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FTS
✓ -:- Family Centered, Trauma Informed, and Strength Based
Child and Family Team Meeting (CFTM)
✓ -:- Meeting between the professional helpers, family members, and
community supports of a child to discuss the case and plan for ways to
help the child and family succeed. May or may not include the child
themself
Full Disclosure
✓ -:- Providing family members with all of the information available
Open Participation
✓ -:- Parents select who they want to be a part of their child & family
team
Collaboration
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✓ -:- Involving the family in all aspects of case planning
Planning for permanency
✓ -:- The focus of all CFTM
Trauma
✓ -:- a child's experience of an event that is emotionally painful,
distressful, or shocking which often results in lasting mental and physical
effects
Psychological First Aid (PFA)
✓ -:- Assists with reducing initial distress, fostering s hort term adaptive
functioning, and fostering long term adaptive functioning
Sexual Abuse
✓ -:- A wide range of sexual behaviors that take place between a child and
an older person
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Physical Abuse
✓ -:- Actual or attempted infliction of bodily pain and/or injury
Psychological Maltreatment
✓ -:- Acts or omissions by parents or caregivers that caused, or could
cause, serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders
Neglect
✓ -:- The failure to provide needed, age -appropriate care although
financially able to do so
Types of Child Trauma
✓ -:- Sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological maltreatment, and neglect
ACES
✓ -:- Adverse Childhood Experiences
Three Types of Stress
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✓ -:- Positive stress, tolerable stress, and toxic stress
Positive Stress
✓ -:- Moderate, short-lived stress responses
Tolerable Stress
✓ -:- More intense stress responses that allow enough time to recover, or
occur in a relatively safe environment with the p resence of supportive
adults
Toxic Stress
✓ -:- Strong, frequent or prolonged activation of the body's stress
management system, without access to supportive adults
Isolated Trauma (Acute)
✓ -:- Traumatic incidents that tend to produce discrete condition ed
behavioral and biological responses to reminders of the trauma
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Illinois CWEL Study Guide Questions and
Correct Answers | Latest Update
FTS
✓ -:- Family Centered, Trauma Informed, and Strength Based
Child and Family Team Meeting (CFTM)
✓ -:- Meeting between the professional helpers, family members, and
community supports of a child to discuss the case and plan for ways to
help the child and family succeed. May or may not include the child
themself
Full Disclosure
✓ -:- Providing family members with all of the information available
Open Participation
✓ -:- Parents select who they want to be a part of their child & family
team
Collaboration
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✓ -:- Involving the family in all aspects of case planning
Planning for permanency
✓ -:- The focus of all CFTM
Trauma
✓ -:- a child's experience of an event that is emotionally painful,
distressful, or shocking which often results in lasting mental and physical
effects
Psychological First Aid (PFA)
✓ -:- Assists with reducing initial distress, fostering s hort term adaptive
functioning, and fostering long term adaptive functioning
Sexual Abuse
✓ -:- A wide range of sexual behaviors that take place between a child and
an older person
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Physical Abuse
✓ -:- Actual or attempted infliction of bodily pain and/or injury
Psychological Maltreatment
✓ -:- Acts or omissions by parents or caregivers that caused, or could
cause, serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders
Neglect
✓ -:- The failure to provide needed, age -appropriate care although
financially able to do so
Types of Child Trauma
✓ -:- Sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological maltreatment, and neglect
ACES
✓ -:- Adverse Childhood Experiences
Three Types of Stress
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✓ -:- Positive stress, tolerable stress, and toxic stress
Positive Stress
✓ -:- Moderate, short-lived stress responses
Tolerable Stress
✓ -:- More intense stress responses that allow enough time to recover, or
occur in a relatively safe environment with the p resence of supportive
adults
Toxic Stress
✓ -:- Strong, frequent or prolonged activation of the body's stress
management system, without access to supportive adults
Isolated Trauma (Acute)
✓ -:- Traumatic incidents that tend to produce discrete condition ed
behavioral and biological responses to reminders of the trauma
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