PAR EXAM STUDY GUIDE DJJ (2024/25)
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS!!
Describe how staff can prepare for safe & successful interactions with youth
Answer - PREPARING for safe and successful interactions with youth begins
with the Start Smart Skills, which when practiced with confidence can go a long
way in fostering professional relationships with youth:
Maintain the Right Attitude.
Make the Right Actions.
Identify components of DJJ's operations that require safe and successful
interactions with youth. Answer - DJJ has developed numerous components of
its operations pursuant to statute, rule, manual, and policy to ensure the
success of staff: e.g., background screening, code of conduct, incident
reporting, confidentiality requirement, etc.
Describe the general characteristics of youth that affect the way they behave.
Answer - Cognitively, socially, and emotionally.
Describe trauma Answer - The personal experience of violence and
victimization including sexual abuse, physical abuse, severe neglect, loss,
domestic violence, and/or the witnessing of violence, terrorism, or disasters.
Describe the stress response's effect on youth behavior. Answer - A natural
reaction to events that may be difficult, demanding, or threatening. ; "fight,
flight, or freeze" response.
, 6. Describe the relationship between unmet needs and youth behavior.
Answer - When there are unmet needs in people's lives, they cannot fully
develop cognitively, socially, and emotionally which in turn affects the way they
behave.
What is a Trigger? Answer - A trigger is an event that sets of a memory.
T or F: 93% of communication is non-verbal and 7% verbal. Answer - True
What are the 5 hierarchy of Needs according to Maslow? Answer - Physiology -
Things required to live (food, water, air)
Safety - Shelter. protection
Love & Belonging - Self explanatory
Esteem - To feel good about oneself
Self actualization - To test limits
Define Verbal De-escalation Answer - Tactics that are non-physical skills used
to prevent a potentially dangerous situation from escalating into a physical
confrontation or injury.
Identify the elements of the Crisis Development Model. Answer - Warning
Phase: potential for conflict is increasing.
Escalation Phase: he potential for conflict is now very high.
Crisis Phase: conflict erupts
De-escalation Phase: The staff intervenes and de-escalates the conflict using
verbal and physical techniques (only if danger exists)
Post Incident Conversation: Potential for conflict low again; talk about what
happened.
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS!!
Describe how staff can prepare for safe & successful interactions with youth
Answer - PREPARING for safe and successful interactions with youth begins
with the Start Smart Skills, which when practiced with confidence can go a long
way in fostering professional relationships with youth:
Maintain the Right Attitude.
Make the Right Actions.
Identify components of DJJ's operations that require safe and successful
interactions with youth. Answer - DJJ has developed numerous components of
its operations pursuant to statute, rule, manual, and policy to ensure the
success of staff: e.g., background screening, code of conduct, incident
reporting, confidentiality requirement, etc.
Describe the general characteristics of youth that affect the way they behave.
Answer - Cognitively, socially, and emotionally.
Describe trauma Answer - The personal experience of violence and
victimization including sexual abuse, physical abuse, severe neglect, loss,
domestic violence, and/or the witnessing of violence, terrorism, or disasters.
Describe the stress response's effect on youth behavior. Answer - A natural
reaction to events that may be difficult, demanding, or threatening. ; "fight,
flight, or freeze" response.
, 6. Describe the relationship between unmet needs and youth behavior.
Answer - When there are unmet needs in people's lives, they cannot fully
develop cognitively, socially, and emotionally which in turn affects the way they
behave.
What is a Trigger? Answer - A trigger is an event that sets of a memory.
T or F: 93% of communication is non-verbal and 7% verbal. Answer - True
What are the 5 hierarchy of Needs according to Maslow? Answer - Physiology -
Things required to live (food, water, air)
Safety - Shelter. protection
Love & Belonging - Self explanatory
Esteem - To feel good about oneself
Self actualization - To test limits
Define Verbal De-escalation Answer - Tactics that are non-physical skills used
to prevent a potentially dangerous situation from escalating into a physical
confrontation or injury.
Identify the elements of the Crisis Development Model. Answer - Warning
Phase: potential for conflict is increasing.
Escalation Phase: he potential for conflict is now very high.
Crisis Phase: conflict erupts
De-escalation Phase: The staff intervenes and de-escalates the conflict using
verbal and physical techniques (only if danger exists)
Post Incident Conversation: Potential for conflict low again; talk about what
happened.
