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Types of Trauma
Types of abuse/neglct
Traumatic Stress
The Brain
Reporting
100

Multiple, prolonged traumatic events

What is Complex?

100

When an adult intentionally hurts a child by hitting, kicking, slapping, punching, hitting biting, burning, etc.

What is physical abuse?

100

Violence that involves people who reside in a home together

What is household domestic violence? 

100

Responsible for basic life functions: Breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, etc

What is the brain stem?

100
The name of the agency to report child abuse and neglect in MA

What is Department of Children & Family Services (DCF)?

200

A single traumatic event

What is Acute?

200

When an adult inappropriately engages in sexual contact with a child or adolescent 

What is sexual abuse?

200

Violence that involves people living in your area

What is community violence?

200

This is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. 

It prepares your body to either confront or flee from the threat by triggering changes like increased heart rate, quickened breathing, and heightened alertness.

Fight Flight and Freeze function

200
The name of the report?

What is 51-A ?

300

Prolonged traumatic events

What is Chronic?

300

The failure of a parent or caretaker to provide needed food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or supervision to the degree that the child’s health, safety, and well-being are threatened with harm.

What is neglect?

300

When a peer uses intentional force or coercion to harm another: Physically, emotionally, psychologically. 

Ex: Intimidating, picking fights, calling names, etc

What is bullying?

300

True or False

When under stress, the pruning of neurons in your brain increases.

True

300

Name three mandated reporters?

teacher, social workers, MD, Nurse, Fire Fighters, Police Officers

400

Name the type of trauma:

A child is having anxiety because they are having a math test

What is acute trauma?

400

Black eyes, aggressive behavior, accidental injuries to one side of the body, frequent injuries, emotionless behavior, human bite marks.  

What are signs of physical abuse?

400

The name of the questionnaire to determine if adults had been exposed to trauma as a child. 

(ACES) Adverse Childhood Experience Questionnaire for Adults

400

Part of the brain that helps manage feelings and make choices. Helps you to "tune-in"

What is the pre-frontal cortex?

400

Upon receiving a report, DCF immediately begins to “screen“ the report. Name 3 items that are part of the screening process?

  • Gathering information from the reporter
  • Reviewing any history the child or family may have with DCF or another state’s child protection agency
  • Conducting an identity query (if needed)
  • Conducting CORI and SORI checks
  • Requesting information from local law enforcement
  • Contacting other collaterals who may know the family
  • Seeking clinical consultation (especially when multiple reports on separate incidents have been filed on any children in a family) and
500

Name the type of trauma: 

A child lives in the home with their father and step-mother. The adults constantly argue and fight, and sometimes it gets really bad. The child has witnessed their father hit their step-mother multiple times. 

What is chronic?

500

True or false: 

Poor parent-to-child relationships can increase the risk of child abuse, maltreatment, or neglect.

True

500

The ability to bounce back from adverse trauma

Resilience 

500

When the brain is no longer regulated, decision-making is inhibited, and we lose the ability to think clearly and control emotions.

What is "flipping your lid" ?

500
  • Emergency Response – DCF will assess child safety within 2 hours, visit and interview family within ___hours, and may take up to 5 business days to complete other response activities and the report
  • Non-Emergency Response – DCF will assess child safety within 3 business days, and may take up to ___ business days to complete the response and report

24 hours 

15 business days