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Child Abuse and Neglect Screening Questions

This document provides sample screening questions to ask children and adolescents, as well as parents, to identify potential physical abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect. For children, the questions address experiences of physical harm, inappropriate touching, feelings of safety at home, and discipline. Questions for parents focus on descriptions of injuries, knowledge of sexuality, views on discipline, substance use, and controlling anger. The goal is to privately discuss sensitive topics to protect children's welfare through open communication.

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Child Abuse and Neglect Screening Questions

This document provides sample screening questions to ask children and adolescents, as well as parents, to identify potential physical abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect. For children, the questions address experiences of physical harm, inappropriate touching, feelings of safety at home, and discipline. Questions for parents focus on descriptions of injuries, knowledge of sexuality, views on discipline, substance use, and controlling anger. The goal is to privately discuss sensitive topics to protect children's welfare through open communication.

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WHAT Screening Questions Should I Ask Children and Adolescents?

Questions about physical abuse:

-Have you ever been hurt by someone taking care of you?

-How did that happen?

-Have you ever been taken to the hospital/emergency room because you were hurt?

-How did that happen?

Questions about sexual abuse:

-Is anyone making you do anything that you feel uncomfortable about?

-What have you learned about “good touch/bad touch?” How did you that?

-What would you do if someone were trying to touch your private areas?

-What if it was someone that you know?

Questions about neglect:

-What kind of things make you scared when you are at home?

-What does the word “discipline” mean to you?

-How was your mother disciplined when she was growing up? How about your dad?

-What is discipline like for you? Your brothers or sisters?

-How do you think kids should be disciplined if they do something bad?

-Who is at your house when you come home from school (when you get up in the morning, go to
sleep at night)?
-Who helps you get ready for school?

-What do you think you are worth as a person?

-Are there times when you feel bad about yourself? How does that happen?

What Screening Questions Should I Ask a Parent?

Questions about physical abuse:

-On a scale ranging from “never gets hurt” to “accident prone,” how would you describe your child?

-Tell me about your child’s most serious injury. What were the circumstances?

-What kinds of things do you use the emergency room for? What circumstances have made you take

your child to an ER?

Questions for sexual abuse:

-What does your child know about sex?

-How did he/she find out?

-What have you taught your child about “good touch/bad touch?”

-How would you know if someone were trying to touch your child’s private areas?

Questions about neglect:

-What does the word “discipline” mean to you?

-How were you disciplined when you were growing up?

-What do you think should be done when a child is bad?

-Tell me about a time when you were afraid of losing control with your child.

-Tell me about your experience with drugs and alcohol

-How do you think your drug and alcohol experience impacts your child?

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