CERAP test UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
CERAP Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol - CORRECT
ANSWER Structured approach to decision-making designed to guide support and
document professional judgement in situations in which children are potentially in danger
immediately or in the very near future. A CERAP is used through the life of a case; always.
Focus only on the information which you are given. - CORRECT ANSWER Do not read,
assume, or attribute evidence to other "ifs" of the situation.
Key information related to Safety Threat Assessment: - CORRECT ANSWER Child
vulnerability
Severity of the Behavior/Condition
History
Safety Threat Identification
If a scenario is a safety concern: - CORRECT ANSWER all of the threat answers will be
either safety concern or no concern
If a scenario is a risk concern: - CORRECT ANSWER all of the threat answers will be
either risk concern or no concern.
If any one of the individual threats is present in the scenario: - CORRECT ANSWER you
would mark that group as a Safety or Risk Concern.
If none of the individual threats are present in the scenario: - CORRECT ANSWER We
would mark that group No Concern
Physical Abuse/Neglect/Threat: - CORRECT ANSWER This section contains five safety
threats related to causing moderate to severe harm or threatening harm.
, History of abuse neglect (physical or sexual) - CORRECT ANSWER This section has
only one safety threat associated with past history of abuse and/or neglect. This does not include
only indicated reports. It does include the anecdotal accounts too.
Caretaker Behaviors: - CORRECT ANSWER This section combines threats that relate to
the behavior of the caretaker. Remember the definition of the caretaker-- anyone who influences
the safety of the child.
Special issues: - CORRECT ANSWER Is where we combine sexual abuse and the
underlying issues we have been discussing (ie. developmental disability, poverty, neglect)
Human trafficking: - CORRECT ANSWER This section has only one safety threat related
to forced labor or sexual exploitation that causes moderate to severe or threatening harm.
Safety assessment goals: - CORRECT ANSWER -Determine if there is (or is not) a threat
to the child's safety.
-Determine if the child is safe or unsafe
-Use our critical thinking skills to analyze and apply the information we collect from the safety
assessment process to the safety plan and interventions that will achieve child safety.
We assess safety through the life of a case.
Safety definition - CORRECT ANSWER A child is considered to be safe when an
assessment of available information supports the belief that a child is not in immediate (near
future) danger of moderate to severe harm. Safety is a subset of risk: within risk there is safety.
Risk definition - CORRECT ANSWER Is the likelihood of any degree of linger-term
future harm/maltreatment.
It does not predict when the future harm might occur, but rather the likelihood of it happening at
all.
Moderate to severe harm: - CORRECT ANSWER The threat of:
Questions and CORRECT Answers
CERAP Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol - CORRECT
ANSWER Structured approach to decision-making designed to guide support and
document professional judgement in situations in which children are potentially in danger
immediately or in the very near future. A CERAP is used through the life of a case; always.
Focus only on the information which you are given. - CORRECT ANSWER Do not read,
assume, or attribute evidence to other "ifs" of the situation.
Key information related to Safety Threat Assessment: - CORRECT ANSWER Child
vulnerability
Severity of the Behavior/Condition
History
Safety Threat Identification
If a scenario is a safety concern: - CORRECT ANSWER all of the threat answers will be
either safety concern or no concern
If a scenario is a risk concern: - CORRECT ANSWER all of the threat answers will be
either risk concern or no concern.
If any one of the individual threats is present in the scenario: - CORRECT ANSWER you
would mark that group as a Safety or Risk Concern.
If none of the individual threats are present in the scenario: - CORRECT ANSWER We
would mark that group No Concern
Physical Abuse/Neglect/Threat: - CORRECT ANSWER This section contains five safety
threats related to causing moderate to severe harm or threatening harm.
, History of abuse neglect (physical or sexual) - CORRECT ANSWER This section has
only one safety threat associated with past history of abuse and/or neglect. This does not include
only indicated reports. It does include the anecdotal accounts too.
Caretaker Behaviors: - CORRECT ANSWER This section combines threats that relate to
the behavior of the caretaker. Remember the definition of the caretaker-- anyone who influences
the safety of the child.
Special issues: - CORRECT ANSWER Is where we combine sexual abuse and the
underlying issues we have been discussing (ie. developmental disability, poverty, neglect)
Human trafficking: - CORRECT ANSWER This section has only one safety threat related
to forced labor or sexual exploitation that causes moderate to severe or threatening harm.
Safety assessment goals: - CORRECT ANSWER -Determine if there is (or is not) a threat
to the child's safety.
-Determine if the child is safe or unsafe
-Use our critical thinking skills to analyze and apply the information we collect from the safety
assessment process to the safety plan and interventions that will achieve child safety.
We assess safety through the life of a case.
Safety definition - CORRECT ANSWER A child is considered to be safe when an
assessment of available information supports the belief that a child is not in immediate (near
future) danger of moderate to severe harm. Safety is a subset of risk: within risk there is safety.
Risk definition - CORRECT ANSWER Is the likelihood of any degree of linger-term
future harm/maltreatment.
It does not predict when the future harm might occur, but rather the likelihood of it happening at
all.
Moderate to severe harm: - CORRECT ANSWER The threat of:
