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Certified Prevention Specialist CPSExam Questions and Answers
Prevention strategies, activities, or approaches that have been shown through research and evaluation
to be effective in the prevention and/or delay of substance use or abuse. - Correct Answer: Best
Practices
Data that already exists and that are maintained by an organization or entity. Typically, this refers to
collected data repositories maintained by state agencies, such as Highway Patrol (for DUI accidents and
fatalities), Health Services (for AOD related hospitalizations), and Treatment admissions for AOD
substance use problems. - Correct Answer: Archival Data
The term "_______" refers to the various types and levels of resources that an individual, organization,
or collaborative has at its disposal to meet the implementation demands of specific interventions. -
Correct Answer: Capacity
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. - Correct Answer: Community Mobilization
The formal names given to community mobilization types of efforts. All share a common theme: a group
of individuals and/or agencies agreeing to work together for a common purpose. They may vary in
formality, size, and composition. To be most effective, these community mobilizing efforts should have a
membership that reflects the broader community. Cultural awareness and sensitivity are hallmarks of
successful community mobilizing efforts. - Correct Answer: Community Partnerships
Collaboratives
Coalitions
The extent to which a community is adequately prepared to implement a substance abuse prevention
program. The underlying premise of community readiness is change in AOD use cannot occur if there
exists a high level of community denial about this problem. - Correct Answer: Community Readiness
,This refers to an ability to interact effectively with individuals from different cultural backgrounds. It
comprises of four components: 1) Awareness of one's cultural world view, 2) Attitudes towards cultural
differences, 3) Knowledge and awareness of different cultural practices, beliefs and world views, and 4)
Possessing cross-cultural skills. - Correct Answer: Cultural Competence (Awareness)
_____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). - Correct
Answer: Culture
This term applies to replicating a program model or strategy. To have "_______," the program needs to
be implemented with the same specifications of the original program. ______can be balanced with
adaptation to meet local needs. - Correct Answer: Fidelity
Broad, future oriented action statements to be achieved by a program. Neither dates nor responsibilities
are included. A program may have multiple (1 to 5), but not so many as to confuse staff and the general
community. - Correct Answer: Goal Statements
Findings about effective prevention programs as identified through research. - Correct Answer: Guiding
Principles
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. - Correct Answer: Implementation Plan
Those programs and strategies designed to target specific individuals at risk for substance abuse
problems. - Correct Answer: Indicated
A variable that relates directly to some part of a program goal or objective. Positive change on an
indicator is presumed to show progress in accomplishing the larger program objective. - Correct Answer:
Indicator
An approach, since adopted by CSAP and the prevention field that: 1) view prevention as part of an
overall continuum of services, concluding with treatment; 2) identifies three levels of prevention:
universal, selected, and indicated that refers to populations at varying levels of risk involving substances
,which in turn dictates that level and type of prevention services appropriate for the level of risk evident
in the various population groupings. - Correct Answer: Institution of Medicine (IOM) Model
Narrative or graphical depictions of processes in real life that communicate the underlying assumptions
upon which an activity is expected to lead to a specific result. Logic models illustrate a sequence of
cause-and-effect relationships - a systems approach to communicate the path toward a desired result. -
Correct Answer: Logic Model
The broadcast statement of intent for an organization. They should be brief and to the point. They do
not include dates or assign responsibility. There is only one mission statement for a program. - Correct
Answer: Mission Statement
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. - Correct Answer: Needs Assessment
Statements that, minimally, have four main qualities that distinguish them from goals or mission
statements. They are: 1) specific, 2) measurable, 3) achievable, and 4) timebound. - Correct Answer:
Objective Statements
Used in the development of the logic model. They specify the expected results, short-term,
intermediate, and long-term. They identify ways in which the participants in the prevention intervention
could be expected to change by the conclusion of the service (e.g., change in behaviors, reduced
consumption levels, etc.). - Correct Answer: Outcome Benchmarks
Refers to the type of substance, amount, and frequency of use. At times, the place/occasion of use is
also noted. This information is typically picked up in individually administered surveys. - Correct Answer:
Patterns of Consumption
As defined by SAMHSA, "A proactive process that empowers individuals and systems to meet the
challenges of life events and transitions by creating and reinforcing conditions that promote healthy
behaviors and lifestyles." - Correct Answer: Prevention
, Information that is difficult to measure, count, or express in numerical terms and is therefore often
presented in narrative forms. This type of research typically uses observation, interviewing, open ended
responses, and document review to collect data. - Correct Answer: Qualitative Data
Information that is reported in numerical form such as substance use rates, number of people attending
a program, or number of alcohol related deaths. The strength of this data is their use in testing
hypotheses and determining the strength and direction of effects. - Correct Answer: Quantitative Data
In the public health model, this is the AOD substance of concern causing harm to the individual (e.g.,
tobacco, alcohol, other drug). This acts directly on the "host" (individual) and is influenced by the
"environment" (community, culture, norms settings, politics, and values). - Correct Answer: Agent
This approach to substance abuse prevention is based on the assumption that involving high-risk youth
in activities that are free of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs will occupy their leisure time with pro-
social activities and allow them to make friends with more social peers. These approaches fall into
several broad categories: Athletic; Recreational Alternatives; Adventure Oriented; Cultural Specific
Models; Aimed at High-Risk; Entrepreneurial; Community Service; Creative; Artistic; and Drop-in
Centers. - Correct Answer: Alternative Activities
A widely used framework created by Search Institute, which includes relationships, opportunities, skills,
values, and commitments children and adolescents need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
The research-based framework is organized into two types of assets. External assets refer to the support
and opportunities that are provided by family, friends, organizations, and communities. The internal
assets focus on the capacities, skills, and values that young people need to internalize as part of
developing their character, identity, and life skills. - Correct Answer: Asset Development Model
Strategies that aim to enhance the ability of the community to more effectively provide prevention and
treatment services for substance abuse. Services in this strategy include organizing, planning, and
enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of services implementation, interagency collaboration,
coalition building, and networking. - Correct Answer: Community-Based Processes
The attitudes toward policies about drug use and crime that a community holds. They are
communicated in a variety of ways: through laws and written policies; through informal social practices;
and through the expectations that parents and other members of the community have of young people.
- Correct Answer: Community Norms
CSAP Strategies - Correct Answer: 1) Information Dissemination
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