Quiz 2

Question 1

What is poverty?

Answer 1

the context of being without basic needs or resources, such as money and all that it buys–food clothing, housing, transportation, medical care

Question 2

What is absolute poverty?

Answer 2

a fixed dollar amount that represents a person’s wages used to designate poverty

Question 3

What is relative poverty?

Answer 3

compares a person’s wages with the norm or an average to determine if that person is experiencing poverty

Question 4

What is the poverty line?

Answer 4

threshold that determines eligibility for benefits and services

Question 5

What is means testing?

Answer 5

the process of identifying who qualifies for services and who doesn’t

Question 6

What are poverty guidelines?

Answer 6

measured by state, determines financial eligibility for other federal services; one may fall below the poverty line but still not be poor enough for other programs issued by the state

Question 7

What is the difference between wealth and income?

Answer 7

wealth: the accumulation of valuable resources and possessions
income: how much someone gets paid for work

Question 8

What is feminization of poverty?

Answer 8

the tendency of women being more likely to experience poverty than are men

Question 9

What is social insurance?

Answer 9

programs to prevent poverty, i.e., social security

Question 10

What is public assistance?

Answer 10

means-tested programs

Question 11

What is welfare?

Answer 11

the efforts to assist people living in poverty

Question 12

What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?

Answer 12

Medicare: federally funded; for older adults; people pay deductibles
Medicaid: part of Social Security Act; federally AND state funded; for people in need, i.e., pregnant women, people with disabilities, low-income; pay little to no part

Question 13

What is the Children’s Health Insurance Program?

Answer 13

program that works with Medicaid to provide health coverage to children, including half low-income children

Question 14

What is the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program?

Answer 14

provides cash assistance to any person whose income falls below the poverty line AND is 65+ years-old or is blind/has a disability

Question 15

What is child welfare?

Answer 15

practices, policies, services put in place to protect well-being and safety of children

Question 16

What are Child Protective Services?

Answer 16

programs through which social workers, law enforcement personnel, and health care workers respond to reports of maltreatment

Question 17

What is child physical abuse?

Answer 17

deliberately using force that injures or could potentially injure a child, i.e., kicking, punching, shaking

Question 18

What is child sexual abuse?

Answer 18

attempting/succeeding to engage sexually with a child or to exploit child for sexual purposes, i.e., sexual intercourse, penetration, exposing oneself to child, voyeurism if child is exposed

Question 19

What is child neglect?

Answer 19

failing to meet child’s basic needs (physical, emotional, educational, and/or medical)

Question 20

What is child psychological maltreatment?

Answer 20

intentionally conveying that the child is worthless, flawed, unloved, unwanted, endangered, or valued only when meeting another’s needs

Question 21

What do private child welfare agencies do?

Answer 21

they focus on specific problems and subpopulations, rely on private insurance and out of pocket fees, see fewer clients

Question 22

What do public child welfare agencies do?

Answer 22

they serve large numbers of people, offer a variety of programs, are less costly, located in county-based departments, i.e., adoption

Question 23

What is battered child syndrome?

Answer 23

clinical condition, could be physical or psychological, involves persistent injury inflicted by parent/care taker (i.e., broken bones, cuts, burns, bruises, emotional abuse)

Question 24

What is shaken baby syndrome?

Answer 24

condition where toddler or infant suffers brain injury as a result of being physically shaken

Question 25

What is health according to WHO?

Answer 25

health is NOT the absence of disease, rather it is a state of physical, mental, social well-being

Question 26

What is stress?

Answer 26

stress is the brain’s response to demand, including change; can lead to health problems, such as depression, hypertension, heart diseases; reduces ability to think reasonable

Question 27

What is person-first language?

Answer 27

when you place the person first so that the physical or challenge isn’t the primary defining characteristic; empowers the person, not the disability; ex: person with schizophrenia

Question 28

What is stigma?

Answer 28

generally a “stain” on the way a person is perceived; process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity

Question 29

What are the 3 categories of physical, cognitive, and developmental challenges?

Answer 29

1. co-occuring
2. functional
3. categorical

Question 30

What does it mean to have co-occurring disabilities?

Answer 30

having more than one at one time

Question 31

What is a functional disability?

Answer 31

limits a person’s ability to perform physical activity

Question 32

What is a categorical disability?

Answer 32

having significant impairment or mental illness and developmental delays

Question 33

Define developmental challenge

Answer 33

severe chronic condition that manifests before age 22; autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, epilepsy, Fragile X syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome