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SOC 423 CHILD ABUSE & PREVENTION EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
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SOC 423 CHILD ABUSE & PREVENTIONEXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWERS
Define child abuse
Define child neglect
Define physical abuse
Define sexual abuse
Define psychological abuse
What should the response to abuse be in our culture? - Answer--Child neglect I would
define as isolation, and neglecting to provide for a child's basic needs. -Physical abuse
on a child I would define as aggressive grabbing, hitting, handling a child in a angry
aggressive manner resulting in the harm of a child.
- I would define sexual abuse as any verbal, physical forms of sexual indications or
even having a child view any sexualized acts, which aren't appropriate for a child to
understand yet till the coming of age.
-Psychological abuse I define as verbal hate shaming, categorizing, labeling in an
aggressive manner.
-Our culture should respond to abuse by providing awareness, education, and even
being sensitive on the matter of child abuse. Communities should also provide
preventions by giving support to those who need help when it comes to providing for
their child.
Conceptualization - Answer-The process of specifying the vague mental imagery into a
concrete definition for the purposed of research
Child Abuse Prevention & Treatment Act enacted in 1974 - Answer-"Any recent act or
failure to act on the part of a parent or caregiver which results in death, serious physical
or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation or an act of failure to act which presents
in imminent risk of serious harm."
Ethnocentrism - Answer-characterized by or based on the attitude that one's own group
is superior
How does your definition of child abuse exemplify your ethnocentrism? - Answer-I am
biased due to how I was raised in my social class,my culture, religion, and my study on
child development.
Explain how medical professionals played a role in the social construction of child abuse
and explain why The Battered- Child Syndrome (Kempe 1962) was so important? -
Answer-refer to a condition in young children who had apparently been victims of
severe physical abuse generally at the hands of a parent or foster parent
, Describe both the negative and positive impact of media's focus on horror stories. -
Answer-negative- Child abuse is recognized as a social problem, horror stories leads
the public to believe that its the parent's personal problem and that child abuse is a
crime. This is inappropriate, if the abuse was caused by a personal problem there would
be consoling involved. It is forgotten that child abuse is often caused by economic
poverty.
positive- Stronger negative feelings, brings more attention and awareness, education ,
interventions on prevention methods.
Why is it important to note that the majority of stories are horror stories? Why is it a
problem to only report the extreme cases? - Answer-This will draw the public's attention
away from the smaller cases the 'not so recognizable cases' the public will view child
abuse more as the parents fault micro view rather than the macro view (ex poverty,
police, profiling)
What are the main sources of information for the media and why is that significant? -
Answer-law enforcement, its seen as reliable truthful sources.
Explain the differences between system-blame and individual-blame social problems. -
Answer-
How does the media promote child abuse as solely an individual-blame social problem?
- Answer-The reporters make no attempt to give the participant's perspective
Give an example of how an institution is also responsible for child abuse on a macro
level. - Answer-mandate reporters not recognizing or not reporting abuse to authorities.
How do news accounts depict horror stories of child abuse as if these were the majority
of abuse cases? - Answer-
Who else, besides news media, participate in this statistical misinterpretation of child
abuse problem? How specifically? - Answer-
Why are news audiences primarily interested in horror stories? - Answer-It brings
attention to the story and evokes some type of emotion from the audience
Given the varieties of situations of child abuse that exist, in terms of public policy why is
it consequential that news reports about abuse focus on horror stories. - Answer-
What are some indicators of potential abusive parents? - Answer--pregnancy and
delivery is a dramatic time for mothers or fathers
-mother unable to adapt to pregnancy (apart/separate)
-fathers contributions during pregnancy (accept/support)
-lack of support for fathers
-loss of control
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