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11Medical social work — is a sub discipline of social work, also known as hospital social work. Medical social workers typically work in a hospital, skilled nursing facility or hospice, have a graduate degree in the field, and work with patients and their families in… …
12Beckstrand Cancer Foundation — is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1974 by Dr. Grant Beckstrand and a group of doctors specializing in the treatment and care of cancer patients. For more than 30 years, the Foundation’s goal has been to “improve and enhance the quality of… …
13Rape — This article is about a form of sexual assault. For other uses, see Rape (disambiguation). Sexual assault Classification and external resources …
14diagnosis — /duy euhg noh sis/, n., pl. diagnoses / seez/. 1. Med. a. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. b. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbr.: Dx 2. Biol. scientific… …
15Community counselor — Community counselors provide counselling for traumatized communities in the aftermath of large scale natural disasters. They are trained in basic psychological techniques but are not necessarily professional psychologists. While the concept of… …
16Lay community counsellor — Transitory CommunitiesA community may be defined as a group of people with a sense of common history, language, race, mores, values, attitudes, knowledge structures, and purpose. However traumatic events, such as a natural disaster, spawn new… …
17Psychotherapy — is an interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid s in problems of living. This usually includes increasing individual sense of well being and reducing subjective discomforting experience. Psychotherapists… …
18social service — social service, adj. organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel. [1850 55] * * * Introduction also called welfare service, or social work, any of numerous publicly or privately provided… …
19Co-counselling — (spelled co counseling in American English) is a grassroots, low cost method of personal change based on reciprocal peer counseling. It uses simple methods that can be seen as a refinement of you tell me your problems and I ll tell you mine . In… …
20Homelessness in the United States — OverviewObservers of modern homelessness often cite some of the following potential causes of homelessness: * The movement in the 1950s in state mental health systems to shift towards community based treatment as opposed to long term commitment… …
