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Social Work Policy
important terms dealing with SW Policy
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Political Studies
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08/28/2009

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privacy rule
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identifiable protected health information may not be used or disclosed wihtout specific authorization, HIPPA
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heath care clearing houses
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public or private entity that facilitates administrative and financial interactions
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circumstances under which therapy notes can be disclosed without consent
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when required by law, to defend a lawsuit against a therapist by the individual who is the subject of the notes, to a cornoner or medical examnier, to avert serious and imminent threat to health or safety
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Harry Hopkins
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Wokrs Progress Administration
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Dorothy Heights
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National Counsel of Negro Women
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Jeanette Rankin
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First women elected to US Congress
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Sanitation Commission
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civil war volunteer orgnization taht developed services associated today with Public Health and Red Cross
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Freedman's Bureau
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worked with newly emancipated slaves and delivered a wide range of social services to ease the assimulation of newly emancipated slaves
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State Boards
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1860s, states began building reformatories, prisons, mental asylums, poor-houses, and orphanages; pushed social work away from religion towards scientific approach
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Charity Organization societies
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1870s, developed to reorganize private and public charities to help the poor out while avoiding dependency; did not directly give out funds to the poor, kept a registry of people receiving relief, friendly visitors provided intervention to break the cycle of poverty through moral relief
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Social Darwinism
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relief is destructive to society and the poor becuase it creates dependcy and saps their motivation
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friendly visitor
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part of Charity Organization Societies, always a woman, nteresting blend of beliefs and values representing conservative economics, an upper-class lifestyle, social Darwinism, Christian love, and good intentions, AND determined who was deserving and undeserving poor. idea of moral uplift
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settlement movement
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1920s, aimed to make rich and poor live more closely together in an interdependent community
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settlement houses
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offered food, shelter, and education to the poor,
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Chicago Hull House
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founded in 1889 by Jane Addams, most famous US settlement house
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