CWEL EXAM NEWEST 2024 -2025 ACTUAL EXAM

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CWEL EXAM NEWEST 2024 -2025 ACTUAL EXAM

COMPLETE 230 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT

DETAILED ANSWERS ( VERIFIED ANSWERS )

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In defining trauma, identify which of the following is not a factor:

• Trauma has both a medical and a psychiatric definition.
• Trauma is a person's experience of an event which is emotionally

distressful, or shocking

• Given the same event, one person may experience it as traumatic and

another not

• One in ten children will experience a traumatic event before they

reach their 16th birthday - ANSWER- d. One in ten children will experience a traumatic event before they reach their 16th birthday

Psychological First Aid (PFA) has many objectives including:

• Enhancing immediate and ongoing safety and provide physical and

emotional comfort

• Offering long term therapeutic intervention
• Connecting children and their caregivers to social support networks
• Offering practical assistance and information to help children and

their caregivers with immediate needs and concerns

• All of the above
• a, c & d - ANSWER- f. a, c & d 1 / 4

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Verbal abuse, withdrawal of love, and intentional social deprivation best describe what type of child trauma?

• Physical abuse
• Neglect
• Psychological Maltreatment
• Medical Trauma - ANSWER- c. Psychological Maltreatment

Predatory violence (robbery) and violence arising from non-family

interpersonal conflicts are examples of:

• Physical Abuse
• Terrorism
• Domestic Violence
• Community Violence - ANSWER- d. Community Violence

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) include:

• One or no biological parents
• Unplanned placement moves
• Sexual abuse
• An alcoholic or drug using caretaker
• All of the above - ANSWER- e. All of the above
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In talking/intervening with younger children (infants through preschoolers) who have experienced or are experiencing trauma, it is

best to:

• Reaffirm that there will always be someone to take care of them
• Be careful not to tell them the truth if it is too overwhelming for them

to handle

• Reinforce that their parents were not good parents and that you will be

providing new caretakers who will not abuse or neglect them

• Provide a setting with less structure to allow the child to have more

control over their immediate environment - ANSWER- a. Reaffirm that there will always be someone to take care of them

Strategies for working with a child who is having difficult not blaming themselves for what happened to them (placement) and their families

should include:

• Telling them repeatedly that they were not at fault and that their

parents are to blame

• Asking a child to think how old they were when the trauma took place

and help them realize they were too young or small to really make a difference

• Helping a child think through what they could have done instead
• All of the above
• b & c - ANSWER- e. b & c

• Strong, frequent or prolonged activation of the body' stress

management system, without access to supportive adults best describes:

• Traumatic Grief 3 / 4

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• Positive Stress
• Toxic Stress
• Tolerable Stress - ANSWER- c. Toxic Stress

Which of these is not true of brain development?

• By the fetal age of 20 weeks, most neurons are already in place

though the brain will still keep developing well after birth.

• During the first two years of life the brain size expands 2-1/2 times
• The brainstem and midbrain are responsible for the body's basic

functions

• The brain develops sequentially from less complex to more complex

functions

• None of the above - ANSWER- e. None of the above

Multiple changes of placement in foster care can result in:

• Increased sense of belonging
• Increased likelihood of adoption
• Greater risk for delinquency and high school drop out
• Increased self esteem - ANSWER- c. Greater risk for delinquency and

high school drop out

1. Three steps that can reduce the impact of trauma are:

• Assessment, diagnosis and intervention
• Assessment, referral and medication
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