Bodies Under Social Threat
A client sleeps lightly, watches exits and becomes alarmed when approached from behind. Rather than assuming irrational paranoia, a clinician first considers whether these reactions were adaptive in this kind of environment because.
What is an unsafe or chronically threatening environment?
The clinician continues typing, does not return the client’s greeting, and does not show true curiosity about the client’s lived experiences. These subtle, cumulative signals of lesser treatment are called this.
What are micro-inequities?
A clinician records missed appointments as it likely signals low motivation. However, completed visits are overlooked as routine. This selective evaluation of evidence is called this.
What is biased assimilation?
A program reports fewer people sleeping outdoors after opening additional shelter beds. This does not show that homelessness has ended because:
What is reduction in unsheltered homelessness?
Being judged, humiliated, or evaluated through a stereotype can activate physiological stress even when no physical attack occurs. Researchers call this form of threat this.
What is social-evaluative threat?
A staff member uses polite words but stands far away, gives minimal nods, and angles their body toward the exit. These nonverbal behaviors can be called:
What is nonverbal immediacy?
After years of being disbelieved or treated as drug-seeking, a client avoids healthcare even during serious illness. Researchers use this term for suspicion toward healthcare institutions and professionals.
What is medical mistrust?
A community reaches “functional zero” for veteran homelessness. This does not mean no veteran will ever lose housing. Instead, it means the system can make homelessness for this group this.
What is rare, brief, and extinguishable?
A shelter controls sleeping, meals, possessions, movement, and privacy while replacing residents’ identities with a strict institutional role. Goffman used this term for such settings.
What is a total institution?
A food pantry allows people to choose items, offers private intake, and includes participants in program decisions. These are subtle signs of this basic human need:
What is dignity?
A client says, “The shelter tells everyone it is voluntary, but refusing a search means losing your bed.” Trust is damaged because the formal message conflicts with lived experience. This gap undermines this form of trust.
Epistymic or Institutional Trust
A child enters a new school midyear after the family moves between motels and shelters. Not being invited to a classmate’s party may be interpreted as evidence that “people like me do not fit here.” Name the process.
What is belonging uncertainty?
A homelessness program provides housing, but clients still disengage because they feel unseen. According to the social-psychological framework emphasized throughout this game, what broader principle should guide intervention design?
What is designing situations that foster belonging, dignity, trust, and agency (i.e., situation-crafting or a wise intervention)?
Chronic social threat and loneliness have been associated with increased expression of inflammatory genes. Name the abbreviated social-genomic pattern.
What is the CTRA?
Two clients receive identical resources. One is told, “This is targeted charity.” The other is told “This support can empower you to make decisions for your future.” The second frame is more likely to protect this belief in one’s capacity.
What is self-efficacy?
Staff recognize that colleagues can be influenced by stereotypes but believe their own judgments are objective. This tendency to perceive bias more readily in others than in oneself is called this.
What is the bias blind spot?
Housing First begins with access to permanent housing without requiring treatment compliance or sobriety first. While the policy is helpful, it must be paired with:
What are voluntary, accessible, person-centered supports?
A provider teaches grounding to a client who must remain alert to violence and theft while sleeping outside. The skill may be evidence-based, but is it appropriate for the person, setting, and moment. This is likely because this is not a:
What is a wise intervention?
A program is warm and compassionate but repeatedly makes major decisions without consulting participants. It offers likely is overlooking this essential dimension of dignity.
What is agency?
A client says an outreach team is “working with the police to remove everyone.” Correcting the claim immediately may fail if the belief also explains experiences of displacement. Thus, before challenging content, a clinician should first understand this.
What is the function and meaning of the belief?
When a region reduces homelessness through coordinated outreach, accessible housing, shared data, and cross-agency collaboration, outcomes likely changed because this changed.
What are the systems and conditions around people?