Child Maltreatment Identification Skills Lab – Core 3.0 – Classroom

Level: Line Worker CORE

Credits: 6

Intended Audience: This course is intended for new child welfare workers and meets the state requirements for Line Worker CORE version 3.0 Assessment Block.

Description of Course: This course is intended to be an activity based skill building exercise. It offers trainer facilitated vignette activities used to provide a framework for identifying child maltreatment, using direct observation, interview and consultation.

Intended Objectives: After completing this course you will be able to:

• Identify physical, emotional, and behavioral characteristics of children who have been maltreated
• Identify cultural practices that may be mistaken for child maltreatment
• Identify when to seek consultation from agency resources, medical staff, mental health professionals, law enforcement, or forensic experts during child maltreatment identification efforts
• Use the child maltreatment indicators to identify child maltreatment in a vignette
• Using a vignette, identify cultural factors that affect child maltreatment identification including distinguishing child maltreatment from cultural factors
• Using a vignette, identify developmental factors that affect child maltreatment
• Using a vignette, critically analyze motivation, credibility and the information provided by family members and others regarding sexual abuse
• Value using a strength-based model of practice that provides a holistic view of the family as part of the child maltreatment identification process
• Value an understanding of how poverty, lack of education, community distress and environmental stressors can contribute to risk for child maltreatment
• Value working collaboratively with agency resources, law enforcement and medical, mental health, and forensic experts in identifying child maltreatment

Topics Include:

• Cultural Values
• Defining and Identifying Maltreatment
• Interviewing for Culture
• Assessing for Sexual Abuse
• Indicators of Maltreatment: Neglect, Emotional Abuse and Physical Abuse