Human Services
The study of the mind and behavior
What is Psychology?
The act of deciding for one's self a course of action or resolution to a problem.
What is Self-Determination?
These were the workhouses for the mentally ill, elderly, children, able-bodied poor, criminals, and other groups of people who needed care.
What are Almshouses?
What are Codes of Ethics?
These are the aspects of being human who make us who we are.
What is Culture?
The study of the ways in which human societies influence the people who live in those societies.
What is Sociology?
Acceptance of the client that allows the helper to see the situation or understand feelings from a clients perspective.
What is Empathy?
The Western belief that hard work by an individual is the only way to success.
What is Individualism?
What is Competence?
This type of culture focuses on individual achievement, competence, and autonomy.
Supporting and encouraging fair treatment of all individuals in a society and opposing and confronting injustice.
What is Social Justice?
A human service professional with diverse skills and functions that are applicable in a number of settings with a variety of client groups.
Who is the Generalist?
An economic concept that advocated a society or government with little responsibility to those in need.
What is Laissez-faire?
This is the clients right to know about the helper and the helping process.
What is Informed Consent?
This multicultural approach is a way to think about diversity that acknowledges the changes of both society and immigrants.
Working together in groups or units to provide efficient and effective client services.
What is teaming?
What are Values?
This was the legislation passed in 1990 to enable people with disabilities to have equal access to goods, services, and employment.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
This is the ethical principle that states we shall do no harm to our clients, or put them at unnecessary risk of harm.
What is Non-maleficence?
These are categories of human life including language, customs, sense of society, myth, rituals, and technology.
What are Human Universals?
Providing clients services based upon knowledge about their effectiveness as treatments.
What are Evidence Based Practices?
The helper's assurance to clients that their cases will not be discussed with others.
What is Confidentiality?
This English law was the first legislation that guided social welfare practices in England and the United States, stating that the government and church should both be aiding for the poor.
What are Elizabethan Poor Laws?
What is Benevolence?
The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular group.
What is Racism?