Terms across practice settings
Basic self-care activities that allow an individual to live independently, including bathing, eating, and toileting.
What are activities of daily living?
The legal obligation to report a client's threats or danger to another person based on the Tarasoff ruling of 1976.
What is a duty to warn?
Written guidelines regarding end-of-life care developed by a client while competent. This term can include living wills and the designation of a health care representative to make medical decisions for the client if needed.
What are Advance Directives?
An individual who has voluntarily moved to another country.
What is an immigrant
The agreement, often supported by law and professional codes of ethics, that the communication between a social worker and a client is protected unless the client gives permission for it to be shared or when there exists a duty to warn someone that the client has threatened to harm.
What is privileged communication
The process of identifying a condition and assessing the causes and contributors to that condition, based on symptoms and course, and allowing for a plan of care.
What is a Diagnosis?
An individual who experiences persecution or danger on the basis of political beliefs, religion, or ethnicity and who seeks protection in another country.
What is a refugee?
The system of services provided to children and youth vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, or neglect.
What is Child Protective Services?
The process of planning for the discharge and placement of an individual following hospitalization or residential care that allows for a smooth transition and whatever supports will be needed to maintain the client's level of functioning.
What is a Discharge Planning?
Two coexisting, overlapping, and mutually interacting conditions. Also referred to as coexisting disorders or comorbidity.
What is a dual diagnosis?
The legal standard that holds a person to be not guilty by reason of insanity.
What is the Brawner Rule?
Someone who is required to seek and utilize services.
What is a mandated client?
The amount a client needs to pay for a service covered by insurance, sometimes a percentage of the total cost and sometimes a specified dollar amount.
What is a co-payment?
A person appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the custody and welfare of an individual who is a minor, incapacitated, or incompetent.
What is a Guardian?
A company that facilitates, monitors, and evaluates services provided by an organization, often used with the purpose of maintaining quality and reducing costs.
What is Managed Care?