings.

Networking: Establishing links among human service professionals and agencies to deliver quality services.

Partnerships: When two or more human service organizations work together to better serve the client.

Problems in living: The term used to describe problems that focus on the client, the environment, and the interaction between them.

Profession: An occupation that is important to society, based on academic training, and bound by ethical standards.

Psychology: The study of the mind and behavior.

Rehabilitation: The process of returning an individual to a prior state of functioning.

Self-sufficiency: The ability to care for one’s self.

Social care: Assistance to clients in meeting their social needs, especially those clients who either temporarily or long-term cannot care for themselves.

Social control: Assistance for those individuals who could provide for themselves but have failed to do so or have done so in a manner that deviates from society’s norms for appropriate behavior.

Social justice: Supporting and encouraging fair treatment of all individuals in a society and opposing and confronting injustice.

Sociology: Study of the ways in which human societies influence the people who live in these societies.

Teaming: Working together in groups or units to provide efficient and effective client services.