Exam 3 Study Guide

• Ch 7: Maltreatment includes ‘physical abuse’, inadequate care and nourishment, deprivation of adequate medical care, insufficient encouragement to attend school consistently, exploitation by being forced to work too hard or too long, sexual abuse, and psychological abuse and neglect.
• Ch.7: Major questions to ask if you think a child is being abused: hurt too often at their age/ multiple injuries/ injuries occur in patterns/explanations given for injuries.
• Ch 7: What are the six categories of behavioral and psychosocial indicators for Child Maltreatment. Spurning/ terrorizing/ isolating/ exploiting/ denying emotional responsiveness/ mental health, medical, and educational neglect.
• Ch 7:What is sexual abuse: any sexual interaction between an adult and a prepubescent child.
• Ch 7: What are the four categories of symptoms that indicate sexual abuse: physical problems, emotional indicators, increased or inappropriate sexual behavior, and difficulties on social relationships.
• Ch 7:What are the 7 steps of Generalist Intervention Model: Engagement, Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, Termination and Follow up.
• Ch 7 * Engagement is: the most critical stage in maltreatment.
• Ch 7:Engagement in Maltreatment: clear statement on the agency behalf of child may be maltreated. Emphasize the process is a joint process and work on together to resolve the problem. Assume an approach of helper rather than investigator. Reflect the agency concern about well-being.
• Ch 7:Assessment in Maltreatment: interview and observe behaviors from children and parents that suggest maltreatment.
• Ch 7: Interviewing the Family: listen, make the child comfortable, sensitive to emotional state, introduce yourself, small talk, prepare child for future (court, not their fault, alternate housing).
• Ch 7: Risk Assessment: Primary purposes:1) to maximize children’s safety within their environment 2) to work to change and control those forces that act to increase risk within that environment.
• Ch 7: 5 forces of risk: maltreatment, child, parent, family, intervention
• Ch 7: Maltreatment Force: type of severity of maltreatment that occur in the home.
• Ch 7: Child Force: maltreated child’s personal characteristics
• Ch 7: Parent Force: characteristics of the parents, concerns of the parents own upbringing and past experiences and interactional patterns.
• Ch 7: Family Force: demographics variables characterize, family function, and support in the family.
• Ch 7: Intervention Force: concern the anticipation of how the family will react to intervention.
• Ch 7:Planning: set goals, objectives, action steps.
• Ch 7: Self-sufficiency- Parents and families frequently must enhance their ability to function independently.
• Ch 7: Communication skills- Goals that focus on improved communication. Members are encouraged to identify and express their feelings openly and honestly.
• Ch 7: Parenting knowledge- Parents may not know how to parent because their parents did not parent them correctly. They can be taught self-control, can help with parenting skills, and teach them how to play and enjoy their children.
• Ch 7: Stress management- Parents can be taught to better manage their stress. They can be taught to relates their feelings instead of allowing them to build up and explode.
• Ch 7: Impulse control –Many parents have poor impulse control. Learning how to control their actions will help decrease negative behavior.
• Ch 7: Problem-solving skills- Teach parents how to problem solve.
• Ch 7: Interactive nurturing- Teach parents how to express positive feelings as well as accept affection. Teach them how to display empathy as parents and between one another.
• Ch 7: Resource enhancement- Increase resources.
• Ch 7: What are the 8 goals for families at risk management: self-sufficiency, communication skills, parenting knowledge, stress management, impulse control, problem-solving skills, interactive nurturing, and resource enhancement.
• Ch 7: Implementation in Maltreatment: plan carried out by worker
• Ch 7: Evaluation: progress is documented, goals are reviewed, and plan are amended.
• Ch 7: Terminated in Maltreatment: risk had been determined to no longer be present.
• Ch 7: Follow-up in Maltreatment: determine the risk condition at some time in the future.
• Ch 7: What are the Crisis Intervention Steps: Engagement, Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Anticipatory Planning.
• Ch 7: The Crisis Process: individual is exposed, person made vulnerable, trigger the client, troublesome emotions
• Ch 7:Crisis intervention: is a brief and time-limited therapeutic intervention where s social worker helps a client system in crisis recognize the precipitating problem and identify potential coping methods.
• Ch 7: What does crises intervention help with: helps people learn to cope with or adjust to extreme external pressures.
• Ch 7: There are two ways social workers use the term crisis.
• Ch 7: Crisis: internal emotional distress on part of an individual or family.
• CH 7:Crisis: social event in the macro environment causing disaster and major disruption of life.
• 7.1 Bruises. Bruises on any infant should be suspect. Infants are not yet mobile; therefore, the chances that they can bruise themselves are not likely.
• Bruises in unusual places or forming unusual patterns may be indicators of physical abuse. Bruises that take on a recognizable shape, such as a hand mark or a belt mark, should be noted.