CWEL-Unit 1- 2 Fundamentals Study
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Social Work Practice - ANSWER means by which individuals and families are helped to change
behaviors and circumstances
Children and Family Services Act - ANSWER requires license for those rendeing child welfare services
FTS approach - ANSWER Family centered, Trauma-informed. Strengths-Based Approach
FTS Vision Statement - ANSWER partnering with families to make decisions, set goals, acheiving
desired outcomes, also continuously identifying, intervening, and mitigating effects of ACES and
trauma of children and families.
9 core welfare practices - ANSWER agents of change; helping relationsips, initial and ongoing
assessments, impact of trauma, advocate, bx support, linkage to services, cultural competence,
coordinate services
Family Connectedness - ANSWER belonging and group identity; more time in system= dec. on
connectedness
CFTM - ANSWER Child and Family Team Meeting
Trauma - ANSWER critical injury, wound, shock, emotionally painful, distressing w/ lasting effects
Psychological First aid - ANSWER Crisis Intervention
ACES- Adverse Childhood Experieces - ANSWER abuse, neglect, alcohol-drug use, incarceration,
mental health issues, mother being treated violently, one or no bio parents, removal of bio parents,
unplanned placements, 3 or more placements in 18 mo.
Responses to trauma - ANSWER Attachment, regulating emotions, dissassociation, self-concept,
physical and health
, types of stress - ANSWER positive, tolerable, harmful
postive stress - ANSWER short term, moderate
isolated truama - ANSWER acute, tend to produce , discrete conditioned bx and bio. responses to
reminders of trauma; ptsd
Complex trauma - ANSWER chronic, interferes with neurobio devel. and capacity to integrate
sensory, emotional, and cognit. info into a cohesive whole
protective factors - ANSWER existing strengths; assist families to overcome stressors
list Protective factors - ANSWER parental resilience;social connections;knowledge of parenting and
child development; concrete supports in times of need, social/emotional competence, parent/child
relationship
vicarious trauma - ANSWER occupational hazard; being affected by the truama of clients in a way
that alters self
First legal intervention in child abuse - ANSWER 1874 New York
society for the prevention of and cruelty to children - ANSWER formed in 1875
1899 Illinois- Jane Adams and Julia Lathrop of Hull House - ANSWER First Juvenile courts act
Dual Mandate - ANSWER Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
social security act IV-B - ANSWER requirements to receive federal funding for family support
services, general funds for child welfare services
