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Human Services/Social Service

Welcome to your SSW 120 guide!

This guide has been created to support your SSW 120 assignments. 

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Library databases organize subjects through the use of controlled vocabularies. These work in the same way as tags in photo sharing communities and other social media platforms.

If you find an article that is relevant to your chosen topic, take a look at the keywords and subject terms that the databases use to describe it.

Some subject terms that may be useful to explore are listed here with the topics that your instructor has provided.

Family Violence Child Abuse Disability

domestic violence

dating violence

crisis intervention

abused children

battered child syndrome

people with disabilities

developmental disabilities

intellectual disabilities

Diverse Families Parenting Styles & Strategies Alcohol & Drug Abuse

family relations

LGBTQ+ families

family health

racially mixed families

multiracial families

parenting

parent child relations

child behavior

alcoholism

substance abuse

substance abuse detection

drug abuse counseling

Divorce Illness Aboriginal families

divorce

social services

children of divorced parents

mental illness

immunologic diseases

genetic disorders

health & fitness

Indigenous peoples

Indigenous populations

Indigenous infants

decolonization

Indigenous health