History & Policy
The case of Mary Ellen Wilson was prosecuted under this type of law.
What are Animal Protection Laws?
This disability-related accommodation is not limited to K-12 and can be accessed in colleges and workplaces.
What is a 504 Plan?
This theory suggests that neighborhoods tolerating minor crimes are more likely to see an increase in major crimes.
What is the Broken Windows Theory?
Conditions like unstable housing, lack of transportation, and food insecurity are known as these.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
What is Ecological Systems Theory?
This 19th-century reformer advocated for the founding of state mental hospitals/asylums.
Who is Dorthea Dix.
This document includes specific learning goals and educational services, and involves specially designed instruction.
What is an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)?
Research confirms that this specific setting increases a person's vulnerability to disease and premature death.
What is Incarceration?
Distributing clean needles to prevent HIV without reporting drug use is an example of this strategy.
What is Harm Reduction?
Lobbying a city council for funding to support after-school programs is social work practice at this level.
What is the Macro Level?
The shift in psychiatric care from inpatient facilities to community-based services is known as this.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
A disability rights advocate arguing that a student is disabled by a lack of ramps rather than their body is using this model.
What is the Social Model of Disability?
An approach to justice that focuses on repairing harm and having offender make amends.
What is Restorative Justice?
Research indicates that over half of all American adults have experienced at least one of these potentially life-altering events.
What is a traumatic event?
Allowing a client to choose a treatment path the social worker disagrees with demonstrates this value.
What is Self Determination?
This war contributed to racially disproportionate prison sentencing and mass incarceration for non-violent offenses.
What is the War on Drugs?
Policies and practices that direct students from classrooms into the justice system are known as this.
What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?
This theory of criminal behavior asserts that swift and severe punishment must follow a crime.
What is Deterrence Theory?
A doctor treating asthma without asking about the impact on daily activities is operating from this health perspective.
What is the Medical Model?
A parent calling a child "worthless" and isolating them is classified as this type of maltreatment?
What is Psychological Abuse?
These are the three primary goals of the child welfare system.
What are Safety, Permanency, and Well-being?
This federal act mandates "Free and Appropriate Public Education" and the "Least Restrictive Environment."
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
Sociological theories of criminal behavior hold individuals accountable but emphasize changing this.
What is the external environment?
This federal program provides health insurance specifically for the elderly and those eligible for Social Security.
What is Medicare?
This key element is paired with "Empowerment" and "Voice" in trauma work to ensure clients have control over their own treatment options.
What is Choice?