Statistical profile and Dynamics
What is at least one of the 4 requirements for a situation to be defined as child maltreatment?
1. Physical or mental abuse or neglect.
2. Must be visible harm or psychological harm.
3. A link to the parents behavior and child harm.
4. Sufficiently serious maltreatment to warrant intervention.
What is considered the principal profession responsible for the operation of child welfare? (pg. 357)
Social Work
What act was passed in 1875 that made it lawful for any child over 3 and under 16 years of age to be committed to a county poorhouse? pg.335
The Act to Provide for the Better Care of Pauper and Destitute Children.
What is the Adoption and safe Families Act of 1997? Pg. 346
Agencies must demonstrate that they have made “reasonable efforts” to preserve a family before parental rights are terminated
How many social workers does it take to change a light bulb?
The light bulb must first fill out all the appropriate forms to determine eligibility for service.
What is the main type of maltreatment? And what is the percentage of it?
Neglect, 71.1%
How many social workers does it take to change a light bulb?
One. But the light has to want to change
What were some problems with children’s institutions before foster care? pg. 336
Inability to meet the challenge of caring for dependent children.
Not appropriate places for rearing children
Great growth of numbers of dependant children faster than institutions.
What is the G.L. v. Zumwatt case of 1983? Pg. 347
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was able, for the first time, to get children in foster care recognized as a class and to get the court to order relief for the entire class.
What are conservatives views on appropriate disciplinary actions for children? P.349
Spanking is good, a certain amount of physical discipline is ok (not abuse), children need to learn to respect authority
What is a missionary’s favorite car?
A CONVERTible
Which department provides families with a case worker who will come to their home in order to help them learn better life skills and keep their children? (pg. 359)
Family Preservation Services
What did C. Henry Kempe do? Pg. 340-341
In 1960 influenced the diagnosis of child abuse. Coined “The Battered Child Syndrome”
What does the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 do? (pg 343)
This act directs federal fiscal incentives toward permanency planning objectives especially the development of preventative and reunification services and adoption subsidies. It also adds fiscal incentives for states to seek adoptive homes for hard-to-place children (ex. disabled, older, or minority group members)
What are liberal views on appropriate disciplinary actions for children? P.349
Physical discipline is last resort (if at all), questioning authority is encouraged (in most situations), violence teaches violence, good disciplinary actions are withdrawing privileges, time-outs, and extra chores.
What are the major types of child abuse and neglect?
Physical abuse
Neglect
Sexual abuse
Emotional abuse
Abandonment
Substance abuse
True or False: As demand for foster families increases, so does the amount of available families? (pg. 359)
False, as the demand increases, the amount of available families decreases.
In 1967 the title XX of the Social Security Act was passed. What did this Act do? pg. 341
Made protective services mandatory for all states.
What's the difference between a social worker and a bartender?
A bartender goes to school for 10 weeks, learns how to mix a few things and waits a couple hours for people to share their inner most thoughts. A social worker goes to school for six years, pays thousands of dollars and sits session after session with people, and may never hear their problems.
What is corporal punishment? (concerning children and parents) P.350
Spanking and other light amounts of physical discipline. Done to teach children to respect their authorities.
What are some factors children have that have been found to be correlated with maltreatment?
Age
Disabilities
Child behavioral problems
Who has custody of the child if their parents are under investigation for mistreatment? (pg. 359)
The courts will assign physical custody to the parents and legal custody to the child protection agencies
What do you get when you cross LSD and LDS?
A high priest
What is permanency planning? (pg 342)
The movement that children “adrift” in the foster care system for too long could be returned to their biological families or places in adoption through intensive agency services emphasizing aggressive planning and casework techniques.
What are the 4 levels of causative factors of Maltreatment? P.351
Individual parent, child, family, and environment.