CERAP EXAM ACTUAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES|
AGRADE
CERAP Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol - ANSWER: Structured
approach to decision-making designed to guide support and document professional
judgement in situations in which children are potentially in danger immediately or in
the very near future. A CERAP is used through the life of a case; always.
Focus only on the information which you are given. - ANSWER: Do not read, assume,
or attribute evidence to other "ifs" of the situation.
Key information related to Safety Threat Assessment: - ANSWER: Child vulnerability
Severity of the Behavior/Condition
History
Safety Threat Identification
If a scenario is a safety concern: - ANSWER: all of the threat answers will be either
safety concern or no concern
If a scenario is a risk concern: - ANSWER: all of the threat answers will be either risk
concern or no concern.
If any one of the individual threats is present in the scenario: - ANSWER: you would
mark that group as a Safety or Risk Concern.
If none of the individual threats are present in the scenario: - ANSWER: We would
mark that group No Concern
Physical Abuse/Neglect/Threat: - ANSWER: This section contains five safety threats
related to causing moderate to severe harm or threatening harm.
History of abuse neglect (physical or sexual) - ANSWER: This section has only one
safety threat associated with past history of abuse and/or neglect. This does not
include only indicated reports. It does include the anecdotal accounts too.
Caretaker Behaviors: - ANSWER: This section combines threats that relate to the
behavior of the caretaker. Remember the definition of the caretaker-- anyone who
influences the safety of the child.
Special issues: - ANSWER: Is where we combine sexual abuse and the underlying
issues we have been discussing (ie. developmental disability, poverty, neglect)
Human trafficking: - ANSWER: This section has only one safety threat related to
forced labor or sexual exploitation that causes moderate to severe or threatening
harm.
, Safety assessment goals: - ANSWER: -Determine if there is (or is not) a threat to the
child's safety.
-Determine if the child is safe or unsafe
-Use our critical thinking skills to analyze and apply the information we collect from
the safety assessment process to the safety plan and interventions that will achieve
child safety.
We assess safety through the life of a case.
Safety definition - ANSWER: A child is considered to be safe when an assessment of
available information supports the belief that a child is not in immediate (near
future) danger of moderate to severe harm. Safety is a subset of risk: within risk
there is safety.
Risk definition - ANSWER: Is the likelihood of any degree of linger-term future
harm/maltreatment.
It does not predict when the future harm might occur, but rather the likelihood of it
happening at all.
Moderate to severe harm: - ANSWER: The threat of:
-Danger to the child's life or health
-Impairment to his or her physical or mental well-being
-Disfigurement
Safety - ANSWER: Time: now or in the very near future
Degree of harm: moderate to severe
Purpose of intervention: control
Risk - ANSWER: Time: longer term
Degree of harm: low to severe
Purpose of intervention: resolve or reduce
Steps to Determining Safety - ANSWER: Step 1: Identify relevant safety threats.
Step 2: Describe the safety threat you
checked, identifying perpetrator,
child victims and source(s) of
information.
Step 3: Record family strengths and
mitigating circumstances.
Step 4: Make Safety Decision
Child Vulnerability factors: - ANSWER: •Younger children who lack good verbal skills,
in particular, non-verbal children.
• Children affected by developmental
disabilities/deficits.
• Children who have serious medical
problems.
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES|
AGRADE
CERAP Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol - ANSWER: Structured
approach to decision-making designed to guide support and document professional
judgement in situations in which children are potentially in danger immediately or in
the very near future. A CERAP is used through the life of a case; always.
Focus only on the information which you are given. - ANSWER: Do not read, assume,
or attribute evidence to other "ifs" of the situation.
Key information related to Safety Threat Assessment: - ANSWER: Child vulnerability
Severity of the Behavior/Condition
History
Safety Threat Identification
If a scenario is a safety concern: - ANSWER: all of the threat answers will be either
safety concern or no concern
If a scenario is a risk concern: - ANSWER: all of the threat answers will be either risk
concern or no concern.
If any one of the individual threats is present in the scenario: - ANSWER: you would
mark that group as a Safety or Risk Concern.
If none of the individual threats are present in the scenario: - ANSWER: We would
mark that group No Concern
Physical Abuse/Neglect/Threat: - ANSWER: This section contains five safety threats
related to causing moderate to severe harm or threatening harm.
History of abuse neglect (physical or sexual) - ANSWER: This section has only one
safety threat associated with past history of abuse and/or neglect. This does not
include only indicated reports. It does include the anecdotal accounts too.
Caretaker Behaviors: - ANSWER: This section combines threats that relate to the
behavior of the caretaker. Remember the definition of the caretaker-- anyone who
influences the safety of the child.
Special issues: - ANSWER: Is where we combine sexual abuse and the underlying
issues we have been discussing (ie. developmental disability, poverty, neglect)
Human trafficking: - ANSWER: This section has only one safety threat related to
forced labor or sexual exploitation that causes moderate to severe or threatening
harm.
, Safety assessment goals: - ANSWER: -Determine if there is (or is not) a threat to the
child's safety.
-Determine if the child is safe or unsafe
-Use our critical thinking skills to analyze and apply the information we collect from
the safety assessment process to the safety plan and interventions that will achieve
child safety.
We assess safety through the life of a case.
Safety definition - ANSWER: A child is considered to be safe when an assessment of
available information supports the belief that a child is not in immediate (near
future) danger of moderate to severe harm. Safety is a subset of risk: within risk
there is safety.
Risk definition - ANSWER: Is the likelihood of any degree of linger-term future
harm/maltreatment.
It does not predict when the future harm might occur, but rather the likelihood of it
happening at all.
Moderate to severe harm: - ANSWER: The threat of:
-Danger to the child's life or health
-Impairment to his or her physical or mental well-being
-Disfigurement
Safety - ANSWER: Time: now or in the very near future
Degree of harm: moderate to severe
Purpose of intervention: control
Risk - ANSWER: Time: longer term
Degree of harm: low to severe
Purpose of intervention: resolve or reduce
Steps to Determining Safety - ANSWER: Step 1: Identify relevant safety threats.
Step 2: Describe the safety threat you
checked, identifying perpetrator,
child victims and source(s) of
information.
Step 3: Record family strengths and
mitigating circumstances.
Step 4: Make Safety Decision
Child Vulnerability factors: - ANSWER: •Younger children who lack good verbal skills,
in particular, non-verbal children.
• Children affected by developmental
disabilities/deficits.
• Children who have serious medical
problems.
