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NSCA CPSS EXAM 2024 NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM AND
PRACTICE QUESTIONS 230 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
Relaxation Response - ANSWER: physical state of deep rest that changes the
physical/emotional responses to stress and decreases heart rate, blood pressure,
breathing rate, muscle tension, etc.

How is the relaxation response elicited? - ANSWER: 1. repetition of a word, sound,
phrase, or muscular activity
2. passive disregard of every day thoughts that inevitably come to mind, return to
repetition

Definition of Recovery - ANSWER: the process of gaining control over one's life, and
the direction one wants that life to go, on the other side of a psychiatric diagnosis
and all of the losses usually associated w/ that diagnosis

Recovery Story - ANSWER: shares with a peer how a person was able to overcome
the bad times and focuses on the positive things the person is doing to move
forward with their life, a story of hope

Illness Story - ANSWER: focuses on the negative and times of illness and/or
substance use in a person's past

Peer Support - ANSWER: the act of people who have had similar experiences with
mental illnesses giving each other encouragement, hope, assistance, guidance, and
understanding that aids in recovery. It can be done anytime or anywhere when two
or more peers are in a mutual, supportive relationship

Peer Support Services - ANSWER: programs, discussions, events, groups, etc. within
the behavorial health system that are led by people in recovery; take place within
the structure of an agency/organization and someone gets paid

Peer Change Agent - ANSWER: Changes Beliefs - enables others to look at beliefs
underlying behavior, are aware that changing beliefs is a major part of system
transformation and helps move the agency toward creating a recovery culture

Peer Bridge Builder - ANSWER: Promotes Understanding - connects "clients" and
"staff," as a result of having experience as both

Peer Mentor - ANSWER: Uses their experience to help a person in a given area

Peer Supporter - ANSWER: Supports Goals - a person who does what is necessary to
enable another person to do what she feels she wants or needs to do and who has

, the ability to help a peer set and achieve the goals that will move the peer's life in
the direction the peer wants it to go

Peer Recovery Advocate - ANSWER: Promotes Another's Concerns - a person who
speaks for or pleads the cause of another and believes in a peer's potential for
recovery even when that potential might not be so obvious

Peer Code of Ethics - ANSWER: Prevent harm and injury to those whom we've
pledged our loyalty, in this case, the agency, the consumers, and the peer profession
as a whole

What kind of intimate relationships would violate the code of ethics? - ANSWER:
Dual relationships, sexual relationships, giving/receiving gifts or other financial
incentives, anything that violates agnecy policies

Why is the absence of negative messages more important than the presence of
positive ones? - ANSWER: Takes 28 positive messages to combat one negative one;
internalized negative messages become internalized beliefs, making it so that one's
radar will block positive messages; negative messages reinforce negative self-image
and self-talk

Negative Messages - ANSWER: Things that poeple say/do to put down another
person and communicate that they are incapable of doing very much with their life

What are subtle ways negative messages are sent in mental health programs? -
ANSWER: 1. no person-centered planning
2. absence of peer support
3. cookie cutter treatment plans
4. copy & paste progress reports
5. jokes/complaints/rude remarks

Recovery Enhancing Environment - ANSWER: A constant/consistent effort is made to
eliminate negative messages about a person's ability/potential for growth and the
over-riding theme in everything is that a person can get better

What are ways you can identify whether a mental health program promotes
recovery? - ANSWER: 1. bringing in peers/graduates to tell success stories
2. offer trainings
3. set up incentives/reward systems

What are three ways a diagnosis of a mental illness has the power to disable a
person? - ANSWER: 1. society/stigma of labels associated with the dx
2. self-image
3. symtpoms/side-effects

What are two ways you can help a person face/move through their fears? - ANSWER:
1. explain the diference between fears that protect us from physical harm and fears

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