CERAP Questions and Answers;(perfect guide for your final)

CERAP test CERAP Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol - ✔✔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. - ✔✔Do not read, assume, or attribute evidence to other "ifs" of the situation. Key information related to Safety Threat Assessment: - ✔✔Child vulner ability Severity of the Behavior/Condition History Safety Threat Identification If a scenario is a safety concern: - ✔✔all of the threat answers will be either safety concern or no concern If a scenario is a risk concern: - ✔✔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: - ✔✔you would mark that group as a Safety or Risk Concern. If none of the individual threats are present in the scenario: - ✔✔We would mark that group No Concern Physical Abuse/Neglect/Threat: - ✔✔This section contains five safe ty threats related to causing moderate to severe harm or threatening harm. History of abuse neglect (physical or sexual) - ✔✔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: - ✔✔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 i ssues: - ✔✔Is where we combine sexual abuse and the underlying issues we have been discussing (ie. developmental disability, poverty, neglect) Human trafficking: - ✔✔This section has only one safety threat related to forced labor or sexual exploitation th at causes moderate to severe or threatening harm. Safety assessment goals: - ✔✔-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 informat ion 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 - ✔✔A child is considered to be safe when an assessment of available inf ormation 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 - ✔✔Is the likelihood of any degree of linger -term future harm/maltreat ment. It does not predict when the future harm might occur, but rather the likelihood of it happening at all. Moderate to severe harm: - ✔✔The threat of: -Danger to the child's life or health -Impairment to his or her physical or mental well -being -Disfigurement Immediacy: - ✔✔