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True or False: 50% of foster parents become the adoptive parents to the foster children in their home.
What is True!
_______ is the most common form of maltreatment and the reason for many children requiring foster care services.
What is NEGLECT.
True or False: The trauma of “separation” is only when a child is separated from their mother.
What is FALSE
What is the average number or placements (foster homes) children have while in Foster Care?
What is 3-4.
What are some impacts trauma can have on children?
What is LEARNING PROBLEMS, DIFFICULTY CONCENTRAING, JUVINILE JUSTICE SYSTEM, FOSTER CARE, HEALTH PROBLEMS, BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS, ETC.
True or False: Many foster children have prior histories of maltreatment such as abuse and neglect.
What is TRUE
What are the 4 areas of maltreatment?
What is PHYSICAL ABUSE, SEXUAL ABUSE, EMOTIONAL ABUSE, and NEGLECT.
When Children are reunified with their parents they may feel what emotions.
What is HAPPINESS, EXCITEMENT, FEAR, ANGER, ANXIETY, RESENTMENT, PEACE, CONTENTMENT, ETC.
Why is it important to talk about traumatic memories?
What is To learn how to cope with the memories and figure out the triggers and symptoms.
What is fight, flight and freeze?
What is AN ANXIETY RESPONSE THAT IS OUR BODY’S WAY OF PROTECTING US FROM DANGER.
Foster Parents play an essential role in the Child ______ System.
What is WELFARE
True or False: Painful experiences associated with maltreatment and the trauma of being removed from one’s parents (coming into foster care) may affect the development and mental health of children.
What is TRUE.
True or False: Children who are separated from their parents due to family violence and other reasons often feel “parentified”, meaning that they feel like they have to take care of their parent of siblings.
What is TRUE.
What are some signs that a child might have experienced trauma?
What is FEAR, ANGER, WITHDRAWL, TROUBLE CONCENTRATING, NIGHTMARES, BEHAVIORS, BED WETTING.
True or False: Children are usually sexually abused by a stranger.
What is FALSE
True or False: Most children in Foster Care, if not all, experience feelings of confusion, fear, apprehension of the unknown, loss, sadness, anxiety and stress?
What is TRUE!
What are reasons why Foster Children act out?
What is LACK SELF-CONFIDENCE or ATTENTION SEEKING.
True or False: Sometimes children of parents who are or were incarcerated feel ashamed that their parent it or was in jail?
What is TRUE
What are some symptoms of trauma that people might experience
What is CONSTANT WORRY, HARD TIME SLEEPING, FLASHBACKS, HYPERVIGILANCE, AVOIDANCE
People, places, activities, internal sensations, or other things that trigger memories of a traumatic experience?
What is TRAUMA REMINDERS
True or False: Hard feelings and experiences do not need to be addressed and treated early to prevent or decrease poor developmental and mental health outcomes that ultimately affect a child’s educational experience and the quality of adulthood.
What is FALSE.
Poor hygiene or fear of bathrooms may be a symptom of this?
What is SEXUAL ABUSE
When Children are separated from their parents, they may experience what feelings and problems.
What is ANGER, SADNESS, WORRY, SHAME, DIFFICULTY TRUSTING, LONELINESS, DIFFICULTY COPING, PROBLEMS IN SCHOOL/DAYCARE, RELIEF.
What emotions might a child feel after experiencing trauma?
What is FEAR, ANGER, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY
When helping a child in crisis, a foster parent should pay attention to their own ______.
What is BODY LANGUAGE, TONE OF VOICE, EYE CONTACT, ETC.