One way to improve your chances of beating the social work exam is to ensure that you are aware of child sexual abuse indicators.
Here is a list of possible signs:
- Child may inadvertently talk about sexual related topics
- Child may deliberately draw sexually related pictures
- Child may interact in a sexual nature with others and/or with animals or toys
- Child may excessively masturbate
- Child may refuse to be left alone
- Child may display enuresis and/ or encopresis
- Child may fear alleged offender or fear specific gender
- Young boys may set fires or be cruel to animals
- Child may exhibit role reversal in the family
- Child may have sleep disturbances
- Older children are not as overt with signs of abuse but some girls may be sexually promiscuous, sexually victimized by peers, and/or may enter into prostitution
- Older children may have eating disorders or practice self-mutilation
- Older children may run away, and/or engage in criminal activity
- Older children may abuse substances
- Older children may get depressed or socially withdraw
- Children of all ages may exhibit problems relating to peers, school difficulties and sudden noticeable changes in behavior
For more information check out the US Child Welfare Site
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