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Psychology

The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.

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emergency duty team

Politics; Political Science

Emergency duty team is a team of local authority social workers providing social work services when offices are closed overnight, at weekends and during holidays. Generally the ...

residential work

Psychology; Social psychology

Residential work-social work undertaken within units where people live, either permanently or temporarily. Residential provisios has many purposes: an alternative home, therapy, ...

sure start

Psychology; Social psychology

Sure start - a programme, funded by central government, that integrates a range of children's services in specific disadvantaged areas for all families with children under four ...

approved social worker

Psychology; Social psychology

(ASW)approved social worker- the specially qualified social worker who must by law be involved in the decision to detain a person comopulsorily in a psychiatric hospital.The ...

probation centre

Psychology; Social psychology

A building or part of a building, sometimes also referred to as a rehabilitation centre, approved by the home secretary and run by the probation service, to provide groupwork and ...

arnstein's ladder

Psychology; Social psychology

Arnstein's ladder -a way of mapping out the different degrees of a participation by local residents ad users in the services or community projects that affect them.The tool ...

social work

Psychology; Social psychology

-the paid professional activity that aims to assist people in overcoming serious difficulties in their lives by providing care,protection or counselling or through social support, ...