ReCAPP: Professional Credits: Child Sexual Abuse Quiz

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Child Sexual Abuse

Continuing Education
Self-Study Quiz
for CHES and CFLE Contact Hours

Directions:
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Self-Study Quiz

Child pornography is considered:
1. a category of sexual abuse.
2. the most hidden form of sexual abuse.
3. "an activity bordering on sexual abuse."
4. none of the above.

According to the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse:
1. at least one in two girls have been victims of sexual abuse before the age of 18.
2. at least one in three boys have been victims of sexual abuse before the age of 18.
3. at least one in five boys have been victims of sexual abuse before the age of 18.
4. at least one in five girls have been victims of sexual abuse before the age of 18.

Programs to prevent sexual abuse are particularly important for school health educators because:
1. schools see children over a period of time.
2. sexual abuse affects the learning ability of the victim and classroom environment.
3. as mandated reporters, schools already have a role in sexual abuse.
4. all of the above.

The King County Sexual Assault Resource Center provides:
1. a 24-hour hotline for educators who believe one of their students is being sexually abused.
2. a 24-hour hotline for students who are being sexually abused.
3. model programs for teachers and parents to explore.
4. model programs for teens to replicate in their communities.

When helping a friend who has been sexually abused, teens are encouraged to:
1. refrain from laughing.
2. try not to give advice.
3. listen carefully.
4. all of the above.

A teen who has been sexually abused can report the abuse to an appropriate resource person including:
1. a school nurse or school counselor.
2. a police officer or sheriff.
3. a social worker of Child Protective Services.
4. all of the above.

Sexual abuse of a child is:
1. the child's fault if the child instigated the sexual contact.
2. the child's fault if the child consented to the sexual activity.
3. the child's fault if the child is already sexually active.
4. never the child's fault.

Jacqueline L. Stock, et. al. found in their study of 3,128 adolescent girls that the girls who had been sexually abused were more likely to:
1. have had sex by age 15 than non-sexually abused girls.
2. be physically violent than non-sexually abused girls.
3. use birth control than non-sexually abused girls.
4. none of the above.

Jacqueline L. Stock, et. al.'s study also found that girls who reported histories of physical and sexual abuse were:
1. four times more likely than non-abused girls to have had a pregnancy.
2. about half as likely as non-abused girls to have had a pregnancy.
3. about half as likely as non-abused girls to be in a sexually active relationship.
4. four times more likely than non-abused girls to have had more than five sexual partners.

According to G.E. Wyatt's Sexual Abuse and Consensual Sex, among college students, women who were sexually abused before age 18 were at increased risk of having:

a sexually transmitted infection.
unsatisfying sexual relationships.
more sexual relationships with professors and other school staff.
an unintended pregnancy.

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