CWEL Test Questions with Verified
Solutions81
Recovery Matrix - ANSWERS -Child Welfare Specialists complete and review the Recovery Matrix
with all parents who have been identified as having an AODA issue that may, or does negatively
impact their parenting. The Recovery Matrix lists progress in substance abuse
treatment and in parent responsibilities. Workers must use the parent's self-report, monthly
AODA treatment provider reports, urine toxicology testing reports, reports from other service
providers, and information obtained from family members when completing the matrix
worksheets.
Clinical Intervention for Placement Preservation (CIPP) - ANSWERS -The Clinical Intervention for
Placement Preservation (CIPP) is a facilitator guided,
team decision-making process to improve placement preservation and increase
placement stability. A CIPP staffing is conducted to determine the array and intensity
of services needed for a child or youth whose current placement is threatened with
disruption or whose care cannot be provided for in his/her current placement.
In a CIPP staffing, the caseworker brings together key people in the child/youth's life,
with the assistance and support of a trained facilitator who leads a discussion sensitive
to the individual needs, motivation and capabilities of the child/youth. Participants are
encouraged to offer their assessment of the child/youth's wishes, needs and strengths and to
generate ideas on how those wishes, needs and strengths can be best addressed, ideally in the
child/youth's current placement.
When the services needed cannot be provided in the current placement, staffing participants
will determine the setting best suited to meet the child/youth's individual needs.
,In these situations, matching the child/youth with placement resources that can meet the
identified needs will be initiated by members of the Centralized Matching Team during the
staffing, whenever possible.
Additionally, caregivers will be
encouraged to participate in the treatment and to remain a placement and/or visiting resource
for the youth when residential, group home care or a transitional living or independent living
program is warranted.
9 core child welfare practices - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -Family-centered practice focuses on helping children
remain connected to their parents, and extended family
Trauma-Informed Care - ANSWERS -The trauma lens: Understand the impact of trauma on a
child's development and behavior.
Strengths-based practice - ANSWERS -Strength-based practice helps families identify and build
on their strengths when planning services.
,Family connectedness - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -Youth in kinship foster home placements have a stronger sense
of ethnic identity than those in non-relative placements.
Visitation & shared parenting - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -- 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 - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -Family members need to have all of the information disclosed to
them so they can make their own decisions.
Open participation - ANSWERS -Parents select who they want to be a part of their Child and
Family Team.
Collaboration - ANSWERS -Involvement of the family in all aspects of case planning.
Planning for permanency - ANSWERS -Planning for permanency is the focus of all Child and
Family
Team Meetings.
Definition of trauma - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -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.
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Recovery Matrix - ANSWERS -Child Welfare Specialists complete and review the Recovery Matrix
with all parents who have been identified as having an AODA issue that may, or does negatively
impact their parenting. The Recovery Matrix lists progress in substance abuse
treatment and in parent responsibilities. Workers must use the parent's self-report, monthly
AODA treatment provider reports, urine toxicology testing reports, reports from other service
providers, and information obtained from family members when completing the matrix
worksheets.
Clinical Intervention for Placement Preservation (CIPP) - ANSWERS -The Clinical Intervention for
Placement Preservation (CIPP) is a facilitator guided,
team decision-making process to improve placement preservation and increase
placement stability. A CIPP staffing is conducted to determine the array and intensity
of services needed for a child or youth whose current placement is threatened with
disruption or whose care cannot be provided for in his/her current placement.
In a CIPP staffing, the caseworker brings together key people in the child/youth's life,
with the assistance and support of a trained facilitator who leads a discussion sensitive
to the individual needs, motivation and capabilities of the child/youth. Participants are
encouraged to offer their assessment of the child/youth's wishes, needs and strengths and to
generate ideas on how those wishes, needs and strengths can be best addressed, ideally in the
child/youth's current placement.
When the services needed cannot be provided in the current placement, staffing participants
will determine the setting best suited to meet the child/youth's individual needs.
,In these situations, matching the child/youth with placement resources that can meet the
identified needs will be initiated by members of the Centralized Matching Team during the
staffing, whenever possible.
Additionally, caregivers will be
encouraged to participate in the treatment and to remain a placement and/or visiting resource
for the youth when residential, group home care or a transitional living or independent living
program is warranted.
9 core child welfare practices - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -Family-centered practice focuses on helping children
remain connected to their parents, and extended family
Trauma-Informed Care - ANSWERS -The trauma lens: Understand the impact of trauma on a
child's development and behavior.
Strengths-based practice - ANSWERS -Strength-based practice helps families identify and build
on their strengths when planning services.
,Family connectedness - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -Youth in kinship foster home placements have a stronger sense
of ethnic identity than those in non-relative placements.
Visitation & shared parenting - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -- 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 - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -Family members need to have all of the information disclosed to
them so they can make their own decisions.
Open participation - ANSWERS -Parents select who they want to be a part of their Child and
Family Team.
Collaboration - ANSWERS -Involvement of the family in all aspects of case planning.
Planning for permanency - ANSWERS -Planning for permanency is the focus of all Child and
Family
Team Meetings.
Definition of trauma - ANSWERS -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 - ANSWERS -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.
