CPI INSTRUCTOR 2026 TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Beginning to lose rationality - ✔✔Defensive
✔✔Decelerating an escalating behavior - ✔✔Directive
✔✔Behaviors that may present a risk to self or others - ✔✔Risk Behavior
✔✔Disengagement and/or holding skills to manage risk behavior - ✔✔Physical
Intervention
✔✔Decrease in physical and emotional energy - ✔✔Tension Reduction
✔✔Re-establish communication - ✔✔Therapeutic Rapport
✔✔Personal Space - ✔✔Proxemics
✔✔1. Intimate
2. Personal
3. Social - ✔✔Three Zones of Personal Space
✔✔Body Language - ✔✔Kinesics
✔✔Communication through touch - ✔✔Haptics
✔✔Maintained by keeping a distance of one leg-length from the from person and by
remaining at an angle. - ✔✔Supportive Stance
✔✔1. Helps us manage our nonverbal behavior, supports our attempts to decelerate the
situation, and reinforces Therapeutic Rapport.
2. Communicates Respect, is Nonthreatening, Maintains Safety - ✔✔Reasons for a
supportive stance
✔✔Where we are in relation to others -- our orientation - ✔✔Position
✔✔How we hold and move our body - ✔✔Posture
✔✔Distance between individuals - ✔✔Proximity
✔✔Position, Posture, Proximity - ✔✔What are the 3 Ps
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Beginning to lose rationality - ✔✔Defensive
✔✔Decelerating an escalating behavior - ✔✔Directive
✔✔Behaviors that may present a risk to self or others - ✔✔Risk Behavior
✔✔Disengagement and/or holding skills to manage risk behavior - ✔✔Physical
Intervention
✔✔Decrease in physical and emotional energy - ✔✔Tension Reduction
✔✔Re-establish communication - ✔✔Therapeutic Rapport
✔✔Personal Space - ✔✔Proxemics
✔✔1. Intimate
2. Personal
3. Social - ✔✔Three Zones of Personal Space
✔✔Body Language - ✔✔Kinesics
✔✔Communication through touch - ✔✔Haptics
✔✔Maintained by keeping a distance of one leg-length from the from person and by
remaining at an angle. - ✔✔Supportive Stance
✔✔1. Helps us manage our nonverbal behavior, supports our attempts to decelerate the
situation, and reinforces Therapeutic Rapport.
2. Communicates Respect, is Nonthreatening, Maintains Safety - ✔✔Reasons for a
supportive stance
✔✔Where we are in relation to others -- our orientation - ✔✔Position
✔✔How we hold and move our body - ✔✔Posture
✔✔Distance between individuals - ✔✔Proximity
✔✔Position, Posture, Proximity - ✔✔What are the 3 Ps