CERAP | Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide)

time (as it applies to risk and safety) - risk: longer term safety: now or in very near future degree of harm (as it applies to risk and safety) - risk: low to severe (whole spectrum) safety: moderate to severe purpose of intervention (as it applies to risk and safety) - risk: resolve or reduce safety: need to control (cannot leave child without doing something) a difference between risk and safety - risk is assessed over longer period of time, allowing time to gather, assess and evaluate info safety must be assessed quickly often in one visit similarities between safety and risk - - both are concerned with future harm - both relate to conditions of: - home environment - caretaker/ fam member behavior - both can change quickly - both can be controlled definition of risk - - likelihood of any degree of longer- term future harm/ maltreatment - does not predict when the future harm will occur, but rather the likelihood of it happening -safety is a subset of risk moderate to severe harm - threat of:-danger to child's health/ safety - impairment to his/her physical or mental well-being -disfigurement - in most cases, any abuse that leaves marks on the body definition of safety - - a child is considered safe when an assessment of available info supports the belief that a child is not in immediate (or near future) danger of moderate to severe harm