Children Services mid-term Flashcards
Source Monitoring
In context of investigation, source monitoring focuses on how person sharing the information w/investigators came to “know” the information they provide.
The Source of ones memories.
Initiation
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Psychological maltreatment
- Repeated pattern of caregiver behavior or incidents convey a child they are worthless, flawed, unloved, unwanted, endangered, or value only for others.
Spurning
- Verbal and non-verbal reject/degrading ex. Shamming/ridicule for normal emotions, belittling, degrading, rejection, public humiliation, singling out.
Terrorizing
- Threaten to physically hurt, kill, abandon, have child or love one put in dangerous situations ex. Threaten of loss, harm, or danger if expectations are not met.
Isolation
- Deny oppotunities for child to communicate/interact w/peers or adults inside or outside the home ex. Confiding an unreasonable limitations of child’s freedom of movement.
Exploiting/Corrupting
Caregiver encourages inappropriate behavior ex. Modeling, permitting, or encouraging antisocial or inappropriate behavior.
Denying Emotional Responsiveness
- Caregiver ignores attempts and needs to interact and show no emotion in the interactions ex. Failing to express affection, caring and love.
Mental Health, Medical & Educational Neglect
- Caregiver refuses to allow, or fail to provide treatment or needs for the child ex. Ignoring those needs
Maslow
- Human needs theory-human organism has certain needs to be met if it is develop properly ex. Basic needs, growth needs (cant do anything unless needs are met.)
Juvenile Court proceedings
- Judges are concerned more about treatment than punishment. ??
Forensic Interviews
- Interviews the child about the abuse they had gone through, goes off of memory and assist w/how to identify time.
Sexual Abuse
- Stats
**9.1 in 2011
**Average age of first time is 10.8 yrs
**60% Before age 13
**42% we series rape-more than once
**12% are reported
Characteristics of offenders & victims-
** MOST common by an ACQUANTANCE or SOMEONE THE CHILD KNOWS IN THE FAMILY.
4th Amendment-Exigent Circumstances
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Exigent Circumstances: Right to interview children
1) The child is in harms way.
2) Compromise Investigation in some way.
Physical Abuse
*Non-Accidental physical injury. Bruises to severe fractures to death. Ex. Punching, beating, kicking, biting, shaking, throwing, stabbing, choking, hitting, burning, and other by parent or caregiver.
