CPI EXAM WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 2025
Dependency Petition - correct answers - Court ordered services due to
no change in action or child's safety is at risk
Shelter Petition- correct answers - Attempt to remove child from care
giver and be placed elsewhere
ASFA-Adoption and Safe Family Act of 1997 - correct answers - Reach
permanency within 1 year from removal
ICWA-Indian Child Welfare Act - correct answers - If family is a part of an
Indian tribe then CPI will have to get with legal to see if the tribe will handle
the allegations of if CPI will move forward with the investigation
MEPA-Multi Ethnic Placement Act - correct answers - This act does not
allow a child to be held back from placement or permanency based on the
child's race, gender, religion etc.
4 Work Principles-Principle 1 - correct answers - The health and safety of
the child is the top priority
4 Work Principles-Principle 2 - correct answers - Work as partners with
the families: Respect them, engage them etc.
4 Work Principles-Principle 3 - correct answers - Always begin with the least
intrusive actions that are possible and reasonable. Be objective and keep the
child's safety in the forefront of your mind
4 Work Principles-Principle 4 - correct answers - Prevention and
intervention should result in protecting children and supporting families
Practice Model - correct answers - 1. Hotline
2. CPI FFA
3. Ongoing Family Functioning
4. Safety plan and case plan evaluation
5. Anticipated intervention
FFA-6 Domains - correct answers - 1. Maltreatment
6. Circumstances surrounding the circumstances
7. Child functioning
8. Adult Functioning
,5. General Parenting
6. Parent Discipline Approach
Least Intrusive - correct answers - The combination of interventions that
will be the most effective, cause the least disruption to the child and
family's normal routines and will e aligned to the fullest extent feasible
with the family's references, culture and values
Caregiver Protective Capacities - correct answers - The personal and
caregiving behavioral, cognitive and emotional characteristics that
specifically and directly can be associated with being protective to one's
children. When the caregivers responsible are able to effectively manage
negative family conditions in the home for the long term, the child is safe.
Protective capacities are personal qualities or characteristics that contribute
to vigilant child protection
3 Protective Capacity Areas - correct answers - 1. Cognitive
7. Behavioral
8. Emotional
Legal definition of the term child - correct answers - Chapter 39, Florida
Statutes:
o"any unmarried person under the age of 18 years who has not been
emancipated by order of the court"
o The terms child and youth are interchangeable
Present Danger - correct answers - Usually identified at initial contact,
however can occur during the course of an investigation or while the
family is receiving case management services . Serious harm will result
without prompt investigation and/or case manager response
Define Impending Danger - correct answers - • Child living or being in
a position of continual or pervasive danger.
• Threats are not immediate, obvious or active at the onset of
investigation.
• Are identified and understood upon gathering sufficient family
functioning information.
Factors of Impending Danger - correct answers - 1. Imminent
2. Out of Control
3. Vulnerable Child
4. Observable
5. Severity
What is the most common maltreatment reported? - correct answers
- Neglect - especially in infants
Three-Tiered Hierarchy of Safety - correct answers - • Core Level:
o Physical safety: a child is not at risk of injury or threats of injury.
• Second level:
, o Social safety: refers to an interpersonal sense of the child being safe
from verbal abuse, verbal threats or teasing.
• Last level:
o Emotional safety: you have an internal sense of being safe.
What is trauma - correct answers - Trauma is an emotional response to an
event. The emotional response is intense, distressing and/or painful and can
overwhelm your ability to cope. There can be direct involvement in the event
or indirect through witnessing the event.
ACE - correct answers - Adverse childhood experiences
Child Traumatic Stress (CTS) - correct answers - A psychological reaction
that some children have to a traumatic experience
Complex trauma - correct answers - o Involves simultaneous or
sequential occurrences of child maltreatment - including psychological
maltreatment, neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and domestic
violence - that is chronic, begins in early childhood, and occurs within
the primary caregiving system.
oOften sets off a chain of events leading to subsequent or repeated trauma
exposure in adolescence and adulthood.
Three levels of CTS - correct answers - o Acute traumatic stress refers to
exposure to a single event, such as a car accident.
oChronic traumatic stress refers to repeated events, such as physical or
sexual abuse or exposure to ongoing domestic violence.
o Complex traumatic stress refers to exposure to chronic, multiple types of
trauma.
Early childhood trauma - correct answers - Generally refers to the
traumatic experiences that occur to children aged 0-6. These traumas can
be the result of intentional violence, such as child physical or sexual abuse
and/or domestic violence, the persistent absence of responsive care or as
the result of a natural disaster, accidents, or war
Domestic violence - correct answers - (intimate partner violence,
domestic abuse, or battering): Actual or threatened physical or sexual
violence, or emotional abuse between adults in an intimate relationship
Physical abuse - correct answers - Causing or attempting to cause physical
pain or injury. It can result from punching, beating, kicking, burning or
harming a child in other ways.
Child sexual abuse- correct answers - Takes place between a child and
an older person or alternatively between a child and another
child/adolescent.
o Bodily contact: Such as sexual kissing, touching, fondling of genitals,
and intercourse.
ANSWERS 2025
Dependency Petition - correct answers - Court ordered services due to
no change in action or child's safety is at risk
Shelter Petition- correct answers - Attempt to remove child from care
giver and be placed elsewhere
ASFA-Adoption and Safe Family Act of 1997 - correct answers - Reach
permanency within 1 year from removal
ICWA-Indian Child Welfare Act - correct answers - If family is a part of an
Indian tribe then CPI will have to get with legal to see if the tribe will handle
the allegations of if CPI will move forward with the investigation
MEPA-Multi Ethnic Placement Act - correct answers - This act does not
allow a child to be held back from placement or permanency based on the
child's race, gender, religion etc.
4 Work Principles-Principle 1 - correct answers - The health and safety of
the child is the top priority
4 Work Principles-Principle 2 - correct answers - Work as partners with
the families: Respect them, engage them etc.
4 Work Principles-Principle 3 - correct answers - Always begin with the least
intrusive actions that are possible and reasonable. Be objective and keep the
child's safety in the forefront of your mind
4 Work Principles-Principle 4 - correct answers - Prevention and
intervention should result in protecting children and supporting families
Practice Model - correct answers - 1. Hotline
2. CPI FFA
3. Ongoing Family Functioning
4. Safety plan and case plan evaluation
5. Anticipated intervention
FFA-6 Domains - correct answers - 1. Maltreatment
6. Circumstances surrounding the circumstances
7. Child functioning
8. Adult Functioning
,5. General Parenting
6. Parent Discipline Approach
Least Intrusive - correct answers - The combination of interventions that
will be the most effective, cause the least disruption to the child and
family's normal routines and will e aligned to the fullest extent feasible
with the family's references, culture and values
Caregiver Protective Capacities - correct answers - The personal and
caregiving behavioral, cognitive and emotional characteristics that
specifically and directly can be associated with being protective to one's
children. When the caregivers responsible are able to effectively manage
negative family conditions in the home for the long term, the child is safe.
Protective capacities are personal qualities or characteristics that contribute
to vigilant child protection
3 Protective Capacity Areas - correct answers - 1. Cognitive
7. Behavioral
8. Emotional
Legal definition of the term child - correct answers - Chapter 39, Florida
Statutes:
o"any unmarried person under the age of 18 years who has not been
emancipated by order of the court"
o The terms child and youth are interchangeable
Present Danger - correct answers - Usually identified at initial contact,
however can occur during the course of an investigation or while the
family is receiving case management services . Serious harm will result
without prompt investigation and/or case manager response
Define Impending Danger - correct answers - • Child living or being in
a position of continual or pervasive danger.
• Threats are not immediate, obvious or active at the onset of
investigation.
• Are identified and understood upon gathering sufficient family
functioning information.
Factors of Impending Danger - correct answers - 1. Imminent
2. Out of Control
3. Vulnerable Child
4. Observable
5. Severity
What is the most common maltreatment reported? - correct answers
- Neglect - especially in infants
Three-Tiered Hierarchy of Safety - correct answers - • Core Level:
o Physical safety: a child is not at risk of injury or threats of injury.
• Second level:
, o Social safety: refers to an interpersonal sense of the child being safe
from verbal abuse, verbal threats or teasing.
• Last level:
o Emotional safety: you have an internal sense of being safe.
What is trauma - correct answers - Trauma is an emotional response to an
event. The emotional response is intense, distressing and/or painful and can
overwhelm your ability to cope. There can be direct involvement in the event
or indirect through witnessing the event.
ACE - correct answers - Adverse childhood experiences
Child Traumatic Stress (CTS) - correct answers - A psychological reaction
that some children have to a traumatic experience
Complex trauma - correct answers - o Involves simultaneous or
sequential occurrences of child maltreatment - including psychological
maltreatment, neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and domestic
violence - that is chronic, begins in early childhood, and occurs within
the primary caregiving system.
oOften sets off a chain of events leading to subsequent or repeated trauma
exposure in adolescence and adulthood.
Three levels of CTS - correct answers - o Acute traumatic stress refers to
exposure to a single event, such as a car accident.
oChronic traumatic stress refers to repeated events, such as physical or
sexual abuse or exposure to ongoing domestic violence.
o Complex traumatic stress refers to exposure to chronic, multiple types of
trauma.
Early childhood trauma - correct answers - Generally refers to the
traumatic experiences that occur to children aged 0-6. These traumas can
be the result of intentional violence, such as child physical or sexual abuse
and/or domestic violence, the persistent absence of responsive care or as
the result of a natural disaster, accidents, or war
Domestic violence - correct answers - (intimate partner violence,
domestic abuse, or battering): Actual or threatened physical or sexual
violence, or emotional abuse between adults in an intimate relationship
Physical abuse - correct answers - Causing or attempting to cause physical
pain or injury. It can result from punching, beating, kicking, burning or
harming a child in other ways.
Child sexual abuse- correct answers - Takes place between a child and
an older person or alternatively between a child and another
child/adolescent.
o Bodily contact: Such as sexual kissing, touching, fondling of genitals,
and intercourse.
