Placement specialty exam UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Order of Juvenile court hearings - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Temporary Custody /
Shelter Care Heating
2. Adjudication Hearing
3. Dispositional Hearing
4. Permanency Planning hearings
5. Termination Hearing
6. but anytime. Status and Progress Hearings
Child welfare professionals as change agents help to - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- help
families to identify their own problems and help families to recognize their strengths
Positive reframing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a cognitive-behavioral technique involving
turning negative messages into positive ones
solution-focused questions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- help the client picture a preferred
alternate future
order of placement for a child: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1) with a non-custodial parent
2) with siblings in care
3) with other relatives
4) with foster caregiver
, child and family team meetings - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- frequent meetings with families
and those involved with serving families are required to plan, assess programs, and decide
permanency direction
CANS assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- gathers information about the child, not the
services they need
Dual mandate - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Protecting children and supporting families
4 types of supervision - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Educational: directed toward helping
staff learn what they need to know to carry out their job responsibilities;
2. Supportive: directed toward creating a positive psychological and physical climate for
staff;
3. Administrative: focuses on job performance and how it is related to the agency's mission;
Steps of a placement planning case - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1: The DCFS / SCR (State
Central Registry) is called by a mandated reporter
2: DCP opens the case or CPI
3: Investigation occurs
4: DCP attempts to keep the family reunified
5: Protective Custody (PC) if taken
6: The DCP worker prior to placement takes the child(ren) for a Health Works Screen
7: CAPU (Case assignment Unit)
8: TC (temporary custody) hearing occurs also called the shelter care hearing
9: Handoff from DCP (department of Child Protection) also referred to as CPI (Child
Protection Investigator) to the placement worker (between DCP worker and agency)
10: Placement supervisor assigns case to the placement caseworker.
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