Quiz: Adolescent Sex Offending Perpetration – Module 2 (NJ-Part 01 Module 2) Quiz: Adolescent Sex Offending Perpetration Training Title: Adolescent Sex Offending Perpetration – Module 2 This exam contains 20 questions. In order to receive a passing grade, you MUST answer at least 16 questions correctly. You may attempt the quiz as many times as you’d like. First Name * Last Name * Email * 1. In the case example of a youth with a severe speech problem, meaningful progress in treatment began after * he completed an intensive group therapy program. he received speech therapy that built his communication skills. his family began attending weekly sessions with him. he transferred to a more structured treatment setting. 2. Cognitive transformation, a sign that treatment has genuinely worked, occurs when a youth * can list all of their coping strategies on request. completes every workbook assigned in treatment. comes to view themselves as a different person than before. apologizes publicly to the people they have harmed. 3. The term “iatrogenic effects” refers to situations in which * treatment groupings themselves may increase risk of further harm. a youth refuses to participate in court-ordered treatment. medications produce unwanted physical side effects. assessment results are misinterpreted by the courts. 4. Current thinking about a youth who denies having caused harm holds that denial * is among the strongest predictors of reoffending. requires direct confrontation before treatment begins. means the youth should be removed from treatment. reflects a lack of trust rather than a risk factor. 5. Rather than treating lack of victim empathy as a risk factor, the preferred approach is to help youth * memorize the perspectives of the people they harmed. grow more competent in relationships and relate empathically. write apology letters as a formal treatment requirement. express remorse in front of their treatment group. 6. True or False: Research on physicians in training found that empathy scores declined during medical school and remained lower through graduation. * True False 7. The therapeutic alliance consists of agreement on the relationship, agreement on goals, and agreement on * confidentiality. outcomes. scheduling. tasks. 8. Trauma histories among youth in juvenile detention facilities are best described as * rare, affecting only a small minority of youth. present in roughly one quarter of these youth. present in about half of the youth surveyed. nearly universal, reported by about 90 percent. 9. Being trauma-informed is best described as * providing formal trauma treatment to every client. requiring each youth to disclose their trauma history. working in ways that avoid flaring up trauma symptoms. screening every client with standardized trauma measures. 10. A guiding principle for working with trauma survivors is that recovery is fostered by interventions that * empower survivors and offer them choices. require early discussion of traumatic events. shield survivors from making decisions. prioritize immediate and full disclosure. 11. In the case example of a treatment rollout that became a condition of probation, the effort failed primarily because * funding for the program ended unexpectedly. clients experienced the mandate as intrusive. too few therapists were trained in the model. the courts stopped making new referrals. 12. Early trauma-related deficits in one area of development, such as attachment, * remain isolated from other areas of functioning. usually resolve on their own without intervention. interfere with growth in other developmental areas. affect emotional but not cognitive development. 13. True or False: The JSOAP-II provides cutoff scores that classify youth as high, medium, or low risk. * True False 14. Assessing risk in adolescents has been compared to assessing “moving targets” because * youth frequently relocate between jurisdictions. assessment tools are revised almost every year. court requirements shift throughout a case. no aspect of adolescent development is fixed or stable. 15. The Youth Needs and Progress Scale (YNPS) is designed to * predict the likelihood of sexual reoffense. determine eligibility for community placement. identify intervention needs and track treatment progress. establish diagnoses for use in court proceedings. 16. The PROFESOR is distinctive among assessment tools because it * summarizes protective and risk factors as bipolar pairs. produces a numerical risk score with fixed cutoffs. generates its report entirely by computer scoring. applies exclusively to children under the age of 12. 17. The SAVRY clusters its items into historical, social/contextual, and which other risk domain? * Family/systemic Educational/vocational Individual/clinical Sexual/behavioral 18. A key caution about using the polygraph with adolescents is that * disclosure is not always the same as honesty. examinations take too long to schedule. results are inadmissible in every state court. adolescents rarely understand the questions. 19. Asking a youth to describe events in reverse order during an interview can be useful because it * shortens the total time an interview requires. can unsettle a rehearsed account and reveal new information. allows the youth to avoid painful details entirely. meets documentation standards for court reports. 20. A well-constructed evaluation report should lead readers to * arrive at the evaluator’s conclusion before it is stated. rely primarily on the diagnostic impressions section. focus on the measures rather than the history. defer entirely to the expertise of the evaluator. Submit If you are human, leave this field blank. Δ
