Chapter 13 Flashcards
Any institution-public or private, nonprofit or for-profit-designed to provide a wide range of social and psychological services to the community
Community agency
A diverse pool of human-service workers whose primary duties include serving individuals within the community in a variety of community groups
Community worker
A comprehensive helping framework that is grounded in multicultural competence and oriented toward social justice
Community counseling
Involves access and equity to ensure full participation in the life of a society, particularly for those who have been systematically excluded on the basis of race/ethnicity, gender, age, physical or mental disability, education, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics of background or group membership
Social justice
Represents a proactive concern with advocacy and social change and focuses on changing systems and policies on multiple levels
Fifth force
Using skills in helping clients challenge institutional barriers that impede their personal, social, academic, or career goals
Advocate
Counselors encourage clients from diverse cultures to learn skills they can use to interact successfully with various forces within their community
Consultants
Initiates discussions with clients about ways to deal with environmental problems that contribute to their personal problems
Adviser
Family and friendship networks within an individuals own community
Indigenous support systems
Religious leaders and institutions, energy healers, and respected community leaders
Indigenous healing systems
Grounded on strengths, focuses on assets and capacities, promotes capability and power, changes conditions, and is aimed at prevention
Developmental approach
Focuses on problems to be solved and holes to fill. It is concerned more with maintaining, rather than changing, conditions and is oriented toward fixing problems rather than preventing them
Service approach
