A's

Question 1

Absolute Approach to Poverty

Answer 1

An assumption that a certain amount of goods and services is essential to an individual’s or family’s welfare; those who do not have this minimum amount are viewed as poor.

Question 2

Absolute confidentiality

Answer 2

Confidentiality in which disclosures made to the professional are not shared with anyone else, except when authorized by the client or required by law.

Question 3

Accountability

Answer 3

The process of evaluating the effectiveness of service programs.

Question 4

Acid rain

Answer 4

Created when sulfur and nitrogen oxides in emissions from automobiles and industrial plants combine with moisture in the air to form sulfuric and nitric acids.

Question 5

Activist

Answer 5

A worker who seeks institutional change; often the objective involves a shift in power and resources to a disadvantaged group.

Question 6

Ad hoc committee

Answer 6

A group, such as a task force, set up for one purpose and usually ceases functioning after completion of its task.

Question 7

Administration

Answer 7

Work that involved directing the overall program of a social service agency.

Question 8

Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)

Answer 8

A law passed in 1997 that reaffirmed the need to forge linkages between the child welfare system and other systems of support for families, and stresses that the child’s health and safety shall be the paramount concern in determining what is reasonable and consistent with the plan for timely, permanent placement of a child.

Question 9

Advocate

Answer 9

A worker who seeks to empower a client or a citizens’ group through securing a beneficial change in one or more institutional policies; in the school setting, a person who understands and is not intimidated by large complicated systems and can help a family or child face the institutional bureaucracy or deal with other social systems.

Question 10

Affirmative action programs

Answer 10

Programs that provide preferential hiring and admission requirements for minority applicants.

Question 11

Afforadable Care Act

Answer 11

This act, passed in 2010, moves the United States closer to affordable health care.

Question 12

Afrocentric perspective

Answer 12

Recognizes that African Americans have retained, to some degree, a number of elements of African life and values.

Question 13

Ageism

Answer 13

Discrimination and prejudice against people simply because they are old.

Question 14

AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndome)

Answer 14

A contagious, presently incurable disease that destroys the body’s immune system; caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Question 15

AIDS-dementia complex

Answer 15

Deterioration of the brain caused by AIDS.

Question 16

Alienation

Answer 16

Worker alienation is the sense of meaningless and powerlessness that people experience when interacting with social institutions they consider oppressive and beyond their control.

Question 17

Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 17

A degenerative brain disorder that causes gradual deterioration in intelligence, memory, awareness, and ability to control bodily functions.

Question 18

American’s with Disabilities Act

Answer 18

An act passed in 1990 that prohibited discrimination against people with a disability either in hiring or by limiting access to public accommodations.

Question 19

Amniocentesis

Answer 19

A genetic screening procedure in which a hollow needle is inserted through the abdominal wall and uterus of a pregnant female to obtain amniotic fluid for the determination of chromosomal abnormality. It is a test for prenatal detection of Down syndrome, other chromosome defects, and some metabolic disorders.

Question 20

Androgyny

Answer 20

A concept in which men and women can be flexible in their role playing and in expressing themselves as human beings rather in traditional feminine or masculine ways.

Question 21

Anger rapist

Answer 21

A rapist who performs his act to discharge feelings of pent-up anger and rage; uses far more force than is necessary to gain sexual access to his victim because his aim is to hurt and debase his victim.

Question 22

Angio-conformity

Answer 22

A perspective that assumes the desirability of maintaining modified English institutions, language, and culture as the dominant standard in American life.

Question 23

Anomie theory

Answer 23

A theory that views criminal behavior as resulting when an individual is prevented from achieving high-status goals in a society.

Question 24

Anorexia nervosa

Answer 24

A disorder characterized by the relentless pursuit of thinness through voluntary starvation.

Question 25

Anoxia

Answer 25

A condition that occurs when there is a deprivation of oxygen.

Question 26

Artificial-insemination donor (AID)

Answer 26

The sperm donor is someone other than the husband.

Question 27

Artifical insemination-husband (AIH)

Answer 27

The sperm donor is the women’s husband.

Question 28

Asperger’s disorder

Answer 28

Children who usually have normal or even high verbal intelligence, do good schoolwork, and are curious, but have limited, fixed interests, repetitive speech and behavior, and difficulty understading social and emotional cues.

Question 29

Aspiration bomb

Answer 29

When many young people in poverty in Third World countries are aware that people in industrialized nations are much more affluent and see violence and terrorism as their only venue for achieving a better life.

Question 30

Assault

Answer 30

The unlawful application of physical force on another person.

Question 31

Assertiveness

Answer 31

Expressing yourself without hurting or stepping on others.