STUDY GUIDE
HS 101 Intro to Human Services
Fall 2008
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The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601 kept the administration of poor relief at the local
level.
2.
Settlement houses are neighborhood-based facilities established in most urban centers to
bring together people of different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds to share
knowledge, values, and skills for their mutual benefit.
3.
Hull House was the first and most famous of the Settlement Houses founded in Chicago
in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
4.
Prior to the 1929 Stock Market Crash, there was an illusion of economic stability
throughout the 1920’s. Because of the rising income of the rich, the stock market began
to soar. It appeared to be a sound investment. Even those who could not afford it,
bought on credit. When stock prices fell, people could not pay their loans and they lost
everything.
5.
The Great Depression was the most catastrophic economic crisis the United States has
ever seen.
6.
The New Deal was the name President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of
programs and promises he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving
reform to the people and economy of the United States during the Great Depression.
7.
The most important among all the programs President Roosevelt initiated was the Social
Security Act.
8.
The National Mental Health Act of 1946 provided a funded mechanism for research and
training programs and for state assistance in establishing community mental health
service.
9.
The Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Case ruled that separate public
schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational
opportunities and thus violated the 14th Amendment. This victory paved the way for
integration and the Civil Rights Movement.
10.
The War on Poverty is the name for the plans and programs Lyndon B. Johnson proposed
in response to the difficult economic conditions and rising poverty of the 1960’s. His aim
was to encourage economic stability, equal opportunity and realize the Great Society.
11.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited racial and/or religious discrimination and
outlawed segregation in schools and public places.
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Race is the major subdivision of the human species whose distinguished characteristics
are genetically transmitted.
13.
Culture is the customs, habits, skills, technology, arts, values, ideology, science, and
religious and political behavior of people in a specific time period.
14.
An Ethnic Group is a distinct group of people who share a common language, set of
customs, history, culture, race, religion, or origin.
15.
Ethics pertain to the beliefs we hold about what constitutes right conduct. Ethics are
moral principles adopted by an individual or group to provide rules for right conduct.
16.
Values are the customs, standards of conduct, and principles considered desirable by a
culture, a group of people, or an individual.
17.
Confidentiality is a principle of ethics according to which the social worker or other
professional may not disclose information without the client’s consent.
18.
The Duty to Warn suggests that when a therapist’s client is threatening violence to a
specific victim, the therapist has a professional responsibility to warn both the intended
victim and the appropriate authorities (police) of the danger.
19.
A professional discipline is defined by a common body of knowledge, a code of ethics,
and a concern for peers.
20.
Chemical dependency affects people with varied personalities, cultures and lifestyles. To
be effective in counseling these diverse populations, a counselor must understand his/her
perceptions of addiction and realize that perceptions of others may differ and understand
that skills, methods, and goals need to be appropriate for the experience and lifestyles of
the culturally different client.
21.
Ethics is defined by the principles of morality, the science of the good, the nature of the
right, and the rules of conduct.
22.
Multi-cultural means growing up with more than one cultural orientation.
23.
Women, adolescents, gay or lesbian, and elderly are all considered special populations.
24.
A significant barrier to women seeking treatment is lack of child services.
25.
The style of counseling in which a counselor does not fear racial or cultural differences
and is aware of his/her attitudes, making efforts to be actively involved professionally
and personally in a solution to racial problems, is known as the “Culturally-Liberated”
Counselor.
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26.
Physiological, sociological, and psychological factors should be considered when looking
at special populations and the etiology (cause of chemical dependence).
27.
Drug and Alcohol treatment programs for people with handicaps must include an
awareness of the particular aspects of handicaps and be integrated with the general
population.
28.
Professional competence means knowing ones limitations and abilities.
29.
Women are viewed as a special population because traditional treatment is geared toward
men, not women.
30.
Common reasons why people with disabilities use alcohol and drugs are to ease physical
and mental pain; low self-worth; prescribed by physicians; isolation.
31.
The style of counseling in which a counselor has little or no prior exposure to a minority
culture and whose fear causes him/her to be ineffective in working with a minority client
is known as Cultural Ignorance.
32.
The elderly population develop substance abuse problems because of a change in
metabolism; isolation from family and friends; self-diagnosing and self-medication with
OTC drugs; and, multiple physical problems with multiple medications.
33.
Professionals are legally obligated to breach confidentiality when a client is dangerous to
self; a client is dangerous to others; in a medical emergency; a client commits child abuse
(including neglect) or elder abuse.
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