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CWEL ILLINOIS EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
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FTS - Answer-Family Centered, Trauma Informed, and
Strength Based
Child and Family Team Meeting (CFTM) - Answer-Meeting
between the professional helpers, family members, and
community supports of a child to discuss the case and
plan for ways to help the child and family succeed. May or
may not include the child themself
Full Disclosure - Answer-Providing family members with all
of the information available
Open Participation - Answer-Parents select who they want
to be a part of their child & family team
Collaboration - Answer-Involving the family in all aspects
of case planning
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Planning for permanency - Answer-The focus of all CFTM
Trauma - Answer-a child's experience of an event that is
emotionally painful, distressful, or shocking which often
results in lasting mental and physical effects
Psychological First Aid (PFA) - Answer-Assists with
reducing initial distress, fostering short term adaptive
functioning, and fostering long term adaptive functioning
Sexual Abuse - Answer-A wide range of sexual behaviors
that take place between a child and an older person
Physical Abuse - Answer-Actual or attempted infliction of
bodily pain and/or injury
Psychological Maltreatment - Answer-Acts or omissions by
parents or caregivers that caused, or could cause, serious
behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders
Neglect - Answer-The failure to provide needed, age-
appropriate care although financially able to do so
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Types of Child Trauma - Answer-Sexual abuse, physical
abuse, psychological maltreatment, and neglect
ACES - Answer-Adverse Childhood Experiences
Three Types of Stress - Answer-Positive stress, tolerable
stress, and toxic stress
Positive Stress - Answer-Moderate, short-lived stress
responses
Tolerable Stress - Answer-More intense stress responses
that allow enough time to recover, or occur in a relatively
safe environment with the presence of supportive adults
Toxic Stress - Answer-Strong, frequent or prolonged
activation of the body's stress management system,
without access to supportive adults
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Isolated Trauma (Acute) - Answer-Traumatic incidents that
tend to produce discrete conditioned behavioral and
biological responses to reminders of the trauma
Complex Trauma (Chronic) - Answer-Interferes with
neurobiological development and the capacity to integrate
sensory, emotional, and cognitive information into a
cohesive whole
Examples of Protective Factors - Answer-Parental
resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and
child development, social and emotional competence of
children, parent-child relationship
Orphan Train Movement - Answer-Placed orphans from
eastern cities with Midwestern farm families
Children's Bureau - Answer-The first federal agency
concerned with the welfare of children
DCFS - Answer-Department of Children and Family
Services
CWEL ILLINOIS EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+||NEW VERSION!!
FTS - Answer-Family Centered, Trauma Informed, and
Strength Based
Child and Family Team Meeting (CFTM) - Answer-Meeting
between the professional helpers, family members, and
community supports of a child to discuss the case and
plan for ways to help the child and family succeed. May or
may not include the child themself
Full Disclosure - Answer-Providing family members with all
of the information available
Open Participation - Answer-Parents select who they want
to be a part of their child & family team
Collaboration - Answer-Involving the family in all aspects
of case planning
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Planning for permanency - Answer-The focus of all CFTM
Trauma - Answer-a child's experience of an event that is
emotionally painful, distressful, or shocking which often
results in lasting mental and physical effects
Psychological First Aid (PFA) - Answer-Assists with
reducing initial distress, fostering short term adaptive
functioning, and fostering long term adaptive functioning
Sexual Abuse - Answer-A wide range of sexual behaviors
that take place between a child and an older person
Physical Abuse - Answer-Actual or attempted infliction of
bodily pain and/or injury
Psychological Maltreatment - Answer-Acts or omissions by
parents or caregivers that caused, or could cause, serious
behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders
Neglect - Answer-The failure to provide needed, age-
appropriate care although financially able to do so
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Types of Child Trauma - Answer-Sexual abuse, physical
abuse, psychological maltreatment, and neglect
ACES - Answer-Adverse Childhood Experiences
Three Types of Stress - Answer-Positive stress, tolerable
stress, and toxic stress
Positive Stress - Answer-Moderate, short-lived stress
responses
Tolerable Stress - Answer-More intense stress responses
that allow enough time to recover, or occur in a relatively
safe environment with the presence of supportive adults
Toxic Stress - Answer-Strong, frequent or prolonged
activation of the body's stress management system,
without access to supportive adults
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Isolated Trauma (Acute) - Answer-Traumatic incidents that
tend to produce discrete conditioned behavioral and
biological responses to reminders of the trauma
Complex Trauma (Chronic) - Answer-Interferes with
neurobiological development and the capacity to integrate
sensory, emotional, and cognitive information into a
cohesive whole
Examples of Protective Factors - Answer-Parental
resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and
child development, social and emotional competence of
children, parent-child relationship
Orphan Train Movement - Answer-Placed orphans from
eastern cities with Midwestern farm families
Children's Bureau - Answer-The first federal agency
concerned with the welfare of children
DCFS - Answer-Department of Children and Family
Services
