CMAS 258 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
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Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) - ✔✔1974, 2010
CAPTA definition of child maltreatment - ✔✔any recent act or failure to act on the part
of a parent of caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, or
sexual abuse or exploitation (harm is a required outcome)
types of maltreatment - ✔✔physical abuse
sexual abuse
neglect (physical, educational, medical)
psychological maltreatment
"child abuse" in PA - ✔✔intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly cause bodily injury,
serious mental injury, sexual abuse or exploitation, serious physical neglect, or the
death of a child
child - ✔✔under 18 years of age
injury - ✔✔impairment of physical condition or substantial pain
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, parent - ✔✔biological or adoptive parent or guardian
recent - ✔✔act or failure to act committed within two years of report
perpetrator - ✔✔a person who has committee child abuse
mental injury - ✔✔a psychological condition that renders a child severely anxious,
depressed or seriously interferes with a childs ability to
sexual abuse - ✔✔employment, use, persuasion, inducement, enticement, or coercion of
a child to engage in or assist another individual to engage in sexually explicit conduct
legal age of consent in PA - ✔✔16
max number of years in-between a child legally consenting to sex - ✔✔4 year
physical neglect - ✔✔when neglect that endangers a childs life or health, threatens a
childs well being, causes bodily injury, or impairs a childs health, development, or
functioning
ex. failure to supervise a child consistently
physical abuse - ✔✔intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury
ex. punching, kicking, biting, burning, shaking
psychological maltreatment - ✔✔intentionally or knowingly causing serious mental
injury to a child
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AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) - ✔✔1974, 2010
CAPTA definition of child maltreatment - ✔✔any recent act or failure to act on the part
of a parent of caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, or
sexual abuse or exploitation (harm is a required outcome)
types of maltreatment - ✔✔physical abuse
sexual abuse
neglect (physical, educational, medical)
psychological maltreatment
"child abuse" in PA - ✔✔intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly cause bodily injury,
serious mental injury, sexual abuse or exploitation, serious physical neglect, or the
death of a child
child - ✔✔under 18 years of age
injury - ✔✔impairment of physical condition or substantial pain
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, parent - ✔✔biological or adoptive parent or guardian
recent - ✔✔act or failure to act committed within two years of report
perpetrator - ✔✔a person who has committee child abuse
mental injury - ✔✔a psychological condition that renders a child severely anxious,
depressed or seriously interferes with a childs ability to
sexual abuse - ✔✔employment, use, persuasion, inducement, enticement, or coercion of
a child to engage in or assist another individual to engage in sexually explicit conduct
legal age of consent in PA - ✔✔16
max number of years in-between a child legally consenting to sex - ✔✔4 year
physical neglect - ✔✔when neglect that endangers a childs life or health, threatens a
childs well being, causes bodily injury, or impairs a childs health, development, or
functioning
ex. failure to supervise a child consistently
physical abuse - ✔✔intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury
ex. punching, kicking, biting, burning, shaking
psychological maltreatment - ✔✔intentionally or knowingly causing serious mental
injury to a child
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