CWEL & CANS ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026
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1. Who needs a child welfare license? - ANSWER ✓ Anyone who works in
child welfare in Illinois
2. 3 outcomes - ANSWER ✓ Safety, Permanency, Well-being
3. Domains of Human Development - ANSWER ✓ -Physical Development
-Cognitive Development
-Emotional development
-Social development
-Sexual development
4. Stages of human development - ANSWER ✓ -Autonomy vs shame (will)
-Initiative vs guilt (purpose)
-Industry vs inferiority (competence)
-Identity vs identity diffusion (fidelity)
-Intimacy vs isolation (love)
-Generativity vs self absorption (care)
-Integrity vs despair (wisdom)
5. Family Life Cycle - ANSWER ✓ -Describes the stages families go through
over time
-Child welfare professionals consider family life cycles in assessing the need
for families and planning for services
6. Attachment and bonding - ANSWER ✓ -Basis for all human development
and is essential for the survival of human infants
-A result of children expressing their needs and the mother satisfying those
needs every time they are expressed
,7. Bonding - ANSWER ✓ Initial tie that develops between newborn babies and
their mothers.
8. Research indicates that itis based on an innate, physiological drive of
mothers and their babies to recognize each other and to be emotionally
linked to each other.
9. Continues through the close contact of feeding and holding immediately
after birt
10.Separation - ANSWER ✓ The change that occurs with the breakup in a
relationship
11.Loss - ANSWER ✓ The effect on people when something important is
withdrawn
12.Grief Process - ANSWER ✓ Shock, denial, and protest During this stage,
people try to stop losses from occurring or try to deny that losses have
occurred. Children in this stage, they may cry often, long, and loudly.
Bargaining Individuals in this stage feel that they can make deals so the
situation will go away. There are usually feelings of guilt at this stage.
Children in substitute care often bargain by believing they are in substitute
care because they are "no good." Then they bargain that they will be good or
refrain from what they have identified as "bad" behavior.
Acting out In this stage, anger is turned outward, and individuals engage in
angry and hostile behaviors.
Children may use profanity, fight, disobey, or outwardly express their anger.
Depression Anger turned inward is
Understanding and Coping The understanding and coping stage is the
beginning of "letting go" of the powerful feelings of grief.
13.9 domains to determine child well being - ANSWER ✓ safety
physical needs
family attachment
, socialization
cultural and spiritual
emotional/psychological
health
education/vocational
legal
14.Engagement - ANSWER ✓ -Manner of interacting with an their individual
for the purpose of encouraging participation
15.-Process of establishing one to one interpersonal connections with
individuals and families
16.Helping relationships - ANSWER ✓ -Geared toward alleviating the causes
of child maltreatment and making choices about the future of children and
their families
17.Core conditions of helping relationships - ANSWER ✓ Empathy
genuineness
respect
competence
18.Characteristics of family systems approach - ANSWER ✓ Starts with the
premise that individuals have "connectiveness" to others in their lives,
particularly their family members
-Structure and Hierarchy
-Powerful rules of conduct
-Set of politics
-boundaries
-Habitual patterns
-history
-Influences from the outside
-Tendency to resist change
19.What research found about Fathers - ANSWER ✓ The overwhelming
majority had informal supports on which they could rely to help themselves
and their child and family
, 20.Child Welfare Professionals as Change Agents - ANSWER ✓ -Conduct
assessments
- Act as brokers for services
- Advocate for services
- Implement service plans
- Provide leadership and support to all member of child welfare teams
- Help families identify their own problems
- Help families recognize their strengths
- Help families find solutions to problems
- Identify short term services
21.Life-Span Approach - ANSWER ✓ In most people's lives, such things as
alertness, vigor, and physical and mental wellbeing change as aging occurs.
Plans made at one point in a family's life may no longer be workable years
down the line. This will be true more frequently with older caregivers
22.Back-up Planning - ANSWER ✓ Plan the caregiver (and extended family)
have developed for ongoing care for the child if the time comes when the
older caregiver can no longer care for the child.
23.Plan should be specific, in writing, and legal if possible (standby or short
term adoption or guardianship).
24.Research also indicates that the singlemost significant factor in achieving
family reunification is - ANSWER ✓ The occurrence of parent/children
visits.
25.Interviewing - ANSWER ✓ -Communication to ensure the child's safety and
well being and to plan for permanency
-Ability to interview children
-Professionals should convey a sense of positive regard for the children and
parents
26.4 stages of of interviewing - ANSWER ✓ -Social
-Problem Definition/needs identification
-Focus
-Closure
Complete Questions With Verified
Correct Solutions || 100 %
Guaranteed Pass!! <Latest Version>
1. Who needs a child welfare license? - ANSWER ✓ Anyone who works in
child welfare in Illinois
2. 3 outcomes - ANSWER ✓ Safety, Permanency, Well-being
3. Domains of Human Development - ANSWER ✓ -Physical Development
-Cognitive Development
-Emotional development
-Social development
-Sexual development
4. Stages of human development - ANSWER ✓ -Autonomy vs shame (will)
-Initiative vs guilt (purpose)
-Industry vs inferiority (competence)
-Identity vs identity diffusion (fidelity)
-Intimacy vs isolation (love)
-Generativity vs self absorption (care)
-Integrity vs despair (wisdom)
5. Family Life Cycle - ANSWER ✓ -Describes the stages families go through
over time
-Child welfare professionals consider family life cycles in assessing the need
for families and planning for services
6. Attachment and bonding - ANSWER ✓ -Basis for all human development
and is essential for the survival of human infants
-A result of children expressing their needs and the mother satisfying those
needs every time they are expressed
,7. Bonding - ANSWER ✓ Initial tie that develops between newborn babies and
their mothers.
8. Research indicates that itis based on an innate, physiological drive of
mothers and their babies to recognize each other and to be emotionally
linked to each other.
9. Continues through the close contact of feeding and holding immediately
after birt
10.Separation - ANSWER ✓ The change that occurs with the breakup in a
relationship
11.Loss - ANSWER ✓ The effect on people when something important is
withdrawn
12.Grief Process - ANSWER ✓ Shock, denial, and protest During this stage,
people try to stop losses from occurring or try to deny that losses have
occurred. Children in this stage, they may cry often, long, and loudly.
Bargaining Individuals in this stage feel that they can make deals so the
situation will go away. There are usually feelings of guilt at this stage.
Children in substitute care often bargain by believing they are in substitute
care because they are "no good." Then they bargain that they will be good or
refrain from what they have identified as "bad" behavior.
Acting out In this stage, anger is turned outward, and individuals engage in
angry and hostile behaviors.
Children may use profanity, fight, disobey, or outwardly express their anger.
Depression Anger turned inward is
Understanding and Coping The understanding and coping stage is the
beginning of "letting go" of the powerful feelings of grief.
13.9 domains to determine child well being - ANSWER ✓ safety
physical needs
family attachment
, socialization
cultural and spiritual
emotional/psychological
health
education/vocational
legal
14.Engagement - ANSWER ✓ -Manner of interacting with an their individual
for the purpose of encouraging participation
15.-Process of establishing one to one interpersonal connections with
individuals and families
16.Helping relationships - ANSWER ✓ -Geared toward alleviating the causes
of child maltreatment and making choices about the future of children and
their families
17.Core conditions of helping relationships - ANSWER ✓ Empathy
genuineness
respect
competence
18.Characteristics of family systems approach - ANSWER ✓ Starts with the
premise that individuals have "connectiveness" to others in their lives,
particularly their family members
-Structure and Hierarchy
-Powerful rules of conduct
-Set of politics
-boundaries
-Habitual patterns
-history
-Influences from the outside
-Tendency to resist change
19.What research found about Fathers - ANSWER ✓ The overwhelming
majority had informal supports on which they could rely to help themselves
and their child and family
, 20.Child Welfare Professionals as Change Agents - ANSWER ✓ -Conduct
assessments
- Act as brokers for services
- Advocate for services
- Implement service plans
- Provide leadership and support to all member of child welfare teams
- Help families identify their own problems
- Help families recognize their strengths
- Help families find solutions to problems
- Identify short term services
21.Life-Span Approach - ANSWER ✓ In most people's lives, such things as
alertness, vigor, and physical and mental wellbeing change as aging occurs.
Plans made at one point in a family's life may no longer be workable years
down the line. This will be true more frequently with older caregivers
22.Back-up Planning - ANSWER ✓ Plan the caregiver (and extended family)
have developed for ongoing care for the child if the time comes when the
older caregiver can no longer care for the child.
23.Plan should be specific, in writing, and legal if possible (standby or short
term adoption or guardianship).
24.Research also indicates that the singlemost significant factor in achieving
family reunification is - ANSWER ✓ The occurrence of parent/children
visits.
25.Interviewing - ANSWER ✓ -Communication to ensure the child's safety and
well being and to plan for permanency
-Ability to interview children
-Professionals should convey a sense of positive regard for the children and
parents
26.4 stages of of interviewing - ANSWER ✓ -Social
-Problem Definition/needs identification
-Focus
-Closure
