Deck 2: Child Welfare Services: Formal and Informal

Question 1

The concept of a therapeutic camp involves focus on strengths,self-image,and problem-solving versus discipline and obedience.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Choose the characteristic that is not part of current family foster care practice:

A)Careful selection of families
B)Families trained to work with children with special needs
C)Families trained to work with biological parents
D)Families treating children as if they are no different than natural children

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Schools are focused on education and linking child welfare services to school settings will likely stigmatize children.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Major funding of financial and in-kind services for the poor in the U.S.comes from:

A)The federal government
B)Charitable foundations
C)Religious and spiritual groups
D)Private corporations

Question 5

Supportive services are those that:

A)Are universal for all children
B)Are more restrictive than supplemental and substitute services
C)Include foster care,group care,and residential treatment
D)Are primarily provided to children within their home

Question 6

CASA volunteers:

A)Provide in-home support to families needing concrete skills
B)Provide respite care for children with special needs
C)Advocate for children through the court system
D)Organize prevent child abuse education

Question 7

Reunification is conceptualized as a continuum and does not always mean the child living with their family.

Question 8

Substitute care services generally focus more on the needs of the child,rather than work with the family.

Question 9

The typical residential programs that are short-term and utilized for emergencies are:

A)Residential treatment centers
B)Shelters
C)Wraparound programs
D)State juvenile corrections facilities

Question 10

Holistic family foster care would mean that services consider all aspects of the child and his/her needs.

Question 11

Homemaker services have been mainly replaced by:

A)Child advocacy programs
B)Volunteers
C)Parent skills training
D)Day care

Question 12

Natural helping networks are composed of:

A)Family members and others in the community who can assist the family
B)Social workers and other networks of helping professionals
C)Extended family
D)Family members and social workers

Question 13

The present continuum in child welfare is the result of a:

A)Preventative focus
B)Protective focus
C)Residual focus
D)Universal focus

Question 14

Many children that are available for adoption are not adopted because:

A)There are not many families that want to adopt
B)Government adoption processes take to long
C)They are older,non-white and have special needs
D)International adoptions are taking all of the families

Question 15

As a reform TANF increased the availability of resources such as food stamps,housing,and health care to poor families.

Question 16

All of the following are stages of the reunification process except:

A)Denial
B)Idealism
C)Reality
D)Second phase of fear

Question 17

In the U.S.the majority of children that are in daycare are in state licensed daycare programs.

Question 18

Programs and services that are "out-of-the-box" are:

A)Services that are manualized and delivered according to recipe or menu
B)Services that are supportive to child and family problems
C)Creative,focus on strengthening families,and look beyond existing service categories
D)None of the above