Types of Abuse
Ethical & Legal Issues
Prevention
Remediation
Signs of Abuse
100
Defined as failure of parents to provide those things needed for the child's healthy growth and development. Implies that harm may come to the child as a result of the parent's unreliability as providers.
What is neglect?
100
It is used to enhance the accuracy of the abuse report by clarifying any discrepencies existing among other professional educators before the report is filed.
What is the existence of a school team composed of three or four school members to handle abuse cases for?
100
Improves school performance, attendance and behaviors.
What is parent and teacher education and direct services to at-risk children.
100
An effective technique for elementary counselors to use with children who are suspected of being abused.
What is play therapy?
100
Inappropriate sexual behaviors toward adults or other children, difficulty in walking or sitting, early pregnancies.
What are three signs of sexual abuse?
200
Involves not-accidental physical injury.
What is physical abuse?
200
The steps and procedures to be followed prior to any action taken with his/her particular case.
What is what the counselor will want to make the abused student aware of?
200
Two types of activities that may be used to soften anxiety connected with sexual abuse.
What is role play, coloring books, films, or puppets.
200
Children cannot effectively engage in this therapy due to their developmental level.
What is "talk therapy"?
200
Two signs of physical abuse.
What is unexplained bruises or welts, burns, fractures, lacerations, abrasions, death.
300
Implies a consistent indifference to the child's needs and interfering with the child's mental health and social development.
What is emotional abuse?
300
Emphasizes the importance of confidentiality and re-establishing the trust of the child after the report of abuse is made.
What is ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors?
300
Are less likely to be victimized.
What is children who are empowered by knowing what steps to take concerning the prevention and handling of abuse?
300
Age appropriate toys, artwork, puppetry, dramatic play and movement play.
What are ways that can help children and adolescents create a safe distance from the abuse?
300
Rebelliousness/problems with authority figures, drug and alcohol abuse, change in grades, withdrawing, lack of self-esteem, unusual compliance toward adults.
What are signs of physical abuse of an adolescent?
400
The exploitation of a child for gradification of an adult or an older child.
What is sexual abuse?
400
Increasingly used as a source of leadership and responsible for indentifying and reporting cases of child abuse to investigative agencies.
What is a school counselor?
400
Individual consultation, PTA program, material preview night, parent education classes.
What are strategies to use with parents to prevent child abuse?
400
The three major phases of remediation in a school.
What is identifying, reporting, and follow-up.
400
Habit and conduct disorders, neurotic traits, psycholneurotic reactions, behavior extremes, overly adaptive behaviors, lags in emotional and intellectual behavior, attempted suicide.
What are behavioral indicators that a child may be emotionally abused.
500
An underlying consequence present in all forms of abuse and one of the hardest conditions to prove in court.
What is emotional abuse?
500
A requirement for school districts to offer their support for counselors an other employees to the district to follow when abuse is suspected.
What is a written policy?
500
Two desired outcomes of preventative child abuse strategies for students.
What is to develop assertive skills, develop problem-solving skills, increase self-esteem, or increase awareness of rights?
500
Two important things that the school counselor should provide for the abused child.
What is a safe place and a safe relationship?
500
Labeling, screaming, allowing children to harass others, setting unrealistic academic goals.
What are ways that a teacher may emotionally abuse students?