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Social workers
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Social workers Persons performing organized work intended to advance the social conditions of a community, and especially of the disadvantaged, by providing psychological counseling, guidance, and assistance, especially in the form of social services.
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Social
worker An individual, usually with a university degree in social work, who provides counsel and aid to individuals with emotional and family problems.
Psychological
Pertaining to mental life as manifested through language and behavior.
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Social
worker An individual, usually with a university degree in social work, who provides counsel and aid to individuals with emotional and family problems.
Social adaptation
The ability to live and express oneself according to society's restrictions and cultural demands.
Social alienation
The state of estrangement individuals feel in cultural settings that they view as foreign, unpredictable, or unacceptable.
Social distancing
Absence of sociable approach or response to other people that is phobic rather than depressive, catatonic, or autistic aloneness.
Social phobia
A type of anxiety disorder that causes significant anxiety and discomfort related to a fear of being embarrassed, judged, humiliated or scorned by others in social or performance situations.
Sociopath (APD)
Sociopath also known as Antisocial personality disorder (APD) involves a history of chronic antisocial behavior that begins before the age of 15 and continues into adulthood. The disorder is manifested by a pattern of irresponsible and antisocial behavior as indicated by academic failure, poor job performance, illegal activities, recklessness, and impulsive behavior. Symptoms may include dysphoria, an inability to tolerate boredom, feeling victimized, and a diminished capacity for intimacy.
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Sinus node
The cells that produce the electrical impulses that cause the heart to contract.
Sitz bath
A special plastic tub. A person sits in a few inches of warm water to help relieve discomfort of hemorrhoids or anal fissures.
Small bowel enema
X-rays of the small intestine taken as barium liquid passes through the organ. Also called small bowel follow-through. See also lower GI series.
Small intestine
Organ where most digestion occurs. It measures about 20 feet and includes the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Soft-tissue
Generally, the ligaments, tendons, and muscles in the musculoskeletal system.
Social workers
Somatosensory
Refers to sensory signals from all tissues of the body including skin, viscera, muscles, and joints.
Somatostatin
A hormone in the pancreas that helps tell the body when to make the hormones insulin, glucagon, gastrin, secretin, and renin.
Spastic colon
See irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
SPECT
Single-photon emission computed tomography. In nuclear medicine, it provides 3-D computer-reconstructed images of multiple views of the region of interest.
Spectroscopy
The science of measuring the emission and absorption of different wavelengths (spectra) of visible and non-visible light, this can be done via a spectroscope, which consists of a slit, prism, collimator lens, object lens, and a grating.
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Social
worker An individual, usually with a university degree in social work, who provides counsel and aid to individuals with emotional and family problems.
Psychological
Pertaining to mental life as manifested through language and behavior.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Social
worker An individual, usually with a university degree in social work, who provides counsel and aid to individuals with emotional and family problems.
Social adaptation
The ability to live and express oneself according to society's restrictions and cultural demands.
Social alienation
The state of estrangement individuals feel in cultural settings that they view as foreign, unpredictable, or unacceptable.
Social distancing
Absence of sociable approach or response to other people that is phobic rather than depressive, catatonic, or autistic aloneness.
Social phobia
A type of anxiety disorder that causes significant anxiety and discomfort related to a fear of being embarrassed, judged, humiliated or scorned by others in social or performance situations.
Sociopath (APD)
Sociopath also known as Antisocial personality disorder (APD) involves a history of chronic antisocial behavior that begins before the age of 15 and continues into adulthood. The disorder is manifested by a pattern of irresponsible and antisocial behavior as indicated by academic failure, poor job performance, illegal activities, recklessness, and impulsive behavior. Symptoms may include dysphoria, an inability to tolerate boredom, feeling victimized, and a diminished capacity for intimacy.
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Sinus node
The cells that produce the electrical impulses that cause the heart to contract.
Sitz bath
A special plastic tub. A person sits in a few inches of warm water to help relieve discomfort of hemorrhoids or anal fissures.
Small bowel enema
X-rays of the small intestine taken as barium liquid passes through the organ. Also called small bowel follow-through. See also lower GI series.
Small intestine
Organ where most digestion occurs. It measures about 20 feet and includes the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Soft-tissue
Generally, the ligaments, tendons, and muscles in the musculoskeletal system.
Social workers
Somatosensory
Refers to sensory signals from all tissues of the body including skin, viscera, muscles, and joints.
Somatostatin
A hormone in the pancreas that helps tell the body when to make the hormones insulin, glucagon, gastrin, secretin, and renin.
Spastic colon
See irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
SPECT
Single-photon emission computed tomography. In nuclear medicine, it provides 3-D computer-reconstructed images of multiple views of the region of interest.
Spectroscopy
The science of measuring the emission and absorption of different wavelengths (spectra) of visible and non-visible light, this can be done via a spectroscope, which consists of a slit, prism, collimator lens, object lens, and a grating.
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