Deck 10: Professional Considerations

Question 1

The following are part of the philosophy of child protective services:

A) A safe and permanent home and family is the best place for a child to grow up.
B) Most parents want to be good parents and when adequately supported, they have the strength and capacity to care for their children and keep them safe.
C) Families who need assistance from a child protection agency are diverse in terms of structure, culture, race, religion, economic status, beliefs, values and lifestyles.
D) All of the above.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

When parents (or caregivers) are unable or unwilling to fulfill their responsibilities to provide adequate care and to keep their children safe, CPS has the mandate to intervene.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

When considering children's and parents rights, a case worker should consider:

A) The type of abuse and make all decisions based on that.
B) Basing decisions about children and their parents on facts, ensuring the rights of both are at the forefront and at the same time, keeping ones own values or beliefs out of the decision-making process.
C) Their own values and morals when making decisions about cases.
D) Basing all decisions on the parents rights.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

To support the core values of case worker competence, social workers will not use strength-based practices and continually work on increasing knowledge and skills to be an effective practitioner.

Question 5

The basic role of the child welfare worker is to:

A) Manage cases
B) Engage in regular visits with the child and the family and conduct ongoing assessments and evaluate progress
C) Attend team meetings to review cases, provide reports and attend court hearings, and provide ongoing referrals to supportive services.
D) All of the above.

Question 6

The three important skills that all case workers in child welfare should have are:

A) Empathy, respect, and genuineness.
B) Empathy, respect, and consideration.
C) Empathy, genuineness, and trustworthiness.
D) Empathy, trustworthiness, ability to be on time.

Question 7

Supervision is key to ensuring ethical and appropriate child welfare practice. Supervision can be in the form of formal or informal support.

Question 8

Supervision can include:

A) communicating the agency's mission, policies, and practice guidelines to casework staff; 

B) setting standards of performance for staff to assure high-quality practice; 
assuring that all laws and policies are followed, and staying current with changing policies and procedures; 

C) creating a psychological and physical climate that enables staff to feel positive, satisfied, and comfortable about the job;
D) all of the above.

Question 9

Supervision can also include:

A) helping staff learn what they need to know to effectively perform their jobs through orientation, mentoring, on-the-job training, and coaching;
B) monitoring workloads and unit and staff performance to assure that standards and expectations are successfully achieved; 

C) keeping staff apprised of their performance and providing recognition for staff efforts and accomplishments; 

D) all of the above.

Question 10

Child welfare services do not need to be individualized and tailored to meet the family and child needs.