Deck 5: The Physical Abuse of Children

Question 1

Parents have specific responsibilities toward children. How these are carried out and what they intend to do is the view of the ____________ community in their definition of child abuse.

A) medical
B) legal
C) mental health
D) humanistic

Answer 1

legal

Question 2

The Interactional models, as an explanation for what causes physical abuse, refer specifically to

A) the characteristics of the abusive parent
B) the stressors in the environment and how they impact the family
C) the work of Harold Martin
D) the dynamics within the family or the relationship of the victim and abuser
E) a and c only

Answer 2

the dynamics within the family or the relationship of the victim and abuser

Question 3

Social/Cultural/Economic variables refer to child-rearing patterns that may be influenced by

A) cultural differences as to physical punishment
B) differing values around boundaries
C) differences that immigrants may bring with them to the United States
D) the use of folk remedies
E) all of the above

Answer 3

all of the above

Question 4

Protective services agencies now look at risk factors in determining the danger to a child of being abused. When considering child risk factors most authors agree that

A) some children set up abuse by their parents as a way of getting attention
B) children do not actually invite abuse, but some factors may put them at higher risk for it.
C) some parents would abuse any child no matter what their characteristics
D) mentally ill parents are less likely to abuse their children

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a detectable symptom of physical abuse?

A) bruises of different colors
B) injuries that curve around the body
C) extremely dirty and torn clothing
D) glove-like burns
E) untreated fractures

Question 6

A burn that is more severe in the middle and then becomes less severe as it goes outward suggests that

A) hot liquid has been poured on the surface of the skin
B) a cigarette has been placed on the skin
C) the body has been immersed in hot liquid
D) a mole has been yanked off the skin
E) the child has not received medical attention

Question 7

Statistically physical abuse is most common in children of what age?

A) 6-9 years
B) 10-13 years
C) 14-18 years
D) 1-5 years

Question 8

Which of these factors would NOT put a child at risk for abuse?

A) child conceived prior to the parents marriage
B) child in the middle of three
C) twins
D) a premature baby
E) a baby who was sickly during the first weeks of life

Question 9

Which of the following does NOT always describe abusive parents?

A) when seeking medical attention they frequent different hospitals
B) they have a poor self image
C) they lack knowledge of child management
D) they have a low income life style
E) they are isolated

Question 10

The child who is severely abused is most likely to exhibit

A) aggressive behavior
B) withdrawn behavior
C) volatile behavior
D) argumentative behavior
E) none of the above

Question 11

One characteristic of abused children is

A) that they turn to their peers and develop better relationships with them than with their parents
B) are more likely to be encouraged by parents to attend extra curricular events
C) that they have an unusual ability to adapt to a variety of people and settings
D) that they are unable to adapt to most new situations

Question 12

Helfer identifies several areas in which he feels abusive parents must be helped. Which of the following is NOT one of those areas?

A) parents must learn to make decisions
B) parents must learn to separate feelings from actions
C) parents must learn to talk to their children meaningfully
D) parents must learn to delay gratification
E) parents must learn to take responsibility for their own actions and not the actions of others

Question 13

Munchausen syndrome by proxy refers to a condition where

A) mostly mothers are so in need of attention
B) from authority figures that they inflict injury on their children so as to receive attention from doctors and nurses
C) mostly fathers inflict harm on their children to get back at the children's mothers
D) parents inflict pain on themselves so that they will need medical attention and can use this as an excuse to not care for their children
E) mostly mothers inflict pain on themselves and induce medical conditions that will bring them to the attention of doctors

Question 14

Adolescents may be abused because

A) they are trying to achieve their own control
B) they are about to separate from their parents
C) they feel fear over the impending loss of their family
D) they have been abused since early childhood
E) all of the above

Question 15

Identification with the aggressor in domestic violence situations refers to

A) the parent who sees his/her partner abusing the children and begins to abuse them as well
B) a child who is so fearful of being harmed that he/she joins the abuser in the abuse
C) the battered wife who turns on her batterer
D) the feelings engendered in the worker when the abused woman seems to have invited the abuse
E) the feelings of younger siblings who believe that their older brothers or sisters deserved the punishment given them

Question 16

A recent study discovered that sibling abuse occurs _______ the abuse by parents.

A) more frequently than
B) less frequently than
C) about the same as

Question 17

How does one draw the line between discipline and abuse? Using what you have read in this chapter, when do you believe that discipline becomes abuse? How would you find support for your opinion in the causal categories proposed?

Question 18

What causes abuse? Cite and explain three models.

Question 19

Give three reasons why parents might abuse their children or teens. Explain these.