SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
The following is a summary of key take aways from this training: ● The basis for reporting suspected child abuse is having “ reasonable cause to suspect ” a child is a victim of child abuse. ● A person who has reasonable cause to suspect a child is a victim of child abuse is not required to identify the type of abuse they are reporting when making a report of suspected child abuse. ● The PA CPSL recognizes three key components of child abuse : ○ Child. ○ Act or failure to act; Recent act; Recent act or failure to act; or A series of acts or failures to act. ○ Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly. A mandated reporter enumerated under section 6311(a) of the PA CPSL must immediately make a report suspected child abuse to ChildLine, Pennsylvania’s 24/7 Child Abuse Hotline and Registry , by calling 1-800-932-0313 or electronically through the Child Welfare Portal, if they have reasonable cause to suspect a child is a victim of child abuse under any of the following circumstances: ● The mandated reporter comes into contact with the child in the course of employment, occupation, and practice of a profession or through a regularly scheduled program, activity, or service. ● The mandated reporter is directly responsible for the care, supervision, guidance, or training of the child, or is affiliated with an agency, institution, organization, school, regularly established church or religious organization, or other entity that is directly responsible
for the care, supervision, guidance, or training of the child. ● A person makes a specific disclosure to the mandated reporter that an identifiable child is the victim of child abuse. ● An individual 14 years of age or older makes a specific disclosure to the mandated reporter that the individual has committed child abuse. Nothing in section 6311 of the PA CPSL requires a child to come before the mandated reporter in order for the mandated reporter to make a report of suspected child abuse. Nothing in section 6311 of the PA CPSL requires the mandated reporter to identify the person responsible for the child abuse in order to make a report of suspected child abuse. Nothing in the PA CPSL requires a person who has reasonable cause to suspect a child is a victim of child abuse to consider the exclusions from child abuse in order to make a report of suspected child abuse. A mandated reporter is presumed to have acted in good faith when making a report of suspected child abuse.
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CHILD ABUSE RECOGNITION AND REPORTING IN PENNSYLVANIA, 2ND EDITION (RENEWAL LICENSURE) Self-Assessment Answers and Rationales
1. The correct answer is a. Rationale: In Pennsylvania, there were a total of 5,438 child abuse victims: 2,171 from sexual abuse; 1,418 from physical abuse; 692 from neglect; 5 from medical neglect; 59 from emotional abuse; and 74 from “other” (UHCCS, 2021). 2. The correct answer is a. Rationale: Child Protective Services (CPS) is responsible for receiving and investigating alleged reports of abuse. It conducts safety assessments, develops a safety plan for the child, intervenes when necessary to protect the child from harm. 3. The correct answer is a. Rationale: Section 6303 of the Pennsylvania Child Protective Services Law (CPSL) defines a perpetrator as a person who Rationale: Consider the possibility of emotional abuse when the child shows extremes in behavior such as overly demanding or compliant behavior, extreme passivity, or aggression; the child reports a lack of attachment to the parent; the child is either inappropriately infantile or inappropriately adult; or the child is delayed in emotional or physical development. has committed child abuse. 4. The correct answer is c.
5. The correct answer is b. Rationale: Sexual abuse does not include consensual activities between a child who is 17 years of age or older and another child who is 14 years of age or older and whose age is within four years of the child's age. 6. The correct answer is c. Rationale: Kidney stones are not a common sign or symptom of possible FDIA (fabricated illness) in a child. The rest of the options are indicators of possible FDIA in a child. 7. The correct answer is d. Rationale: Youth with part-time employment are not particularly at risk for human trafficking. Individuals who identify as native or aboriginal, identify as LGBTQIA, or who have intellectual or physical disabilities are at risk for human trafficking. 8. The correct answer is d. Rationale: The law now specifically includes volunteers with children’s programs and employees (not just administrators, teachers, and nurses) of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools. Here is the entire list of mandated reporters: Licensed or certified healthcare professionals, medical examiners, employees of a healthcare facility, clergy, priests, rabbis, ministers, employees of social services agencies, police officers, emergency medical services providers, employees of a public library, childcare providers, independent contractors, attorneys, and foster parents.
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