Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:

Which of the following is NOT considered a form of child abuse?
a) Physical abuse
b) Emotional maltreatment
c) Failure to provide desired items
d) Exposure to domestic violence

Question 2:

What constitutes preventative social work practice?
a) A range of activities that aim to reduce the risk of negative behaviours and outcomes and promote protective factors that allows children to grow and develop
b) A process whereby the parties at stake in a particular offence come together to resolve how to collectively move forward
c) Removing a child from his or her biological parents’ home after a social worker has evidence of repeated physical abuse
d) Providing out-of-home services for families

Question 3:

What can happen if social workers fail to report suspicions of abuse and neglect?
a) They can lose their professional designation.
b) They can be convicted and fined up to $1,000.
c) They will be obliged to write a detailed document explaining why they failed to report.
d) They will be obliged to attend professional development training on reporting abuse.

Question 4:

What are the two most frequently occurring categories of substantiated child maltreatment in Canada?
a) Physical violence and isolation from peers
b) Neglect and isolation from peers
c) Emotional abuse and exposure to intimate partner violence
d) Exposure to intimate partner violence and neglect

Question 5:

What are the three key areas of social work practice with children in Canada?
a) Child rights, in-home services, and prevention
b) Child welfare, youth justice, and prevention
c) Child welfare, risk assessments, and in-home services
d) Family support, adoption, and child protection

Question 6:

Which of the following is NOT a key activity of child welfare?
a) Child placement
b) Foster care
c) Child education
d) Family support

Question 7:

Why can defining “children” by age be problematic?
a) It is not problematic; children are all individuals under the age of 18.
b) It doesn’t take into consideration that girls mature faster than boys.
c) It downplays the importance of parents’ attitudes towards their children.
d) It reflects a bias towards western notions of childhood.

Question 8:

What was the first historical stage where children were no longer viewed as parental property or possessions?
a) Stage One: Children as Objects
b) Stage Two: Children at Vulnerable Individuals in Need of Protection
c) Stage Three: Children as Subjects
d) Stage Four: Children as Agents Responsible for Their Life

Question 9:

What is a challenge social workers face in the realm of youth justice?
a) Convincing judges that detainment is never the right solution for a child
b) Dealing with children’s parents and their beliefs that their children would never have committed a crime
c) Convincing children’s parents that children found guilty should be detained
d) Dealing with the tension between regarding children as “in need” or as individuals who are expected to take full responsibility of their actions

Question 10:

Which term refers to injuries sustained by a child as a result of physical abuse, usually inflicted by an adult caregiver?
a) Battered Child Syndrome
b) Sixties Scoop
c) Stockholm Syndrome
d) Traumatic Bonding

Question 11:

In-home services in child welfare include family counselling, parental support, in-home childcare, homemaker services, and educational services for parents and families.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

The 1951 revision to the Indian Act included funding to create on-reserve child welfare services.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

The wealthiest provinces in Canada have the lowest provincial rates of child poverty.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

According to the restorative justice process, victim–offender mediation is given precedence over jail time.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

The “Sixties Scoop” refers to an event in 1961 in which 60 First Nations children from British Columbia were forcibly removed from their families.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Girls are less likely than boys to be victims of sexual offences committed by a family member.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Leave Out ViolencE (LOVE) and Take-a-Hike-Program are two examples of prevention programs with children.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Emotional maltreatment of a child is a form of child abuse.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Canada has identical social welfare policies for all children throughout the provinces.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

The three major areas of social work practice with children in Canada are child welfare, youth justice, and risk assessment.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Introduction to Social Work: Chapter 7