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SOCIAL SUPPORT

Specialty Definition: SOCIAL SUPPORT

DomainDefinition

Health

Support systems that provide assistance and encouragement to individuals with physical or emotional disabilities in order that they may better cope. Informal social support is usually provided by friends, relatives, or peers, while formal assistance is provided by churches, groups, etc. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SOCIAL SUPPORT

Specialty definitions using "SOCIAL SUPPORT": Social pressure, Stress management. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SOCIAL SUPPORT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Integrating Social Support in Nursing (reference)

  • Social Networks and Social Support in Childhood and Adolescence (Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence, No 16) (reference)

  • Social Support Measurement and Intervention: A Guide for Health and Social Scientists (reference)

  • Stress, Social Support, and Women (Series in Clinical and Community Psychology) (reference)

  • Towards a Chinese Conception of Social Support: A Study of the Social Support Networks of Chinese Working Mothers in Beijing (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SOCIAL SUPPORT

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Social support systems are especially important in such instances. (references)

One major hypothesis is that social support can help reduce stress and other caregiving problems. (references)

Churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship might also have groups that can offer you the social support you need. (references)

Business

Preferring more salubrious climates, Kuwaitis studying in the U.S. tend to cluster in California and Florida, although the availability of a social support structure is also important. (references)

Children

Sweden

In 2000 the Parliament adopted and implemented a national plan on disability policy that provides for freedom of access and social support as basic rights for citizens with disabilities. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a very environmentally conscious nation; hence, there is a broad social support for the use of wind energy. (references)

Worker Rights

Colombia

The Hope Foundation, which assisted 57 trafficking victims in 2000, provides educational information, social support, and counseling to victims of trafficking who return to the country. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SOCIAL SUPPORT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

social support

14

child security social support

7

social support theory

4

anxiety group social support

4

scale social support

3

caregiver questionnaire social support

2

duke index social support

2

health social support

2

child disability security social support

2

child services social support

2

health mental social support

2

privatization security social support

2

operation outreach program social support

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SOCIAL SUPPORT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-o-o-p-p-r-s-s-t-u"

-3 letters: captoprils, ocularists, propositus, spoilsport, spoliators, supraoptic.

-4 letters: acropolis, apoptosis, apostolic, atrocious, autocross, captopril, colorists, copastors, cortisols, isolators, ocularist, ossicular, piscators, populists, proposals, proptosis, pulsators, rusticals, scotopias, sculptors, spoliator, suctorial, troopials, troupials, uprootals.

-5 letters: airposts, apostils, apricots, autopsic, caltrops, capitols, captious, carpools, coalpits, colorist, copastor, copilots, cortisol, couloirs, culprits, curtails, isolator, locators, oculists, oralists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SOCIAL SUPPORT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4F 43 49 41 4C      53 55 50 50 4F 52 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001111 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010011 01010101 01010000 01010000 01001111 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#67 &#73 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#83 &#85 &#80 &#80 &#79 &#82 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 0043 0049 0041 004C      0053 0055 0050 0050 004F 0052 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

534937433546253555050495254

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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