CWEL & CANS exam QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS 2025(GRADED A+)
DETAILED ANSWERS!!
3 outcomes - ✔✔safety, permanency, well-being
3 phases of integrated assessment - ✔✔-Initial assessment prior to case opening
-Integrated assessment
-ongoing integrated assessment
4 stages of assessment - ✔✔-Information Gathering
-Information analysis
-Drawing conclusions
-Decision making
4 stages of of interviewing - ✔✔-Social
-Problem Definition/needs identification
-Focus
-Closure
9 domains to determine child well being - ✔✔safety
physical needs
family attachment
socialization
cultural and spiritual
emotional/psychological
,health
education/vocational
legal
Abandoned newborn infant - ✔✔"safe haven act"
Allows an infant 30 days old or less to be relinquished to a hospital, police
station, or emergency medical facility without question or consequence to the
parents
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA) - ✔✔Guides the day by day
work of child professionals in Illinois
Defines abuse, neglect, how to report allegations, mandated reporters, how to
accept and investigate reports and provide follow up services
Adjudicatory Hearings - ✔✔-trials that should occur within 90 days after
temporary custody hearings
-Judge decides if the evidence presented shows that the child was abused,
neglected, or is dependent
Adoption Act - ✔✔Specifies the grounds for parental unfitness and procedures
governing adoption of children
Adoption and safe families act (ASFA) - ✔✔Amends title IV-E to require efforts
to move a child to permanency, requiring judicial permanency hearing for
children no later than 12 months after the child enters child care
, Adoption or Attainment of Permanent living arrangements - ✔✔Services
directed at securing new legal status in permanent living situations such as
adoption or guardianship when children cannot return home
Affirmative Action - ✔✔May not discriminate in recruiting or hiring
Aristotle - ✔✔Diligent search to locate joint placement for siblings
Assessment - ✔✔-Focuses on the child safety, well being, and the need for
permanency planning and intervention
-Provides the basis for determining if the family's care of the children is at or
above an established threshold for safety and developmental opportunity
Attachment and bonding - ✔✔-Attachment is the basis for all human
development and is essential for the survival of human infants
-Many children require interventions for attachment issues
-Bonding is the initial tie that develops between newborns and their mother
(continues through feeding and holding immediately after birth)
-Attachment is a result of children expressing their needs and the mother
satisfying those needs every time they are expressed
Bates - ✔✔Weekly parent/child visitation
BH - ✔✔Standard of care
Burgos - ✔✔Spanish speaking client services
DETAILED ANSWERS!!
3 outcomes - ✔✔safety, permanency, well-being
3 phases of integrated assessment - ✔✔-Initial assessment prior to case opening
-Integrated assessment
-ongoing integrated assessment
4 stages of assessment - ✔✔-Information Gathering
-Information analysis
-Drawing conclusions
-Decision making
4 stages of of interviewing - ✔✔-Social
-Problem Definition/needs identification
-Focus
-Closure
9 domains to determine child well being - ✔✔safety
physical needs
family attachment
socialization
cultural and spiritual
emotional/psychological
,health
education/vocational
legal
Abandoned newborn infant - ✔✔"safe haven act"
Allows an infant 30 days old or less to be relinquished to a hospital, police
station, or emergency medical facility without question or consequence to the
parents
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA) - ✔✔Guides the day by day
work of child professionals in Illinois
Defines abuse, neglect, how to report allegations, mandated reporters, how to
accept and investigate reports and provide follow up services
Adjudicatory Hearings - ✔✔-trials that should occur within 90 days after
temporary custody hearings
-Judge decides if the evidence presented shows that the child was abused,
neglected, or is dependent
Adoption Act - ✔✔Specifies the grounds for parental unfitness and procedures
governing adoption of children
Adoption and safe families act (ASFA) - ✔✔Amends title IV-E to require efforts
to move a child to permanency, requiring judicial permanency hearing for
children no later than 12 months after the child enters child care
, Adoption or Attainment of Permanent living arrangements - ✔✔Services
directed at securing new legal status in permanent living situations such as
adoption or guardianship when children cannot return home
Affirmative Action - ✔✔May not discriminate in recruiting or hiring
Aristotle - ✔✔Diligent search to locate joint placement for siblings
Assessment - ✔✔-Focuses on the child safety, well being, and the need for
permanency planning and intervention
-Provides the basis for determining if the family's care of the children is at or
above an established threshold for safety and developmental opportunity
Attachment and bonding - ✔✔-Attachment is the basis for all human
development and is essential for the survival of human infants
-Many children require interventions for attachment issues
-Bonding is the initial tie that develops between newborns and their mother
(continues through feeding and holding immediately after birth)
-Attachment is a result of children expressing their needs and the mother
satisfying those needs every time they are expressed
Bates - ✔✔Weekly parent/child visitation
BH - ✔✔Standard of care
Burgos - ✔✔Spanish speaking client services
