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This comprehensive CTRS Exam Study Guide for 2025/2026 offers 300+ solved and annotated questions with correct answers across all major domains of the Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) Exam, as outlined by the NCTRC. It is an all-in-one preparation tool covering foundational concepts, theoretical frameworks, client impairments, program planning, and documentation strategies. Ideal for both students and professionals, the content emphasizes core knowledge areas such as therapeutic recreation models, psychosocial and developmental theories, assessment instruments, and client-centered intervention approaches. It includes highly structured definitions, exam-level language, and examples relevant to a wide range of clinical settings, from long-term care and mental health to rehabilitation and pediatric services. Key focus areas include: TR models and theories: Leisure Ability, Health Protection/Promotion, Medical Model, Activity Therapy Model, Ecological, Milieu, Community-Based, Long-Term Care Psychological and behavioral theories: Attribution, Learned Helplessness, Maslow, Csikszentmihalyi (Flow), Psychoanalytic, Catharsis, Diversion, Compensation Functional impairments and diagnostic groupings: Autism, TBI, MR/DD, dementia, spinal cord injury, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, mood disorders, stroke, aphasia, visual/hearing impairments Communication and social functioning: social skills training, expressive therapy, social anxiety treatment strategies Comprehensive assessment tools: LDB, LBI, CERT, FACTR, MMSE, GRST, LMS, RBI, LAB, Leisure Scope, STIAP, FOX Legal, ethical, and policy-related knowledge: ADA, Section 504, IDEA (94-142), advocacy, accessibility, licensure types Documentation styles and standards: SOAP notes, POMR, SMART goals, behavioral objectives, formative and summative evaluation Professional issues: NCTRC pathways, certification, CEU tracking, quality assurance, risk management, policy/procedure development This guide is perfect for: • Students in Therapeutic Recreation, Rehabilitation Sciences, or Allied Health • Candidates pursuing CTRS certification or recertification • Educators and faculty teaching TR-based assessment, documentation, or intervention planning • Clinical practitioners, interns, and TR specialists in mental health, geriatrics, TBI, pediatrics, and community health Applicable Courses and Fields: • CTRS Exam Prep – Full Content Review • Clinical Assessment and Evaluation in TR • Foundations of Therapeutic Recreation Practice • Disability Studies and Behavioral Science • Documentation, Ethics, and Program Evaluation in Healthcare • Psychology, Rehabilitation Therapy, Special Education, Public Health Whether you are preparing for the exam or refreshing your clinical practice, this complete CTRS guide offers the depth and clarity needed to succeed in every domain of the certification. Keywords: CTRS exam, TR models, leisure ability model, health promotion model, assessment tools, FACTR, CERT, LDB, LMS, GRST, documentation, SOAP notes, SMART goals, disabilities, autism, TBI, epilepsy, dementia, mood disorders, ethics, ADA, Section 504, IDEA, functional impairments, TR intervention, behavior theory, social recreation, program evaluation, advocacy, treatment planning

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CTRS EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS| WITH
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leisure efficacy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To meet your own leisure needs, benefits

from good circumstances. You need a repertoire of skills to be self-capable.

Meet own needs/goals.


attribution model (theory) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The causal analysis of behavior.

The process by which a person attributes or makes casual inferences. "To

what do I attribute my successes and failures."


Learned helplessness - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A perceived lack of control over

events. -no matter how much energy is expended, the situation is futile and

you are helpless to change things. -people learn to be helpless; people

become dependent. -behaviors and outcomes are out of one's control.

,Perceived freedom - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When a person does not feel forced or

constrained to participate and does not feel inhibited or limited by the

environment. (LDB) The freedom to choose your activity; feel competent; "I

can do this"


Intrinsic Motivation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To do something for yourself. Internal

desires to do something as a sense of satisfaction.


Locus of control-internal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔You have the control/can

change/good self esteem


Locus of control-external - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔low self esteem, helpless; "he

made me do it"


Theories of play - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Psycho-Analytic theory


-Catharsis theory

-Diversion theory

-Compensation theory

-Surplus Energy


Psycho-Analytic Theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Engaging in play to reduce

anxiety. ie: play therapy- abused child uses doll to master situation

,Catharsis Theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Play to release repressed thoughts,

feelings, and emotions. An outlet for aggression


Diversion Theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To amuse ourselves


Compensation Theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To play/recreate, to fulfill needs not

met at work.


Surplus Energy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To get rid of excess energy.


Flow: Csikszentmihaly - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔state of optimal, psychological

arousal- when the challenge matches your skill


Self- actualization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Maslow's hierarchy of needs, to reach

your potential: A peak experience.

physiological needs>safety/security>belonging>self-esteem>self-

actualization


Holistic Approach - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔looks at the whole person & their needs.

Recognizes & integrates multiple factors. Developed from a broad base of

information. Integrated from an interdisciplinary frame of reference.


Recreational Experience - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Everyone has a right to recreate.

Recreation has an end to itself.


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, Treatment Concept - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔used as a treatment tool to cure> to

use recreation to meet other needs/goals


social recreation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔non-clinical approach for disabled in the

community (community model): Recreation as an end to itself

Leisure ability model: Gunn/ Peterson


AKA Continuum Model, TR service model - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔4 steps:

maximum control by specialist to minimum control of specialist

1. Assess: ID problem, gather data

2. Treatment: improve functional ability

3. Leisure Education: acquire knowledge and skills

4. Leisure Lifestyle: engage in opportunity > participate voluntarily


Treatment Model/ Medical Model: ( a continuum) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Health

protection/promotion model- by Austin

Dr. prescribes TR treatment

Recreation is a treatment>>> as a means to an end, is more clinical;

begins as (1) TRS directed > (2) equal participation between client/ TRS >

(3) client directed

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