PAR Exam Study Guide DJJ Exam Questions And Answers Latest Update
PAR Exam Study Guide DJJ Exam
Questions And Answers Latest Update
Describe how staff can prepare for safe & successful interactions with youth -
✔✔✔-PREPARING for safe and successful interactions with youth begins with the
Start Smart Skills, which when practiced with confidence can go a long way in
fostering professional relationships with youth:
Maintain the Right Attitude.
Make the Right Actions.
Identify components of DJJ's operations that require safe and successful
interactions with youth. - ✔✔✔-DJJ has developed numerous components of its
operations pursuant to statute, rule, manual, and policy to ensure the success of
staff: e.g., background screening, code of conduct, incident reporting,
confidentiality requirement, etc.
Describe the general characteristics of youth that affect the way they behave. -
✔✔✔-Cognitively, socially, and emotionally.
Describe trauma - ✔✔✔-The personal experience of violence and victimization
including sexual abuse, physical abuse, severe neglect, loss, domestic violence,
and/or the witnessing of violence, terrorism, or disasters.
Describe the stress response's effect on youth behavior. - ✔✔✔-A natural reaction
to events that may be difficult, demanding, or threatening. ; "fight, flight, or
freeze" response.
6. Describe the relationship between unmet needs and youth behavior. - ✔✔✔-
When there are unmet needs in people's lives, they cannot fully develop
cognitively, socially, and emotionally which in turn affects the way they behave.
What is a Trigger? - ✔✔✔-A trigger is an event that sets of a memory.
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T or F: 93% of communication is non-verbal and 7% verbal. - ✔✔✔-True
What are the 5 hierarchy of Needs according to Maslow? - ✔✔✔-Physiology - Things
required to live (food, water, air)
Safety - Shelter. protection
Love & Belonging - Self explanatory
Esteem - To feel good about oneself
Self actualization - To test limits
Define Verbal De-escalation - ✔✔✔-Tactics that are non-physical skills used to
prevent a potentially dangerous situation from escalating into a physical
confrontation or injury.
Identify the elements of the Crisis Development Model. - ✔✔✔-Warning Phase:
potential for conflict is increasing.
Escalation Phase: he potential for conflict is now very high.
Crisis Phase: conflict erupts
De-escalation Phase: The staff intervenes and de-escalates the conflict using
verbal and physical techniques (only if danger exists)
Post Incident Conversation: Potential for conflict low again; talk about what
happened.
Proxemics - ✔✔✔-The amount of personal space people feel is necessary to set
between themselves and others.
Steps to confronting youth's behavior - ✔✔✔-1. Identify the unacceptable behavior
in clear, behavioral terms. Say exactly what the youth is doing that is
unacceptable. Describe the unacceptable behavior if necessary.
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PAR Exam Study Guide DJJ Exam
Questions And Answers Latest Update
Describe how staff can prepare for safe & successful interactions with youth -
✔✔✔-PREPARING for safe and successful interactions with youth begins with the
Start Smart Skills, which when practiced with confidence can go a long way in
fostering professional relationships with youth:
Maintain the Right Attitude.
Make the Right Actions.
Identify components of DJJ's operations that require safe and successful
interactions with youth. - ✔✔✔-DJJ has developed numerous components of its
operations pursuant to statute, rule, manual, and policy to ensure the success of
staff: e.g., background screening, code of conduct, incident reporting,
confidentiality requirement, etc.
Describe the general characteristics of youth that affect the way they behave. -
✔✔✔-Cognitively, socially, and emotionally.
Describe trauma - ✔✔✔-The personal experience of violence and victimization
including sexual abuse, physical abuse, severe neglect, loss, domestic violence,
and/or the witnessing of violence, terrorism, or disasters.
Describe the stress response's effect on youth behavior. - ✔✔✔-A natural reaction
to events that may be difficult, demanding, or threatening. ; "fight, flight, or
freeze" response.
6. Describe the relationship between unmet needs and youth behavior. - ✔✔✔-
When there are unmet needs in people's lives, they cannot fully develop
cognitively, socially, and emotionally which in turn affects the way they behave.
What is a Trigger? - ✔✔✔-A trigger is an event that sets of a memory.
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, PAR Exam Study Guide DJJ Exam Questions And Answers Latest Update
T or F: 93% of communication is non-verbal and 7% verbal. - ✔✔✔-True
What are the 5 hierarchy of Needs according to Maslow? - ✔✔✔-Physiology - Things
required to live (food, water, air)
Safety - Shelter. protection
Love & Belonging - Self explanatory
Esteem - To feel good about oneself
Self actualization - To test limits
Define Verbal De-escalation - ✔✔✔-Tactics that are non-physical skills used to
prevent a potentially dangerous situation from escalating into a physical
confrontation or injury.
Identify the elements of the Crisis Development Model. - ✔✔✔-Warning Phase:
potential for conflict is increasing.
Escalation Phase: he potential for conflict is now very high.
Crisis Phase: conflict erupts
De-escalation Phase: The staff intervenes and de-escalates the conflict using
verbal and physical techniques (only if danger exists)
Post Incident Conversation: Potential for conflict low again; talk about what
happened.
Proxemics - ✔✔✔-The amount of personal space people feel is necessary to set
between themselves and others.
Steps to confronting youth's behavior - ✔✔✔-1. Identify the unacceptable behavior
in clear, behavioral terms. Say exactly what the youth is doing that is
unacceptable. Describe the unacceptable behavior if necessary.
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