PreService PostTest

Welcome to the Pre-Service Post Test. Congratulations on completing sessions 1 – 7. This test is required before you can be considered a finisher. Each individual is responsible for completing their own Post Test. Couples cannot submit one pre-test or post test. You will not receive the completion certificate until the post test is received and graded.

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Date Attended Session 1

The factor least likely to affect the child’s ability to work through the grieving process is:

Session 4

Select one:

The formal educational level of the foster parents

Emotional strength

The circumstance causing the loss

The number of previous separations

Discipline helps a child develop:

Session 6

Select one:

Self-control

Self-respect

Self-doubt

Both a and b

Which of the following would most likely indicate sexual abuse:

Session 3

Select one:

A child who excessively acts out in any way

Has difficulty in sleeping

Both A and B are true

Both A and B are untrue

Family Foster Care includes all the following except:

Session 1

Select one:

Is a permanent placement for the best interest of the child

Takes place in a licensed, certified, or approved foster family

Provides an essential child welfare service option

Offers a service to both parents and children

Parents’ rights do not include:

Session 5

Select one:

Unlimited visitation

The right to have the final say in decisions concerning major medical services, education, marriage, or enlisting in the armed services

The right to receive services that help them overcome the conditions that led to placement

The right to receive reports on their children’s health, development, education, and progress

One of the following does not pertain to discipline:

Session 6

Select one:

It is the same as punishment

It can be used to prevent problems from happening

It offers structure and guidance

It encourages the desired behavior

Most children in care:

Session 7

Select one:

Are evaluated for reunification with their families

Are often selected for preparation for young adult life programs

Remain in the foster care system until their mid-twenties

Are seldom adopted by the child’s foster family

Being connected to lifetime relationships is important to provide all the following except:

Session 7

Select one:

Primary focus on the birth parents and siblings

Sense of identity and self-esteem

Sense of history, roots, and culture

Feeling of belonging, caring, and being cared for

Punishment:

Session 6

Select one:

May be ineffective for some children who have suffered severe abuse

Can create an overreaction to any form of punishment

Does not help a child overcome the effects of past abuse

All of the above

An ecomap:

Session 5

Select one:

Is a tool used to create a drawing that represents your family’s connections to other individuals and the community

Defines the ecological issues of certain locations

Is the same as the genogram

Involves writing a long, narrative history of the child’s family background

Adoption means:

Session 1

Select one:

To take care of as your own

Being paid to take care of a child

To educate as to abuse and neglect

The best method today to have a family

Adoption:

Session 7

Select one:

Should never be undertaken lightly, because it involves making a permanent commitment with many responsibilities

Never works out as the children are too psychologically damaged

Should be discouraged as the children have been through enough change

Can never be considered

Supporting the child’s relationships includes all but one of the following:

Session 5

Select one:

Encouraging the child to limit visits with the birth family to lesson worry or anxiety

Planning for telephone calls and letters

Supporting family visits

Talking to the child about his/her family

Families are important in that they are all the following except:

Session 2

Select one:

Completely stress-free environments in which to foster growth and development

Essential to the growth and development of children

Allow children to grow up with their own parents, whenever possible, and in their best interests

A means of transmitting society’s values, culture, and generational knowledge

Children placed in foster care or adoptive families:

Session 4

Select one:

Have experienced a loss due to a change in their family

Are happy to get away from their parents only if their parents were abusive to them

Will make a quick adjustment if they are under age 10

Are usually happy about being away from their parents

Infants primarily express their needs by:

Session 3

Select one:

Crying

Speaking in one syllable words

Reaching

Crawling or walking toward that which they desire

Universal precautions:

Session 8

Select one:

Should always be followed

Always require special medical equipment

Does not relate to families

Should only be used if a child has a contagious disease

Basic rights that should be afforded to all children include all but:

Session 1

Select one:

The right to have unlimited control over their time and space

The right to a stable family

The right to be a unique person whose individuality is protected from violation

The right to maintain relationships with people who are important to them

Of the children going into foster care and adoption most:

Session 3

Select one:

Have experienced one or more conditions that interfere with normal growth and development

Have experienced very normal, healthy lives

Have been sexually abused

Are happy to get away from their parents or parent

The Family Development Plan (FDP) has all of the following characteristics except:

Session 9

Select one:

Cannot be revised

The ability to develop a mutual process including the foster parent and the social worker

A tool for families who foster

A method to help the foster or adoptive child achieve his/her potential

Infants:

Session 3

Select one:

Give signals that they need human attention

Can develop very satisfactorily without significant human contact

Are self-reliant

Are not influenced by their environment

Life books are:

Session 5

Select one:

Scrapbooks, albums, binders, or portfolios that contain a record of a child’s life before and during care

A painful reminder and should never be part of any foster care or adoption plan

Useful if used by trained social workers under clinically pure therapeutic conditions

Not needed if the family is caring and provides essentials such as food and shelter

Feelings children may experience when they are separated from their parents include:

Session 7

Select one:

Anger and self-blame

Sadness and confusion

Both a and b

Neither a or b

A foster or adoptive parent should do all the following except:

Session 8

Select one:

Limit the time consulting with their social worker

Support each child through the change

Appropriately discuss sensitive information such as sexuality, abuse, and dishonesty

Feel comfortable with change

Child protection focuses on:

Session 2

Select one:

Trying to reduce risks to children, and ensuring their safety and well-being

Only the abuse, physical or sexual, of the child

Taking children from homes

The best interest of the biological parents

Visits are usually supervised in all but one of the following situations:

Session 5

Select one:

Because step-parents are involved in the visitation

If there is concern for the safety and protection of the child

If there is concern that the parents might leave with the child

The court orders supervised visits

The primary reason that foster and adoptive parents need to understand loss is to help them:

Session 4

Select one:

Understand their own experience with loss and its effect on parenting

Let the social worker know they understand loss

Work only with children

Never grieve over a loss again

The initial stage of the grieving process is usually:

Session 4

Select one:

Shock and denial

Bargaining

Anger

Depression

Factors leading to developmental delays and attachment problems include:

Session 3

Select one:

Genetic or congenital conditions

Physical neglect

Sexual abuse

All of the above

Bonding between the mother and child usually begins:

Session 3

Select one:

During pregnancy

When the child is about one year old

When the child begins formal schooling

When the child is in the 2-4 age area

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