C's

Question 1

Case manager

Answer 1

A person designated to assume primary responsibility for assessing the needs of a client, arranging and coordinating the delivery of essential goods and services provided by other resources, and working directly with the client to ensure that the goods and services are provided in a timely manner; case managers must maintain close contact with clients (including sometimes acting to provide direct casework services) and with other service providers to ensure that plans for service delivery are in place and are subsequently delivered as planned.

Question 2

Chain migration

Answer 2

The tendency of immigrants to migrate to areas where relatives and others from their home communities are already living.

Question 3

Charity organization society (COS)

Answer 3

An English innovation brought to Buffalo, New York, in 1877, when private agencies joined together to provide direct services to individuals and families, and to plan and coordinate the effects of these agencies to combat the pressing social problems of cities.

Question 4

Charter schools

Answer 4

Publicy funded elementary or secondary schools in the United States that have been freed from te regulations, rules, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results.

Question 5

Child abuse prevention and treatment act

Answer 5

Passed in January 1974 to provide direct assistance to states to help them develop child abuse and child neglect programs.

Question 6

Chorionic villi sampling (CVS)

Answer 6

This test helps identify certain fetal abnormalities; it is a prenatal technique that involves taking a sample of cells from the chorionic villus and analyzing it for birth defects.

Question 7

Classical theory

Answer 7

A theoery, based on hedonistic psychology, arguing that a person makes a decision about whether to engage in criminal activity based on the anctipated balance of pleasure and pain.

Question 8

Cloning

Answer 8

The process whereby a new organism is reproduced from the nucleus of a single cell.

Question 9

Cognitive disability

Answer 9

A disability characterized by significantly subaverage intellectual functioning exisitng concurrently with related limitations in two or more of the following applicable adaptive skill areas: communication, self-care, home living, social skills, community use, self-direction, health and safety, functional academics, leisure, and work.

Question 10

Comarital sex

Answer 10

Mate swapping and toher organized extramarital relations in which both spouses agree to participate.

Question 11

Coming out

Answer 11

Acknowledging to oneself, and then to others, that one is gay or lesbian.

Question 12

Commission on Global Social Work Education

Answer 12

A commission of the council on social work education that is composed of educators from around the country who are actively involved in teaching international content and intiating cross-national exchange programs.

Question 13

Committee

Answer 13

A group formed to deal with specific tasks or matters within an agency or organization.

Question 14

Community Mental Health Centers Act

Answer 14

An act, passed in 1963, that provided for transferring the care and treatment of the majoirty of mentally ill people from state hospitals to their home communities.

Question 15

Community organization

Answer 15

Work that is aimed at stimulating and assisting the local community to evaluate, plan, and coordinate efforts to provide for the community’s health, welfare, and recreation needs.

Question 16

Community practice

Answer 16

The process of stimulating and assisting the local community to evalue, plan, and coordinate its efforts to provide for the community’s health, welfare, and recreation needs; various labels of practice include social planning, community planning, locality development, community action, social action, macro practice, community organization, and community development.

Question 17

Comparable worth

Answer 17

A concept involving equal pay for comparable work instead of equal pay for equal work.

Question 18

Computer crime

Answer 18

Crimes that involve the use of computers and the internet to commit acts against people, public order, property or morality.

Question 19

Confidentiality

Answer 19

The implicit or explicit agreement between a professional and a client to maintain the privacy or information about the client.

Question 20

Conflict gangs

Answer 20

Gangs that are turf oriented; they engage in violent conflict with individuals of rival groups that invade their neighborhood or commit acts that they consider degrading or insulting.

Question 21

Conflict habituated relationship

Answer 21

A marriage in which the husband and wife frequently quarrel in private; they may also quarrel in public, or they may put up a facade of being compatible.

Question 22

Congregate housing facilities

Answer 22

An arrangement that provides housing in private or government subsidized rental apartment complexes, remodeled hotels to meet the needs of independent older adults, or mobile home parks deisgned for older adults. They provide meanls, housekeeping, transportation, social and recreational activities, and sometimes health care.

Question 23

Conservatives

Answer 23

People who tend to resist change, generally view individuals as autonomous, advocate a residual approach to social welfare programs, and revere the “traditional” nuclear family and try to devise policies to preserve it.

Question 24

Consultive management

Answer 24

Managers of this type consult with their employees and encourage them to think about job-related issues and contribute their own ideas before decisions are made.

Question 25

Continued-care retirement communities

Answer 25

Long-term housing facilities that are designed to provide a full range of accommodations and services for affluent older people as their needs change.

Question 26

Conversion therapy

Answer 26

The goal of tis theraoy is to convery gays’ and lesbians’ sexual orientation to heteresexuality.

Question 27

Coordinator

Answer 27

A worker who brings components together in some kind of organized manner.

Question 28

Corporate crime

Answer 28

A type of white-collar crime that includes illegal labor practices, insider trading, and environmental crimes.

Question 29

Council on Social Work Education

Answer 29

The national accrediting entity for baccalaureate and master’s programs in social work- requires all undergraduate and graduate programs to train their students in generalist social work practice.

Question 30

Crime

Answer 30

An act committed or omitted in violation of a law.

Question 31

Criminal gangs

Answer 31

Gangs that have as a primary goal material gain through criminal activities, including theft of property from people or premises, extortion, fencing, and drug trafficking.

Question 32

Critical theory

Answer 32

Argues that the capitalist economic system is the root cause of our crime problem, but theory fails to explain why crime occurs in Communist societies.

Question 33

Cross-dresser

Answer 33

The term generally refers to men (in their private lives) who wear clothing and accessories designed for women. Cross-dressers are sometimes called transvestites, but that term is considered pejorative.

Question 34

Cult-occult gangs

Answer 34

Gangs engaged in devil or evil worship.

Question 35

Cultural competence

Answer 35

Social workers need to become aware of culture and its pervasive influence, learn about their own cultures, recognize their own ethnocentricity, learn about other cultures, acquire cultural knowledge about their clients, and adapt social work skills and intervention approach accordingly.

Question 36

Cultural pluralism

Answer 36

A concept that implies a series of coexisting groups, each preserving its own tradition and culture but each loyal to an overarching American nation; it appears to be the form that race and ethnic relations are presently taking.

Question 37

Cumulative trauma disorders/repetitive motion disorders

Answer 37

Muscle, tendon, vascular, and nerve injuries tat result from repeated or sustained actions or exertions of different body parts.

Question 38

Cyberbullying

Answer 38

Any bullying done through the use of technology.