CMAS 258N EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔As a result of seeing an estimated 30,000 children living on city streets who were
begging, stealing and scavenging for food this individual, was shocked to learn children
were being incarcerated as criminals. This individual started the New York Children's
Aid Society providing food, shelter, clothing and other services in an effort to provide for
the needs of the child and a chance at an education and/or job. - ✔✔Charles Loring
Brace
✔✔CAPTA, the federal legislation, mandates all of the following EXCEPT: - ✔✔Self-
Care programs for child protection service workers
✔✔______was a system in which parents apprenticed their children to masters who
taught them a trade but who were free to use them as slaves in exchange for room and
board. Often these children were very young and this system would continue for the
child until they were 14 or 15 years of age for boys and 21 years for girls. - ✔✔Indenture
System
✔✔In 1601, the Elizabethan Poor Law sought to give some help to families and children
by dictating that relief must be offered to the destitute. The poor were separated into
three categories. Which category is described here:
"Those who were considered capable and were, therefore, forced to work"? - ✔✔The
able-bodied poor
✔✔Child maltreatment is a synonym for which of the following? - ✔✔child abuse and
neglect
✔✔Which of the following factors are necessary to diagnose non-organic failure to
thrive syndrome: - ✔✔The infant has fallen below the fifth percentile in weight and often
in height
The baby was once of a weight and height within the expected norm
delay in psychomotor development
✔✔This type of neglect involves a refusal to provide health care or a delay in getting
health care. This can also include a lack of dental care. - ✔✔Medical neglect
✔✔CAPTA defines ____________________________ as the employment, use,
persuasion, inducement, enticement, or coercion of any child to engage in any
_______________ conduct (or any simulation of such conduct) for the purpose of
producing any visual depiction of such conduct. - ✔✔Sexual Abuse; sexually explicit
✔✔There are three adverbs used to define child maltreatment in PA state law. These
three adverbs are: - ✔✔Intentionally, knowingly, and recklessly
,✔✔Based on the TEN-4 model, bruising in the following areas for children under the
age of 4 should be reported as suspected abuse: - ✔✔Torso, Ears, Neck
✔✔Andrew proceeds to show Mr. Robinson his arm showing a developing bruise. In
this scenario, what type of disclosure is Andrew engaged in? - ✔✔Intentional Disclosure
✔✔There are potential signs or symptoms that may indicate the possibility that
maltreatment may be occurring. These potential signs may cause one to consider the
possibility that maltreatment is occurring. What type of maltreatment should be
considered when the child:
Has difficulty walking or sitting
Shrinks away from adults
Reports abuse of animals or pets
May have inappropriate clothing for the weather. For example, the child may be wearing
long sleeves or long pants to conceal wounds or bruising. - ✔✔Physical Abuse
✔✔In an effort to encourage individuals to report concerns of maltreatment, many states
have infused their legislative efforts with immunities to those individuals who report in
good faith. These immunity laws have been influenced by what type of law? - ✔✔Good
Samaritan Laws
✔✔There are potential signs or symptoms that may indicate the possibility that
maltreatment may be occurring. These potential signs may cause one to consider the
possibility that maltreatment is occurring. What type of maltreatment should be
considered when the parent or adult caregiver:
Offers conflicting, unconvincing, or no explanation for the child's injury or provides an
explanation that is inconsistent with a child's injury
Describes the child as "evil" or in some other very negative way
Uses harsh physical discipline with the child - ✔✔Physical Abuse
✔✔Based on Penn State's policy "AD72 Reporting Suspected Child Abuse," who is
required to report reasonable suspicion of child abuse? - ✔✔ALL University employees,
volunteers and independent contractors, regardless of their status as a mandated
reporter as defined by Pennsylvania law
✔✔Based on research published in 2009, children who have experienced this form of
maltreatment had significantly lower neurocognitive functioning, IQ, learning/memory,
and executive functions lead to poorer achievement than child victims of other
maltreatment. What form of maltreatment was this research focused on? - ✔✔Neglect
✔✔There are potential signs or symptoms that may indicate the possibility that
maltreatment may be occurring. These potential signs may cause one to consider the
, possibility that maltreatment is occurring. What type of maltreatment should be
considered when the parent or other adult caregiver:
Constantly blames, belittles, or berates the child
Is unconcerned about the child and refuses to consider offers of help for the child's
problems/challenges
Overtly rejects the child - ✔✔Emotional Abuse
✔✔Mrs. Jennings, a teacher at the local high school, overheard a student talking with a
group of friends about a fight he had with his father, the night before. The student talked
about how hard his dad "hit" him in the face. This comment caused Mrs. Jennings to
take notice of her student's face and saw the student had a bruise under his left eye and
his lip looked like it was swollen. With this information, Mrs. Jennings feels like she
should do something but is concerned about retaliation from the student's father. What
should Mrs. Jennings do: - ✔✔Mrs. Jennings should make the report because, as a
teacher, she is a mandated reporter and required to report suspicions of abuse.
Additionally, Mrs. Jennings should be reassured by the fact that in PA she is protected
from civil liability so long as she is making a report in good faith.
✔✔According to the Bystander Effect the ___________ people there are in a group
there is an ___________ likelihood that an individual within the group will take personal
responsibility to help the person in distress. In contrast, the ___________ people there
are in a group there is a ___________ likelihood that an individual within the group will
take personal responsibility to help the person in distress. - ✔✔Fewer, increased; more,
decreased
✔✔In many states and territories, if it is determined that a community member who is
not a mandated reporter, was aware or suspected child maltreatment and they
knowingly or willfully fail to make a report that individual may experience penalties for
failure to report. - ✔✔False
✔✔There are potential signs or symptoms that may indicate the possibility that
maltreatment may be occurring. These potential signs may cause one to consider the
possibility that maltreatment is occurring. What type of maltreatment should be
considered when the child:
Is frequently absent from school
Begs or steals food or money
Lacks medical or dental care, immunizations, or glasses (if needed)
Lacks weather-appropriate clothing - ✔✔Neglect
✔✔When a child discloses any type of maltreatment, the person hearing the initial
disclosure from the child should use the BASER model as a guide to their response to
the child. In the BASER model, the R stands for: - ✔✔Report the case.
✔✔Child protective services operate from six main perspectives guiding the framework
of their practice, the following describes which perspective?
GRADED A+
✔✔As a result of seeing an estimated 30,000 children living on city streets who were
begging, stealing and scavenging for food this individual, was shocked to learn children
were being incarcerated as criminals. This individual started the New York Children's
Aid Society providing food, shelter, clothing and other services in an effort to provide for
the needs of the child and a chance at an education and/or job. - ✔✔Charles Loring
Brace
✔✔CAPTA, the federal legislation, mandates all of the following EXCEPT: - ✔✔Self-
Care programs for child protection service workers
✔✔______was a system in which parents apprenticed their children to masters who
taught them a trade but who were free to use them as slaves in exchange for room and
board. Often these children were very young and this system would continue for the
child until they were 14 or 15 years of age for boys and 21 years for girls. - ✔✔Indenture
System
✔✔In 1601, the Elizabethan Poor Law sought to give some help to families and children
by dictating that relief must be offered to the destitute. The poor were separated into
three categories. Which category is described here:
"Those who were considered capable and were, therefore, forced to work"? - ✔✔The
able-bodied poor
✔✔Child maltreatment is a synonym for which of the following? - ✔✔child abuse and
neglect
✔✔Which of the following factors are necessary to diagnose non-organic failure to
thrive syndrome: - ✔✔The infant has fallen below the fifth percentile in weight and often
in height
The baby was once of a weight and height within the expected norm
delay in psychomotor development
✔✔This type of neglect involves a refusal to provide health care or a delay in getting
health care. This can also include a lack of dental care. - ✔✔Medical neglect
✔✔CAPTA defines ____________________________ as the employment, use,
persuasion, inducement, enticement, or coercion of any child to engage in any
_______________ conduct (or any simulation of such conduct) for the purpose of
producing any visual depiction of such conduct. - ✔✔Sexual Abuse; sexually explicit
✔✔There are three adverbs used to define child maltreatment in PA state law. These
three adverbs are: - ✔✔Intentionally, knowingly, and recklessly
,✔✔Based on the TEN-4 model, bruising in the following areas for children under the
age of 4 should be reported as suspected abuse: - ✔✔Torso, Ears, Neck
✔✔Andrew proceeds to show Mr. Robinson his arm showing a developing bruise. In
this scenario, what type of disclosure is Andrew engaged in? - ✔✔Intentional Disclosure
✔✔There are potential signs or symptoms that may indicate the possibility that
maltreatment may be occurring. These potential signs may cause one to consider the
possibility that maltreatment is occurring. What type of maltreatment should be
considered when the child:
Has difficulty walking or sitting
Shrinks away from adults
Reports abuse of animals or pets
May have inappropriate clothing for the weather. For example, the child may be wearing
long sleeves or long pants to conceal wounds or bruising. - ✔✔Physical Abuse
✔✔In an effort to encourage individuals to report concerns of maltreatment, many states
have infused their legislative efforts with immunities to those individuals who report in
good faith. These immunity laws have been influenced by what type of law? - ✔✔Good
Samaritan Laws
✔✔There are potential signs or symptoms that may indicate the possibility that
maltreatment may be occurring. These potential signs may cause one to consider the
possibility that maltreatment is occurring. What type of maltreatment should be
considered when the parent or adult caregiver:
Offers conflicting, unconvincing, or no explanation for the child's injury or provides an
explanation that is inconsistent with a child's injury
Describes the child as "evil" or in some other very negative way
Uses harsh physical discipline with the child - ✔✔Physical Abuse
✔✔Based on Penn State's policy "AD72 Reporting Suspected Child Abuse," who is
required to report reasonable suspicion of child abuse? - ✔✔ALL University employees,
volunteers and independent contractors, regardless of their status as a mandated
reporter as defined by Pennsylvania law
✔✔Based on research published in 2009, children who have experienced this form of
maltreatment had significantly lower neurocognitive functioning, IQ, learning/memory,
and executive functions lead to poorer achievement than child victims of other
maltreatment. What form of maltreatment was this research focused on? - ✔✔Neglect
✔✔There are potential signs or symptoms that may indicate the possibility that
maltreatment may be occurring. These potential signs may cause one to consider the
, possibility that maltreatment is occurring. What type of maltreatment should be
considered when the parent or other adult caregiver:
Constantly blames, belittles, or berates the child
Is unconcerned about the child and refuses to consider offers of help for the child's
problems/challenges
Overtly rejects the child - ✔✔Emotional Abuse
✔✔Mrs. Jennings, a teacher at the local high school, overheard a student talking with a
group of friends about a fight he had with his father, the night before. The student talked
about how hard his dad "hit" him in the face. This comment caused Mrs. Jennings to
take notice of her student's face and saw the student had a bruise under his left eye and
his lip looked like it was swollen. With this information, Mrs. Jennings feels like she
should do something but is concerned about retaliation from the student's father. What
should Mrs. Jennings do: - ✔✔Mrs. Jennings should make the report because, as a
teacher, she is a mandated reporter and required to report suspicions of abuse.
Additionally, Mrs. Jennings should be reassured by the fact that in PA she is protected
from civil liability so long as she is making a report in good faith.
✔✔According to the Bystander Effect the ___________ people there are in a group
there is an ___________ likelihood that an individual within the group will take personal
responsibility to help the person in distress. In contrast, the ___________ people there
are in a group there is a ___________ likelihood that an individual within the group will
take personal responsibility to help the person in distress. - ✔✔Fewer, increased; more,
decreased
✔✔In many states and territories, if it is determined that a community member who is
not a mandated reporter, was aware or suspected child maltreatment and they
knowingly or willfully fail to make a report that individual may experience penalties for
failure to report. - ✔✔False
✔✔There are potential signs or symptoms that may indicate the possibility that
maltreatment may be occurring. These potential signs may cause one to consider the
possibility that maltreatment is occurring. What type of maltreatment should be
considered when the child:
Is frequently absent from school
Begs or steals food or money
Lacks medical or dental care, immunizations, or glasses (if needed)
Lacks weather-appropriate clothing - ✔✔Neglect
✔✔When a child discloses any type of maltreatment, the person hearing the initial
disclosure from the child should use the BASER model as a guide to their response to
the child. In the BASER model, the R stands for: - ✔✔Report the case.
✔✔Child protective services operate from six main perspectives guiding the framework
of their practice, the following describes which perspective?
