Social Work in Credo: Practice

From Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a term broadly used in many health care and education fields to refer to practice that is informed by the findings and conclusions of research.

From Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
Family therapy offers a distinctive theoretical approach for working with human problems, with the focus on the individual and their relationships with others, especially within the family structure.

From Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
Group therapy is a general term that refers to any of the various types of therapeutic groups that share the broad purpose of increasing people’s knowledge of themselves and others and giving people the skills necessary to enhance their personal competence.

. . . Modern social welfare measures may include any of the following: the care of destitute adults; the treatment of the mentally ill; the rehabilitation of criminals; the care of destitute, neglected, and delinquent children; the care and relief of the sick or handicapped; the care and relief of needy families; and supervisory, educational, and constructive activity, especially for the young.

Organized effort to help individuals and families to adjust themselves to the community, as well as to adapt the community to the needs of such persons and families. Modern social work employs three methods of assistance: case work, group work, and community organization.

U.S. foreign aid programs have included at least three different objectives: rehabilitating the economies of war-devastated countries, strengthening the military defenses of allies and friends of the United States, and promoting economic growth in underdeveloped areas.

From Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia
When poor people become homeless, governments generally have provided some sort of shelter for them. In colonial and early America, this shelter was often in the home of another private citizen, whom the local government paid to take in the homeless person or family.

An institution in which certain kinds of illness are investigated and treated. The first documented hospital was Chinese, in 491. In the European Middle Ages the well-to-do were all treated at home, while the sick poor were cared for in a hospital attached to the local poor house.

Term commonly referring to institutions of pre-college formal education. It also properly includes colleges, universities, and many types of special training establishments.