Child Maltreatment Final

Whenever her Mom physically abuses her, April invariably blames herself for being a bad child.However, when June's mom hurts her physically, June usually thinks "My mom needs to get her temper under control."This example illustrates that children's attributions for why they are suffering CPA can __________________________.

Most often lead to internalizing than externalizing problems.

Which statement is TRUE in regard to laws about child physical abuse (CPA)?

All states use the harm and endangerment standards

In the experimental set-up that Ainsworth first devised, how would the following children be classified? These children are....

Preoccupied with the caregiver

They have difficulty separating from the caregiver to play or explore

They are extremely upset when separated from the caregiver

They seek physical contact with the caregiver upon their reunion

Insecure-resistantly/ambivalently attached

Adults who physically abuse children are most likely to:

manifest physiological over-reactivity

While conversing with you, a person remarks "Being physically abused as a child is bound to make those people physically abuse their own children." Based on research findings, you should be sure to respond with "as a society we should do out best to eradicate child maltreatment" and ________________________.

Actually, only a quarter to one-third of people physically abused as children grow up to physically abuse their own children.

a terrified two year old boy sobs and huddles in a dark corner of his room after his dad beat him for spilling milk

On another day, soiled and hungry, he cries uncontrollably after being left alone for eight hours

The next day he watched dad beat his mother, the most recent of many terrorizing incidents he has witnessed in his chaotic, violent household

Repeated incidents of this nature are likely to ___

All of these "sentence completion" answers are valid

Which statement about child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetrators is TRUE?

Males are likelier to sexually abuse adolescents, whereas females sexually abuse children and adolescents

True or False?

Child sexual abuse's (CSA's) rate of intergenerational transmission is far less than CPA's rate

True

(PPT) Child and adult victims of sexual abuse will manifest strong symptoms when ________?

All of these answers

Certain family systems theories of CSA maintain that general characteristics of the family contribute to CSA occurring, including:

All of these answers

(PPT) One criticism of medical approaches to treating child sexual abuse (CSA) offenders is that ___________.

the drugs used can have serious side effects

(PPT) According to the bulk of research findings: Which of the following definitely are fixed versus casual risk factors for child neglect in Mary and Alan's case?

Fixed: Mary being a single parent.

Casual: Mary needing better parenting skills and having too high expectations of Alan

(PPT) Which factor(s) definitely would protect Mary from neglecting Alan?

All of these answers

(PPT) Which of the following is a risk factor for child neglect?

All of these answers

Slack and colleagues found two factors that protected low SES families from child neglect taking place in their homes. Which two protective factors did they identify?

self-efficacy and parent involvement

Studies of child neglect's consequences produce conflicting results because of all of the following EXCEPT?

The studies are plagued by problems involving low inter-rater reliability

Which of the following poses problems for choosing "large family size: as a top fixed risk factor in Cinderella's case?

This factor fails to account for why Mrs. Jones abuses only one of several children

Cinderella's birth mom died when she was an infant. With which statement(s) about child psychological maltreatment (CPM) is this fact consistent?

This would be considered a risk factor for CPM only if the child is known to have suffered negative consequences.

(PPT) What is a common foundation for many treatments of psychologically abusive parents, including those that should've been directed at Mrs. Jones?

Family systems theory

(PPT) Consider Cinderella's entire case; Although the evidence could be even stronger, there is at least some evidence of WHICH protective factor(s) being present in Cinderella's case?

At least two other people having positive regard for Cinderella and showing her support

Forcing a sock into Cinderella's mouth, holding her face in a pillow until Cinderella couldn't breath, and clamping her lips with a wooden clothespin are best classified as:

terrorizing

(PPT) Regarding memory for trauma, scientists in the repressed memory" camp:

Claim that trauma victims won't accurately recall until it's psychologically safe to do so.

Concerning the U.S. Constitution, critics of community notification laws:

Argue that the law conflict with the Double Jeopardy clause of the 5th amendment

(PPT) In terms of child maltreatment (CM), the Homebuilders Program was:

All of these answers

(PPT) Although we'd actually go about this in a more sophisticated way, imagine the following research set-up for now:

Researchers first collect evidence on a large group of children, measuring the extent to which each child engages in various kinds of problematic behavior. Based on these measures, researchers split the children into two groups — a group of children assessed to be high in behavioral problems and a second group of children measured to be low in behavioral problems.

For each of the low vs. high behavioral problems groups, researchers then randomly assign half of each group to be regularly corporally punished (CP), while the other half of the children are randomly assigned to never receive CP.

Then, months later, researchers measure which group displays more negative behavioral symptoms. This is ______.

All of these answers

A major reason mandated reporting fails is that professionals:

Have little faith that CPS will intervene effectively

Which of the following are controversies in the child maltreatment literature?

A. Whether false allegations of abuse are frequent

B. Whether children lie about having been abused

C. Whether family preservation vs. child safety and permanent solutions for the child should be primary goals of the child welfare system

D. Whether SIDS cases are actually deaths due to infanticide

E. A through D

F. B through D

E. A through D

(PPT) Critics of the Adoption and Safe Families Act point to:

All of these answers

There is such a debate about community notification because__________?

Both of these answers

(PPT) Which behavior(s) help reveal when parents have coached their children into falsely accusing another of abusing them?

When both parent(s) and children are very willing to disclose the abuse's details

(PPT) The 1980 U.S. Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act derives in part from:

Parents patriae

(PPT) Some evidence exists showing that people can repress memories but then vividly recollect those memories years later. Of what relevance are these particular findings to whether memories can be inaccurate

These findings are of little relevance to whether memories are or aren't inaccurate

Regarding the term maltreatment versus the term abuse, the Perrins speculate in Chapter 9 that _____________

'Maltreatment' can refer to caregiver behaviors that do not severely endanger the child, where 'abuse' captures the more seriously harmful behavior to which CPS should direct its resources

(PPT) One criticism of Straus' claim that corporal punishment (CP) invariably results in negative child outcomes is that:

a. Most studies examining the CP-negative outcome link are correlational in nature b. The studies do not randomly assign children to receiving vs not receiving CP to then discover which group suffers worse outcomes c. CP might be inflicted on those very children who have more negative issues to begin with d. none of these answers

e. all of these answers

According to McNally and Geraert's resoning, which mechanism best explains certain adult survivors later ability to remember childhood sexual abuse (CSA)?

After having forgotten about the CSA for a long time, the adult survivors simply start thinking about the CSA again and thus remember the event(s) - just like happens with the average person's forgetting of events from earlier in their lvies and later remembering them.

From a social policy standpoint, which of the following terms is most descriptive of the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act:

Child safety and permanency

SIDS is defined as?

A child that inexplicably stops breathing

According to the textbook authors, which of the following is true?

All of these answers

(PPT) In cases of SIDS, all of the following are high risk factors for "non-accidental" suffocation EXCEPT

The child was being babysat by a non-family member at the time of death

Which law requires that the public is notified about sex offenders living in their area?

Megan's law

From wha we learned in Chapter 7, there are several components of programs that are critical to helping victims of bullying. Which one of the following isn't one of those critical components?

Strengthening victims' cognitive and academic abilities

The textbook discusses several goals of group counseling for children who have been exposed to intimate partner violence. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a goal?

Forgiving parents

(PPT) Children are at greater risk of being abused by their siblings:

All of the above

As children get older, sibling violence

decreases in frequency

Isolating the effects of community violence is difficult, because of its association with _________________.

All of these answers (child poverty, children living in a single parent household, children witnessing violence within the home)

Which statement is TRUE about sexual interactions between siblings

Mutual sexual behaviors can be a normal part of exploratory play

Why is it problematic for researchers to rely solely on mothers' reports of their children's problem behaviors? (NOTE): IPV = intimate partner violence

All of these answers

Which is NOT a central feature of human trafficking's definition

Lack of consent by the victim

Childhood exposure to IPV predicted the exten to which college women experienced violent dating relationships_____

Even after researchers controlled for the influence of various psychosocial problems and additional childhood risk factors

IPV exposure and child maltreatment most often co-occur in_____

Both single-parent households and lower socioeconomic families

Which of the following are uniquely characteristics of cyberbullying

Anonymity, lack of inhibition, and ready accessibility

Explanations for sibling violence, discussed in the textbook, include:

Social learning theory

(PPT) Abusive compared to non-abusive sibling relationships more often involve:

All of these answers

Young adults who witnessed intimate partner violence as children are at greater risk for psychological problems if their _______ had initiated violence

Fathers

Extra-familial child sexual abuse occurs ______ intra-familial CSA

Less often than

Regarding children who are exposed to community violence:

Law enforcement focuses primarily on the perpetrators of community violence

Victims of bullying tend to exhibit which of the following charecteristics?

All of the above

After having been sexually abused at preschool, children tend to suffer from multiple problems. Which factors exacerbate the problems?

All of these answers

According to much of the published research about child maltreatment in institutional settings, which statement about abuse in child care centers is false

Women less often perpetrate child maltreatment in child care centers than in other settings

There is evidence that expose to violence in many communities is:

Chronic and repeated