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| In and outside of DSS. Most clinicians work in private practice or in public agencies. |
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| Evaluate children who have been traumatized, evaluate foster parents, competency of parents in TPR cases, provide expert testimony. |
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| Group of people ho have common behaviors, belongings, and beliefs. |
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| Groups of people who come together under a common culture as well as other interests. |
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| The Child, Local DSS, Foster Parents, Kinship Care Providers, Child's Attorney, DSS Attorney, Parent Attorney, Mental Health Professional, Trial Courts, State DHR, State Appeals Court Decisions, State Constitution, US Supreme Court Decisions, The Constitution. |
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| Original definition is "parental power". This award the father with total authority over his children. This became the head of the household, and this person could dictate life or death over their subordinates. |
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| Recognized the state's authority of children. This was one of the first instances of the government taking interest in child welfare. |
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| Granted authority to mothers, over fathers, with concern to younger children, age 7 or younger generally, because mothers possessed a unique maternal bond with the child. This is no longer official but still thought to be observed. |
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| Started in the 19th century, this became the golden rule that child custody was determined through. |
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| Or BIA. Represents the best interest of a child. |
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| A State of being in positive circumstances. |
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| Physical and mental health of a child. |
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| Refers to psychological and physical state the child is in. |
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| Least Restrictive Level Of Care |
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| The level of care that is most appropriate to the child's level of functioning. |
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| Placement of Child in a non-relative home. |
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| Custody dictates that a child is in a person's care. Guardianship dictates decisions making power. |
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| Child in Need of Assistance (of the state). |
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| The process of housing a child through the state. |
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| A plan written by a child care agency establishing what their permanent living situation will be until they turn 18 (age of independence) |
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| Family Involvement Meeting - A meeting of all interested parties (DSS workers, Social workers, Foster Parents, Bio parents) where the child's permanency plan is discussed. |
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| The belief that a child is incapable of remembering traumatic events in early childhood. |
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| Placement of a child in the home of a relative. |
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| The process of returning a child to their original parent's care after that child has been removed from their care in the first place. |
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| A process NOT recognized by DSS or the courts in Maryland. This is a process that leads to reunification that takes place with both the child and the parents. |
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| Abuse, neglect, abandonment, failure to maintain contact/support, substance related incapacitation, murder or assault of another child/sibling, felony incarceration |
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| Requires that in reasonable circumstances, the state must attempt to reunify families. In determining reunification, the child's healthy and safety are given the highest priority. |
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| Safe Family Act waived if... |
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| Child is already in kinship care, there is a "compelling reason" for it to be waived. |
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| Conceptual Continuum of Child Care. Safety and Health are 1 & 2, followed by 3. Child is free from familial dysfunction, and 4. Best Interest which includes projection of best outcome based on a myriad of factors. |
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| A list, including descriptions of placements a child has experienced. |
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| Parents ability to care for a child. |
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| A term used by the state that deems a parent without the capability to properly care for a child. |
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| A change in an adult sufficient enough to, one way or the other, alter their custody of a child. |
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| Care, Custody, and Control of Child |
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| If a parent is fit, these are what they are entitled to. |
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| When a child is old enough to offer input in their placement. In MD, this age is 10. |
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| Observable, identifiable, and substantial impairment of a child's mental or psychological ability to function, cause by a parent. |
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| Maryland Child Neglect Law |
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| MD was the last state to criminalize intentional neglect (2011). Neglect is defined as "intentional failure to provide necessary assistance..." |
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| Definition of Minor as per MD |
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| Anyone under 18 who is not matter nor the parent of a child of their own. |
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| Misdemeanor of Child Neglect, anyone who is compelled to take care of a child must do so. |
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| Obliges professionals directly involved with families to report abuse or neglect. |
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| An individual must notify, via verbal report to DSS abuse or neglect, this must be followed up within 48 hours by a written report. If abuse is in consideration a copy must be sent to the State's Attorney. |
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| Report Content (For Abused/Neglected) |
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| A report must include. 1 Name, age, address. 2. Name of caregivers. 3. Whereabouts of child. 4. Nature and extent of abuse. 5. Other information that would be helpful in determining the circumstances around the abuse/neglect. |
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| In 1850, there were 10,00 Homeless children in the streets of NYC. Many were relocated throughout the country. |
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| Mental Status w/ Regards to Permanency |
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| Children become anxious/depressed when they do not have permanency. |
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| Adverse Life Events must not be the only thing approached. Rather, the total child must be addressed. |
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| What do books on treating traumatic events in children have in common? |
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| They all refer to children as traumatized children. Thereby creating a stigma. |
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| There is no such thing as a traumatized child. By referring to them in such a way emphasis is placed on the trauma and not the child. When in reality it is something that happened but not permanent. |
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| 3 Step Intervention Protocol |
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| 1. Understand the problem and its context. 2. Know how to address the problem. 3. Know how to determine the problem has been alleviated. |
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| Regarding the Truth (in cases of child abuse) |
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| We'll never know the full truth, when discussing the events we must talk in even voice, don't express outrage or cry in front of the child. |
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| The younger a child is traumatized the greater impact it can have on development. |
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| 60% of women who were abused experienced abuse before the age of 5. |
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| In order for PTSD to be present |
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| Person must be exposed to trauma, and have a response of fear, helplessness, and or horror. These feelings must be reoccurring and cause distress when cued. This must lead to alterations of normalcy in day to day. |
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| Munson definition of Trauma |
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| Childhood trauma can result from any event or series of events that overwhelms, overstimulates, or creates extreme fear in the child to the point that there is permanent or temporary interruption of normal developmental processes or tasks that occur with or without symptoms. |
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| Type 1: Single incident. Type 2: Repetitive (recurring sexual assault). Type 3: Environmentally Induced (living in bad area of hospitalization) |
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| Potential Symptoms of Trauma Exposure |
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| Substance dependence, obesity, depression and suicidality, impaired language, poor regulations of emotions, heart disease, |
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| 1st = basic functioning (breathing, heart rate, blood pressure) 2nd = Emotions/feelings (amygdala: feelings, fear. Hippocampus: memory) *relates to trauma. 3rd: Thinking and cognition. |
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| Auditory System: I say/hear (logic and reason) Kenestic System: I feel. Visual System: I see. |
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| Ability to put yourself in the position of another. |
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| Fire together and work together. |
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| Looking for danger when the mind is used to trauma, and sends you into action accordingly. |
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| Continuum of theory of Mind |
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| Spectrum from Selflessness--Balances---Sociopath----Psychopathy |
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| An indicator in a solid theory of mind in a child. |
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| Simple (sad, mad, happy), Intermediate (love, calm, warmth), Complex (emabrrassment, repulsion) |
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| Infant Indicators of Trauma |
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| Sudden crying, turning away from adults, blank staring, frozen gaze, frozen in place |
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| Upset easily, clings to adults, separation problems, increased temper tantrums, regression to earlier behaviors. |
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| Can be immediate and brief or extended and delayed depeding on age, ability to understand event, how the cargiver responded |
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| Use calm tone of voice, increase sense of security and control, match child's level and wishes of physicality. |
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| Secure, Avoidant, Ambivalent, Disorganized |
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| The ideal model centered around a comforting/calming relationship. |
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| After a crisis when caregiver is sought out, the anxiety becomes escalated. |
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| Insecurely Attached Adult |
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| Child is another aggravation in my life, child doesn't see that I have my own life. |
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| Insecurely Attached Child |
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| Something is wrong in my family, I am scared, will I be OK |
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| Intellectually Limited Parents |
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| Can still effectively parent children but must have been reared properly themselves and have ongoing support. Impaired attachment can result in treating child like a toy as opposed to a person. |
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| Expressive Langugae Production |
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| Receptive Language Production |
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| Comprehension v Expression |
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| Many children have more language comprehension than they can express. |
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| How many children fail to develop normal speech. |
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| Risk Factors of Expressive Language Delay |
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| 17 times more likely to be; depressed, withdrawn, poor compliance, poor imitation in play. |
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| Window of opportunity for traumatized children |
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| Proper language development is likely to be impacted by trauma. Expressive delays are more prominent than receptive delays in regards to trauma. |
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| Tiers of capability to protect children. |
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| Adequate housing, adequate finances, substance free, no domestic violence, support structure, veracity, mental health, CCJS involvement, Parenting experience, Skills, Intellect |
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