Test Bank

Chapter 14: Child Maltreatment and Child Welfare (Alberto Reynoso and Colleen Friend)

Multiple Choice

1. In which year did children’s rights gain attention?

a. 1950s

b. 1980s

c. 1970s

*d. 1960s

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: MC

2. What was the result of the children’s rights movement?

a. Development of child welfare agencies

b. Increased oversight by juvenile courts

*c. Foster care homes licensed by state

d. Attention moved to foster care and adoption

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: MC

3. What does the acronym ASFA stand for?

a. Awareness Survey and Frequency Application

*b. Adoptions and Safe Families Act

c. American System and Families Agency

d. Adult Satisfaction Fairness Act

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: MC

4. Which year was ASFA enacted to direct child welfare practice?

*a. 1997

b. 1980

c. 1979

d. 1998

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: MC

5. Which intervention focuses on preventing and treating exposure to trauma?

a. Structured decision making

b. Parent-child interaction

*c. Trauma-focused care

d. Motivational interviewing

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Interventions

Question Type: MC

6. What is a client’s conscious or unconscious transfer of positive or negative feelings from a past relationship onto a helper?

a. Countertransference

*b. Transference

c. Clinical concerns

d. Traumatic stress

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transference and Countertransference

Question Type: MC

7. What is the process whereby the helper projects positive or negative feelings onto the client either consciously or unconsciously?

*a. Countertransference

b. Transference

c. Clinical concerns

d. Traumatic stress

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transference and Countertransference

Question Type: MC

8. What is the natural consequence resulting from a helper’s knowledge about a traumatizing event experienced by another person?

a. Restorative model

b. Transition model

c. Retraumatization

*d. Secondary traumatic stress

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transference and countertransference issues

Question Type: MC

9. How many states give specific powers to police officers to take legal custody of children without a court order?

a. 48

*b. 46

c. 22

d. 50

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Legal and Ethical Concerns

Question Type: MC

10. What is the name of the partnerships created with universities to train new workers?

*a. Title IV-E

b. ADA

c. Child welfare partnership

d. Adoption adaptation

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conclusion

Question Type: MC

True/False

1. The early efforts to protect children in the United States focused on the care and adoption of orphans.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: TF

2. ASFA ensures the promotion of child safety at every step of the child’s protective services process.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: TF

3. The Act that emphasizes placement of children with temporary families is the ASFA.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: TF

4. The most common form of child maltreatment is child neglect.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: TF

5. Child neglect is defined as harm resulting by not doing what was necessary to ensure the child’s needs are met.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: TF

6. Investigation is the gathering of information through interviews with the child, parents, and other relevant parties.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Micro Perspective: Assessment

Question Type: TF

7. Assessment is the gathering of information to determine what actually happened and whether or not child maltreatment can be sustained.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Micro Perspective: Assessment

Question Type: TF

8. The goal of working with diversity in child welfare is to increase knowledge and appreciate different cultures.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Diversity Considerations

Question Type: TF

9. Technology evidence-based interventions focus on preventing and treating early exposure to trauma.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Interventions

Question Type: TF

10. Motivational interviewing, structure decision making, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy are common therapy interventions used in child welfare practice.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Interventions

Question Type: TF

Short Answer

Type: S

1. What are the two key provisions of Adoptions and Safe Families Act?

Two key provisions of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act are 1) to ensure the promotion of child safety at every step of the child protective services process and 2) to place emphasis on child well-being including physical, mental, emotional, social, health, and welfare needs.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: SA

Type: S

2. What are the four most common types of child maltreatment?

The four most common types of child maltreatment are child neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and exploitation, and emotional psychological neglect and abuse.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: SA

Type: S

3. What is the difference between assessment and investigation?

The difference between assessment and investigation is that though each involves gathering information, assessment gathers the information through interviews from various parties while investigation gathers information to determine what actually happened and whether or not child maltreatment can be substantiated.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Micro Perspective: Assessment

Question Type: SA

Essay

Type: E

1. Describe the seven areas needed in an ongoing assessment in child welfare, then select one and discuss its importance.

*a. The seven areas of ongoing assessment in child welfare include 1) adaptation and progress toward case plan, 2) child’s and family’s underlying strengths/needs, 3) child’s ongoing safety and well-being, 4) child’s and family’s coping skills and resilience, 5) decisions about the child’s long-term safety, 6) minimization of further risk or harm, and 7) family’s protective capacity to determine exit from child protective services. In regard to the child’s ongoing safety and well-being, it is imperative for case workers to not only be sure when to place a child or remove a child, but they must conduct an appropriate assessment to ensure that the child will be safe and their long-term well-being has been fully considered.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Micro Perspective: Ongoing assessment

Question Type: ESS

Type: E

2. What is the goal of diversity when working within child welfare, and what are two aspects the social worker must do to provide culturally competent practice in this area?

*a. The goal of diversity within child welfare is to increase knowledge and appreciation of different cultures. In doing so, social workers are expected to understand family actions and interactions and to make culturally appropriate case decisions with regards to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class, military affiliation, and refugee and immigrant status.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Diversity Considerations

Question Type: ESS