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TAB (Temporally Able Bodied) - This term is often used by people with disabilities when referring to non-disabled persons. The term TAB points to the reality that at some point in time all people become disabled.

Target population - Group of people, such as the poor or the elderly, that have been selected for help by human services.

Targeting - a means test or a needs test in applied to determine eligibility and benefits are limited to those deemed eligible, based on administrative criteria.

Technological change - Structural factors impacting on unemployment also includes technological change, due to increased automation. This increased automation results in a decreased demand for labour as well as skill redundancy.

Temperance movement - a women's movement which aimed to ban the use of alcohol.

The Scoop - massive removal of Aboriginal children from native families and communities and placement into non-aboriginal foster and adoptive homes. This took place mostly in the 1960s.

Theatre of the Oppressed - a form of popular theatre of, by, and for people engaged in the struggle for liberation. Founded in Brazil in the early 1970s by director and activist Augusto Boal, it is a participatory theatre that challenges spectacle theatre. Based on the conviction that "artistic creativity is inherent to all human beings," the Theatre of the Oppressed emphasizes non-elitist forms of audience participation designed to transfer to communities the means of production in the theatre.

Theory - A concept that attempts to explain the relationships between events and that may be used to predict or control those events.

Therapeutic collaboration - A process whereby the therapist actively strives to engage the client's active participation in all phases of therapy.

Third world - The "worlds of development" concept originated with Louis Irving Horowitz. In Three Worlds of Development: The Theory and Practice of International Stratification (1972), Horowitz distinguishes between groups of countries that share similar patterns of socio-economic development. The criteria used to differentiate between countries include: the nature of the dominant economic system (i.e., "capitalist" vs. "socialist"; "open" vs. "closed"); the nature of the dominant political system (esp. in terms of their degree of participatory democracy); degree of urbanization; and, the role of the military in national life. The third world includes those countries of Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. The first world refers to Western capitalistic countries of America and Western Europe. The second world referred to the old Soviet Union countries.

Total behaviour- The integrated components of doing, thinking, feeling, and physiology. Control theory assumes that all elements of behaviour are interrelated.

Trade balance - The relationship between the economic value of a society's imports and exports.

Trade deficit - The economic imbalance that results when the value of a nation's imports exceeds that of its exports.

Transactional Analysis Therapy - Transactional analysis originated by Eric Berne in the 1950s, is contractual and decisional in its approach to treatment. It considers emotional difficulties to be the result of inappropriate decisions made in response to early, "unhealthy" parental messages and contends that individuals have the rapacity and the responsibility to make new, more appropriate decisions.

Transference - In psychoanalytic therapy, the tendency of the client to displace feelings, attitudes, and defenses originating in a previous relationship onto the therapist.

Transitional Phase (1891 to 1940) - social work began to replace charity visitors as it developed as a profession, especially for women. During this phase, the social work approach was mainly psychological as social sciences expanded.

Treatment group - Experimental participants who are exposed to nonzero levels of the independent variable.