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Core 2.5: Child Maltreatment Identification, Part 1 | OER Commons

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Reviewed:: Aug 18, 2021 by Health Sciences

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Overview:

This training provides participants with the skills to recognize factors that will assist them in accurately identifying neglect, emotional abuse, and physical abuse as defined by California law. After attending this training, participants will be able to: Identify factors that constitute abuse and/or neglect as defined by the Welfare & Institutions Code Section 300 (a) - (j) and recognize parenting behaviors that promote child safety and family well-being outcomes; distinguish scenarios of child maltreatment from those that are not child maltreatment based on a constellation of factors such as physical injuries and behavioral indicators, within a cultural context; and value the importance of diversity as it relates to child maltreatment. Successful participants will be better equipped to recognize conditions contributing to child maltreatment as well as common injuries bringing children to the attention of child welfare.

Type of Material:

Online Course

Recommended Uses:

Online and face to face class

Homework

Conference

Seminars

Individual project

Research

Team project

Technical Requirements:

Google Chrome used without difficulty.
No specific browser necessary.

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Identify indicators of physical abuse.

2. identify indicators of neglect.

3. identify indicators of emotional abuse.

4. Understand the legal basis of identifying abuse and neglect in California, and understands the associated sections of the Welfare & Institutions Code Section 300 (a) - (j)

5. Identify strength-based information gathering strategies (that include exploration of family strengths, resources, and risk and safety factors) necessary for working with children, families, and others in the context of making a child maltreatment determination.

6. Identify physical, emotional, and behavioral characteristics of children who have been maltreated, while attending to the cultural and ethnic context of the children.

7. identify three cultural practices that may be mistaken for child maltreatment.

Target Student Population:

College Upper Division
Professional
Nursing students both bachelor and masters
Physicians
Psychotherapists
Social workers

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

Basic computer skills and internet to access materials
Basic understanding of assessment

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Strengths:

Provided the competencies required in the learning material as well as learning objectives relevant to the course content.
Provided images that correlate with each abuse that are easily identifiable and relevant to the topic.
Provided fact sheets about child abuse that is research-based.
Course content can be downloaded and use without an internet connection.

Concerns:

The online class material is dated with a published date of 2016, containing statistics from 2007 and 2011; there are some pictures missing from the power point pages. The material is in a booklet; the power points within the booklet would be more useful as separated into a power point format. The supplemental materials are also dated as 2006 - 2009; the link to the Denver II form is broken.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

The material helps learners to be able to identify physical, emotional, and behavioral characteristics of children who have been maltreated while attending to the cultural and ethnic context of the children.

The material provides the student with knowledge on how to identify indicators of neglect.

The material promotes an understanding of how to identify strength-based information gathering strategies (that include exploration of family strengths, resources, and risk and safety factors) necessary for working with children, families, in the context of making a child maltreatment determination.

The material promote the ability to identify three cultural practices that may be mistaken for child maltreatment in making the determination of child abuse.

The material is well designed and executed from a curricular framework with information, examples, small group exercises and a sample triage sheet along with supplemental resources that enhance learner understanding.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

Side bar (on left) contains a brief overview along with description of the course and table of contents. The class materials are well marked and easily accessible.

The learning materials are very robust and in understanding physical, emotional, and behavioral characteristics of children who have been maltreated.

Provided an understanding of diverse cultural and ethnic contexts as it relates to understanding children.

Concerns:

Directions from the author are needed to guide users.

Other Issues and Comments:: The Child Maltreatment Identification Part 1 was created in 2017. The material sources range from 2006 - 20016. The materials are of great use and it would be beneficial to update the resourses to reflect more current information.
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