- Make initial report to agency immediately or as soon as is practically possible by telephone
- Prepare and send a written follow up report thereof within 36 hours of receiving the information
concerning the incident
- When 2+ people who are required to report have knowledge of known/suspected child abuse, ONE
PERSON may telephone the initial report and a SINGLE REPORT may be made and signed by selected
person
- Must make the report if the person designated to make the report has failed to do so
Agencies Authorized to Receive Child Abuse Reports - correct answer ✔✔- Police or Sheriff's Department
- County Welfare Department (AKA County Welfare Service Agency or Child Protective Services)
Child Abuse That Must be Reported - correct answer ✔✔- Physical
- Sexual
- Willful harm or injury
- Unlawful corporal punishment or injury
- Neglect
Child Abuse - Physical Abuse - correct answer ✔✔- physical injury or death
- not accidental
DOES NOT INCLUDE:
,- "mutual affray between minors"
- "reasonable and necessary force used by a police officer"
Child Abuse - Sexual Abuse - correct answer ✔✔- Sexual assault (rape, statutory rape, incest, sodomy,
lewd or lascivious acts, etc.)
- Sexual exploitation (preparing, selling, distributing pornographic material of minors, coercing a child to
engage in prostitution, etc.)
- Some consensual sexual intercourse constitutes reportable sexual abuse
Consensual Sexual Intercourse and Mandated Child Abuse Reporting - correct answer ✔✔- Must make
report of sexual intercourse or other sexual activity with a minor under 18 years old when the provider
has REASONABLE SUSPICION THE ACTIVITY WAS NOT CONSENSUAL, even when minor claims it was
consensual. Partner's age does not matter.
MUST ALWAYS REPORT SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, REGARDLESS OF CONSENT, WHEN...
- minor is under 14 years old and partner is 14 or older
- minor is 14 years old and the partner is 21 or older
- minor is 15 years old and the partner is 21 or older
LEWD AND LASCIVIOUS ACTS, MUST ALWAYS REPORT WHEN...
- minor is under 14 years old and partner is 14 or older
- minor is 14 years old and the partner is 24 or older
- minor is 15 years old and the partner is 25 or older
Don't Need to Report Consensual Sexual Intercourse When... - correct answer ✔✔1) Both minors are
under 14 years old and are similar in age (e.g., 13 and 12 year old)
2) When a minor is 14 or 15 years old and their partner is under 21 years old
Child Abuse - Willful Harm or Injury - correct answer ✔✔- Willfully causing or permitting any child to
suffer, or inflicts unjustifiable pain or mental suffering. Putting a child in a situation in which their health
is endangered
, - Fetal abuse is NOT reportable in CA. Therapist must consider other options for protecting an unborn
child.
Child Abuse - Unlawful Corporal Punishment or Injury - correct answer ✔✔Cruel or inhumane corporal
punishment or injury resulting in a traumatic condition
- Does NOT include "force that is reasonable and necessary for a person employee by or engaged in a
public school to quell a disturbance threatening physical injury to a person or damage to property, for
self-defense, or to obtain possession of weapons or other dangerous objects within control of pupil"
- Does NOT include "reasonable and age appropriate spanking to the buttocks where there is no
evidence of serious physical injury"
Child Abuse - Neglect - correct answer ✔✔"the negligent treatment or maltreatment of a child by a
person responsible for their welfare under circumstances indicating harm or threatened harm to the
child's health or welfare. Includes both acts and omissions on the part of the responsible person"
Law distinguishes between two types of reportable neglect
1) Severe Neglect: neglect to protect child from severe malnutrition or medically diagnosed nonorganic
failure to thrive
2) General Neglect: negligent failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or
supervision where no physical injury to the child has occurred
- leaving a child unsupervised is not necessarily neglect unless it involves harm or threatened harm to
child's health or welfare
Abuse that MAY be Reported - correct answer ✔✔Psychologists MAY, but are not required to - report
"serious emotional damage"
- serious emotional damage or is at a substantial risk of suffering serious emotional damage AEB states of
being or behaviors, including but not limited to, severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal, untoward
aggressive behavior toward self or others
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