Human Services Career Vocabulary

Relating to an occupation

• vacation

• vacancy

• vacuum

• vocational

A means of communication between groups

• laziness

• loudness

• liaison

• loyalty

Act of correcting an error or a fault

• retainment

• remediation

• retirement

• reception

Drawing from two or more fields of study

• intentional

• interpreting

• interdisciplinary

• internet

A trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional

• paratrooper

• paraphrase

• paraprofessional

• parrot

Occurring among or involving several people

• incredible

• innate

• interpersonal

• incomplete

Tending to cure or restore to health

• therapy

• therapist

• therapeutic

• theory

the scientific study of aging and the elderly

• geritol

• gerontology

• geronimo

• graphics

someone who acts as an assistant

• advisor

• advertisement

• aide

• alien

basic and necessary

• essence

• equalization

• essential

• excessive