CPI interview prep

Abandoned and neglected child

A child who de physical or mental health is harmed or threatened with harm when their parents or another person responsible for their welfare.

Abandonment

The legal care giver intentional relinquishment of caretaking and parenting responsibility to another individual without taking proper legal steps to ensure the ch old needs are met.

Behavioral Health Professional

Individual duly licensed by the RI Department of Health.

Bone fracture

A fracture is a broken bone

Brain damage/Skull fracture

An injury to the large soft mass of nerve tissue within the cranium/skull

Burns/scalding

Tissue injury resulting from excessive exposure to thermal, chemical, electrical, or radioactive agents.

Child or children or young adult

Anyone under the age of 18 or over the age of 18 who still received services from the department, or someone who has functional disabilities.

Corporal punishment

Any action constituting the infliction of deliberate physical punishment causing physical or emotional harm or risk to harm to a child in out of home care.

Death

Permanent cessation of all vital functions

Domestic violence

Actions or circumstances that may include physical, emotional, and/or sexual aggression involving at least one caregiver, resulting in harm or the potential risk of harm to a child’s well being.

Drug/alcohol impaired child care

The use of legal or illegal drugs or alcohol the extent that the caregiver losses the ability or is unwilling to care for the children properly.

Educational neglect

When a minor is not meeting mandated educational requirements with the consent, encouragement, or insistence of the parent/caregiver.

Educational profesional

License individual by the department of elementary and secondary education

Emotional neglect

Failure of a caregiver to seek or obtain appropriate psychiatric or psychological diagnosis and treatment services when there is reasonable evidence of emotional impairment.

Failure to Thrive

Medical condition where a child’s weight, height, and motor development falls significantly short of average growth due to severe physical and emotional neglect.

Inadequate food

Failure to provide adequate food to sustain normal functioning despite the ability to provide it or access or resources for obtaining it.

Inadequate Shelter

failure by the caregiver to provide or seek to provide that is safe, healthy, sanitary and protective against weather conditions or other risk.

Inappropriate restrain

Any physical action or use of mechanical devices by a caregiver or institution, that sets limitation on a child mobility.

Internal injuries

Injury not visible externally.

Lack of supervision/caregiver

Failure to oversee and manage the hold despite being present, with potential risk of harm to the child.

Malnutrition

Lack of necessary proper food substances in the body, cause by inadequate food, lack of food or insufficient vitamins.

Medical Maltreatment

Actions by a caregiver resulting in unnecessary, harmful or potentially harmful medical care to a child’s.

Medical neglect

Failure to provide necessary medical or dental treatment, follow prescribed treatment plans or obtain required immunizations.

Neglected child

A child who requires court protection and assistance when their physical or mental health or welfare is harmed or threatened with harm due to parent or guardian limited caregiving capacities.

Sexually exploited child

A child who is exploited sexually by another person for money, good or services.

Sexual molestation

contacts or interactions exclusive of sexual intercourse between and individual under 18 and another individual where the younger individual is used as an object of sexual gratification.

Subtotal Hematoma

Is usually the result of head injuries or shaking an infant or small child and may loss of consciousness, seizures or mental or physical damage.

Substance exposed newborn

A newborn exposed to substances in utero.

Caregiver protective capacities

the abilities and strengths that a caregiver has to provide a safe and nurturing environment for a child.

Family Fuctioning Assesment (FFA)

The FFA is an evaluation that helps the CPI to gather information regarding a family's dynamics, strengths, and areas of concern. Including evaluating aspects such as family relationships, communication patterns, caregiving practices, and environmental factors that may impact the well-being of children.

Impending danger

Impending danger refers to a situation in which a child is at a significant and immediate risk of harm or injury if no action is taken to intervene.

Safety assessment

Evaluation to determine the child safety current situation.