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Question | Answer |
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What is Hospice? | Comprehensive services for persons with end-stage terminal illness; goal is to provide comfort and pain control |
What is Probation? | Suspended sentence defers imprisonment |
What is Parol? | Granting early release from prison; decision based evidence of good conduct and rehabilitation |
What is Rehabilitation? | Encourages clients' participation in all aspects of decision making and provides opportunities for clients to assert increased autonomy and independence |
What is an Adult Daycare? | A less expensive alternative to individual care and institutional placement along with more expansive possibilities for socialization, rehabilitation, and activities |
What is Normalization? | People with developmental disabilities participate in age-appropriate activities in education, employment, and recreation |
What is a Liberal POV? | Champions human rights and social equality; governmental solutions |
What is a Conservative POV? | Promotes capitalistic free-market economy; old-school values |
What is a Radical POV? | Acknowledges societal responsibility for inequalities and advocates social change; non capitalistic welfare state with equality in social benefits |
What is Deinstitutionalization? | Provides care in less restrictive community-based services rather than in institutions |
What is Mainstreaming? | Encourages enrollment of children who have developmental disabilities in regular classrooms |
What is Workman's Compensation? | Benefits that cover individuals who cannot work because of work-related diseases or injuries |
What is Unemployment? | Jobless |
What is Ethnocentrism? | seeing the world only from one's own cultural perspective, and believing that this one perspective is both normal and correct |
Different Types of Family | Nuclear, Single-Parent, Blended, LGBT, Multigenerational, and Grandparent-Headed |
What is Social Policy? | Principles and courses of action that influence the overall quality of life as well as the circumstances of individuals in groups and their social relationships |
Define Gerontological | Older adults |
What is the Disability Act? | Indicates that the term "developmental disability" denotes a severe, chronic disability of a person 5 years of age or older |
What is MedicAid? | Low income medical assistance program; Affordable Care Act |
What is MediCare? | Insurance covering medical needs of those age 65 years and older and younger adults with disabilities |
What does TANIF stand for? | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families |
What does SSI stand for? | Supplemental Security Income |
What does SNAP stand for? | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program |
Child Maltreatment Types | Physical, Emotional, Neglect, and Sexual |
What is the most prevalent form of child abuse? | Neglect |
How many white people are considered to be in poverty? | 41.2% |
Which group makes up the majority of the poverty population? | Women and children |
What is Formal Kinship Care? | Placing children with relatives |
What is the Purpose of Social Policy? | Redress inequalities in social institutions and provide assistance to persons in need |
What is Victim Assistance? | Services for sexual assault, domestic violence, or aftermath of other crimes |
What is General Assistance? | Local governments provide assistance for those requiring temporary or emergency relief; targets individuals not qualifying for other programs |
How many Social Workers are in Healthcare? | 43% of all social workers |
How many people suffer from a Mental Health disorder? | 1 in 4, or 25% |
How many people, over the age of 18, provide unpaid care? | 43.5 million |
Progressive Era | 1910-1920s |
New Deal and the Great Depression | 1930s |
Great Society Programs | 1960s |
New Federalism | 1970s |
Welfare Reform | 1990s |
Health Care Reform | 2000s |
What does policy focus on? | Specifications, feasibility, and merits |
Policy influences practice | Practice informs policy |
What is MediCare A? | Qualified hospitalization and in-patient care, skilled nursing care, home health services, and hospice care |
What is MediCare B? | Medically necessary services and supplies, preventative care, durable equipment, ambulance fees, and mental health services |
What is MediCare C? | Medicare advantage - combines Medicare A with supplemental insurance available through private insurance company |
What is MediCare D? | Prescription drug coverage |
How many African Americans are considered poor? | 24.1% |
How many hispanics are poor? | 21.4% |
How many asians are poor? | 11.4% |