FLORIDA CERTIFICATION CPI EXAM SCRIPT TEST 2025
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔T/F Between the ages of 4-6 months, a baby doubles in birth weight. - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F During normal child physical development, a child will gain around 5 pounds
between age 1 and 3, and then 5 pounds each year until the age five. - ✔✔True
✔✔These are personal characteristics that specifically and directly relate to the
protection of one's child. - ✔✔Protective Capacities
✔✔Select the correct order for the Three-Tiered Hierarchy of Safety
a. social safety, emotional safety, physical safety
b. emotional safety, social safety, physical safety
c. physical safety, emotional safety, social safety
d. physical safety, social safety, emotional safety - ✔✔d. physical safety, social safety,
emotional safety
✔✔All but one of the following refers to a level of child Traumatic Stress:
a. acute trauma
b. induced trauma
c. chronic trauma
d. complex trauma - ✔✔b. induced trauma
✔✔The brains "fight or flight" response is activated through increased production of the
powerful hormone called?
a. adrenaline
b. love
c. growth hormone
d. cortisol - ✔✔d. cortisol
✔✔To fully mature,,k a child must successfully complete one developmental stage
before they can enter and engage in the characteristics and skills of the next stage.
Therefore, development is:
a. out of order
b. sequential
c. the same for every child
d. disordered - ✔✔b. sequential
✔✔The ACE study stands for: - ✔✔Adverse Childhood Experience
✔✔The pass-down of trauma can be either through duplicating the traumatic actions
that occurred to the parent/caregiver such as physical abuse, or it can be passed down
, in terms of affect or coping mechanisms such as not being responsive and nurturing can
be referred to as:
a. toxic stress
b. childhood trauma
c. generational trauma
d. traumatic stress - ✔✔c. generational trauma
✔✔NCTSN refers to what? - ✔✔National Children Traumatic Stress Network
✔✔Family time should be facilitated with parents and siblings within what timeframe if a
physical removal occurs? - ✔✔72 hours
✔✔The NCTSN has identified how many types of trauma? - ✔✔13
✔✔Trauma assessments help determine if a child and/or family member:
a. might benefit from a specific treatment approach
b. clarify a specific diagnosis
c. is never used in child welfare
d. if a different maltreatment is present - ✔✔a. might benefit from a specific
maltreatment approach
✔✔When interviewing a teacher as a collateral regarding a 5 year old child on your
caseload, the teacher tells you that when the school year began the child was always
able to go to the bathroom on his own and articulate his wants and needs to the
teacher. The teacher tells you that lately the child has been wetting his pants and
babbling like a baby instead of using full sentences. This behavior could be a sign of a
traumatic experience and is referred to as:
a. physical aches and pains
b. irritability
c. repetition
d. regression - ✔✔d. regression
✔✔The legal definition of family is defined as:
a. a group of individuals who share ties of blood, marriage or adoption
b. a group residing together and consisting of parents, children and other relatives by
blood or marriage
c. a group of individuals residing together who have consented to an arrangement
similar to ties of blood or marriage
d. all of the above
e. none of the above - ✔✔d. all of the above
✔✔The following are all six protective factors that may exist within a family:
a. concrete supports, nurturing and attachment, parental resilience, stereotypes, social
and emotional competence of children
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔T/F Between the ages of 4-6 months, a baby doubles in birth weight. - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F During normal child physical development, a child will gain around 5 pounds
between age 1 and 3, and then 5 pounds each year until the age five. - ✔✔True
✔✔These are personal characteristics that specifically and directly relate to the
protection of one's child. - ✔✔Protective Capacities
✔✔Select the correct order for the Three-Tiered Hierarchy of Safety
a. social safety, emotional safety, physical safety
b. emotional safety, social safety, physical safety
c. physical safety, emotional safety, social safety
d. physical safety, social safety, emotional safety - ✔✔d. physical safety, social safety,
emotional safety
✔✔All but one of the following refers to a level of child Traumatic Stress:
a. acute trauma
b. induced trauma
c. chronic trauma
d. complex trauma - ✔✔b. induced trauma
✔✔The brains "fight or flight" response is activated through increased production of the
powerful hormone called?
a. adrenaline
b. love
c. growth hormone
d. cortisol - ✔✔d. cortisol
✔✔To fully mature,,k a child must successfully complete one developmental stage
before they can enter and engage in the characteristics and skills of the next stage.
Therefore, development is:
a. out of order
b. sequential
c. the same for every child
d. disordered - ✔✔b. sequential
✔✔The ACE study stands for: - ✔✔Adverse Childhood Experience
✔✔The pass-down of trauma can be either through duplicating the traumatic actions
that occurred to the parent/caregiver such as physical abuse, or it can be passed down
, in terms of affect or coping mechanisms such as not being responsive and nurturing can
be referred to as:
a. toxic stress
b. childhood trauma
c. generational trauma
d. traumatic stress - ✔✔c. generational trauma
✔✔NCTSN refers to what? - ✔✔National Children Traumatic Stress Network
✔✔Family time should be facilitated with parents and siblings within what timeframe if a
physical removal occurs? - ✔✔72 hours
✔✔The NCTSN has identified how many types of trauma? - ✔✔13
✔✔Trauma assessments help determine if a child and/or family member:
a. might benefit from a specific treatment approach
b. clarify a specific diagnosis
c. is never used in child welfare
d. if a different maltreatment is present - ✔✔a. might benefit from a specific
maltreatment approach
✔✔When interviewing a teacher as a collateral regarding a 5 year old child on your
caseload, the teacher tells you that when the school year began the child was always
able to go to the bathroom on his own and articulate his wants and needs to the
teacher. The teacher tells you that lately the child has been wetting his pants and
babbling like a baby instead of using full sentences. This behavior could be a sign of a
traumatic experience and is referred to as:
a. physical aches and pains
b. irritability
c. repetition
d. regression - ✔✔d. regression
✔✔The legal definition of family is defined as:
a. a group of individuals who share ties of blood, marriage or adoption
b. a group residing together and consisting of parents, children and other relatives by
blood or marriage
c. a group of individuals residing together who have consented to an arrangement
similar to ties of blood or marriage
d. all of the above
e. none of the above - ✔✔d. all of the above
✔✔The following are all six protective factors that may exist within a family:
a. concrete supports, nurturing and attachment, parental resilience, stereotypes, social
and emotional competence of children
