Module 8 Safety & Risk Flashcards
What are the two types of danger?
Present danger and impending danger
What is present danger?
A dangerous situation that:
- Could’ve happened
- Actively happening
- Reasonably expected to happen again
What is the criteria for present danger?
Significant
Immediate
Clearly
Observable
If encountered with present danger situation, what actions must you take?
Present danger does not equal to removal
Safety plan should be executed keeping the child safe while investigation takes place
What is impending danger?
Child living or being in a position of continual or pervasive danger
What are danger threats?
Categories to determine present danger and impending danger
How many danger threats are there?
11 but we don’t use other
What are the three essential aspects of family dynamics to detect impending danger?
- Danger threats
- Caregiver Protective Capacities
- Child Vulnerability
What are caregiver protective capacities?
Personal and parenting behaviors, cognitive, and emotional characteristics which are specifically and directly associated with protecting one’s children
Which of the 11 danger threats can only be present danger?
Unexplained injury and whereabouts unknown
What is child vulnerability?
Dependent on someone else
What is the difference of safe child and at risk?
Safe is when there is no threat of danger or when the caregiver Protective capacities can manage threats of danger.
At risk means statistical factors that could lead to maltreatment
What is the danger threshold criteria for impending danger?
- Observable
- Out of Control
- Severe
- Imminent (likely to happen without intervention)
- Vulnerable Child
What are protective factors in families?
- Nurturing and attachment
- Knowledge of parenting and child development
- Parental resilience
- Social connections
- Concrete supports for families
- Social and emotional competence of children
