PAR EXAM STUDY GUIDE DJJ (2024/25)
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS!!
Describe how staff can prepare for safe & successful interactions with youth Answer - PREPARING for safe and successful interactions with youth begins with the Start Smart Skills, which when practiced with confidence can go a long
way in fostering professional relationships with youth:
Maintain the Right Attitude.Make the Right Actions.Identify components of DJJ's operations that require safe and successful interactions with youth. Answer - DJJ has developed numerous components of its operations pursuant to statute, rule, manual, and policy to ensure the
success of staff: e.g., background screening, code of conduct, incident
reporting, confidentiality requirement, etc.Describe the general characteristics of youth that affect the way they behave.Answer - Cognitively, socially, and emotionally.Describe trauma Answer - The personal experience of violence and victimization including sexual abuse, physical abuse, severe neglect, loss, domestic violence, and/or the witnessing of violence, terrorism, or disasters.Describe the stress response's effect on youth behavior. Answer - A natural reaction to events that may be difficult, demanding, or threatening. ; "fight, flight, or freeze" response. 1 / 2
- Describe the relationship between unmet needs and youth behavior.
Answer - When there are unmet needs in people's lives, they cannot fully develop cognitively, socially, and emotionally which in turn affects the way they behave.What is a Trigger? Answer - A trigger is an event that sets of a memory.
T or F: 93% of communication is non-verbal and 7% verbal. Answer - True
What are the 5 hierarchy of Needs according to Maslow? Answer - Physiology - Things required to live (food, water, air) Safety - Shelter. protection Love & Belonging - Self explanatory Esteem - To feel good about oneself Self actualization - To test limits Define Verbal De-escalation Answer - Tactics that are non-physical skills used to prevent a potentially dangerous situation from escalating into a physical confrontation or injury.Identify the elements of the Crisis Development Model. Answer - Warning
Phase: potential for conflict is increasing.
Escalation Phase: he potential for conflict is now very high.
Crisis Phase: conflict erupts
De-escalation Phase: The staff intervenes and de-escalates the conflict using
verbal and physical techniques (only if danger exists)
Post Incident Conversation: Potential for conflict low again; talk about what
happened.
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