| Abnormality | the state of being different, especially in a way that is not desirable, from what is normal, ordinary or expected |
| Access | a means of approaching or achieving a place, a way in |
| Advocacy | giving of a public support or suggesting an idea, development or way of doing something |
| Agenda | a) a list of matters to be discussed at a meeting b) a list of aims or possible future achievements |
| Aggressor country | a country that begins a fight or war with another country |
| Alien | a being from another world |
| Alleviation | making something bad such as pain or problem less severe |
| Altruism | willingness to do things which benefit other people, even if it results in disadvantage for yourself |
| Arbitration | the process of having a dispute settled by a person or group not involved in the dispute |
| Breadwinner | the member of a family who earns the money that the family needs |
| Cell | a) a small group of people forming a centre of political activity b) a very small unit of living matter |
| Charity | a) a system of giving money, food or help free to those who are in need because they are ill, poor or homeless b) any organization that gives money, food or help to people who need it |
| Charity watchdog group | a group of people responsible for making certain that companies maintain particular standards and don’t act illegally |
| Child care agency | a department or organization that is responsible for looking after children |
| Civil rights | the rights of each citizen to be free or equal to others, for example, in voting and employment, regardless of sex, race or religion |
| Civilian | a person not serving in the armed forces or the police force |
| Clinical social workers | mental health and substance abuse social workers are likely to work in hospitals, substance abuse treatment centers, individual and family services agencies, or local governments |
| Code of ethics | set of principles that are accepted and used by society or a particular group of people |
| Cohabitate | If two people, especially a man and woman who are not married, cohabit, they live together and have a sexual relationship |
| Commitment | a) the use of money, time, people, etc. for a particular purpose b) a promise to do something or to behave in a particular way c) the hard work and loyalty that someone gives to an organization, activity |
| Community | a group of people with the same interests, nationality, job, etc. |
| Community based care | when people with mental illness or reduced mental ability are allowed to continue living in their own homes, with treatment and help, and are not kept in hospital |
| Compassion | pity for the sufferings of others, making one want to help them |
| Contribution | something that you do or give to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make something successful |
| Contribution | something that you do or give to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make something successful |
| Corporate | related to a large company or group |
| Counseling | providing with some advice or information |
| Death toll | the number of people killed, fo example, in a war or natural disaster |
| Debt relief | the reduction of a sum of money that someone owes |
| Depressive | causing making somebody sad and without enthusiasm or hope |
| Dignity | a) calm, serious and controlled behaviour that makes people respect you b) the opinion that you have of the standard of your own importance and value |
| Disability | the condition of having a permanent illness or injury that makes it difficult for him or her to move about easily. It may exist from birth or be caused by an accident or illness |
| Discriminate (treat differently) | to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, religion, sex. |
| Discriminate | to recognize a distinction between people or things; to treat one person or group worse/better than others |
| Disorder | a disturbance of the normal processes of the body or mind |
| Diversity | when many different types of things or people are included in something |
| Divorce | when a marriage is ended by an official or legal process |
| Donation | the process when money or goods are given to help a person or organization |
| Economic and military sanctions | relating to economy and army permission or approval of an action or a change |
| Empathetic | being able to imagine and share another person’s feelings, experience, etc. |
| Enact | to put something into action, especially to change something into a law |
| Exodus | a departure of many people at one time |
| Expand | to increase in size, number or importance, or to make something increase in this way |
| Explosives | a substance which is able or is likely to blow up, burst loudly and violently |
| Famine | a situation in which a large number of people have little or no food for a long time and many people die |
| Feasible | a plan , idea, or method that is possible and is likely to work |
| Financial viability | the state of a system related to money or management of money being able to work successfully |
| Flashback | a part of a film, play, etc. that shows a scene earlier in time than the main story |
| Full-time social workers | usually work a standard 40-hour week; however, some occasionally work evenings and weekends to meet with clients, attend community meetings, and handle emergencies |
| Fund raising | a sum of money saved, collected, or provided for a particular purpose |
| Gender | (sex) the physical and/or social condition of being male or female |
| Glass ceiling [usually cingular] | a point beyond which you cannot go, usually in improving your position at work |
| Goodwill | friendly and helpful feelings |
| Handicap | a serious, usually permanent, physical or mental condition that affects one’s ability to walk, see, speak, etc. *The words “physically or mentally handicapped” were used a lot in the past, but many people now feel these words offensive and prefer to use expressions with “disabled and disability” |
| Handout | a small amount or portion of something that is given out |
| Home-care staff | people who help with personal care at home |
| Housekeeper | a person, especially a woman, whose job is to organize another person's house and deal with cooking, cleaning |
| Human rights | the basic rights which are generally considered all people should have, such as justice and the freedom to say what you think |
| Humanity | people in general |
| Imbalance | when two things which should be equal or are normally equal are not |
| Impairment | if somebody’s ability to hear, speak or see has been damaged, but not destroyed completely, they have a certain impairment: impaired hearing, speech, sight (or vision). People can also be described as visually/ hearing impaired or partially sighted |
| Inflation | a general, continuous increase in prices |
| Interfere with | to distract somebody or prevent them from doing something |
| Investment | using money to buy, for example, shares or property, develop a business enterprise, in order to earn interest, bring profit, or improve the quality of something |
| Labour marketUK, US labor market | the supply of people in a particular country or area who are able and willing to work |
| Latch key kids | children who have their own key to their home because there is no one to let them in after school |
| Legislation | a law or a series of laws |
| Life - threatening disease | a disease which is dangerous for individual’s life |
| Lifting equipment | special tools or machines that you need to raise, move or carry something |
| Local social services departments | bodies that deal with social problems and are in charge of how they are treated |
| Maintain | a) to make something continue in the same way or at the same high standard as before b) to provide someone with the things they need, such as money or food |
| Malnutrition | illness or weakness caused by not having enough food to eat, or by not eating good food |
| Massacre | a) an act of killing a lot of people b) INFORMAL a bad defeat, especially in sport |
| Maturity | the quality of behaving mentally and emotionally like an adult |
| Meals-on-wheels | a service in which meals are taken by car to old or sick people in their own homes |
| Means-tested basis | basing on an official enquiry into somebody’s wealth or income in order to discover if they are qualified for financial help from public funds |
| Mediation | trying to get agreement between two or more people or groups who disagree with each other |
| Memorial services | an object, work or duties established to remind people of a past event or a person who died |
| Mental | [before noun] relating to the mind, or involving the process of thinking |
| Mission | any work that someone believes is their duty to do |
| Non-profits | organizations which don’t make profit, usually intentionally |
| Normality | the state of being typical, usual, or expected; not suffering from any mental disorder |
| Pacific settlement | an official making peace agreement that ends with an argument or a dispute |
| Partnership | a) the state of being a partner in business b) a relationship between two people, organizations, or countries that work together regularly |
| Peacekeeping and preventive diplomacy | the management of relations between countries, especially by each country’s representatives abroad based on the intention to help maintain peace and prevent war |
| Philanthropic | a philanthropic person or institution gives money and help to people who are poor or in trouble |
| Philanthropy | helping poor people, especially by giving them money |
| Physical dimension | related to body measurement of any sort: length, size, extent, height, breadth, thickness, etc. |
| Pledge | a solemn promise |
| Post-traumatic stress | the condition that is unpleasant and causing distress usually followed by some accident or unpleasant event |
| Poverty | a) the condition of being extremely poor b) formal a poverty of sth is lack of something or when the quality of something is extremely low |
| Preventative work | actions intended to stop something happening or a situation getting worse |
| Public - pension system | it is a system when state is responsible for financial support of retired people |
| Public awareness | knowledge or understanding of a particular subject or situation by ordinary people in a country |
| Quake-proofing | evidence that shows or helps to show that shaking of earth is true or is a fact |
| Ration | a limited amount of something which one person is allowed to have, especially when there is not much of it available |
| Redemption | the state of being freed from the power of evil, believed by Christians to be made possible by Jesus Christ |
| Relief agencies | bodies dealing with easing or removing of pain, distress or anxiety |
| Relief appeal | an urgent request for something important such as money, food, or services, especially to help someone in a bad situation |
| Retirement | when you leave your job and stop working, usually because you are old |
| Right | (morally acceptable)considered fair or morally acceptable by most people |
| Rigors | severe conditions |
| Second-rate | being of poor quality, not very good |
| Self-determination | the right or opportunity of individuals to control their fates |
| Sexism | (actions based on) the belief that the members of one sex are less intelligent, able, skilful, etc. than the members of the other sex, especially that women are less able than men |
| Single - parent family | such family is headed by one parent, usually female |
| Social justice/injustice | behaviour or treatment that is fair and morally correct / a situation or action in which people are treated unfairly |
| Social security | a system of payments made by the government to people who are ill, poor or who have no job |
| Social worker | a person who works for the social services or for a private organization providing help and support for people who need it |
| Solidarity | unity, agreement and support resulting from showed interests, feelings, actions, sympathies, etc. |
| Sponsor | a person or organization that gives money to support an activity, event, or organization sometimes as a way to advertise your company or product |
| Sponsorship | the process when someone gives money to support something (an activity, event, organization) sometimes as a way to advertise your company or product |
| Stagnate | to stay the same do not grow or do not develop |
| Starvation | suffering or death caused by lack of food |
| Substance abuse | assess and treat individuals with substance abuse problems, including abuse of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs |
| Suicide prevention program | a plan of activities or a set of instructions dealing with stopping acts of killing yourself intentionally from happening or stopping a person from doing this |
| Suppliers | persons or firms giving somebody something that is needed or useful, providing somebody with something for a need |
| Tangible | real or not imaginary; able to be shown, touched or experienced |
| Tax (an amount of) | money paid to the government, which is based on your income or of the cost of goods or services you have bought |
| Terrorism | the use of violence for political aims or to force a government to act, especially because of the fear it causes among the people |
| Therapeutic and recreational facilities | a piece of equipment, buildings, services that provide enjoyment and good general effect on the body or mind of a person |
| Toabuse | to use or treat someone or something wrongly or badly, especially in a way that is to your own advantage |
| To address problems | to deal with a matter, situation, person or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with and solved |
| To encourage | a) to make someone more likely to do something or to make something more likely to happen b) to talk or behave in a way that gives someone confidence to do something |
| To enhance human development | to improve the process of people’s growing, changing and becoming more advanced |
| To handle stress | to deal with a great worry caused by a difficult situation, or something which causes this condition |
| To meet smb’s needs | to do, fulfill or satisfy somebody’s basic necessities or requirements |
| To run the home | to be the head of the household |
| To take advantage of | 1) to make use of something well, properly 2) to treat someone badly in order to get something good from them |
| Tolerance(acceptance) (FORMAL toleration) | willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs which are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them |
| Treat | to give medical care or attention to a person or a condition |
| Trigger | to be the cause of a sudden , often violent reaction; to start something |
| Two - career families | a type of the family when both of the parents have a work |
| Undergo | if you undergo a change, an unpleasant experience etc. it happens to you, or is done to you |
| Unlawful | being against the law, illegal |
| Victim | someone or something which has been hurt, damaged or killed or has suffered, either because of the actions of someone or something else, or because of illness or chance |
| Violation | breaking or being contrary to a rule, principle, treaty, etc. |
| Violence | a) actions or words which are intended to hurt people b) extreme force |
| Vulnerable | able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced or attacked |
| Wear out | to make someone feel extremely tired |
| Working mother | a woman/man/parent who has a job and cares for his or her children |
| Worth of the person | the importance or usefulness of something or someone |
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