CANS EXAM YEAR 2024/2025 / ACCURATE CURRENTLY
TESTING EXAM VERSIONS WITH ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
DETA ILED ANSWERS WITH A STUDY GUIDE / EXPORT
VERIFIED FOR GURANTEED PASS/ LATEST UPDATE.
When the permanency goal is returning home, guardianship, independence, cannot be provided
for in home environment or status pending: - CORRECT ANSWER Assess the parent every
three months in coordination with the quarterly family meeting
Assess the substitute caregiver every six months
When the permanency goal is adoption, guardianship, or independence and the birth parent is no
longer interested in reunification or services: - CORRECT ANSWER Assess the substitute
caregiver every six months
8 illinois protective factors - CORRECT ANSWER Safety
Knowledge of parenting and child dev.
Identification and use of concrete supports in times of need
Positive family, community and social connections
Ability to nurture social and emotional competence of children
Factors contributing to parent/caregiver resilience
Commitment to permanency plan goal (caregivers only)
Commitment to permanency plan goal (parents only).
,CANS (Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths) - CORRECT ANSWER A tool that is
divided into two modules, consisting of 10 domains, compared of 139 assessment items.
The two modules assess child functioning, and parents and/or caregiver ability to meet the child's
needs.
Provides a comprehensive list of services needed for the purpose of the assessment, service
referral, client service planning, case management, court determinations, and case review of
progress
Why use CANS? - CORRECT ANSWER Serves as a casework tool to record the summary of all
client information that has ben collected for purposes of identifying the specific safety, well-
being and permanency needs of the child and family
Easy
Comprehensive
Decisive
What are the 10 domains of CANS - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Trauma experiences
2. Parent/caregiver Needs and Strengths
3. Transition to adulthood
4. Ratings of children 0-5
5. Child risk behaviors
6. Child behavioral/emotional needs
7. Traumatic stress syndrome
8. Child strengths
9. Life domain functioning
10. Acculturation
Scoring - CORRECT ANSWER Rating Scale 0-3
,Action Levels for Needs
0 = no evidence, no need for action
1 = watchful waiting/prevention, suspicious or emerging need
2 = action (need is interfering in some way)
3 = immediate or intensive action; dangerous level
Action Levels for Strengths
0 = a centerpiece strength/powerful strength on which to build
1 = a useful strength for planning and an opportunity for strength development.
2 = an identified strength requiring further development for use in case planning
3 = no known strength, a need for significant strength identification/or creation
CANS - Caregiver Needs and Strengths Domain - CORRECT ANSWER The CANS Caregiver
items consider the parents' and the substitute caregivers' ability to recognize, support and meet
the needs of the involved children.
Strength focus
Family involvement
Early reunification.
26 leading health indicators. These indicators are organized into 12 topic areas on quality of life,
healthy behaviors, and healthy human development across the life span.
Health Beliefs Model
Rosenstock (1966, 1990) - CORRECT ANSWER = "why some people change their health
behaviors while others do not."
Three components:
, 1. An evaluation of one's vulnerability to a condition and the seriousness of that condition
2. An evaluation of how effective the health maintenance behavior might be
3. The presence of a trigger event that precipitates the health maintenance behavior
Self-Efficacy Concept
Bandura (1997) - CORRECT ANSWER Self-efficacy is the belief in oneself as having the
ability to modify behavior
Four components for effective lifestyle change:
1) Information
2) Skill development
3) Skill enhancement through guided practice and feedback
4) Creating social supports for change
Also described a type of socialization, modeling, which is useful when learning any new
behavior (1977).
Locus of control: - CORRECT ANSWER People tend to be influenced by either internal or
external view of control.
-Health is internally controlled. Belief that health is controlled by what they themselves do.
OR
-Health is externally controlled. Belief that health is determined by outside factors.
Holistic nursing care: - CORRECT ANSWER nourishes the whole person - the body, mind, and
spirit.
Eight factors contribute to holistic approach to nursing:
TESTING EXAM VERSIONS WITH ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
DETA ILED ANSWERS WITH A STUDY GUIDE / EXPORT
VERIFIED FOR GURANTEED PASS/ LATEST UPDATE.
When the permanency goal is returning home, guardianship, independence, cannot be provided
for in home environment or status pending: - CORRECT ANSWER Assess the parent every
three months in coordination with the quarterly family meeting
Assess the substitute caregiver every six months
When the permanency goal is adoption, guardianship, or independence and the birth parent is no
longer interested in reunification or services: - CORRECT ANSWER Assess the substitute
caregiver every six months
8 illinois protective factors - CORRECT ANSWER Safety
Knowledge of parenting and child dev.
Identification and use of concrete supports in times of need
Positive family, community and social connections
Ability to nurture social and emotional competence of children
Factors contributing to parent/caregiver resilience
Commitment to permanency plan goal (caregivers only)
Commitment to permanency plan goal (parents only).
,CANS (Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths) - CORRECT ANSWER A tool that is
divided into two modules, consisting of 10 domains, compared of 139 assessment items.
The two modules assess child functioning, and parents and/or caregiver ability to meet the child's
needs.
Provides a comprehensive list of services needed for the purpose of the assessment, service
referral, client service planning, case management, court determinations, and case review of
progress
Why use CANS? - CORRECT ANSWER Serves as a casework tool to record the summary of all
client information that has ben collected for purposes of identifying the specific safety, well-
being and permanency needs of the child and family
Easy
Comprehensive
Decisive
What are the 10 domains of CANS - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Trauma experiences
2. Parent/caregiver Needs and Strengths
3. Transition to adulthood
4. Ratings of children 0-5
5. Child risk behaviors
6. Child behavioral/emotional needs
7. Traumatic stress syndrome
8. Child strengths
9. Life domain functioning
10. Acculturation
Scoring - CORRECT ANSWER Rating Scale 0-3
,Action Levels for Needs
0 = no evidence, no need for action
1 = watchful waiting/prevention, suspicious or emerging need
2 = action (need is interfering in some way)
3 = immediate or intensive action; dangerous level
Action Levels for Strengths
0 = a centerpiece strength/powerful strength on which to build
1 = a useful strength for planning and an opportunity for strength development.
2 = an identified strength requiring further development for use in case planning
3 = no known strength, a need for significant strength identification/or creation
CANS - Caregiver Needs and Strengths Domain - CORRECT ANSWER The CANS Caregiver
items consider the parents' and the substitute caregivers' ability to recognize, support and meet
the needs of the involved children.
Strength focus
Family involvement
Early reunification.
26 leading health indicators. These indicators are organized into 12 topic areas on quality of life,
healthy behaviors, and healthy human development across the life span.
Health Beliefs Model
Rosenstock (1966, 1990) - CORRECT ANSWER = "why some people change their health
behaviors while others do not."
Three components:
, 1. An evaluation of one's vulnerability to a condition and the seriousness of that condition
2. An evaluation of how effective the health maintenance behavior might be
3. The presence of a trigger event that precipitates the health maintenance behavior
Self-Efficacy Concept
Bandura (1997) - CORRECT ANSWER Self-efficacy is the belief in oneself as having the
ability to modify behavior
Four components for effective lifestyle change:
1) Information
2) Skill development
3) Skill enhancement through guided practice and feedback
4) Creating social supports for change
Also described a type of socialization, modeling, which is useful when learning any new
behavior (1977).
Locus of control: - CORRECT ANSWER People tend to be influenced by either internal or
external view of control.
-Health is internally controlled. Belief that health is controlled by what they themselves do.
OR
-Health is externally controlled. Belief that health is determined by outside factors.
Holistic nursing care: - CORRECT ANSWER nourishes the whole person - the body, mind, and
spirit.
Eight factors contribute to holistic approach to nursing:
