CPRP Practice Questions (2026) — Free Sample Questions with Answers

Answer: A

Acknowledge what she shared, gently refocus the group, and offer to talk with her afterward: Correct. A skills group is not a therapy group: the facilitator validates her, protects members from unplanned trauma detail, and offers individual follow-up and support to connect with trauma services if she wants them.

Pause the activity and lead a grounding exercise for the whole group before resuming the cooking: Grounding may help someone who is distressed, but it turns the group's attention to her disclosure without acknowledging her or offering the individual follow-up she may need; acceptable but not BEST.

Continue the cooking activity without commenting on what she said: Ignoring the disclosure can feel dismissive and leaves her unsupported.

End the session early so the facilitator can attend to her privately: Over-reacts and takes the session from the rest of the group; acceptable in a crisis, but no crisis is described.

In a rehabilitation group, honor a deep disclosure, keep the group's purpose, and offer individual follow-up.

Answer: B

Tell her gently that the team is worried nursing would be too stressful, and suggest a less demanding health care job: Paternalistic: the team's doubts replace her goal before it is explored.

Explore what draws her to nursing and help her identify first steps toward that goal: Correct. Taking her goal seriously and exploring its meaning conveys hope and respects self-determination; any stepping-stone roles stay her choice (PRA Core Principles: hope, self-determination; strengths model).

Support the goal but advise her to wait until her symptoms have been stable for a year: Treats symptom stability as a precondition; rehabilitation develops readiness instead of requiring it.

Refer her for vocational testing to find out whether nursing matches her abilities: Plausible but provider-driven; it lets testing judge the goal before her own meaning and strengths are explored.

Ambitious goals are explored and built on, not screened out; the person decides what steps to take.

Answer: A

Acknowledge her concern and explore supports she could offer to help him keep his apartment: Correct. Self-determination keeps the housing choice with him, and the sister's concern becomes a natural support for his goal rather than a competing plan (PRA Core Principles: self-determination; natural supports).

Back the sister's plan, because natural supports are generally preferred over paid services: Misapplies the natural supports principle: it serves the person's chosen goal, not a goal chosen for him.

Ask the sister to leave the meeting so that he can speak more freely: He consented to her involvement; excluding her discards a willing support.

Postpone any housing decision until the family reaches agreement: Makes his choice depend on family consensus and delays his goal.

Family involvement supports the person's chosen goals; it does not override them.

Answer: C

Recommend the apartment near the agency so that her services stay easy to reach: Provider-centered: it puts service convenience ahead of her own priorities.

Recommend the apartment near her sister, since natural supports are a core principle: Tempting because natural supports matter, but the practitioner is still making the choice for her.

Help her compare both apartments on what matters most to her, then let her decide: Correct. PRA Core Principles: self-determination and shared decision making. The practitioner gives information and structure; she makes the choice.

Say which one the practitioner would pick and why, then remind her that it is her choice: Sounds respectful, but offering the practitioner's preference first carries the weight of the practitioner role and tilts the decision; shared decision making informs rather than persuades.

Even when asked "what would you do?", support an informed choice by the person rather than choosing for them.

Answer: A

Work with the guardian, present the woman's wishes, and support her in voicing them herself: Correct. PRA Code of Ethics, Principle C3: collaborate with the legally authorized person, always taking into account the expressed desires of the person served.

Help the woman move to an apartment, since her self-determination outweighs the guardian's view: Ignores the guardian's legal authority; the Code asks for collaboration, not bypassing it.

Defer to the guardian, since the guardian holds the legal authority over where she lives: Respects legal authority but drops the duty to bring forward her expressed wishes.

Recommend the group home to the guardian, since it offers more support during the move: Practitioner-driven choice that reinforces the more restrictive option without her input.

With a guardian in place, collaborate with that representative while keeping the person's own wishes at the center.

Answer: D

Contact the protection and advocacy agency on her behalf right away, before anything else: The right resource, but doing it for her bypasses her own advocacy when she can act.

Encourage her to file a second grievance with the facility: The internal route has already failed, and she wants outside help.

Call the facility administrator to complain about the staff: Practitioner-led and internal; it does not connect her to her legal rights.

Give her the protection and advocacy agency's information and support her in contacting it: Correct. Task III-F: connect people to legal and advocacy resources in a way that promotes self-advocacy (Standard C3).

Connect people to legal advocacy in ways that build their own advocacy, offering as much help as they want.

Answer: A

The supports needed in a chosen environment, compared with those available: Correct. A resource assessment compares the supports a person needs to succeed in the chosen environment with the supports currently available.

The skills needed in a chosen environment, compared with current skill use: Near-sibling concept: this is the functional assessment.

The person's need for and commitment to making a change: Near-sibling concept: these are components of rehabilitation readiness.

The community services the agency has agreements with: Describes the agency's resource list, not the person's needed supports.

Functional assessment examines skills; resource assessment examines supports, both in the person's chosen environment.

Answer: B

Meet with her alone first to make sure the goals reflect only her own wishes.: Applies an individualist assumption over her stated cultural preference for shared decisions.

Get her consent and invite her parents, with her confirming the final goals.: Correct. Planning adapts to her worldview while consent governs family involvement (PRA Code of Ethics, Principle E7) and she remains the decision-maker (self-determination).

Invite her parents and let the family decide the goals together as a group.: Over-adapts: the family decides instead of her, which loses her self-determination.

Explain that the program's planning process is built around individual meetings.: Rigid: expects her to fit the program rather than adapting planning to her culture.

Inclusive planning honors the person's cultural way of deciding, with her consent and her final say.

Answer: A

Review what each level offers and which supports would remain, then support his choice.: Correct. Balanced information about the options, followed by respect for his decision, supports informed choice (PRA Code of Ethics, Principle C: Freedom of Choice; Core Principle: self-determination).

Advise him to stay with the ACT team for six more months to make sure he remains stable.: Paternalistic: the practitioner's caution replaces his decision.

Agree to the move but require weekly visits as a condition of keeping his ACT slot.: Attaches a condition to his choice, a form of subtle coercion (Code of Ethics, Guideline D2).

Explain the relapse risks of stepping down so that he will reconsider his decision.: Persuading, not informing: one-sided information aimed at changing his choice.

Inform, do not persuade: present the benefits and limits of each level evenly and then honor the person's choice.

Answer: B

Self-awareness: He describes his abilities and supports clearly, which suggests self-awareness is present.

Need for change: Correct. Need for change reflects dissatisfaction with the current situation; he is content, so need is low. His belief that change is possible and his brother's support point to commitment being present (BU readiness components).

Commitment to change: Near-sibling: commitment includes believing change is possible and having support for it, both of which he reports.

Environmental awareness: Nothing in the stem shows a lack of knowledge about housing options; his contentment is the issue.

Readiness components: need (dissatisfaction or a reason to change), commitment (belief change is possible and positive, with support), environmental awareness, self-awareness and closeness.

Answer: B

Call 988 with him so that a crisis counselor can assess his suicide risk.: Near-sibling resource: 988 provides crisis counseling, but a possible overdose already taken is a medical emergency.

Call 911, per agency policy, and stay with him until help arrives.: Correct. A likely overdose with drowsiness is imminent danger to life, so emergency medical services are needed now, as agency policy and applicable law direct.

Respect his request and review his crisis plan with him for coping steps.: Choice matters, but imminent danger to life outweighs his request; coping steps cannot treat an overdose.

Drive him to the nearest emergency department in the agency vehicle.: Delays medical care and is unsafe if he loses consciousness on the way; EMS can begin treatment on site.

Imminent danger to life, such as an overdose already taken, calls for emergency services first; 988 and the crisis plan are for situations without imminent danger.

Answer: C

Agree, because a small incentive tied to the application may help her take a first step.: Makes basic help conditional on doing what staff want; that is subtle coercion, which the Code warns against.

Agree to try the rule for one month and drop it if she stops accepting visits.: A trial still uses basic supplies as leverage and risks losing the trust built so far.

Keep visits unconditional and explore what she wants, including what housing means to her.: Correct. Outreach builds trust without conditions; exploring her own goals respects self-determination and avoids coercion (PRA Code of Ethics, Standard D2).

Refer her to a peer outreach team, since she may be more open to a peer.: Hands her off instead of addressing the proposed rule; it may help later but is not the response to the coercive plan.

Outreach engages people without conditions or leverage; tying basic help to compliance with a plan is subtle coercion.

Answer: B

Continued use of relatives, since family involvement strengthens natural supports: Family interpreters compromise accuracy and confidentiality and remove the person's choice about what family hears (PRA Code of Ethics, Principle E7).

Access to trained interpreters and translated materials in the languages used locally: Correct. Qualified interpretation and translated materials make the program linguistically accessible and protect privacy (PRA Code of Ethics, Principle E).

Referral of individuals with limited English proficiency to a distant program with bilingual staff: Principle E4 referral fits when a practitioner cannot provide appropriate services, but advocacy here should build the program's capacity; a distant referral reduces access.

Use of bilingual staff from other departments to interpret when available: Better than relatives, but untrained ad hoc interpreters still risk errors and privacy problems; trained interpreters are the standard to advocate for.

Advocate for qualified interpreters and translated materials rather than family members or workarounds.

Answer: A

With the individuals' input, document the pattern and ask the housing authority to change the policy: Correct. The barrier is a policy, so the response targets the policy; documenting the pattern with the affected individuals is system-level advocacy that protects future tenants too.

Help each person reapply for subsidized housing as soon as that person is discharged from the hospital: Helpful at the individual level, but the policy keeps producing the same loss; this is the right idea at the wrong level.

Refer each affected person to a legal aid office to contest that person's own lease termination: Supports individual self-advocacy, but case-by-case appeals leave the underlying policy in place.

Add a session on keeping housing during a hospital stay to the program's independent living skills group: Places the problem in individuals' skills when the cause is a rule; skill teaching cannot prevent a policy-driven eviction.

When the same barrier recurs across people, advocate to change the rule, not only to repair each case.

Answer: B

Start the plan with smoking cessation, because that health risk is more serious than loneliness: The practitioner's priority overrides his; a plan he did not choose is unlikely to be followed.

Begin with his social goal and ask whether he would like information on his physical health: Correct. Person-centered planning and shared decision making: he sets the priority, and the practitioner offers health information with permission rather than imposing it.

Require the plan to include one social goal and one physical health goal: A mandated structure is subtle coercion (PRA Code of Ethics, Standard D) even if well-meant.

Note his smoking and blood pressure as barriers to his social goal: Deficit-focused and inaccurate framing; it recasts his goal around problems he did not raise.

The person chooses which wellness dimension to work on; offer health concerns as information with permission.