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Certified Prevention Specialist (CPS)Questions and Answers 2025 Graded A+
_____represents the "values, norms, and traditions that affect how individuals of a
particular group perceived, think, interact, behave, and make judgment about the world."
Chamberlain (2005). - ANSWER-Culture
"______ ______" refers to increasing these resources and skills. Coalitions may be
born in this stage of development. - ANSWER-Capacity Building
1) Trust, which he linked to positive emotional
relationships with caring adults
2) A strong sense of self-sufficiency
3) Ability to exercise initiative
4) Confidence in one's ability to master skills and
navigate one's world
5) A well-formed sense of personal identity
6) A desire to be productive and contributing for
future generations
7) The ability to experience true intimacy
8) A strong sense of personal integrity - ANSWER-Erikson's Stages of Development
A ______ _______ individual has an ability to understand, communicate, and effectively
interact with people from different cultural backgrounds - a necessity in being an
effective prevention community worker. - ANSWER-culturally competent
A behavior or belief that is commonly held by managing a community. It is often the
focus of community-based prevention efforts (e.g., use of designated driver targeted a
perception held by many, but not all, that drinking and driving was an acceptable
behavior). - ANSWER-Norms
A capacity building process through which a community of individuals, organizations,
policy makers, or governmental representatives plans, carries out, and evaluates
activities on a participating basis to improve health or other needs. It empowers
individuals and groups to take some kind of action to facilitate change based on needs
they have identified. Communities may initiate the process themselves or maybe
motivated by outsiders to act. - ANSWER-Community Mobilization
A community is in denial when it:
A) Does not recognize it has an AOD problem.
B) Has no active leaders interested in the problem.
C) Has not engaged in the collection and analysis of AOD data.
D) All of the above. - ANSWER-D) All of the above.
,A goal statement:
A) Specifies what and when something is to be accomplished.
B) Is general and inclusive.
C) Identifies who will do what tasks.
D) Is the same as a mission statement. - ANSWER-B) Is general and inclusive.
A group of individuals participating in the program activities or receiving the program
services being evaluated or studied. Experimental groups (also known as treatment
groups) are usually compared to a control or comparison group. - ANSWER-
Experimental Group
A group of participants in a quasi-experiment who are not given or exposed to the
treatment to see if there is a difference between the two (or more). Comparison groups
are not randomly assigned. - ANSWER-Comparison Group
A group of people convened for the purpose of obtaining perceptions or opinions,
suggesting ideas, or recommending actions. A focus group is a method of collecting
information for the evaluation process. It involves 6-10 individuals, following a
progressive script encouraging discussion of issues or questions. The sessions have a
facilitator and detailed notes are taken. - ANSWER-Focus Group
A group whose characteristics are statistically equivalent to those of the program, but
who do not receive the program services, products, or activities being evaluated.
Participants are randomly assigned to either the experimental group (those receiving
program services) or the control group. A control group is used to assess the effect of
program activities on participants who are receiving the services, products, or activities
being evaluated. The same information is collected for people in the control group and
those in the experimental group. - ANSWER-Control Group
A legal device that provides the creator (art, music, document, literature) the right to
control how the work is used. - ANSWER-Copyright
A needs assessment that uses information collected from interviews, focus groups,
and/or observations on document reviews to produce a descriptive report is called:
A) Indicator data.
B) Qualitative data.
C) Outcome data.
D) Quantitative data. - ANSWER-B) Qualitative data.
A planning tool that enables a group or its manager to identify, among other things, the
strategies, best practices, guiding principles, and evaluation plan. This can contribute to
the establishment of direction and clarity of vision for the implementation group. -
ANSWER-Implementation Plan
A prevention program that has been designated as a best practice means:
A) It has been adapted by many prevention programs throughout the country.
, B) It reflects the specific cultural needs of the community.
C) It needs to involve a skilled, experienced program director.
D) It has been shown through research and evaluation to be effective. - ANSWER-D) It
has been shown through research and evaluation to be effective.
A prevention strategy aimed at informing broad segments of society is called a:
A) Universal program.
B) Selected program.
C) Indicated program.
D) Risk and protective approach. - ANSWER-A) Universal program.
A program that has been researched and found to be effective is known as:
A) Proven.
B) Best Practice.
C) Promising.
D) Excellent. - ANSWER-B) Best Practice.
A prop or other image used to enhance a presentation, such as pictures, graphs,
drawings, charts, videos, etc. - ANSWER-Visual aids
A research design in which the researcher has control over the selection of participants
in the study and their random assignment to treatment and control (experimental)
groups. Experimental design maximizes the ability to attribute outcomes to a "treatment"
(e.g., policy, program, or practice). - ANSWER-Experimental Design
A research design with some, but not all, of the characteristics of an experimental
design. While comparison groups may be available and all feasible controls are used to
minimize threats to validity, random selection is typically not possible or practical. -
ANSWER-Quasi-Experimental Design
A resource assessment of the community would NOT include:
A) Interviews with service providers.
B) A review of archival data.
C) A survey of prevention program directors/staff.
D) A review of program documents. - ANSWER-B) A review of archival data.
A strategy used to educate or communicate healthy behaviors as practiced by a
majority of the public or selected group (e.g., rather than state 25% of high school
seniors binge drink every month, a social norms approach would highlight the fact that
75% of our seniors do not engage in monthly binge drinking). - ANSWER-Social Norms
Marketing
A systematic process for examining the current conditions and identifying the level of
risk and protection within a community. It should also include the documentation of
resources available in the community to address the problem areas. - ANSWER-Needs
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