DCF CHILD ABUSE CAAN EVALUATION TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔When the parents deny satisfying or fulfilling relationships, thus avoiding most
interactions as a method of avoiding rejection and failure. The lack of support or
emotional care or love can cause the infant and/or child's weight to fall below the fifth
percentile for age. - ✔✔Failure to thrive
✔✔Florida Abuse Hotline - ✔✔Operates 24/7. toll free telephone number 800-962-2873
(1800-96-ABUSE)
✔✔Exemption from civil or criminal charges resulting from reporting "in good faith." -
✔✔Immunity
✔✔Three types of child abuse - ✔✔Physical, sexual, and emotional
✔✔Shaken Baby Syndrome - ✔✔- Can cause permanent brain damage, paralysis,
blindness, seizures, developmental delays, broken bones, death
✔✔The difference between abuse and neglect - ✔✔If an adult intentionally withholds
food, shelter, or any other neccesity as a punishment, then it is abuse, but if things are
withheld by circumstance of lack of awareness, care, or education, then it is an act of
neglect. Both are crimes and violations of children's human rights.
✔✔Four ways to Report Abuse and Neglect - ✔✔- Telephone 1-800-96ABUSE
- Fax
-TDD
- Online
✔✔DCF website - ✔✔dcf.state.fl.us/abuse
,✔✔It is important for you to learn about this subject. Child abuse and neglect occurs in
all socio-economic ____________ as well as in
__________________________________ - ✔✔families
child care programs
✔✔Child abuse and neglect is more prevalent than you may think, and you may be the
only person in a position to ______________. - ✔✔intervene
✔✔You have not only a ____________ obligation to intervene, but a _________
obligation to report child abuse and neglect. - ✔✔moral
legal
✔✔Three children die of child abuse in the home in the United States each
a) Year
b) Day
c) Week
d) Month - ✔✔Day
✔✔How many people report child abuse when faced with an actual situation?
a) 3/4
b) 1/2
c) 1/3 - ✔✔1/3
✔✔What is the single, leading cause of death for children ages four and younger?
a) Drowning
b) Motor vehicle accidents
c) Child abuse and neglect
d) Choking on food
e) Residential fires
f) Suffocation
g) Falls - ✔✔Child abuse and Neglect
✔✔On average, child abuse is reported somewhere in the United States every
a) 10 seconds
b) 20 minutes
c) Hour - ✔✔10 seconds
✔✔Strangers pose the greatest risk of sexual abuse to children.
a) True
b) False - ✔✔False. Most children are abused by people they know.
✔✔Child molesters get their sexual gratification only from children.
a) True
b) False - ✔✔False. Many child molesters also have adult sexual relationships.
,✔✔The average age that child molesters first attack a child is when they (the attackers)
are:
a) In their early 20s
b) Middle-aged
c) In their teens - ✔✔In their teens
✔✔Which of the following actions can help stop child abuse and neglect?
a) Helping a stressed-out parent by baby-sitting, making a meal for their family or
lending an understanding ear.
b) Learning the signs and symptoms of child abuse so you can recognize them when
you see the "red flags."
c) Reporting known or suspected child abuse to the police or local child protective
services agency.
d) All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔Child - ✔✔Any person under the age of 18 years
✔✔Child abuse - ✔✔Any non-accidental injury, sexual battery, or injury to the
intellectual or psychological capacity of a child by the parent, adult household member,
or other person responsible for the child's welfare.
✔✔Physical abuse - ✔✔The mistreatment of a child by a person responsible for the
child's
welfare that results in injury or harm to the child.
✔✔Sexual abuse - ✔✔Sexual contact or interaction between a child and an adult or
older child. Includes indecent exposure, fondling, touching sexual organs, forcible rape,
sodomy, exploitation, and showing pornography.
✔✔Verbal abuse - ✔✔A form of emotional abuse that involves excessive yelling,
shaming, belittling and/or teasing of a child.
✔✔Institutional abuse or neglect - ✔✔Situations of known or suspected child abuse or
neglect which occurs at the institution where the person allegedly perpetrating the child
abuse or neglect is an employee of a private school, public or private child care center,
residential home, institution, program, or agency or any other person at such institution
responsible for the child's care.
✔✔Neglect - ✔✔Failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care or
needed supervision.
✔✔Emotional neglect - ✔✔Failure to provide support, acceptance, attention, warmth,
supervision and normal living experiences for a child to the extent that the child is
impaired in ability to function normally in performance and behavior.
, ✔✔Harm - ✔✔Anything to a child's health or welfare that can occur when any
person:
a) inflicts, or allows to be inflicted, upon the child physical, mental, or emotional injury;
b) commits, or allows to be committed, sexual battery, or lewd or lascivious acts against
a child;
c) allows, encourages, or forces the sexual exploitation of a child;
d) exploits a child, or allows a child to be exploited;
e) abandons a child;
f) neglects a child;
g) exposes a child to a controlled substance or alcohol;
h) uses mechanical devices, unreasonable restraints, or extended periods of isolation to
control a child;
i) engages in violent behavior that demonstrates a wanton disregard for the presence of
a child and could
reasonably result in serious injury to the child;
j) negligently fails to protect a child in his or her care from inflicted physical, mental, or
sexual injury caused by the acts of another;
k) has allowed a child's sibling to die as a result of abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
✔✔Inadequate supervision - ✔✔When a child is left alone in a situation beyond their
physical and emotional development level or when a child is left in the care of someone
who does not provide adequate supervision.
✔✔Lack of adequate shelter - ✔✔When the child is exposed to structuraly unsafe
housing, exposed wiring, inadequate or unsafe heating, or unsanitary housing
conditions
✔✔Lack of adequate clothing/good hygiene - ✔✔When a child suffers or is likely to
suffer, from physical or emotional health conditions resulting from inadequate clothing,
improper hygiene and uncleanness.
✔✔Lack of adequate nutrition - ✔✔When the caretaker has regularly failed to provide or
have available adequate food to the child, which can cause malnutrition over a long
period of time.
✔✔Lack of dental/medical care - ✔✔When a medical or dental condition is left
untreated, possibly resulting in serious or long-term harm to the child.
✔✔Lack of love and attention (failure to thrive) - ✔✔When the parents deny satisfying or
fulfilling relationships, thus avoiding most interactions as a method of avoiding rejection
and failure. The lack of support or emotional care or love can cause the infant and/or
child's weight to fall below the fifth percentile for age.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔When the parents deny satisfying or fulfilling relationships, thus avoiding most
interactions as a method of avoiding rejection and failure. The lack of support or
emotional care or love can cause the infant and/or child's weight to fall below the fifth
percentile for age. - ✔✔Failure to thrive
✔✔Florida Abuse Hotline - ✔✔Operates 24/7. toll free telephone number 800-962-2873
(1800-96-ABUSE)
✔✔Exemption from civil or criminal charges resulting from reporting "in good faith." -
✔✔Immunity
✔✔Three types of child abuse - ✔✔Physical, sexual, and emotional
✔✔Shaken Baby Syndrome - ✔✔- Can cause permanent brain damage, paralysis,
blindness, seizures, developmental delays, broken bones, death
✔✔The difference between abuse and neglect - ✔✔If an adult intentionally withholds
food, shelter, or any other neccesity as a punishment, then it is abuse, but if things are
withheld by circumstance of lack of awareness, care, or education, then it is an act of
neglect. Both are crimes and violations of children's human rights.
✔✔Four ways to Report Abuse and Neglect - ✔✔- Telephone 1-800-96ABUSE
- Fax
-TDD
- Online
✔✔DCF website - ✔✔dcf.state.fl.us/abuse
,✔✔It is important for you to learn about this subject. Child abuse and neglect occurs in
all socio-economic ____________ as well as in
__________________________________ - ✔✔families
child care programs
✔✔Child abuse and neglect is more prevalent than you may think, and you may be the
only person in a position to ______________. - ✔✔intervene
✔✔You have not only a ____________ obligation to intervene, but a _________
obligation to report child abuse and neglect. - ✔✔moral
legal
✔✔Three children die of child abuse in the home in the United States each
a) Year
b) Day
c) Week
d) Month - ✔✔Day
✔✔How many people report child abuse when faced with an actual situation?
a) 3/4
b) 1/2
c) 1/3 - ✔✔1/3
✔✔What is the single, leading cause of death for children ages four and younger?
a) Drowning
b) Motor vehicle accidents
c) Child abuse and neglect
d) Choking on food
e) Residential fires
f) Suffocation
g) Falls - ✔✔Child abuse and Neglect
✔✔On average, child abuse is reported somewhere in the United States every
a) 10 seconds
b) 20 minutes
c) Hour - ✔✔10 seconds
✔✔Strangers pose the greatest risk of sexual abuse to children.
a) True
b) False - ✔✔False. Most children are abused by people they know.
✔✔Child molesters get their sexual gratification only from children.
a) True
b) False - ✔✔False. Many child molesters also have adult sexual relationships.
,✔✔The average age that child molesters first attack a child is when they (the attackers)
are:
a) In their early 20s
b) Middle-aged
c) In their teens - ✔✔In their teens
✔✔Which of the following actions can help stop child abuse and neglect?
a) Helping a stressed-out parent by baby-sitting, making a meal for their family or
lending an understanding ear.
b) Learning the signs and symptoms of child abuse so you can recognize them when
you see the "red flags."
c) Reporting known or suspected child abuse to the police or local child protective
services agency.
d) All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔Child - ✔✔Any person under the age of 18 years
✔✔Child abuse - ✔✔Any non-accidental injury, sexual battery, or injury to the
intellectual or psychological capacity of a child by the parent, adult household member,
or other person responsible for the child's welfare.
✔✔Physical abuse - ✔✔The mistreatment of a child by a person responsible for the
child's
welfare that results in injury or harm to the child.
✔✔Sexual abuse - ✔✔Sexual contact or interaction between a child and an adult or
older child. Includes indecent exposure, fondling, touching sexual organs, forcible rape,
sodomy, exploitation, and showing pornography.
✔✔Verbal abuse - ✔✔A form of emotional abuse that involves excessive yelling,
shaming, belittling and/or teasing of a child.
✔✔Institutional abuse or neglect - ✔✔Situations of known or suspected child abuse or
neglect which occurs at the institution where the person allegedly perpetrating the child
abuse or neglect is an employee of a private school, public or private child care center,
residential home, institution, program, or agency or any other person at such institution
responsible for the child's care.
✔✔Neglect - ✔✔Failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care or
needed supervision.
✔✔Emotional neglect - ✔✔Failure to provide support, acceptance, attention, warmth,
supervision and normal living experiences for a child to the extent that the child is
impaired in ability to function normally in performance and behavior.
, ✔✔Harm - ✔✔Anything to a child's health or welfare that can occur when any
person:
a) inflicts, or allows to be inflicted, upon the child physical, mental, or emotional injury;
b) commits, or allows to be committed, sexual battery, or lewd or lascivious acts against
a child;
c) allows, encourages, or forces the sexual exploitation of a child;
d) exploits a child, or allows a child to be exploited;
e) abandons a child;
f) neglects a child;
g) exposes a child to a controlled substance or alcohol;
h) uses mechanical devices, unreasonable restraints, or extended periods of isolation to
control a child;
i) engages in violent behavior that demonstrates a wanton disregard for the presence of
a child and could
reasonably result in serious injury to the child;
j) negligently fails to protect a child in his or her care from inflicted physical, mental, or
sexual injury caused by the acts of another;
k) has allowed a child's sibling to die as a result of abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
✔✔Inadequate supervision - ✔✔When a child is left alone in a situation beyond their
physical and emotional development level or when a child is left in the care of someone
who does not provide adequate supervision.
✔✔Lack of adequate shelter - ✔✔When the child is exposed to structuraly unsafe
housing, exposed wiring, inadequate or unsafe heating, or unsanitary housing
conditions
✔✔Lack of adequate clothing/good hygiene - ✔✔When a child suffers or is likely to
suffer, from physical or emotional health conditions resulting from inadequate clothing,
improper hygiene and uncleanness.
✔✔Lack of adequate nutrition - ✔✔When the caretaker has regularly failed to provide or
have available adequate food to the child, which can cause malnutrition over a long
period of time.
✔✔Lack of dental/medical care - ✔✔When a medical or dental condition is left
untreated, possibly resulting in serious or long-term harm to the child.
✔✔Lack of love and attention (failure to thrive) - ✔✔When the parents deny satisfying or
fulfilling relationships, thus avoiding most interactions as a method of avoiding rejection
and failure. The lack of support or emotional care or love can cause the infant and/or
child's weight to fall below the fifth percentile for age.
