CWEL COMPLETE STUDY SHEET
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
PREMIUM PREPARATION MATERIAL
●● Family-Centered practice
Answer: Family-centered practice focuses on helping children remain
connected to their parents, and extended family
●● Trauma-Informed Care
Answer: The trauma lens: Understand the impact of trauma on a child's
development and behavior.
●● Strengths-based practice
Answer: Strength-based practice helps families identify and build on
their strengths when planning services.
●● Family connectedness
Answer: Identifying, linking, supporting and enabling relationships,
contacts, interactions and other means between and among family
member in order to strengthen the family as a unit.
●● Culture and identity
,Answer: Youth in kinship foster home placements have a stronger sense
of ethnic identity than those in non-relative placements.
●● Visitation & shared parenting
Answer: visits can minimize the impact of trauma and promote lasting
connections!
Visits between a child or children in care and their parents and/or
extended family members provide us with additional opportunities to
evaluate progress towards permanency.... During visits, parents have the
opportunity to apply newly acquired skills and receive feedback. Visits
also provide professionals involved with the family opportunities to
identify strengths and give feedback about attempts to utilize new
parenting approaches. Furthermore, ongoing family interactions provide
opportunities to help maintain specific cultural traditions or practices
that are important to the child and family and may be supports for them.
●● Family-Centered communication skills
Answer: - Shared understanding of the problems/needs at hand...
- Collaboration among the professionals and with the family...
- Commitment to specific tasks by each party [including the family and
the professionals]...
- Consider how(not if) culture influences the interactions, observations
and understanding of the meeting at-hand.
,●● Child and Family Team Meetings
Answer: Child and Family Team Meetings (CFTM) should be the center
of casework activities. We need everyone who participates in all the
other circles depicted here to support the CFTM and recommend that
decision made during these meetings be brought back to the CFTM.
●● Engagement
Answer: As we are engaging the family we obtain more information
about the family's history and potential members for the Child and
Family Team. A parent may be able to give further information about
their family and potentially a missing parent and their family.
●● Full-disclosure
Answer: Family members need to have all of the information disclosed
to them so they can make their own decisions.
●● Open participation
Answer: Parents select who they want to be a part of their Child and
Family Team.
●● Collaboration
Answer: Involvement of the family in all aspects of case planning.
●● Planning for permanency
, Answer: Planning for permanency is the focus of all Child and Family
Team Meetings.
●● Definition of trauma
Answer: Medically, "trauma" refers to a serious or critical bodily injury,
wound, or shock. This definition is often associated with trauma
medicine practiced in emergency rooms. Psychiatrically, "trauma" has
assumed a different meaning and refers to a child's experience of an
event that is emotionally painful, distressful, or shocking, which often
results in lasting mental and physical effects.
●● Prevalence of childhood trauma
Answer: Nationally, 4 out of 10 children report witnessing violence.
One in four children will experience a traumatic event before they reach
their 16th birthday.
High number of teens have witnessed violence or experienced physical
or sexual abuse.
●● Psychological First Aid (PFA)
Answer: The PFA Approach will assist with:
- Reducing initial distress
- Fostering short term adaptive functioning
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
PREMIUM PREPARATION MATERIAL
●● Family-Centered practice
Answer: Family-centered practice focuses on helping children remain
connected to their parents, and extended family
●● Trauma-Informed Care
Answer: The trauma lens: Understand the impact of trauma on a child's
development and behavior.
●● Strengths-based practice
Answer: Strength-based practice helps families identify and build on
their strengths when planning services.
●● Family connectedness
Answer: Identifying, linking, supporting and enabling relationships,
contacts, interactions and other means between and among family
member in order to strengthen the family as a unit.
●● Culture and identity
,Answer: Youth in kinship foster home placements have a stronger sense
of ethnic identity than those in non-relative placements.
●● Visitation & shared parenting
Answer: visits can minimize the impact of trauma and promote lasting
connections!
Visits between a child or children in care and their parents and/or
extended family members provide us with additional opportunities to
evaluate progress towards permanency.... During visits, parents have the
opportunity to apply newly acquired skills and receive feedback. Visits
also provide professionals involved with the family opportunities to
identify strengths and give feedback about attempts to utilize new
parenting approaches. Furthermore, ongoing family interactions provide
opportunities to help maintain specific cultural traditions or practices
that are important to the child and family and may be supports for them.
●● Family-Centered communication skills
Answer: - Shared understanding of the problems/needs at hand...
- Collaboration among the professionals and with the family...
- Commitment to specific tasks by each party [including the family and
the professionals]...
- Consider how(not if) culture influences the interactions, observations
and understanding of the meeting at-hand.
,●● Child and Family Team Meetings
Answer: Child and Family Team Meetings (CFTM) should be the center
of casework activities. We need everyone who participates in all the
other circles depicted here to support the CFTM and recommend that
decision made during these meetings be brought back to the CFTM.
●● Engagement
Answer: As we are engaging the family we obtain more information
about the family's history and potential members for the Child and
Family Team. A parent may be able to give further information about
their family and potentially a missing parent and their family.
●● Full-disclosure
Answer: Family members need to have all of the information disclosed
to them so they can make their own decisions.
●● Open participation
Answer: Parents select who they want to be a part of their Child and
Family Team.
●● Collaboration
Answer: Involvement of the family in all aspects of case planning.
●● Planning for permanency
, Answer: Planning for permanency is the focus of all Child and Family
Team Meetings.
●● Definition of trauma
Answer: Medically, "trauma" refers to a serious or critical bodily injury,
wound, or shock. This definition is often associated with trauma
medicine practiced in emergency rooms. Psychiatrically, "trauma" has
assumed a different meaning and refers to a child's experience of an
event that is emotionally painful, distressful, or shocking, which often
results in lasting mental and physical effects.
●● Prevalence of childhood trauma
Answer: Nationally, 4 out of 10 children report witnessing violence.
One in four children will experience a traumatic event before they reach
their 16th birthday.
High number of teens have witnessed violence or experienced physical
or sexual abuse.
●● Psychological First Aid (PFA)
Answer: The PFA Approach will assist with:
- Reducing initial distress
- Fostering short term adaptive functioning
