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CPS Exam 84 Questions with Verified Answers Safety Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER (1) Seriousness of behaviors/circumstances reflected by safety factors (2) # of safety factors identifies (3)Degree of childs vulnerability( ...

CPS Exam 84 Questions with Verified Answers Safety Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER (1) Seriousness of behaviors/circumstances reflected by safety factors (2) # of safety factors identifies (3)Degree of childs vulnerability(medical conditions?) and need for protections (4)Age of the child Safety Process - CORRECT ANSWER (1)Identify safety factors; look @ safety critetia (2)Decide if child is in dange or harm (3)Make decision.intervention Article 10 - CORRECT ANSWER Deals with Due process and how we get authority to intervene in parental rights; it stablishes procedures to help protect children from abuse and neglect. Provides due-process of law for determining when state, through family court may intervene against the wishes of a parent on behalf of a child so that the childs needs are properly met. Section 1012:Family Court Act - CORRECT ANSWER Person legally responsible for the child includes the child guardia or any other person responsible for the childs care @ the relevant time. Custodian may include any person continually or @ regular intervals found in the same household of the child when the conduct of such person causes or contribute to the abuse or neglect of the child.(parent, guardian, person over 18,doctor, daycare,fosterparent etc.) Indicate report - CORRECT ANSWER Some credible evidence exist of child abuse and maltreatment (when allegations are substantiated) Unfounded - CORRECT ANSWER No credible evidence of child abuse and maltreatment exist (when alligations are unsubstantiated) Abuse chld-(LEGAL) - CORRECT ANSWER Less than 18;person legally responsible i)inflict or allows to inflict upon child physical injury risk of death or SERIOUS protracted disfigurement or protracted imparement of physical or emotional health..ii)parent creats or allows to be created a SUBSTANTIAL risk of physical injury death other than accidental. iii)parent commits or allows to be commited a sex offense against child How to prove a Neglect case (legal) - CORRECT ANSWER (1)Parents failure to indicate minimum degree of care. (2)Causation;failure to exercise minimum degree of care has to CAUSE something. (3)Needs to cause imparement to a childs physical, mental or emotional conditions. **impairement is less then imminent danger, not the same thing** Medical Neglect 1012(f) - CORRECT ANSWER Means the parent fails to meet the childs basic minimal needs for medical care as outlined in NYS family court act 1012(f) medical includes dental, optometic and surgical care. IRI - CORRECT ANSWER Individual report involvement, It is any invlovement in prior cases by all individuals on the report, it provides case #s, dates, individual roles, DOB, and wether the report was indicated or unfounded Purpose of summarization - CORRECT ANSWER Demonstrate active listening, check understanding, clarify for the parent, highlight contradictions, MAKE TRANSITIONS, focus discussion, MAKE SURE BOTH ARE ON SAME PAGE, used as form of checking in. Reflection - CORRECT ANSWER Process of understandid anothers persons feelings, values,experiences,beliefs,need and self concept by listening to the words and feeling in the message and observing nonverbal cues. Why reflect? - CORRECT ANSWER To convey empathy and respect to build relationships, to stimulate parent awareness and responsibility, check accurate of communication, to uncover regular info,makes us focus on FEELINGS and CONTENT. Chronic neglect - CORRECT ANSWER History, patterns its categorized by the consisting failure of the parent to provide child with basic needs (indicators:neglect, failure to exercise minimum degree of care in reference to food, shelter,ed,med,or not providivg proper supervision guardancship,domestic violaence,substance use,mental health, living conditions,physical or sexual abuse,psycological abuse such as lack of empathy or unrealistic expectations) Allegations of inflicted injury*factors to consider* - CORRECT ANSWER Type of injury, location, shape, size, degree of fource needed to produce injury, childs level of development, old and new injuries, explanations, childs and parents, --development of child when looking @ force of injury, could the child had inflicted the injury him/herself? Core conditions - CORRECT ANSWER Respect, Empathy, Genuineness Investigation - CORRECT ANSWER to initiate investigation and assessment activities so that sufficient information can be gathered in order to assess whether or not the child is in immediate or impending danger of serious harm in order to assess whether or not the child is in immediate or impending danger of serious harm and if a safety intervention is needed immediately to provide for the safety of all the children. While conducting the investigation, CPS worker must decide... - CORRECT ANSWER 1)Is the child or children safe from immediate or impendind danger of serious harm? (2)Is the child or children at risk of abuse or maltreatment in the future? (3)was the child or children abused or maltreated? (4)How does CPS need to respond to protect the children now and reduce risk in the future? 5 phases of Critical Thinking (ODGET) - CORRECT ANSWER 1)Organize current Info. (2)Develop multiple hypothesis (3)Gather data in relation to hypothesis (4)Evaluate information,determine most resonable and make decision (5)Take action, continue to re-evaluate and make changes accordingly RAP - CORRECT ANSWER Purpose: to determine whether a child is at risk of future abuse or maltreatment. It is different from safety assessment in that it is focused on the likelyhood that a child will be abused or maltreated in the future. It includes the identification of risk elements present in a family. RAP is designed to help make informed decisions regarding whether to open a case for services. RAP is completed during the INVESTIGATION STAGE. (entered in connection and given a score) Pre-petition order to produce - CORRECT ANSWER before filing for article 10. CPS can request an order that the parent ot other person legally responsible for the child produce the child at a particular location which may inclide a CAC or to a particular person for an interview of the child or for observation of the condition of the child outside the presence of the parent or person responsible. (Before making this application, worker must have "resonable cause to suspect that a childs life or health may be in danger" based on the SCR reports and that the worker was not able to locate children, or denied access to thie child in the household and have informed the parents that worker can seek warrant if parents continue to deny access to the children pre-petition order of entry - CORRECT ANSWER requires that there is "probable cause to believe that an abused or neglected child may be found on the premisies" application must be based upon 3 criterias 1.from what we learned from SCR report 2.Worker has been denied access to the home and not able to evaluate childre. 3.Worker advised parent or guardian that ACS may consder getting court order to gain access to the home *Decisions ar emade without the parents having to come to court to argue against the granting of the order** Removals - CORRECT ANSWER Law requires that reasonable efforts be made to prevent or eliminate the need for the foster care placements, where appropriate. Must have CSC when conditions in the home indicate that the level of danger to the children has increased and a conference is needed to help decide if a protective removal is necessary or if any alternative safety plan can be developed. purpose of CSC is to make best safety decision for the child through in home options. Consent to Removal - CORRECT ANSWER CPS should ask parent consent to a temp. removal. If child is removed with the written consent of the parent or with a pre-petition court order, an article 10 petition must be filed within three court days. Parent must receive a 701b-701c notice of temporary removal. informing them of their right to a family court hearing and the date they should appear in court Court-order removal - CORRECT ANSWER if parent is absent or refuses to content to a temp. removal and there is not enough time to file article 10 petition allegin abuse and neglect . inform the parent of the intent to apply for an order of removal. Emergency removal - CORRECT ANSWER done without parental consent only in circumstances of IMMINENT danger to the childs life or healt and not enough time to apply for court order. In this case, article 10 petition must be filed as soon as possible but no later than the next cout day. worker is required to give parents/caretakes and schools hopsitals a written notice. parent must be informed of their right to apply to the family court for the return of the chid and right to legal counsel and how to contact their child.MUST COMMUNICATE TO REDUCE TRAUMA 4 ACS child welfare outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER 1)children are safe 2)families are streghtened 3) children and adolescents have permanency 4) children and adolescents needs are met Ethical Standards - CORRECT ANSWER 1)All parents are worthy of respect 2)confidentiality must be afforded to all parents 3)parents have rights 4)due process must be afforded to parents Core conditions - CORRECT ANSWER 1)Empathy 2)Genuineness 3)Respect Primary needs - CORRECT ANSWER Growth, Autonomy, Self-esteem, affiliation and love, Security, Survival Staging the professional helping relationship/managing authority - CORRECT ANSWER 1)Pre-engagement Anticipation of the other 2)Engagement 3)Reaching for Mutual undersanding 4)Taking action 5)Decision to continue Core principles - CORRECT ANSWER Protection, development permanency, cultural responsiveness, family foundation, partnerships, organizational competence, child welfare professionals Elements of change - CORRECT ANSWER present Discomfort, preferred future, Emotional security, efficacy, internalization of responsibility Categories of information gathering - CORRECT ANSWER Informal, Formal, Pubicly funded network/societal Convey: - CORRECT ANSWER Respect, empathy, genuiness, attending, listening, effective questioning, concreteness, reflection, summarization Condiions for sharing information - CORRECT ANSWER Need to know, authorization for parent, judge order, HIV providing care, treatment or supervision, police or HA office straight talk - CORRECT ANSWER treating people with respect when they need to hear something unpleasant Assesing parental functioning - CORRECT ANSWER Experience related to parenting, beliefs about parenting, willingness to parent and related needs, parental performance Reasonable efforts - CORRECT ANSWER Term used by agency refering to responsibilities required by federal law(reasonable efforts before placement) Eriksons Psychosocial stages of development - CORRECT ANSWER infancy:birth to 18 mnths-trust vs. mistrust Early childhool-18mnths to 3 yrs-autonomy vs. shame play age-3-5yrs initiative vs guilt school age-6-12 yrs industry vs inferiority adolescence-12yrs to 18yrs identity vs.role confusion young adulthood-18-35 intimacy and solidarity vs. isolation safe - CORRECT ANSWER a child is safe when there in no IMMEDIATE OR IMPENDING DANGER OF SERIOUS HARM to the childs life or health as a result of act of COMMISSION OR OMISSION by the childs parents and or caretaker RISK - CORRECT ANSWER The likely hood that a child may be abused or matreated in the FUTURE (RISK ELEMENTS/HIGH RISKS) maltreatment/neglect - CORRECT ANSWER A child under 18 who has had a serious physical injury inflicted upon him/her other than accidental means, whose physical, mental or emotional condition has a been impared or is in imminet danger of becoming impared as a result of the failure of his/her parent or other person legally responsible for his/her care to exercise minimum degree of care. underlying conditions - CORRECT ANSWER perception, beliefs, values, emotion, capability, self concept, experience,develpment,family system, culture contributing factors - CORRECT ANSWER mental illness, health status, substance use, domestic relations, developmental capacity, physical capacity, environment, other BEHAVIOR= - CORRECT ANSWER Needs+underlying conditions+contributing factors+strength. we need to asses parental behavior and make sure they dont interfere with meeting childs needs Types of clearances - CORRECT ANSWER public assistance (PA) suppemental security insurance (ssi) welfare managemnt systems (wms) domestic incidence report (DIR) ICWA - CORRECT ANSWER Indian child welfare act (1978), deals with perimancy, ASFA - CORRECT ANSWER Adoption and safe families actblocking, tagging, eliciting, joining Gatekeeping: - CORRECT ANSWER blocking, tagging, eliciting, joining, joining is used to assist in the process of engagement and relationship building with parents and children. it helps huminize the worker in the eyes of the family,creates bond, means having casual conversation "isnt all thus subway contructiong frustrating?it takes twice as long to get anywher im finding" IRT-Instant response team - CORRECT ANSWER deals with 1)Fatalities 2)sex abuse child under 13, sever abuse child under 11, felony sex abuse child under 18, 3)severe abuse and matreatment children 11017, sex abuse 11-17 analytical critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWER step by step conscious and logical process initiative critival thinking - CORRECT ANSWER using intuition-a way of thinking tat somehow poduces an snwer, solution or idea without the use of conscious and logical step by step process. critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWER step by step conscious logical prcess human beings use to obtain knowledge and discover the truth. componets are obervation, experience, reflection, reasoning and communication. non-cps characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER suicida child, substance using child, gang envolvement, criminal activity, unprotected-permicous sexual activity, family crisis, lost of promary care taker, reapperance of dangerous individual in household. in non-cps: we llok @ what the parent is doing or has done to adress the problem. IT IS SOMETHING BEYOND THE PARENTS BEHAVIOR. it lloks at the behavior of the childre, family and community members. WHEN THE PARENT HAS TRIED TO ADRESS PROBLEM IN THE PAST AND IT IS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL. INEFFECTIVE QUESTIONS - CORRECT ANSWER Form barriers to sharing information, building, maintaing relationsip or influence change. (ie. double questions, bombarding questions, Closed Questions - CORRECT ANSWER go straight to the point quick and simple (effective) open question - CORRECT ANSWER give us more info that allows us to move the investigation forward (effective) indirect question - CORRECT ANSWER a statement inviting response, implies but doesnt directly ask a questiong. this is useful when approaching a sensative topic ex.'"im wondering what youll do if gkenn gets out of jail" (effective) scaling question - CORRECT ANSWER ask parents to rank-order ir rate something . ex."on a scale of 1 to 10..." solution based question - CORRECT ANSWER seeks description of parents past efforts to solve or avoid proble (effective) ex. when you caught you bf hitting on your daughter, what did you do? circular question - CORRECT ANSWER focuses on the feedback and or support the parent has from significant other. ex. what does___say aout __? (effective) bombarding question - CORRECT ANSWER INEFFECTIVE contains series of questions, created an interrogation efffect Statement question - CORRECT ANSWER INEFFECTIVE expresses the questioners ideas or values or wishes ex:"dont you think.." loaded question - CORRECT ANSWER INEFFECTIVE contains blame or implies guilt for negative behavior. "ex. so did you buy condoms from the drug store or got them from your mom" informal information - CORRECT ANSWER immidiate family, extended family members,neighbores, and friends formal information - CORRECT ANSWER churches, religious organization, community orgaziations, social clubs, and places of employment soietll/publically funded information - CORRECT ANSWER systems, received public funds such as schools, social services, substance abuse services, police dept. etc. confidentiality - CORRECT ANSWER perservation of private information concerning the parent and child that is disclosed in the professional relationship xtacy law - CORRECT ANSWER says if a mandated sees the reporter he/she has to report it, cant tell another mandate reported to report it. done to avoide hearsay and get accurate info. ex. teacher cant tell guidance counselor to report something, if teacher sees it, teacher must report it. Critical thinking process in child protective services - CORRECT ANSWER phase 1: organize current info about case and yourself (Gather any current infor SCR repor and prior history; your awareness of your own values, beliefs and experiences as they relate to the current situation) phase 2: develop multiple hypother (formulate hypothesis for the information currently available to you) phase 3: gather data from multiple sources in relation to the current hypotheses (possibly creating new hypotheses) connect the data to info that exisist such as statements, repors, photos, interpretations of verbal and nonverbal behaviors) phase 4: evaluate the information including any hypothese related to abuse and maltreatment, determine most plausible and make decision base on it. (make decision base on quality of information required to make the decision) phase 5: take action bases on the decision, while continually re-evaluating and making changes (how is this action affecting everyone? did we miss anything? what needs to be corrected? if this action doesnt work what can we do differently?) critical thinking for child protecive specialist - CORRECT ANSWER phase 1: org. infor about case and yourself (seperate facts from judgement and speculation, diff between thinking critically and intuitively,recognize bias, personal opinion)phase 2: dev. multiple hypothesis (suspend judgement in abscence of sufficient evidence, use instict to created as many hypothesis as you can think of eliciting additional ones from other sources)phase 3:gather data from multiple sources(examine and followup insufficient info, inconsistenies,recognize limitation in your knowlege and draw upon available resources as neccesary, look for patterns rather than only examining singular facts)phase 4: evaluate info..(ask yourself, does the info i have provice sufficient, logical support for the decision? determine whether abuse or maltreatment has been taking place)phase 5: take action(continue to gather more data, formulate new hypotheses as needed in an ongoing cycle that continues until you are satisfied that the child welfare outcomes are achieved. evaluatning punishment - CORRECT ANSWER childs age, sex, physical and mental condition, capacity to understance correction, form of punishment, seriousness of injury to the child or the risk of serious injury,purpose of punishement, child behavior that requires correction,whether punishment is degrading or brutal,duration of punishment and if its protracted beyond childs endurance. what should we confrontation F-LISA - CORRECT ANSWER Facts and information-define as misinformation or lack of understanding that creates barriers or incongruencies L-Limitations, defined as the parents lack of resources or capability to successfully implement some or all the changes neccessary to achieve the child welfare outcomes I-Incongruencies defined as discrepencies between the parents words and actions or actions and actions S-Strengths-defined as the resources,capabilities,skills,talents,hopes,values,beliefs and competencies of the parent that could help solve problem A-capacity for Action defines as the parents ability to pursue tnew courses of action or attempt changes. When confronting - CORRECT ANSWER Only confrom behaviors not the persons motives, be specific and descriptive domestic violence - CORRECT ANSWER a pattern of intimidating and abusice tactice such as isolation,physical,psychological, threats,immigration,using children,sexual,economic,and emotional abuse. in DV coercive intimidating and abussive tactics are perpetrated by one person against an intimate partner with the goal of establishing and maintaining power and control over the survivor. Assessing chronic neglect - CORRECT ANSWER Id safety/risk Consider the effects of abu/mal recognize UL dynamics which may cause mal Interview all children Draw on knowledge n experience of source n collaterals Engaging families in Id services needed safety factors (19) - CORRECT ANSWER Prior history (p) Alcohol (p) Drugs(p) Phy/psy harm from DV (c) Med/mental/dev disability (p) History/present violence (p) Needs: food, shelter, medical/mental care, clothing control child's beh (p) Unwilling to supervise Repeated harm Unrealistic expectations Can't locate child or about to flee Sexual abuse Phy hazardous condition of home Child toxicology Dev delays n parents can't provide care Weapons Criminal activity No SF present determination - CORRECT ANSWER to evaluate all the information gathered from the investigation and concluded whether or not any child in the household has been or continues to be abused or maltreated. - to adress all the allegations in the report social service law and the family court act - CORRECT ANSWER provide the leagal authority for the department of social services to intervene in the lives of families when it appears that children are or likely will be in harms way because of something their caretake did or fail to do. section 1022 - CORRECT ANSWER removing a child before filing petition, allows judge to direct temporary removal of a child before filing a petition. conditions to do this is that child appears to suffer from abuse or neglect and immediate removal is necessary to avoid imminet danger to the child life or healt...parent will not or cant agree to consen to the 1021 and cps worker told parent that a removal order can still be mase..not enough time to file a petition or hold a hearing under 1027 of the FCA 1027-placement of a child - CORRECT ANSWER FCA stipulates that upon preliminarty hearing, if the court finds that removal is neccessary to avoid imminet risk t the childs life or health then it should remove the child and remand him/her to the local cps or place him or her in custedy of a relative or other suitable person. if child is not returned home within 3 days of a 1021 or 1022 action was implemented, a petition must be filed and a 1027 hearing is held. emergency removals - CORRECT ANSWER requieres that you make every reasonable effor to communicate immediatley with parents or guardians when there has been an emergency removal. requires that cps tried to get children bacj in home asap once safety is secured 1024 (removal notice) - CORRECT ANSWER workers are require to notify parents or persons legally responsible for the children of the removal and of their right to apply to the court for a return of the children. notice must be mailed within 24hrs of removal. even on a friday removal, doesn have to wai till next buisness dat,