E's Flashcards
Ecological approach
An approach to human behavior that inegrates both treatment and reform by conceptualizing and emphasizing the dysfunction transactions between people and their physical and social environments.
Economic justice
A ideal condition in which all members of a society have the same opportunities to attain material goods, income, and wealth.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Enacted in 1975, this mandates that all local school districts provide full and appropriate educational opportunities to all childre, including those with a disability.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Enacted in 1975, this mandates that all local school districts provide full and appropriate educational opportunities to all childre, including those with a disability.
Education groups
The focus of such groups is for members to acquire knowledge and learn more complex skills.
Educational neglect
When a child is wllowed to be excessively absent from school.
Education Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS)
The Council on Social Work Education’s document that delineates the requirements for accreditation and reaccreditation of baccalaureate and master’s programs in social work.
Educator
A worker who gives information to clients and teaches them adaptive skills.
Elder abuse
The physical or psychological mistreatment of older adults.
Elizabethan Poor Law
Enacted in England in 1601; included three categories of relief recipients (the able-bodied poor, the impotent poor, dependent children); these fundamental provisions were incorporated into the laws of the American colonies.
Embezzlement
An offense in which an employee fraudulently converts some of the employer’s funds to personal use through altering company records.
Embryonic stem cells
Come from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, the term for a fertilized egg 4 days after conception.
Emergency contraception
The three methods available (combined birth control bills, progestin-only pills, and IUDS) work either by preventing ovulation or by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus.
Emotional neglect
Failure to provide the child the emotional nurturing or emotional support necessary for the development of a sound personality.
Employee assistance programs (EAPSs)
Most social services in the workplace are currently provided by EAPs, and include alcohol and drug abuse counseling, counseling for emotional difficulties, family counseling, career and education counseling, credit counseling, and retirement planning.
