CWEL REVIEW SCRIPT ACCURATE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS EXPERT
VERIFIED CONTENT
●● Illinois Core Practice Model
Answer: anchored in a Family Centered, trauma informed, and strength
based approach, often times referred to as FTS
●● 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
●● Without family connectedness child is at risk for
Answer: instability, depression, and even unemployment and
delinquency
,●● Child and Family Team Meeting
Answer: center of casework activities and how all other staffings, or
mandatory case processes should have information flowing from and
back to the CFTM. 5 key components.
●● CFTM 5 key components
Answer: Engagement, full disclosure, open participation, collaboration,
planning for permanency.
●● Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Answer: growing up (prior to age 18) in a household with stressful or
traumatic experiences, including abuse, neglect, and a range of
household dysfunction, such as witnessing domestic violence or growing
up with substance abuse, mental disorders, parental discord, or crime in
the home, removal or displacement, three or more placements in an 18
month period.
●● Response to trauma throughout development: young children (2.5-6
years)
Answer: helplessness and passivity, generalized fear, confusion,
difficulty identifying what is bothering them, attributing magical
qualities to traumatic reminders, fighting or threatening bx, attention
problems, sadness/depression, separation anxiety, specific fears, low
frustration tolerance, hyperactive, moody, aggressive defiant, lying,
learning disabilities, social problems, suppressed immune system
, ●● Response to trauma throughout development: school age children (6-
11 years)
Answer: physical complaints, bedwetting, school failure/absenteeism,
behavioral problems, attention problems, fighting or threatening bx, guilt
feelings, acting like a parent to siblings, depression, defiant, lying,
stealing, learning disabilities, inappropriate emotional responses, self-
blame, hypersensitivity to physical contact, difficulties coordinating and
balancing
●● Response to trauma throughout development: adolescents (12-18
years)
Answer: antisocial bx, eating disorders, runaway, dating violence,
depression, suicidal, substance abuse, sleeping disorders, school failure,
absenteeism, relationship problems, acting like a parent to siblings, loses
time, difficulty seeing a future for oneself
●● 3 kinds of stress
Answer: positive stress, tolerable stress, toxic stress
●● postive stress
Answer: moderate, short lived stress responses
●● tolerable stress
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS EXPERT
VERIFIED CONTENT
●● Illinois Core Practice Model
Answer: anchored in a Family Centered, trauma informed, and strength
based approach, often times referred to as FTS
●● 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
●● Without family connectedness child is at risk for
Answer: instability, depression, and even unemployment and
delinquency
,●● Child and Family Team Meeting
Answer: center of casework activities and how all other staffings, or
mandatory case processes should have information flowing from and
back to the CFTM. 5 key components.
●● CFTM 5 key components
Answer: Engagement, full disclosure, open participation, collaboration,
planning for permanency.
●● Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Answer: growing up (prior to age 18) in a household with stressful or
traumatic experiences, including abuse, neglect, and a range of
household dysfunction, such as witnessing domestic violence or growing
up with substance abuse, mental disorders, parental discord, or crime in
the home, removal or displacement, three or more placements in an 18
month period.
●● Response to trauma throughout development: young children (2.5-6
years)
Answer: helplessness and passivity, generalized fear, confusion,
difficulty identifying what is bothering them, attributing magical
qualities to traumatic reminders, fighting or threatening bx, attention
problems, sadness/depression, separation anxiety, specific fears, low
frustration tolerance, hyperactive, moody, aggressive defiant, lying,
learning disabilities, social problems, suppressed immune system
, ●● Response to trauma throughout development: school age children (6-
11 years)
Answer: physical complaints, bedwetting, school failure/absenteeism,
behavioral problems, attention problems, fighting or threatening bx, guilt
feelings, acting like a parent to siblings, depression, defiant, lying,
stealing, learning disabilities, inappropriate emotional responses, self-
blame, hypersensitivity to physical contact, difficulties coordinating and
balancing
●● Response to trauma throughout development: adolescents (12-18
years)
Answer: antisocial bx, eating disorders, runaway, dating violence,
depression, suicidal, substance abuse, sleeping disorders, school failure,
absenteeism, relationship problems, acting like a parent to siblings, loses
time, difficulty seeing a future for oneself
●● 3 kinds of stress
Answer: positive stress, tolerable stress, toxic stress
●● postive stress
Answer: moderate, short lived stress responses
●● tolerable stress
