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Child Abuse and Neglect (CAAN) EXAM PREP 2024/2025 with 100% correctanswers
child - ✔✔any person under the age of 18
child abuse - ✔✔any willful act or threatened act that results in any physical, mental, or sexual
abuse, injury, or harm that causes or is likely to cause the child's physical, mental, or emotional
health to be significantly impaired
physical abuse - ✔✔the mistreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child's welfare
that results in injury or harm to the child
sexual abuse - ✔✔sexual contact or interaction between a child and an adult or older child.
Includes indecent exposure, fondling, touching sexual organs, forcible rape, sodomy,
exploitation, and showing pornography
verbal abuse - ✔✔a form of emotional abuse that involves excessive yelling, shaming, belittling
and/or teasing of a child
institutional abuse or neglect - ✔✔situations of known or suspected child abuse or neglect that
occur at a private school, public or private child care center, residential home, institution,
facility, or agency where the alleged perpetrator is an employee or any other person at such
institution responsible for the child's care
neglect - ✔✔failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care, or needed
supervision
emotional neglect - ✔✔failure to provide support, acceptance, attention, warmth, supervision,
and normal living experiences for a child to the extent that the child is impaired in ability to
function normally in performance and behavior
harm - ✔✔Anything to a child's health or welfare that can occur when any
person:
,a) inflicts, or allows to be inflicted, upon the child physical, mental, or emotional injury;
b) commits, or allows to be committed, sexual battery, or lewd or lascivious acts against a child;
c) allows, encourages, or forces the sexual exploitation of a child;
d) exploits a child, or allows a child to be exploited;
e) abandons a child;
f) neglects a child;
g) exposes a child to a controlled substance or alcohol;
h) uses mechanical devices, unreasonable restraints, or extended periods of isolation to control a
child;
i) engages in violent behavior that demonstrates a wanton disregard for the presence of a child
and could reasonably result in serious injury to the child;
j) negligently fails to protect a child in his or her care from inflicted physical, mental, or sexual
injury caused by the acts of another;
k) has allowed a child's sibling to die as a result of abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
inadequate supervision - ✔✔when a child is left alone in a situation beyond their physical and
emotional development level or when a child is left in the care of someone who does not provide
adequate supervision
lack of adequate shelter - ✔✔when the child is exposed to structurally unsafe housing, exposed
wiring, inadequate or unsafe heating, or unsanitary housing conditions
lack of adequate clothing/good hygiene - ✔✔when a child suffers, or is likely to suffer, from
physical or emotional health conditions resulting from inadequate clothing, improper hygiene,
and uncleanness
lack of adequate nutrition - ✔✔when the caretaker has regularly failed to provide, or make
available, adequate food to the child, which can cause malnutrition over a long period of time
lack of dental/medical care - ✔✔when a medical or dental condition is left untreated, possibly
resulting in serious or long-term harm to the child
, lack of love and attention (failure to thrive) - ✔✔when the parents deny satisfying or fulfilling
relationships, thus avoiding most interactions as a method of avoiding rejection and failure. The
lack of support, emotional care, or love can cause the infant and/or child's weight to fall below
the fifth percentile for age
lack of providing access to education - ✔✔when education is not enforced by the parents,
thereby contributing to the child's absence from school- leading to the lack of education and
leading to truancy
Florida Abuse Hotline - ✔✔Operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, toll free telephone number
800-962-2873
immunity - ✔✔exemption from civil or criminal charges resulting from reporting "in good faith"
day - ✔✔three children die as a result of child abuse in the home in the US each ______
1/3 - ✔✔how many people report child abuse when faced with an actual situation?
child abuse and neglect - ✔✔what is the single, leading cause of death for children ages four and
younger?
10 seconds - ✔✔on average, child abuse is reported somewhere in the US every ________
False (most children are abused by people they know) - ✔✔Strangers pose the greatest risk of
sexual abuse to children
false (many child molesters also have sexual relationships with adults) - ✔✔Child molesters get
their sexual gratification only from children
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