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While social workers and other front line workers are required by law to report suspected child abuse in Mississippi, state law also requires that _____________ who suspects abuse to report to the proper authorities. 

Human trafficking is defined as the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for labor services or commercial sex acts through force, fraud, or coercion; for the purpose of exploitation, involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery

According to the article in your module titled “Social Workers’ Suggestions for Effective Rural Practice,” suggestion (s) by participants included the need to:

__________________  parenting is a style that does not expect or demand help around the house, orderly behavior and so on.

According to your text book, women are the dominant players in family and home. Men are considered to be the economic providers among which group?

A ___________________ disorder is characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors that appears before adulthood.

The process of a Child Protection Services (CPS) investigation starts out with a report called in, entered in the CPS website, made to law enforcement, or made by the CPS Phone App in of a suspected child abuse/neglect case.

Inside your module, watch and read the information on Autism and MMR vaccines. Based upon all of the research, there is no association between the MMR vaccine and Autism. 

In accordance with Section 43-21-105 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated, “Abused Child means a child whose parent, guardian or custodian or any person responsible for his care or support, whether legally obligated to do so or not, has caused or allowed to be caused upon said child sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, emotional abuse, mental injury, non-accidental physical injury or other maltreatment. Provided, however that physical discipline, including spanking, performed on a child by a parent, guardian or custodian in a reasonable manner shall not be deemed abuse under this section.”

Social workers who believe that a colleague has acted unethically should seek resolution by discussing their concerns with the colleague when feasible and when such discussion is likely to be productive.