Quiz 1 Flashcards
Any act of commission or omission against an intimate partner using a complex pattern physical, sexual, psychological, and or economical behaviors devised and carried out to control and abuse a partner.
Intimate partner violence / domestic violence.
Any non accidental injury to a child by an adult
Child abuse
Any knowing, intentional, or negligent aft by a caregiver or any person that causes harm or a serious risk of harm to a vulnerable adult.
Elder abuse
A system of two or more interacting persons who are related by ties of marriage, birth, adoption, or personal choice and have committed themselves to each other as a unit for the common purpose of promoting the physical, mental, emotional, social, cultural, financial, and spiritual growth and development of each member.
Family health perspective
Provides the values, ethics, and conduct to be adhered to by social workers
National association of social workers code of ethics
Social workers primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems.
Service
Social workers challenge social injustice
Social justice
Social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person
Dignity and worth of the person
Social workers recognize the central importance of human relationships.
Importance of human relationships
Social workers behave in a trustworthy manner
Integrity
Social workers practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise.
Competence
Children’s physical development, and social relationally based theories, which address interactions between children and their parents.
Biologically based theories
Children’s brain development as influenced by traumatic events partically child maltreatment.
Neurobiological theories
Stresses the importance of bonding between children and their parental figures
Attachment theory
Consequences of abuse.
Sequelae
Attribute child abuse to parents imitating discipline they received as children
Cognitive-behavioral theories
One generation teaches the next inappropriate behaviors
Intergenerational transmission of violence
Biological determinism, highlighting the importance of genetics in the development of humans as well as other species
Evolution
Emphasized the importance of childhood development, The role of drives in human behavior and how early life experiences can thwart normal development
Psychoanalysis
Any child suffering over a period of time, certain types of injuries not caused by accidental means. Children under three years of age were particularly prone to receive this diagnosis
Battered Child syndrome
Defined child abuse and neglect and established mandatory reporting policy
Child abuse prevention and treatment act 1974
Nonaccidental affliction of physical injury by punching beating kicking biting burning shaking and otherwise harming a child
Physical abuse
Any act performed either directly on the child or in the presence of the child
Sexual abuse and exploitation
Any attitude or behavior as well as omission of attitudes and , by the caregiver that interferes with the child’s behavioral cognitive emotional or mental well-being
Emotional abuse
Failing to provide for a child’s basic needs including physical educational emotional needs or medical care
Neglect
The commission of an act by a sibling causing physical harm, injury, or death to a brother or sister.
Sibling abuse
The intentional simulation of physical disease by the parents in their child for the sole purpose of obtaining medical or psychological attention.
Munchausen by proxy syndrome
The child’s inadequate and potentially life-endangering physical development having no organic basis.
Nonorganic failure to thrive
The caregivers manufacturing of a controlled substance in the presence of a child or on premises occupied by a child, allowing the child to be present where chemicals are stored, using a controlled substance that impairs the caregivers ability to care for the child, exposing the child to drug paraphernalia, or selling or giving the child drugs.
Substance abuse
Refers to children who suffer from more than one type of abuse described above.
Polyvictimization
Physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, or neglect.
Child maltreatment
Financial stress, family structural stressors, and child development issues.
Risk factors
Symptoms of potentially abusive and neglectful behaviors
Indicators
Professionals who come into contact with children on a regular basis and who, in accordance with the federal law.
Mandated reporters
Statutory recognition of the right to maintain confidential communications between professionals and their clients.
Privileged communication
Recommended contact for reporting a case of suspected child abuse
State central register