Illinois CWEL ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026 Complete Questions With Verified Correct Solutions || 100 % Guaranteed Pass!! Latest Version

Illinois CWEL ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026 Complete Questions With Verified Correct Solutions || 100 % Guaranteed Pass!! Latest Version 1. Illinois Domestic Violence Act - ANSWER Civil law that allows individuals to request orders of protection against individuals who are inflicting physical abuse or neglect, or exploiting family/household members or high-risk adults 2. Probate Act - ANSWER Governs guardianship of minors and adults 3. What is the dual mandate? - ANSWER Protect children, support families 4. ANCRA - ANSWER Abused and neglected child reporting act 5. ASFA - ANSWER Adoption and safe families act 6. Aristotle vs. McDonald - ANSWER Requires DCFS to make a diligent search to locate joint placement for siblings, as well as place siblings together when possible. 7. Bates vs. McDonald - ANSWER Provide weekly parent child visits, arrange visits to parents homes when possible, establish visitation plans, resolve transportation issues 8. BH vs. McDonald - ANSWER Protects children from harm in DCFS custody. Provides minimal care. 9. Burgos vs. Suter - ANSWER Requires provision of Spanish speaking case workers and requires agencies to hire a certain number of Spanish speaking staff. 10. Hill vs. Erikson - ANSWER Provide adequate care for youth in care who are pregnant or parenting 11. 6 protective factors - ANSWER Existing strengths of the family. Parental resilience (strong and flexible) social connections (parents need friends) knowledge of parenting and child development concrete supports in times or need social and emotional competence of children parent-child relationship 12. Guiding principles for children who have experiences trauma - ANSWER (pyramid from bottom to top) feeling safe (active process), regulating overwhelming emotions, building trust in relationships, making meaning, looking to the future 13. vicarious trauma - ANSWER An occupational hazard for people in the helping professions, where a process of change occurs because you care about other people who have been hurt, and are responsible to help them. 14. 6 protective factors in everyday language - ANSWER 1. Be Strong & Flexible 2. Parents Need Friends 3. Being a Great Parent is Part Natural & Part Learned 4. We All Need Help Sometimes 5. Parents Need to Help Their Children Communicate 6. Give Your Children the Love & Respect They Need 15. Illinois Core Practice Model - ANSWER anchored in a Family Centered, trauma informed, and strength based approach, often times referred to as FTS 16. 9 Core Child Welfare Practices - ANSWER -agent of change -form a helping relationship with the child and his/her family -conduct initial and ongoing assessment -provide information about the impact of trauma -advocate -provide behavioral support -linkage to appropriate services -coordinate all child and family services -cultural competence 17. Without family connectedness child is at risk for - ANSWER instability, depression, and even unemployment and delinquency 18. First child welfare case was in - ANSWER New York 19. DCFS mission statement - ANSWER Protecting children and supporting families is called the dual mandate. Even when children are separated from their families, we do not view the children and their families as separate units and support the children's membership in their families of origin. 20. DCFS is ruled by ____ that become ______ and are made into ______. - ANSWER laws, rules, procedures 21. FTS - ANSWER Family Centered, Trauma Informed, and Strength Based 22. Family Home Licensing Representative - ANSWER Recruit foster families and assist them with obtaining foster parent licenses 23. Fiduciary Relationship - ANSWER a relationship founded on trust and confidence 24. Administrative Case Review (ACR) - ANSWER Assists workers, supervisors, and families in recognzing practical case objectives, reviewing implementation of service plans, documenting family progress, and planning permanency for children 25. Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) - ANSWER Allows staff to obtain information quickly and provides guidance regarding practice expectations 26. Five Domains of Human Development and Behavior - ANSWER Physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and sexual 27. Erikson's Eight Stages of Development - ANSWER 1. trust vs. mistrust 2. autonomy vs. shame and doubt 3. initiative vs. guilt 4. industry vs. inferiority 5. identity vs. role confusion 6. intimacy vs. isolation 7. generativity vs. self-absorption 8. integrity vs. despair 28. Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development - ANSWER Infants and children actively try to organize and make sense of their world 29. Bonding - ANSWER The initial tie that develops between newborn babies and their mothers 30. Attachment - ANSWER Occurs as a result of children expressing their needs and mothers or primary caregivers satisfying the children's needs each time they are expressed 31. Symbiotic Stage - ANSWER Babies see their mothers or primary caregivers as part of themselves 32. Seperation-individuation - ANSWER When children begin to see self and mother as separate entities 33. Attachment Disorder - ANSWER Occurs when children's normal processes of attachment have been disrupted. Children may become severely withdrawn and depressed, or they may be very destructive and aggressive 34. Grief Process - ANSWER Shock, denial, & protest, bargaining, acting out, depression, understanding & coping 35. Nine Domains of Child Well-Being - ANSWER Safety, physical needs, family attachment, socialization, cultural and spiritual, emotional/psychological, health, educational/vocational, legal 36. Family Systems Theory - ANSWER A perspective on family functioning that emphasizes interconnections among different family relationships (such as marital, parent-child, sibling). 37. Change Agents - ANSWER Begin intervention by establishing a relationship with the family so that families may change their behavior and learn healthier patterns of relating to each other and more appropriate discipline techniques 38. Four Stages of Interviewing - ANSWER Social, problem solving/needs identification, focus, and closure 39. Open-Ended Questions - ANSWER Encourage family members to use their own words and elaborate on a topic 40. Closed-Ended Questions - ANSWER Usually limit family members to yes or no answers or questions that can be answered with one or two words 41. Indirect Questions - ANSWER Often incorporate statements that imply questions, e.g. "I wonder if..." or "It would be helpful if..." 42. Three Types of Questions - ANSWER Open-ended, closed-ended, and indirect 43. Positive Reframing - ANSWER Operates under the assumption that there are positive intentions behind most negative acts or behaviors 44. Springboarding - ANSWER Works in tandem with positive reframing. The professional asks questions that follow positive reframing and invites family members to work collaboratively 45. Circular Questions - ANSWER Involve asking one person in the family about another person