SOWK Final

All CPS involvement with families results in court interaction

False

All child protection workers have a degree in social work

False

Burnout is always associated with the experience of working with individuals who have been traumatized

False

Children with intellectual disabilities are underrepresented in child welfare

False

Civil and criminal court have the same level of evidence

False

Foster parents receive the same amount of subsidy for each child in foster care. The child's age and presence of special needs are not considered.

False

Generally speaking, a single mother working an overnight shift would not be considered neglectful if her two year old was fed, changed, and put to sleep in a crib before the mother left the child unattended to go to work.

False

Generally, isolating a child from playing with other children would not be considered emotional abuse

False

If a parent loses custody, that is permanent

False

Legal guardianship is known as the "gold standard" of permanency options

False

Mezzo level factors are focused on the individuals physiological makeup

False

Modeled after adult courts in this country, juvenile courts begun around the beginning of the 1900s were primarily interested in determining guilt and punishment.

False

Neglect can usually be established in a single act like refusing to fix dinner for a ten year old child even though there is food in the house.

False

Of the children exiting foster care in 2015, most were adopted

False

Parental custody and parental rights are the same thing

False

President Abraham Lincoln pushed for passage of the Indian Removal Act.

False

The statistics presented in this chapter show that the major reason children entered foster care in the fiscal year 2016 was due to physical abuse

False

Violation of a community's curfew by a teen would not be considered a status offense?

False

ASFA approves how many forms of permanency?

Five

The following are characteristics associated with a bureaucracy except

Flexibility

Which statement on the prevention of child sexual abuse is false?

Generally speaking, the research shows social workers are better at social abuse prevention than school nurses

This attorney is assigned to represent the interests of the child

Guardian ad litem

Despite some research that suggests home visitation might lower rates of child maltreatment, that research may not have always been the strongest. Along that line, which issue was not mentioned in connection with home visitation programs?

Homogenous samples

Dr. Milner's research with the Child Abuse Potential Inventory has revealed all but which statement to be true:

Lack of social support is not related to physical abuse

According to the statistics presented in this chapter, the largest category of offenses against property committed by juveniles are:

Larceny-theft

Risk factors on the macro level include all but the following

Mental health

Kinship care could include all of the following, except:

Non-related teacher

At what age do children have the highest rate of victimization?

One year

Dr. Milner's research with the Child Abuse Potential Inventory has revealed all but which statement?

Physical child abusers tend to have high levels of self-esteem

The level of evidence needed for civil court

Preponderance of the evidence

If it were possible to provide initial home visitation for several months to the homes of every new infant born in this country, this type of prevention would be:

Primary

A sidebar in this chapter briefly contains factors that can influence the effectiveness of any prevention program. Which of the items listed below was not mentioned as being an important consideration?

Prior use of television to announce the prevention program

According to the statistics presented in this chapter, the largest category of offenses against other persons committed by juveniles are:

Simple assault

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 wanted to locate tribes from what area?

The land east of the Mississippi river

What comes first in the process of CPS investigations

The referral

Select the best statement about a parent who puts a seven year old in charge of a one year old for a couple of hours several times a month.

This likely would constitute neglect

A qualified mental health professional will likely need to testify to affirm that emotional abuse has occurred

True

Adoption disruptions occur, but only about 15% of the time

True

African American children did not benefit from the efforts of settle houses and other organizations that reaches out to dependent, abused, and neglected children prior to the civil war.

True

At least one study in this chapter has identified the parents of sex offenders as being affection less, impaired, having prolonged absences, and having a high turnover of persons in the caregiver role

True

Based on three different quantitative studies briefly described in this chapter, the majority of children in foster care had positive experiences in those homes

True

Having no food or access to food for one's children can be viewed as physical neglect.

True

In Dr. Milner's SIP Model, physically abusive parents, compared to other parents, are not as aware of or attentive to their children.

True

In one meta-analysis, the majority of studies indicated that sex offenders against children had more often victims of CSA than adult sexual abuse offenders.

True

In the 1840s, children as young as six or seven years of age were being hired in England's factories.

True

Judges are typically elected attorneys

True

Lack of program fidelity means that staff who are supposed to deliver a program in a prescribed way may not have followed those guidelines and improvised or strayed from them

True

Neglect is almost always associated with some kind of failure.

True

One author has noted that taking out the amount of money the federal government spends on foster care, the rest of the federal allocation for child welfare is about the same as the cost of one jet fighter.

True

Ongoing services usually begin after the completion of a substantiated, confirmed, or indicated investigations of child maltreatment

True

Orphanages in early America were often populated by children whose parents had died of diseases like cholera, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever.

True

Professionals who have their empathy or emotional reserve depleted from their work with clients often respond well to simply taking a break from work and reconnecting with their social support systems

True

Risk assessment gathers evidence to support conclusions

True

Studies suggest that children placed in or adopted from foster care had more adverse childhood events than children who were not in foster care or adopted from there

True

The statistics in this chapter show that one of the smallest contributors of children entering foster care is due to a parent's or parents' death

True

Volunteering with CASA could be an example of a tertiary prevention effort

True

A survey of child welfare workers early in this chapter revealed all of the reasons to remain employed in child welfare except which item?

Unexpected comradery with police, attorneys, and other community partners

According to the statistics in this chapter, juveniles belonging to what racial group are the most frequently appearing in juvenile court?

White

What should always be left out of a cover story?

Actual details of the child's abuse history

What important child welfare provision was associated with the passage of the social security act of 1935?

Aid to families with dependent children

Risk assessment in child protection is

All

Identify the symptoms that children who have been physically abused might show:

All of them

Which statement below is false in the case of Mary Ellen Wilson?

All of these

According to statistics presented in this chapter, the case rate at which the juvenile court becomes most involved with juveniles appear before it are for those youths of what age?

17

ASFA prohibits the child protection agency from pursuing the termination of parental rights unless the child has been in foster care for:

15 of 22 months

The level of evidence needed for criminal court

Beyond a reasonable doubt

Which career decision was not mentioned at the beginning of this chapter?

Deciding that being an agency director would be a better fit for your interests

In a large 2016 meta-analysis, what is the most prevalent mental health disorder for children and adolescent involved with the child welfare system?

Disruptive disorder

The primary purpose of the adjudication hearing is to serve as a:

Emergency removal hearing

The Stubborn Child Law of 1646 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Allowed Parents to:

Execute Male Children Over The Age of 16 for Disobedience