Dictionary of Social Welfare

Abortion

Acceptance

Accreditation

Acting-out

Action research

Addiction

Adjustment

Admission

Adolescence

Adoption

Advice

Advisers

Advocacy

After-care

Agency

Aggression

Alcoholism

Alienation

Allocation

Altruism

Ambivalence

Anomie

Anxiety

Appeal

Area

Assessment

Attachment

Attendance centres

Attitude

Authority

Autism

Battered baby

Battered wife

Behaviour modification

Benefit

Brief treatment

Bureaucracy

Care

Care and control

Care proceedings/Care order

Case conference

Case history

Case review/Case review system

Caseload

Casework

Central Council for Education and Training

Central Policy Review Staff

Centre

Change

Character disorder

Charity Organisation Society

Child care service

Child guidance

Child-minders

Children's Hearings

Citizen

Class

Client

Code of ethics

Communication

Community

Community action

Community care

Community development

Community Development Project

Community group

Community Health Council

Community home

Community organisation

Community relations

Community service order

Community work

Compensation

Complaints

Compulsion

Conciliation service

Conditioning

Conflict

Confrontation

Conscience

Consumer/Customer

Contract

Control

Convergence theory

Co-operation

Co-ordination

Councils of Voluntary Service

Counselling

Counter-transference

Crisis/Crisis theory

Culture of poverty

Custodianship order

Custody

Dangerous

Day care

Death

Death instinct

Debt counselling

Defence mechanisms/Mental mechanisms

Defensible space

Delinquency

Dependency

Depression

Deprivation

Deserving

Detention centres

Determinism

Deviance

Diagnosis

Diagnostic School

Disability

Discretion

Discrimination

Divorce court welfare

Double bind

Drugs

Education Welfare Officer

Educational Priority Area

Egoism/Ego

Elderly

Elite

Emotion

Empathy

Employment services

Environment

Equality

Ethnic minority

Evaluation

Existentialism

Family

Family aides

Family Income Supplement

Family policy

Family

Family violence

Feelings

Financial aid

Fostering

Fraternity

Freudian theory

Friendship

Functionalist School

Gatekeeper

Generic

Geriatric

Gestalt therapy

Gift relationship

Groupwork/Social groupwork

Growth

Guilt

Gypsies

Halfway house

Handicap

Health Advisory Service

Health centre

Health Service

Health visitor

Help

Hierarchy

Home help

Home visit

Homelessness

Hostels

Housing

Housing associations

Id

Identification

Identity

Ideology

Illegitimacy

Immaturity

Immigration

In-service training

Individualisation

Individualism

Industrial injuries/Industrial disablement/Death

Inequality

Initial

Inner city

Insight

Instinct

Institution

Intake team

Integration

Interaction

Interest

Intermediate treatment

Intervention

Interview

Introversion-extraversion

Involvement

Irrationality

Issue

Jung/Jungian theory

Justice

Juvenile court

Key worker/Key person

Kleinian theory

Knowledge

Labelling

Learning theory See

Level

Liaison

Libido

Life skills

Long-term team

Loss

Madness

Manipulation

Market

Marriage counselling

Marxist theory

Material aid

Maternal deprivation

Maturity

Mental handicap

Mental illness

Mental welfare officer

Motive

Mourning

Multi-disciplinary

Needs

Neighbourhood

Neurosis

New towns

Non-accidental injury

Non-judgmental attitude

Object-relations theory

Oedipal complex

Old people

Ombudsman

One-parent families

Organisation

Parole

Participation

Patch system

Paternalism

Person/Personal

Personal Constructs/Personal Construct theory

Personal social services

Personality

Philanthropy

Philosophy

Planning

Poor Law

Positive discrimination

Poverty

Poverty trap

Power

Prejudice

Presenting problem

Prevention

Primary health care

Principles

Priorities

Prison welfare The

Probation and After-Care Service

Problem family

Process recording

Profession/Professional relationship

Psychiatric

Psychiatric social work

Psychopath

Psychoses

Psychosomatic

Quota system

Race relations

Radical social work

Rationality

Rationing

Reality

Reassurance

Rebate

Reciprocity

Recording

Referral

Regional Planning Committee/Children's Regional Planning Committee

Register

Rehabilitation

Relationship

Reporter

Representative

Resettlement units

Residential care

Residual conception of welfare

Respect for persons

Rights

Risks

Role

Rural

Schizophrenia

Scrounger

Segregation

Selectivity

Self-determination

Self-help

Self-knowledge

Service delivery

Settlements

Sex

Sick, chronically

Sick role

Social action

Social administration

Social care

Social class

Social conscience

Social control

Social

Social Inquiry Reports (SIRs, SERs)

Social justice

Social movements

Social

Social policy

Social problem

Social reform

Social security

Social service/Social services

Social skills

Social work

Social

Socialisation

Special schools

Specialisation

Status passage

Stigma

Subnormal

Super-ego

Supervision

Supplementary Benefits Commission (1966–80

Support/Supportive

Symptom

Systems theory

Take-up

Task (the social work task)

Task-centred casework

Tax credit

Team

Technique

Terminal care

Territorial justice

Theory

Therapeutic community

Therapeutic paradox

Transactional analysis

Transference

Treatment

Tribunals

Typologies

Unconscious

Understanding

Unemployment

Unitary approach/Unitary model

Universal

Urban

Urban Programme

Vagrancy

Values

Vandalism

Ventilation

Victim

Violence

Voluntary society

Volunteers

Wants

Welfare

Welfare rights

Welfare society

Welfare State

Women

Work through

Youth

Youth Service