Quiz: Assessing Adolescents with Sexually Abusive Behaviors OT261-A Quiz: Assessing Adolescents with Sexually Abusive Behaviors Training Title: Assessing Adolescents with Sexually Abusive Behaviors This exam contains 25 questions. In order to receive credit, you MUST get at least 20 questions correct. You may attempt the quiz as many times as you’d like. First Name * Last Name * Email * 1. According to Rojas & Oliver, what makes predicting the behavior of young people even more complex and difficult? * Conflicting risk factors The low base rate of juvenile sexual recidivism The lack of evidence-based treatment models The weakness of risk assessment models 2. A false negative assessment of an adolescent results in a risk to the * public. reputation of the risk assessor. family of the adolescent. reliability of the assessment tool. 3. Internal risk factors may include __________ social connection. * minimal desire for fear of limited capacity for abuse of 4. Which of the following is NOT one of the five general risk domains? * Family Church School Community 5. What behaviors are considered static risk factors? * Past behaviors Parental behaviors Clinician behaviors Abusive behaviors 6. Dynamic risk factors are those associated with _______ behaviors. * historical current harmful violent 7. True or false? Knowledge of static risk factors is required to identify targets for intervention. * True False 8. What type of risk assessment considers only attributes related directly to the individual? * Clinical Dynamic Actuarial Static 9. Clinical risk assessment instruments are known as tools designed for * ATSA. APA. SRCD. SPJ. 10. True or false? Well-trained evaluators score tests and make decisions based on those scores. * True False 11. Increasingly, we’ve shifted our expectations about the __________ of juvenile risk assessment. * shelf life usefulness accuracy applicability 12. Who conducted a review of 106 studies involving 33,783 cases of juvenile sexual offending adjudicated between 1938 and 2014? * Fanniff Letourneau Caldwell Dickinson 13. True or false? Recidivism for both adults and young people who have engaged in sexually abusive behavior is significantly higher for non-sexual offenses than sexual offenses. * True False 14. Lussier et Al. (2024) reported a sexual recidivism rate of ___ for sexually abusive youths. * 8% 18% 28% 38% 15. In 2006, Worling and Långstrom wrote that among 21 commonly cited risk factors for juvenile sexual offenders only ____ were empirically supported. * 2 4 6 8 16. According to Chu et al., what we do not yet know concerning the results of risk-focused assessments and measures of protective factors is how to ______ them. * interpret combine apply All of the above 17. Epps (1997) describes the target of juvenile risk assessment as the synthesis of what type of information? * psychosocial statistical environmental All of the above 18. The standards and guidelines for evaluation, treatment, and supervision of sexually abusive youths of the ____________ were discussed by the presenter. * Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers Colorado Sex Offender Management Board US Department of Health American Psychological Association 19. Monahan (1995) described ___ general weaknesses in the practice of clinical prediction. * 1 2 3 4 20. Which of the following is a JSO risk assessment scale that was discussed by the presenter? * ERASOR J-SOPA-II JSORRAT-II All of the above 21. In preventing a JSO from harming again, our interest lies in understanding, treating, and rehabilitating the * factors that contributed to the JSO’s harmful behavior. JSO’s environment. JSO’s static risk factors. JSO’s dynamic risk factors. 22. The shift in focus recognizes that juvenile risk assessment is not only an assessment of risk, but of ____ as well. * needs environmental factors development safety 23. Which of the following was among the new risk assessment instruments discussed by the presenter that take protective factors into account? * MEGA VRS-YSO AIM-3 All of the above 24. True or false? The SAVRY is a sexual risk assessment instrument that includes a protective factors scale. * True False 25. What does the second “R” in RNR stand for? * Risk Responsivity Recidivism Reward Submit If you are human, leave this field blank. Δ
