Intro To HUS Flashcards
Social care
Assuring clients in meeting their social needs
Focuses on those who can not care for themselves
Social control
Who receives the services and under what conditions do they receive them
Rehabilitation
Enable individual to function near or prior level of independence
Macrosystem
Using the different services and agencies around you to help a client
Microsystem
Personal interaction with client or a small group of people
Can be done at a mental health facility
Generalist
Range of skills and knowledge to work in different environments with different people
Professional activities
Acquire the knowledge and skills that can be transferred across setting and populations
Establish good working relationships
Professional behavior
Continuing education
philosophy of human services
- building a just society based on respect for peoples rights and needs
- entitled to services
- prevention of peoples problems is as important as rehab
- HUS is crucial to effectiveness
- HUS are accountable consumers
- enable people to live better
Problems in living
difficulty a person encounters in interacting with environment
Jane Addams
co-funded one of the first full houses in chicago
individualism
the belief that hard work by any individual is the way to success
laissez-faire
advocated a society or government with little responsibility to those in need
social dwarnism
the fittest of the society will survive through natural selection
least restrictive environment
student who has a disability should have the opportunity to be educated with non-disabled peers
case management
planning coordination and delivering tx strategies
networking
getting work from other agencies and professionals to get client help they need
trephination
drilling holes in skull to remove evil spirits
hippocrates
father of medicine
benjamin rush
physician and American Revolutionary leader
dorthea dix
american activist who created the first generation of American mental asylums.
philippe pinel
moral therapy: more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients
Hull house
a settlement house
SSA of 1935
assumed its responsibility for its citizens economic security
economic oppurtunity act
authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty.
