Final Exam

Question 1

Neglect

Answer 1

The failure of a parent, guardian, or caregiver to provide for a child’s basic needs (if the caregiver is unable to provide the child with basic needs due to financial inability it is not considered neglect, unless relief has been offered and is refused)

Question 2

Physical neglect

Answer 2

Failure to provide necessary food or shelter, or lack of appropriate supervision

Question 3

Medical neglect

Answer 3

Failure to provide necessary medical or mental health treatment

Question 4

Educational neglect

Answer 4

Inattention to a child’s emotional needs, failure to provide psychological care, or permitting the child to use alcohol or other drugs

Question 5

Physical abuse

Answer 5

Any deliberate physical force or action, by a parent or caregiver, which results or could result in injury to the child

Question 6

Two reasons for CAS involvement

Answer 6

Omission and commission

Question 7

Omission

Answer 7

Lack of basic needs

Question 8

Commission

Answer 8

Intent to harm physically

Question 9

Sexual abuse

Answer 9

1. The forcing of unwanted sexual activity by one person in another, A’s by the use of threats or coercion
2. Sexual activity that is deemed improper or harmful, as between an adult and minor or with a person of diminished mental capacity

Question 10

Age of consent

Answer 10

What the law says is the age and situation that one can provide consent of sexual interaction

Question 11

Duty to report

Answer 11

We as workers are responsible to report when we have a concern.

Question 12

Emotional abuse

Answer 12

A pattern of behaviour that attacks a child’s emotional development and sense the of self worth. It includes excessive, aggressive, or unreasonable demands that place expectations on a child beyond his or her capacity. Emotional abuse includes constantly criticizing, teasing, belittling, insulting, rejecting, exposure to domestic violence

Question 13

Sexual abuse

Answer 13

Occurs when a child is used for the sexual gratification of an adult or an older child. The child may cooperate because he or she wants to please the adult or out of fear. It includes sexual intercourse, exposing a child’s private parts, indecent phone calls, fondling for sexual purposes, watching a child undress for sexual pleasure, and allowing/forcing a child to look at or perform in pornographic pictures or videos, or engage in prostitution

Question 14

Workplace sexual harassment

Answer 14

It is defined by the victim and includes any action verbal or physical that is felt demanding to the receiving party. It does not matter if it is intended to hurt or not

Question 15

Resilience

Answer 15

The ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad. An ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change

Question 16

3 stages of treatment

Answer 16

Engagement
Change
Practice

Question 17

Engagement

Answer 17

Developing therapeutic relationship

Question 18

Change

Answer 18

Using the treatment model to promote change

Question 19

Practice

Answer 19

If the learnt skill

Question 20

Principles of trauma treatment

Answer 20

As trauma is often related to the irresponsibility of important others, the therapist must model, teach, and reinforce responsibility

Question 21

Vicarious trauma

Answer 21

Defined as the cumulative transformative effect on the helper or working with survivors or traumatic events, both positive and negative. VT recognizes that working with trauma survivors greatly affects the helper and that we must address the effects in order to protect both helper and client

Question 22

Invalidation

Answer 22

Emotional invalidation is when a persons thoughts and emotions are rejected or judged. Invalidation is emotionally upsetting for anyone but particularly for someone who is emotionally sensitive. Invalidation disrupts relationships and creates emotional distress

Question 23

Dissociative disorders

Answer 23

(Dissociation is often seen in children with histories of complex trauma) When children encounter an overwhelming and terrifying experience, they may dissociate, or mentally separate themselves from the experience. They may perceive themselves as detached from their bodies, on the ceiling, or somewhere else in the room watching what is happening to their bodies. They may feel as if they are in a dream or some altered state that is not quite real or as if the experience is happening to someone else. Or they may lose all memories or sense of the experiences having happened to them, resulting in gaps in time or even gaps in their personal history. At its extreme, a child may cut off or lose touch with various aspects of the self

Question 24

Self harm

Answer 24

Sometimes people dealing with difficult thoughts, feelings, or situations is through injuring themselves on purpose.

Question 25

Dialectical behavioural therapy

Answer 25

Provides clients with new skills to manage painful emotions and decrease conflict in relationships. DBT specifically focuses on providing therapeutic skills in 4 key areas.

Question 26

Mindfulness

Answer 26

Will help you experience more fully the present moment while focusing less on painful experiences from the past or frightening possibilities in the future. Mindfulness will also give you tools to overcome habitual, negative judgements about yourself and others

Question 27

Distress tolerance

Answer 27

Will help you cope better with painful events by building up your resiliency and giving you new ways to soften the effect of upsetting circumstances

Question 28

Emotional regulation

Answer 28

Skills help you to recognize more clearly what you are feeling and then to observe each moment without getting overwhelmed by it. The goal is to modulate your feelings without behaving in a reactive, destructive way.