Deck 12: Families at Risk and Families Coping With the Death of a Family Member

Question 1

Whether a parent's death is sudden or expected, the degree to which a child adjusts to the loss of a parent depends to a large extent on which of the following?

A) The surviving parent's own distress and adjustment to the death.
B) The child's age.
C) The number of children in the family.
D) The family's socioeconomic level.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Members of families of alcoholics often take on roles that shape family dynamics. The primary role of the co-dependent spouse in a family with an alcoholic is:

A) To take care of everyone and be an overachiever in order to gain everyone's approval.
B) To attempt to control the drinking of the alcoholic and to cover up the problem.
C) To take everyone's attention off the drinking of the alcoholic and make everyone laugh or find relief in humor.
D) To stay out of everyone's way and avoid causing any problems.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Children who have been maltreated are at higher risk for which of the following?

A) Developing secure attachments with other adults later in their lives.
B) Not developing a sense of trust with others.
C) Becoming overly reliant on others for support.
D) Being excessively trustful of others.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following accurately describes the research that has focused on the intergenerational abuse of children?

A) Being maltreated as a child puts an individual more at risk for becoming abusive toward one's own children.
B) The path between being maltreated as a child and becoming abusive toward one's own children cannot be altered by such factors as social support.
C) The path between being maltreated as a child and becoming abusive toward one's own children is inevitable.
D) Most children who are abused later become violent adults.

Question 5

Which of the following is describes the history of child maltreatment in the United States?

A) In the past, it was believed that child discipline needed to be maintained even if harsh corporal punishment had to be used.
B) The first scientific documentation in the literature of the harmful effects of child abuse occurred in the United States in the early 50s.
C) The work of Kempe and colleagues and Havens led to laws in the United States that were designed to protect parents from prosecution if their harsh discipline resulted in physical harm to their children
D) The work of Kempe and colleagues and Havens led to laws that exempted mental health and other professionals who work with children from the obligation to report suspected child abuse.

Question 6

Having at least one adult in their lives, who nurtures them and provides for their basic needs, help maltreated children to develop which of the following?

A) Resistance.
B) A sense of defiance.
C) Self-actualization
D) Resiliency.

Question 7

The most common form of family violence in the United States is:

A) Child abuse.
B) Spousal abuse.
C) Elder abuse.
D) Infant abuse.

Question 8

Professionals, who work with parents who have lost a child through death, can best help the family by:

A) Encouraging the parents to talk with their surviving children about the death, the circumstances of the death, and their feelings of loss and sadness.
B) Encouraging the parents to remove the belongings of the child who has died from the home including all of the pictures of the child.
C) Avoiding mentioning the child's name who has died until things begin to feel normal again.
D) Helping the parents create new routines and rituals for the family that omit memories of the child who has died.

Question 9

Which of the following describes the role of support for parents who are at risk for abusing their children:

A) They can benefit from informal support as provided by family and friends such as respite child-care, transportation, or financial assistance.
B) They do not respond well to interventions that teach them more effective ways of interacting with their children.
C) They are not good candidates for family therapy since counseling takes too long to be effective.
D) They tend to resist outside interventions such as receiving social service support.

Question 10

Kempe and colleagues coined the term___________________ in 1962, to call attention to undiagnosed and mishandled situations in which children sustained serious physical injury from an adult caregiver.

A) Child Abuse
B) Pediatric abuse head trauma
C) Neglected Child
D) Battered Child

Question 11

Which of the following is a worldwide treatment/support group for family members of an alcoholic?

A) Narcotics Anonymous
B) Alcoholics Anonymous
C) Al-Anon
D) Family Recovery Centers

Question 12

Which of the following is the most common type of infant abuse?

A) Infant neglect which consists of not responding to an infant's cries
B) Pediatric abusive head trauma, which consists of shaking a baby.
C) Slapping a baby on the back
D) Not feeding the baby when the baby is hungry

Question 13

The primary characteristic of children that puts them at greater risk for being abused is:

A) Their gender: with males being at greatest risk for sexual abuse.
B) Their ethnicity: with immigrants from India being at greatest risk.
C) Their age: with children under the age of 6 being at greatest risk.
D) Their age: with children in elementary school being at greatest risk.

Question 14

The most typical outcome for both men and women who were abused as children is:

A) To be abusive to their own or someone else's child.
B) To become a sexual predator.
C) To avoid commitment and marriage.
D) To be nonviolent in their adult families.

Question 15

Some of the individual characteristics that have been found to be common in parents who abuse their children are _____________ and the propensity to blame others for their problems which is seen when a parent scapegoats a child).

A) ethnicity of a parent
B) parenting attitudes that devalue children
C) high demandedness
D) low levels of education

Question 16

The experience of having been abused as a child can be countered in adulthood through:

A) Court protection orders that remove children who are at risk of being abused by a parent who was abused as a child.
B) Intervention services to decrease parental depression often associated with earlier child abuse.
C) Shock Therapy, which can interfere with the disabling pattern of thinking associated with abuse.
D) Avoidance of having children.

Question 17

Which of the following describes the responses of parents who lose a child through death?

A) They usually come to grips with the loss quickly if they have other children that still need their attention.
B) They have very different reactions since everyone expresses their grief in different ways.
C) They realize that fate controls everyone's life and they cannot be held responsible for the death of the child.
D) They can never recover from the loss.

Question 18

When family members _____________, healthy adaptation to parental death is more likely to occur.

A) keep themselves busy
B) support open expressions of feelings about the deceased
C) avoid talking about a parent's death
D) try to act as if the death had not occurred

Question 19

In 1972, Havens stated that some parents do which of the following?

A) Unintentionally injure but never kill their children.
B) Abandon their children due to lack of sufficient financial resources.
C) Intentionally injure and sometimes kill their children.
D) Raise children within dysfunctional households.

Question 20

Which of the following describes the way in which parents and relatives typically respond to children's feeling following the death of a sibling

A) They usually help them children to mourn the loss.
B) They typically involve them in rituals that encourage them to say goodbye to the sibling that died.
C) They tend not to support them through the grieving process.
D) They postpone making decisions and moves that will further change the family's routines.

Question 21

Generally, the death of an older parent:

A) Positively impacts the relationships adults have with their siblings.
B) Negatively impacts the relationships adults have with their siblings.
C) Positively impacts the relationships adults have with their same gender siblings.
D) Does not affect the relationships adults have with their siblings.

Question 22

Parents who are at risk for abusing their children are in need of informal and formal intervention. Describe each of these types of interventions.

Question 23

There are certain characteristics of children that make them at higher risk for being abused? Identify three of these characteristics.

Question 24

Many children's lives are negatively impacted by their parents' substance abuse. Which of the following is the most frequent form of substance abuse found among parents?

A) Marijuana use
B) Methadone addiction
C) Alcoholism
D) Cocaine use

Question 25

Identify three helpful approach/es others can take to help grieving parents whose child has died.

Question 26

Which of the following are typical reactions of parents who have lost a child through death?

A) Disbelief that their children's deaths preceded their own.
B) A tendency to blame others for their children's deaths.
C) The feeling of being able to escape the pain associated with the death.
D) A denial of the grief that they are feeling

Question 27

Identify four family/parental characteristics that are associated with higher risks of child abuse and neglect.

Question 28

When children lose a grandparent, with whom there has been a close relationship, what are eight typical responses?
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Question 29

Which of the following is a debilitating condition that often follows a terrifying physical or emotional event, which causes the person to have persistent, frightening, thoughts and memories of the ordeal?

A) ADHD
B) AHD
C) IEP
D) PTSD

Question 30

Children in foster care typically experience feelings of grief and anxiety and wish to be with their parents). Identify two circumstances when these feelings are likely to become intensified.

Question 31

Parental characteristics or circumstances related to child maltreatment include which of the following?

A) egocentric personalities
B) older parenthood.
C) substance abuse
D) having had indulgent parents