CWEL EXAM 2024 NEW ACTUAL 300+ COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS VERIFIED BY EXPERTS Provides an overview of knowledge prerequisite for direct child welfare practice in Illinois. - CORRECT ANSWE R>>>> What is the purpose? helps families identify and build on their planning services. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>> What is the Strength -Based practice? planning for permanency. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>> What is the focus for all Child and Family Team Meeting? Involv ement of the family in all aspects of case planning. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>> What is collaboration? parents select who they wan to be a part of their Child and Family Team. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>> What is Open Participation? Family members need to have all of th e info disclosed to them so they can make their own decisions. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>> What is Full Disclosure ? Permanency, Safety, and Well being of children - CORRECT ANSWER>>>> What are the fundamental outcomes of all child welfare practice? the means by w hich individuals and families are helped to change their behaviors and circumstances. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>> What is practice? the ability to successfully balance concerns for child safety with concerns for the emotional security and the importance of family to children for whom safety is sought. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>> What is the art of social work practice? the combo of knowledge, skills, and behaviors reflect the attitudes and values that support consistent appropriate choices of action -leading to the child' s safety, health, and well being. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>> What are the tasks and competencies of social work practice? Family Centered Trauma Informed and Strength Based approach, FTS. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>> What is the Illinois Core Practice Model anchored in? 1. Serve as an agent of change 2. Forming a helping relationship 3. Initial and Ongoing Assessment 4. Provide information about impact of trauma 5. Advocacy 6. Behavioral Support 7. Linkage 8. Coordinate 9. Cultural Competence - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Wh at are the 9 Core Child Welfare Principles? Focuses on helping children remain connected to their parents, extended family, and others who are significant relatives families strengths and the importance of reflecting with family members. Respect the right s, values, and culture of families. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>What is Family Centered Practice? seeks to view kids and families with a trauma lens and understand the impact of trauma on a child's development and behavior. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>What is trauma informed practice? child and family team meetings CFTM - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what should be the center of our casework? obtaining more info about the family's history and poetential member for the child and family team. As we receive more info about the family we will be adding to the CFS458B. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what is engagement? By Jan 1, 2000 the IDCFS and private child welfare agencies developed and implemented a CWEL. Those providing direct child welfare services in Illinois. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Who nee ds a child welfare license? 1. Provide us with additional opportunities to evaluate progress towards permanency. 2. During visits, parents have the opportunity to apply newly acquired skills and receive feedback. 3. visits also provide professional invol ved with the family opportunites to identify strengths and give feedback about attempts to utilize new parenting approaches 4. ongoing family interactions provide opportunities to help maintain specific cultural traditions or practices that are important t o the child and family and may be support for them. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>What are some benefits of child visitation? serious or critical bodily injury, wound, or shock - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>What does medical trauma refer to child's experience of an event th at is emotionally painful, distressful, or shocking, which often results in lasting mental and physical effects. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>pyschiatrically trauma 4 out of 10 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what is the ratio of children who witness violence? 1 in 4 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what ratio of kids who will experience a traumatic event by their 16th birthday? it is an evidence -informed approach for assisting people in the immediate aftermath of a loss, disaster, or exposure to trauma and terrorism. - COR RECT ANSWER>>>>what is psychological first aid pfa 1. reducing initial distress 2. fostering short term adaptive functioning 3. fostering long -term adaptive functioning - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what will the pfa approach assist with sexual abuse, physical, p sychological maltreatment, neglect, community violence, school violence, domestic, traumatic grief, natural or man -made disaster, terrorism, medical trauma, and refugee trauma. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what are the types of trauma? 1. recurrent physical abuse 2. recurrent emotional abse 3. sexual abuse 4. emotional or physical neglect 5. an alcohol or drug abuser 6. incarcerated household member 7. someone who is chronically depressed, suicidal, institutionalized or mentally ill 8. mother being treated violent ly 9. one or no biological parents 10. removal from biological parents 11. unplanned placement moves 12. three or more placements in an 18 month period - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what are adverse childhood experiences - aces? mental health affects, substance abuse, HIV/STD risks, physical health, trauma and academics. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what are the lifelong effects of trauma? eating disturbances, irritable - difficulty soothing, developmental regression, language delay, attachment disorder, failure to thrive , sleep disturbance. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>responses to trauma in infants? helplesness and passivity, generalized fear, confusion, difficulty planning, difficulty identifying what is bothering them, attributing magical qualities to traumatic reminders, fighting or threatening behavior, attention problems, sadness/depression, sepa ration anxiety, specific fears. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>responses to trauma in young children? antisocial behavior, runaway, depression/suicidal, sleep disorders, absenteeism, acting like a parent to siblings, eating disorders, dating violence, substance abus e, school failure, relationship problems. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>responses to trauma in adolescents? positive, tolerable, and toxic - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what are the three types of stress? moderate, short -lived stress response - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>positive st ress? more intense stress responses that allow enough time to recover, or occur in a relatively safe environment with the presence of supportive adults. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>tolerable stress? strong, frequent or prolonged activation of the body's stress m anagement system, without access to supportive adults. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>toxic stress? the brain expands 2.5 times and continues to develop through adolescents - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>how much does the brain grow during the first 2 years of life? body's ba sic functions such as: breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure, and stress response - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what are the brainstem and midbrain responsible for? more complex functioning such as feeling and thinking - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>limbic and cortex responsib ilities? greater risk of delinquency and high school drop out, increase depressive attitudes, decreased sense of belonging, decreased likelihood of permanent placement, feeling kidnapped, loss, child guilt. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>effects of placement on children? 1. identifying trauma when it occurs and prevent it from reoccurring 2. provide early intervention to trauma victims 3. provide the child with a healthy and responsive caregiver as soon as possible - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>what are the 3 steps to reduc e impact of trauma? traumatic incidents tend to produce discrete conditioned behavioral and biological responses to reminders of the trauma. EX: witnessing and being unable to stop an adult from severely beating a child; witness a criminal act - CORRECT A NSWER>>>>what is isolated - acute trauma? trauma interferes with neurobiological development and the capacity to integrate sensory, emotional, and cognitive info into a cohesive whole. Involves interpersonal relationships and the failure of primary caretak ers to protect or nurture. EX: ongoing
