ASWB 2 Flashcards
In psychosocial assessment, the individual’s degree of
dependability and consistency; in social research, the
dependability and consistency of scores on a test that is
repeated over time with the same group
Reliability
The prejudgment and negative treatment of people based
on identifiable characteristics such as race, gender,
religion, or ethnicity
Discrimination
Stereotyping and generalizing about people, usually
negative, because of their genetic background; an
ideology that a group’s genetic physical characteristics are
linked in a direct causal way to psychological, intellectual,
or behavioral traits, and these distinguish superior and
inferior groups
Racism
A combination of elements with mutual reciprocity and
identifiable boundaries that form a complex or unitary
whole; may be physical and mechanical, living and social,
or a combination of these
Systems
Actions taken to keep conditions known to result in
disease or social problems from occurring
Primary Prevention
An alliance of individuals and ideological groups to
achieve a specific goal or address a single issue or social
problem; The group is expected to disband once the goals
are reached.
Ad Hoc Agency/ coalition
A problem-solving tool often used in social welfare
planning, administration, and community organization for
assessing the degree of resistance or receptivity to a
proposed change
Force Field Analysis ( FFA )
An orientation or set of beliefs that holds that one’s
culture, racial or ethnic group, or nationality is inherently
superior to others
Ethnocentrism
A diagram or graphic presentation often used by group
workers to display how members of the group feel about
one another and how they tend to align themselves with
some and against other members of the group or
organization
Sociogram
The activities of social workers to bring services and
information about the availability of services to people in
their home or usual environments
Outreach
The customs, habits, skills, technology, arts, values,
ideology, science, religion, and political behavior of a
group of people in a specific time period
Culture
The adoption of an individual or group to the social
patterns, behaviors, and values of others
Acculturation
A system of moral principles and perceptions about right
versus wrong and the resulting philosophy of conduct that
is practiced by an individual, group, or profession
Ethics
A situation that occurs when two or more moral values
seem to be equally valid but contradictory and the
individual is required to make the best possible choice
from among them
Ethical Dilemma
A belief about the supposed superiority or inferiority of
individuals, groups, or nations based on their ethnic
affiliations
Cultural Bias
A pattern of antisocial behavior by people younger than
age 18 (or 21 in some jurisdictions) that would be
regarded as criminal in nature if committed by adults
Juvenile Delinquency
An organizational plan, social policy, or legal doctrine that
specifies how many or what proportion of people of an
identified status will be included in an identified group;
This may include or exclude people.
Quota System
A formal process of evaluating the type and amount of
service offered and delivered to organizations to
determine if those services are justified; This often occurs
when funds for agencies are received from government
bodies or other third party groups.
Utilization Review
Those individuals or groups who have a greater
probability of being harmed by specific social,
environmental, or health problems than the population as
a whole
Vulnerable Population
A criminal justice procedure that permits convicted law
violators to leave a correctional facility or other institution
to go to their jobs and return to the facility immediately
after work
Work Release
The view that public assistance and other social services
are entitlements available to any of a nation’s citizens
Welfare Rights
Persistent, intense, and unreasonable fear of strangers or
foreign people
Xenophobia
An organization or government’s explicit ruling that a
specified intentional act will result in some sanction,
including expulsion
zero tolerance policies
Privately funded and administered federated
organizations, usually with chapters or recreational
facilities in most communities with the purpose of helping
young people achieve their developmental potentials
Youth Services Organization
