Deck 13: Child Maltreatment and Child Welfare Alberto Reynoso and Colleen Friend

Question 1

In which year did children's rights gain attention?

A) 1950s
B) 1980s
C) 1970s
D) 1960s

Answer 1

1960s

Question 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

Answer 2

Foster care homes licensed by state

Question 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

Answer 3

Adoptions and Safe Families Act

Question 4

Which year was ASFA enacted to direct child welfare practice?

A) 1997
B) 1980
C) 1979
D) 1998

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

What is the difference between assessment and investigation?

Question 21

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

Question 22

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?