ISSUES IN PRACTICE - Foster/Adoption

Question 1

An adopted child maintains contact with
the biological parent through a case
manager at the private adoption agency.
What kind of adoption? (2x)

Answer 1

Open

Question 2

Advantage of foster care through kinship

placement? (2x)

Answer 2

Greater stability of placement

Question 3

In AACAP Parameters for Assessment and
Management of Youth Involved with the
Child Welfare System, when should you
screen foster children for behavioral health
concerns?

Answer 3

In the first 72 hours of placement

Question 4

Children in non-kinship foster care are

more likely to?

Answer 4

Become legally adopted

Question 5

Greatest risk to disruption of initial foster

care placement?

Answer 5

History of residential care for the child

Question 6

A stable adoption placement is consistently

associated with which child vulnerability?

Answer 6

Identifiable physical disability

Question 7

What approach to foster care case-planning
minimizes child’s long-term feelings of loss
and abandonment?

Answer 7

Include input from members of the

extended family in decision-making

Question 8

Prospective adoptive parents of 18 month
old looking for advice on how to prepare for
arrival of child. Child has been living with
adults with lower income. What would help
the initial phase of transition?

Answer 8

Limiting the number of visits with extended

family

Question 9

Who funds health care for foster kids?

Answer 9

Medicaid

Question 10

Greatest familial risk factor for child in

foster care?

Answer 10

Parental substance abuse