CWEL exam Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide)

9 core child welfare practices - Answer-1. Serve as an agent of change 2. Form a helping relationship with the child and his/her family 3. Conduct initial and ongoing assessment 4. Provide information about the impact of trauma on the child and family 5. Advocate for the child and family 6. Provide behavioral support 7. Linkage to appropriate services 8. Coordinate all child and family services 9. Demonstrate cultural competence 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 provideprofessionals 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