NCTRC EXAM QUESTIONS UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. The first step in choosing the best type of assessment for a client is to
a. identify the purpose of the assessment
b. discuss assessment options with the client
c. determine which assessment was used most often in the past
d. find the easiest assessment for the client to complete
Answer:
a. identify the purpose of the assessment
Question:
2. Which of the following is the FIRST step of a leisure education program for a client who has a dual
diagnosis of clinical depression and chronic alcoholism?
a. demonstrate recreational skills
b. discuss time management
c. explore leisure resources
d. develop leisure awareness
Answer:
d. develop leisure awareness
Question:
3. Which of the following skills would a therapeutic recreation intervention for a client with Duchenne's
muscular dystrophy address?
a. memory
b. gross motor
c. fine motor
d. conentration
Answer:
b. gross motor
Question:
4. Which therapeutic recreation practice model is designed to help clients to recover from a threat to their
health and to achieve optimal health through participation in perspective activity, recreation, and leisure?
a. leisure ability
b. optimizing lifelong health and well-being
c. self-determination and enjoyment enhancement
d. health protection/ health promotion
Answer:
d. health protection/ health promotion
,Question:
5. The unit psychologist informs a CTRS that a client is being educated about obsessive-compulsive
disorder. The CTRS recommends and provides a book for the client to read that helps bring new insight
into the illness. Which intervention is the CTRS using?
a. remotivation
b. bibliotherapy
c. validation
d. orientation
Answer:
d. bibliotherapy
Question:
6. Prior to a CTRS teaching a client how to access the internet for movie times, the CTRS makes a list of
the steps involved and places them in their proper sequence. Which of the following type of analysis has
the CTRS completed?
a. task
b. content
c. activity
d. behavioral
Answer:
a. task
Question:
7. A 58 year old client is currently residing in a long term care facility surrounded by persons who are
considerably older. The client repeatedly complains of loneliness, boredom, and being ignored by friends
and family. which of the following verbal responses by the CTRS would be effective?
a. probing
b. informing
c. self-disclosing
d. confronting
Answer:
a. probing
Question:
8. Which of the following therapeutic recreation ethical principles is being violated when the CTRS fails to
discuss the results of an assessment and related plan for intervention with the client?
a. fidelity
b. confidentiality
c. veracity
d. non-maleficence
Answer:
c. veracity
, Question:
9. Which of the following service settings is a CTRS working in when reviewing the client's Functional
Independence Measure (FIM) score and intake summary prior to conducting an assessment?
a. acute care
b. behavioral health care
c. outpatient ambulatory services
d. inpatient rehabilitation
Answer:
d. inpatient rehabilitation
Question:
10. Which of the following activities may be used to improve dynamic balance?
a. walking heel to toe on a balance beam
b. standing and balancing on one foot
c. maintaining balance while seated on a fitness ball
d. balancing on the knees with the toes raised off the floor
Answer:
a. waling heel to toe on a balance beam
Question:
11. In a nursing home setting, which of the following interdisciplinary tools would a CTRS be responsible
for completing?
a. inpatient rehabilitation facility-patient assessment instrument (IRF-PAI)
b. functional independecne measure (FIM)
c. leisure attitude measurement (LAM)
d. minimum data set (MDS)
Answer:
minimum data set (MDS)
Question:
12. Which of the following is of LEAST importance to the CTRS attempting to deliver culturally relevant
programming?
a. language translation skills
b. culturally-specific behaviors
c. culturally-specific values
d. socio-economic conditions
Answer:
d. socio-economic conditions
Question:
13. According to standard ethical principles, placing a client in an activity that poses a high risk of danger
without programming for those risks is a violation of
a. autonomy
b. veracity
c. non-maleficence
d. competence
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. The first step in choosing the best type of assessment for a client is to
a. identify the purpose of the assessment
b. discuss assessment options with the client
c. determine which assessment was used most often in the past
d. find the easiest assessment for the client to complete
Answer:
a. identify the purpose of the assessment
Question:
2. Which of the following is the FIRST step of a leisure education program for a client who has a dual
diagnosis of clinical depression and chronic alcoholism?
a. demonstrate recreational skills
b. discuss time management
c. explore leisure resources
d. develop leisure awareness
Answer:
d. develop leisure awareness
Question:
3. Which of the following skills would a therapeutic recreation intervention for a client with Duchenne's
muscular dystrophy address?
a. memory
b. gross motor
c. fine motor
d. conentration
Answer:
b. gross motor
Question:
4. Which therapeutic recreation practice model is designed to help clients to recover from a threat to their
health and to achieve optimal health through participation in perspective activity, recreation, and leisure?
a. leisure ability
b. optimizing lifelong health and well-being
c. self-determination and enjoyment enhancement
d. health protection/ health promotion
Answer:
d. health protection/ health promotion
,Question:
5. The unit psychologist informs a CTRS that a client is being educated about obsessive-compulsive
disorder. The CTRS recommends and provides a book for the client to read that helps bring new insight
into the illness. Which intervention is the CTRS using?
a. remotivation
b. bibliotherapy
c. validation
d. orientation
Answer:
d. bibliotherapy
Question:
6. Prior to a CTRS teaching a client how to access the internet for movie times, the CTRS makes a list of
the steps involved and places them in their proper sequence. Which of the following type of analysis has
the CTRS completed?
a. task
b. content
c. activity
d. behavioral
Answer:
a. task
Question:
7. A 58 year old client is currently residing in a long term care facility surrounded by persons who are
considerably older. The client repeatedly complains of loneliness, boredom, and being ignored by friends
and family. which of the following verbal responses by the CTRS would be effective?
a. probing
b. informing
c. self-disclosing
d. confronting
Answer:
a. probing
Question:
8. Which of the following therapeutic recreation ethical principles is being violated when the CTRS fails to
discuss the results of an assessment and related plan for intervention with the client?
a. fidelity
b. confidentiality
c. veracity
d. non-maleficence
Answer:
c. veracity
, Question:
9. Which of the following service settings is a CTRS working in when reviewing the client's Functional
Independence Measure (FIM) score and intake summary prior to conducting an assessment?
a. acute care
b. behavioral health care
c. outpatient ambulatory services
d. inpatient rehabilitation
Answer:
d. inpatient rehabilitation
Question:
10. Which of the following activities may be used to improve dynamic balance?
a. walking heel to toe on a balance beam
b. standing and balancing on one foot
c. maintaining balance while seated on a fitness ball
d. balancing on the knees with the toes raised off the floor
Answer:
a. waling heel to toe on a balance beam
Question:
11. In a nursing home setting, which of the following interdisciplinary tools would a CTRS be responsible
for completing?
a. inpatient rehabilitation facility-patient assessment instrument (IRF-PAI)
b. functional independecne measure (FIM)
c. leisure attitude measurement (LAM)
d. minimum data set (MDS)
Answer:
minimum data set (MDS)
Question:
12. Which of the following is of LEAST importance to the CTRS attempting to deliver culturally relevant
programming?
a. language translation skills
b. culturally-specific behaviors
c. culturally-specific values
d. socio-economic conditions
Answer:
d. socio-economic conditions
Question:
13. According to standard ethical principles, placing a client in an activity that poses a high risk of danger
without programming for those risks is a violation of
a. autonomy
b. veracity
c. non-maleficence
d. competence
