Deck 15: Foster Care As a Therapeutic Tool

Question 1

Perhaps the most traumatic part of a child's placement in foster care is

A) going to someone else's house
B) separating from his/her parents
C) leaving their possessions
D) meeting new people
E) knowing that being a foster child will make him/her different

Answer 1

separating from his/her parents

Question 2

Foster care can be therapeutic for children because

A) it takes them from their support systems
B) it makes them feel different and maybe special
C) it provides the child with distance from the conflicts at home
D) it gets them into a new school
E) all of the above

Answer 2

it provides the child with distance from the conflicts at home

Question 3

A specialized foster home

A) serves only very young children
B) provides a home only for teams
C) provides foster parents for particular types of children
D) is a home where the foster parent is also a social worker
E) is a home where both the foster mother and foster father are at home to give special care to the children

Answer 3

provides foster parents for particular types of children

Question 4

A birth parent might find it difficult to visit her child in a foster home because

A) she may feel like a failure because she cannot care for the child
B) she may feel that she is under scrutiny
C) she may resent the loyalty the child shows to the foster parent
D) she may feel excluded from the child's life
E) all of the above

Question 5

It is sometimes the role of the foster parent to

A) model appropriate child care for the natural parent
B) let the birth parent know what they have done wrong by pointing it out
C) let the parent know that she/he can no longer visit
D) all but b
E) all of the above

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a problem for a foster mother of an abused child?

A) visits from the birth parents
B) the turnover in social workers
C) particular problems of the child
D) feeling like she lives in a fishbowl
E) none of the above, they are all problems

Question 7

Residential treatment is often used for children who

A) cannot handle a normal educational program
B) hates to be in groups
C) cannot handle a family routine
D) a and c only
E) all of the above

Question 8

The assumption is in residential treatment that

A) the child will remain there until he is eighteen
B) the child will return home if possible
C) the child will live on his own at the age of sixteen
D) the child will go to another residential placement after this one

Question 9

Adoptive placement may be appropriate for

A) a child who has too many behavior problems for a foster home
B) a child whose parents are making progress and want him returned
C) a child whose parents are unable to care for him and who have had their rights terminated
D) the child of parents who cannot care for him but whose relatives want him. Relatives are from the same family as the parents and may not parent well