Children & Families
Bruises, burns, flinching or reacting to nonthreatening gestures, poor hygiene, or inappropriately dress for the weather.
What are signs of child maltreatment?
Provides services to students to enhance their emotional well-being and improve their academic performance.
What is a school social worker?
An older adult's inability to perform essential self-care.
What is elder self-neglect?
Discrimination, communication, and structural obstacles are examples.
What are barriers to inclusion?
The practice of moving people who require supportive care for physical or mental conditions from institutional settings to community-based facilities.
What is deinstitutionalization?
The permanent and legal placement of a child into a home.
What is adoption?
Advocate for students, crisis management, and educating teachers/parents to name a few.
What are roles of a school social worker?
Such indicators as broken bones, signs of having been restrained and changes in an older adult's financial condition.
What is elder abuse?
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What are signs of elder abuse?
The right to make his/her own decisions based on his/her needs.
What is self-determination?
Support services provided outside of the home within the community to encourage independent living.
What are community-based services?
Substitute care placement with consideration of the least-restrictive environment.
What is foster care?
Stressful and traumatic life events including abuse and neglect occurring in childhood and placing the individual at risk in multiple ways
What are ACEs?
Marriage, widowhood, and having children.
What are key life events that affect older adults?
Ensures products and buildings are accessible and usable by everyone.
What is universal design?
Discriminatory attitudes and stereotyping of individuals because they are older.
What is ageism?
Parent/caregiver speaks for the child, discredits the child, or aggressively yells at the child.
What are signs of child maltreatment exhibited by a parent/caregiver?
Concept emphasizing physical, psychological, and emotional safety for everyone, creating opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment.
What is trauma-informed care?
Coming to terms with changing social roles, physical limitations, and death and dying.
What is aging successfully?
A type of linguistic prescription which puts a person before a diagnosis.
What is person first language?
The placement of children in the home of a relative, close family friend, or tribe member when their parents are unable to provide care.
What is kinship care?
Child victims are recruited, transported, harbored, and exploited.
What is child trafficking?
ADHD, difficulty focusing and learning in school, excessive anger, poor peer relationships, social problems at school, acting out, easily startles to name a few.
What are signs of trauma in children?
Older adults living in their home of choice for as long as possible.
What is aging in place?
A civil rights law that prohibits the discrimination against individuals with disabilities in several areas, including employment, public accommodations, and transportation.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990?
The belief that every person should have life conditions as close as possible to those ordinarily experienced by others in the social and physical environment.
What is normalization?