Child abuse and neglect exam (ch. 12-16)

Parents have the right to all of the following EXCEPT

To a family life

Juvenile court proceedings are different than criminal court in that

Juvenile court emphasizes planning for the best interest of the children

Once a petition is filled and the case is heard, there are several custody options for the children. Which of the following is NOT one of those options?

Children are returned to their parents’ custody until the case can be investigated

The impact of court cases on children include all of the following EXCEPT

Having the social service workers on the side of the parents help ease the process

Once a case has gone through the juvenile court process, a deposition can be made which include all of the following results, EXCEPT

The judge may suspend judgement based on the age of the child and the severity of the maltreatment

Which of the following is NOT a treatment goal for physically abusive parents?

Recognizing how wrong they have been

Families may resent intervention of social services for the following reasons EXCEPT

Social services are too intrusive on family matters

Author Polansky, DeSaix, and Sharlin (1972) characterize a majority of chronically neglectful mothers as “playing games” to resist treatment. Two such “games” are

“Look-at-how-hard-i’m-trying” and “yes, but”

HOMEBUILDERS is a form of

Intensive family-centered service

Play therapy is beneficial in improving parent-child relationships because

The parent can be helped to understand the child’s behavior and deal with it more effectively

The second phase of intervention is

Assessment-awareness

The non-abusive parent must be able to do all of the following EXCEPT

Learn that there is a better man out there and she had best find him

Which of the following is NOT a treatment goal with children who are sexually abused?

To aid the child in developing basic wariness of adults in the future

Parent of children abused outside the home tend to fall into the following cases EXCEPT

Usually receive treatment but the children rarely do

The primary goal of the treatment of the non-abusing parent (usually mother) is

To help her gain strength to protect her child

One limitation of treatment programs for offenders is

There is no built-in opportunity for the offender to try his skills

A drug that works to diminish sexual drive called _____ is sometimes used with sexual offenders

Depo-provera

Several assumptions must be made when preparing to treat the sexually abusive family. Which is NOT one of those assumptions?

The main problem for the family is the sexual abuse. Otherwise they are fine

Trauma-forced cognitive-behavior therapy (TF-CBT) for the sexually abused children and adolescents involve all of the following EXCEPT

Group therapy while being incarcerated

Cognitive-behavior therapy for juvenile offenders targets the following EXCEPT

Overcoming the feeling of being damaged

Which of the following statements about today’s foster care system is NOT accurate?

The majority of the children in care come as a result of parental sexual abuse

A birth parent might find it difficult to visit her child in a foster home because all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Birth parents are never allowed in the foster home

There are three different types of kinship care, which are

Informal, voluntary, and formal

A specialized foster home

Provides foster parents for particular types of children

In formal kinship care situation

The foster home received a subsidy for the care

Which of the following could NOT be a problem for a foster mother of an abused child?

Putting her own birth child in the foster care system

Foster care can be therapeutic for children because

It provides the child with distance from the conflicts at home

Perhaps the most traumatic part of a child’s placement in foster care is

Separating from his/her parents

It is sometimes the role of the foster parent to

Let the social services know how the birth parents are misbehaving

The assumption in residential treatment is that

The child will return home if possible

In comparing the residual effects of maltreatment between abused, neglected and sexually abused survivors, all appear to have the following symptoms EXCEPT

Tendency toward being multiply victimized

Which of the following is NOT a myth about child maltreatment?

Even if the abuse is dealt with in childhood, one may need to seek hep with the issues in later life

Adults who were physically abused as a child may turn his/her anger

Outward into aggression and delinquency

Which of the following is NOT a residual effect associated specifically with sexual abuse?

Difficulty with trust

Relational imbalances include difficulty in trust and often occur in two ____ adults who cannot break away from their family origin

Undifferentiated

Countertransference is

Emotional reaction of the therapist towards a clientT

Traumatic sexualization refers to

A child’s premature indoctrination into sex and the problems that creates

Recent research has indicated that the residual effects of domestic violence are

Very similar to those associated with other forms of maltreatment

Undifferentiation is

A term coined by Bowen to describe people who have not sufficiently separated from their families of origin

Long-term effects of domestic violence include all of the following EXCEPT

May develop promiscuity or sexual dysfunction