CPRS CONT. II Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
From Stabilization and Maintenance - ANS To Recovery and Resiliency
From Disease/Disability - ANS To Wellness/Strengths
From What's Wrong - ANS To What's Strong
From Staff-Driven - ANS To Client-Driven
From Mental Health - ANS To Whole Health
From Social Separation - ANS To Social Integration
From Compliance to a Plan - ANS To Engagement in a Process
From Dependence - ANS To Interdependence
People cannot recover - ANS The belief in recovery prior to the 1980s
People can and do recover - ANS Around 1980, people began to believe this about recovery
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,System can support recovery - ANS 2003, The President's New Freedom Commission Report
on Mental Health was issued, stating this.
Recovery initiatives involve the whole process - ANS After 2006, the National Association of
State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMPD) Medical Directors Council recommended
that states implement a standard set of health indicators to be recorded and used for the
clinical care of each person served.
The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMPD) issued a report
entitled Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness in 2006 stating this. -
ANS People with serious mental illness served by the public mental health system die, on
average, 25 years earlier than the general population.
Dr. William Anthony - ANS 3 things played a key role in enabling the belief that people can
and do recover: the writings of consumers moving on with their lives, longitudinal research of
people like Dr. Courtney Harding and the emergence of the philosophy of psychosocial
rehabilitation.
The decade of recovery, according to Dr. William Anthony - ANS The 90s
Statement from the President's New Freedom Commission Report on Mental Health -
ANS We envision a time when everyone diagnosed with a mental illness will recover. [but
there is work to be done!]
Stabilization and Maintenance Beliefs - ANS More than likely an illness would get
progressively worse. The best you could expect was to get people stabilized and then maintain
them as best you could in supervised environments.
Stress Response - ANS Caused by internal, psychological threats, such as difficult
relationships, finances and workplace pressures that are continuous and builds up excess
energy in the body.
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, Relapse - ANS Can be precipitated by prolonged stress, both in mental illness and addiction.
Relaxation Response - ANS A physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and
emotional responses to stress and decreases heart rate, blood pressure, rate of breathing and
muscle tension, which can have lasting effects if practiced regularly.
Steps to Elicit the Relaxation Response - ANS Focus - Repetition of a word, sound, phrase or
muscular activity and Refocus - Passive disregard of everyday thoughts that inevitably come to
mind and the return to your repetition.
Programs Which Promote Stabilization and Maintenance - ANS TV, table games, recreation,
trips, outings and other 'low stress' activities
Programs Which Promote Recovery and Resiliency - ANS Training in stress reduction and
stress management skills, create opportunities for consumers to share their success stories with
one another and teach consumers problem-solving skills
Georgia Certified Peer Specialist Training Program - ANS Created in response to CMS
requirement that the system and the services it provided needed to be more focused on
helping people create a life of meaning and purpose.
An Estimated 12-15,000 Certified Peer Specialists Nationally - ANS Able to bill Medicaid for
services.
President Obama's August 2013 Request - ANS Train and hire 800 new veteran peer
specialists.
Georgia Peer Specialists - ANS Work on ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) and CST
(Community Support Treatment) Teams, outreach programs to people who are homeless,
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Answers
From Stabilization and Maintenance - ANS To Recovery and Resiliency
From Disease/Disability - ANS To Wellness/Strengths
From What's Wrong - ANS To What's Strong
From Staff-Driven - ANS To Client-Driven
From Mental Health - ANS To Whole Health
From Social Separation - ANS To Social Integration
From Compliance to a Plan - ANS To Engagement in a Process
From Dependence - ANS To Interdependence
People cannot recover - ANS The belief in recovery prior to the 1980s
People can and do recover - ANS Around 1980, people began to believe this about recovery
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,System can support recovery - ANS 2003, The President's New Freedom Commission Report
on Mental Health was issued, stating this.
Recovery initiatives involve the whole process - ANS After 2006, the National Association of
State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMPD) Medical Directors Council recommended
that states implement a standard set of health indicators to be recorded and used for the
clinical care of each person served.
The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMPD) issued a report
entitled Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness in 2006 stating this. -
ANS People with serious mental illness served by the public mental health system die, on
average, 25 years earlier than the general population.
Dr. William Anthony - ANS 3 things played a key role in enabling the belief that people can
and do recover: the writings of consumers moving on with their lives, longitudinal research of
people like Dr. Courtney Harding and the emergence of the philosophy of psychosocial
rehabilitation.
The decade of recovery, according to Dr. William Anthony - ANS The 90s
Statement from the President's New Freedom Commission Report on Mental Health -
ANS We envision a time when everyone diagnosed with a mental illness will recover. [but
there is work to be done!]
Stabilization and Maintenance Beliefs - ANS More than likely an illness would get
progressively worse. The best you could expect was to get people stabilized and then maintain
them as best you could in supervised environments.
Stress Response - ANS Caused by internal, psychological threats, such as difficult
relationships, finances and workplace pressures that are continuous and builds up excess
energy in the body.
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, Relapse - ANS Can be precipitated by prolonged stress, both in mental illness and addiction.
Relaxation Response - ANS A physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and
emotional responses to stress and decreases heart rate, blood pressure, rate of breathing and
muscle tension, which can have lasting effects if practiced regularly.
Steps to Elicit the Relaxation Response - ANS Focus - Repetition of a word, sound, phrase or
muscular activity and Refocus - Passive disregard of everyday thoughts that inevitably come to
mind and the return to your repetition.
Programs Which Promote Stabilization and Maintenance - ANS TV, table games, recreation,
trips, outings and other 'low stress' activities
Programs Which Promote Recovery and Resiliency - ANS Training in stress reduction and
stress management skills, create opportunities for consumers to share their success stories with
one another and teach consumers problem-solving skills
Georgia Certified Peer Specialist Training Program - ANS Created in response to CMS
requirement that the system and the services it provided needed to be more focused on
helping people create a life of meaning and purpose.
An Estimated 12-15,000 Certified Peer Specialists Nationally - ANS Able to bill Medicaid for
services.
President Obama's August 2013 Request - ANS Train and hire 800 new veteran peer
specialists.
Georgia Peer Specialists - ANS Work on ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) and CST
(Community Support Treatment) Teams, outreach programs to people who are homeless,
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