ENGLISH GLOSSARY

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A blended family
A family consisting of a couple, the children they have had together, and their children from previous relationships.
lv: Jaukta ģimene
Abuse
Treat with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly.
lv: ļaunprātīga izmantošana
Accounting
The process or work of keeping financial accounts.
lv: Grāmatvedība
Adolescent
(of a young person) in the process of developing from a child into an adult.
lv: Pusaudžu vecums
Adoption
The action or fact of legally taking another's child and bringing it up as one's own, or the fact of being adopted.
lv: adopcija
Adoptive behaviour
lv: Adaptīvā uzvedība
Age appropriate
Suitable for a particular age or age group.
lv: Atbilstoši vecumam
Allowance
A sum of money paid regularly to a person to meet needs or expenses.
lv: Pabalsts
Approach
lv: pieeja
Assessment
The action of assessing someone or something.
lv: Vērtēšana
Assistance in household chores
Means assistance with incidental household tasks provided as an integral, but subordinate part of the personal care furnished directly to a client by and through the long-term care programs.
lv: Asistents, kas palīdz mājas darbos.
Assistive technology
lv: Palīglīdzekļi
Average
lv: Vidēji
Birth rate
lv: dzimstība
Bring up
Look after a child until it is an adult.
lv: Audzināt/audzināšana
Call somebody name
Is a non-vulgar expression which means "to insult someone".
lv: Apsaukāt kādu
Care coordinator
A health professional trained to help you manage your care.
lv: Palīgs
Child care
The care of children, especially by a crèche, nursery, or childminder while parents are working.
lv: bērnu aprūpe
Child neglect
A form of child abuse.
lv: Atstāt bērnu nolaidībā/novārtā
Cohabiting parent
Similar in terms of their basic family structure;
lv: Kopdzīves vecāks
Comprehensive
lv: Vispārizglītojošā
Decent
Conforming with generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behaviour.
lv: Pieklājīgs
Dependants
A person who relies on another, especially a family member, for financial support.
lv: Apgādājamais
Deprived
Suffering a severe and damaging lack of basic material and cultural benefits.
lv: Atņemts
Destitute
lv: Trūcīgs
Development disability
lv: Attīstības nespēja
Disabled person
A person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity
lv: Persona ar invaliditāti
Disposable income
Income remaining after deduction of taxes and social security charges, available to be spent or saved as one wishes.
lv: Rīcībā esošie ienākumi
Disturbances
A breakdown of peaceful and law-abiding behaviour.
lv: Traucējumi
Divorce
lv: šķiršanās
Dysfunctional family
A family where there is conflict, misbehavior and often child neglect.
lv: Nelabvēlīga ģimene
Eligibility
The state of having the right to do or obtain something through satisfaction of the appropriate conditions.
lv: atbilstība
Emotional security
The feeling of safety, confidence, and freedom from apprehension.
lv: Emocionālā drošība
Employment agency
lv: Nodarbinātības aģentūra
Essential
lv: būtisks
Ex-wife/husband
lv: bijusī sieva/vīrs
Exaggerate
Represent (something) as being larger, better, or worse than it really is.
Formative years
lv: Veidošanās gadi
Fostering
Bring up (a child that is not one's own by birth).
lv: Aizbildnieks
Generation gap
A difference of attitudes between people of different generations, leading to a lack of understanding.
lv: Paaudžu konflikts
Guardian
lv: Aizbildnis
Hardship
lv: Grūtības
Harmful
Causing or likely to cause harm.
lv: kaitējošs
Home care
lv: Mājas aprūpe
Immature people
Not fully developed or grown.
lv: Nenobriedis
Impairment
lv: Traucējumi
Inclusion
lv: Integrēšanās
Income
Money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments.
lv: ienākumi
Intelligent
lv: Gudrs
Living expense
Expenditures necessary for basic daily living and maintaining good health.
lv: Dzīvošanas izdevumi
Local authority
An administrative body in local government.
lv: vietējā vara
Local authority
An organization that is in charge of the public services for a community.
lv: Vietējā iestāde/organizācija
Low income
Relating or belonging to people who earn low wages.
lv: Zemi ienākumi
Maternity leave
A period of absence from work granted to a mother before and after the birth of her child.
lv: Grūtniecības atvaļinājums
Mental age
A person's mental ability expressed as the age at which an average person reaches the same ability.
lv: Garīgais vecums
Mental case
A person suffering from neurosis.
lv: Garīģi slims
Mistress/hostess
lv: Saimniece
Needlework
The art or practice of sewing or embroidery.
lv: Rokdarbi (šūšana)
Nuclear family
A couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit.
lv: Kodolģmene/tradicionālā ģimene
Nurture
Care for and protect (someone or something) while they are growing.
lv: Audzināt/lolot
Observation practice
lv: Vērošanas prakse
Out of wedlock child
Born when one's parents are not married
lv: Ārlaulības bērns
Overprotective parents
The parent who wants to protect their children from harm, hurt and pain, unhappiness, bad experiences and rejection, hurt feelings, failure and disappointments.
lv: Pārāk aizsargājoši vecāki
Peer
lv: Skolas biedri
Pledge
lv: solīt
Poverty
The state of being extremely poor.
lv: nabadzība
Provide
lv: Nodrošināt
Raise
To take care of a person or animal.
lv: audzināt
Remote
Distantly related.
lv: Tālie/attālie (radi)
Requalification courses
lv: Pārkvalifikācijas kursi
Restricted lives
ierobežota dzīve
Revise
lv: Atkārtot
Satisfaction
lv: apmierinājums
Separation
The action or state of moving or being moved apart.
lv: Atdalīšana
Severe
lv: Nopietni
Shelter seekers
Shelter-a building designed to give protection from bad weather, danger, or attack. Seeker- a person who searches for something or tries to find or obtain something.
lv: Patvēruma meklētāji (bēgļi)
Social and emotional wellness
lv: Sociālā un emocionālā labsajūta
Social rehabilitation
lv: sociālā rehabilitācija
Social service department
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.
lv: Sociālā dienesta nodaļa
Special needs people
Individuals who require assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological.
lv: Cilvēki ar īpašām vajadzībām
Speech impairment
lv: Runas traucējumi
Speech therapy teacher
lv: Logopēds
Spoiled child
Children who exhibit behavioral problems from being overindulged by their parents.
lv: Izlutināts bērns
Strict
lv: strikts
Stroke
When the blood supply to part of your brain is interrupted or reduced.
lv: Insults
Supervisor
A person who supervises a person or an activity.
lv: Uzraugs
The extended family
A family which extends beyond the nuclear family to include grandparents and other relatives.
lv: Paplašināta ģimene
To scold me
lv: Bārt
Unemployed people
People are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job.
lv: Bezdarbnieki
Validate
lv: Apstiprināt
Vegetative dystonia
Is a disorder of functions and senses of the body.
lv: Veģetatīvā distonija
Vocational rehabilitation
lv: Arodrehabilitācija
Wealthy
Having a great deal of money, resources, or assets; rich.
lv: turīgs, bagāts
Welfare
Statutory procedure or social effort designed to promote the basic physical and material well-being of people in need.
lv: Labklājība
Well paid job
lv: Labi apmaksāts darbs
Well-adjusted
Able to deal with other people in a normal or healthy way.
lv: Labi piemērojies
Wheelchair
A chair fitted with wheels for use as a means of transport by a person who is unable to walk as a result of illness, injury, or disability.
lv: Ratiņkrēsls
Widower
A person who has lost his spouse by death and has not married again.
lv: Atraitne
Youth centers
A place or organization providing leisure activities for young people.
lv: jauniešu centri