CPI INSTRUCTOR FINAL EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Behavior influences behavior - ✔✔Integrated Experience
✔✔1. Freeze
2. Overreact
3. Respond inappropriately - ✔✔Reactions to fear and anxiety include:
✔✔1. Increased speed and strength
2. Increased sensory acuity
3. Decreased reaction time - ✔✔Reactions to fear and anxiety as a result of stress
hormones prepare the body for action:
✔✔1. Learn to keep yourself safe
2. Learn how to keep the person in crisis safe.
3. Use a team approach
4. Understand what makes you afraid and drives your decisions - ✔✔How do you
Maximize Productive Responses
✔✔1. Duty of care
2. Best interests
3. Reasonable and proportionate
4. Last resort and least restrictive
5. The risk of doing something and the risk of doing nothing
6. Human rights - ✔✔Key themes related to decision making include:
✔✔The chance of a bad consequence - ✔✔Risk
✔✔The chance that an event or behavior may occur - ✔✔Likelihood
✔✔Severity of harm (if event/behavior occurs) - ✔✔Outcome
✔✔1. An unlikely event/behavior with a high-severity outcome
2. A likely event with a low-severity outcome - ✔✔Lower Risk
✔✔1. a likely event or behavior with a high-severity outcome. - ✔✔Higher Risk
✔✔1. Safety
2. Professionalism
3. Litigation - ✔✔Reasons for Team Intervention
✔✔1. First on the scene
2. Confident/competent
, 3. Best rapport - ✔✔Team Leader
✔✔1. Planning
2. Decision Making
3. Communication
4. Safety
5. Postvention Approaches - ✔✔Team Leader/Incident Manager Duties
✔✔Care, Welfare, Safety and Security - ✔✔CPI Core Values
✔✔Movement - ✔✔Biomechanical Benefit
✔✔Limit aggressive range of motion - ✔✔Hold and Stabilize
✔✔Move in opposite directions - ✔✔Push/Pull
✔✔Combining momentum with movement around a single point creating a linear and
angular motion - ✔✔Lever
✔✔1. Keep partner safe
2. Help partner learn
3. Provide partner feedback - ✔✔Role of Practice Partner
✔✔1. Adjust approach to promote skill development
2. Safe enough to prevent harm - ✔✔Safe Realism
✔✔1. Did staff minimize risk to self?
2. Did staff minimize risk to the person in crisis?
3. Did staff safely manage the behavior? - ✔✔Determining Acceptability
✔✔A weapon (body part or object) making contact with a target - ✔✔Strikes
✔✔Maintaining physical contact without consent - ✔✔Grabs/Holds
✔✔Wrist/Arm Holds, Neck, Clothing, Body Hug, Hair, Bite - ✔✔List of Grab/Holds
✔✔1. Safe: What makes these skills safe?
2. Effective: What makes it an effective strategy?
3. Acceptable: Would this be viewed as an acceptable response to risk behavior?
4. Transferable: Is this skill transferable? - ✔✔Physical Skills Framework (SEAT)
✔✔1. Relax and Downplay
2. Explain or Ask
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Behavior influences behavior - ✔✔Integrated Experience
✔✔1. Freeze
2. Overreact
3. Respond inappropriately - ✔✔Reactions to fear and anxiety include:
✔✔1. Increased speed and strength
2. Increased sensory acuity
3. Decreased reaction time - ✔✔Reactions to fear and anxiety as a result of stress
hormones prepare the body for action:
✔✔1. Learn to keep yourself safe
2. Learn how to keep the person in crisis safe.
3. Use a team approach
4. Understand what makes you afraid and drives your decisions - ✔✔How do you
Maximize Productive Responses
✔✔1. Duty of care
2. Best interests
3. Reasonable and proportionate
4. Last resort and least restrictive
5. The risk of doing something and the risk of doing nothing
6. Human rights - ✔✔Key themes related to decision making include:
✔✔The chance of a bad consequence - ✔✔Risk
✔✔The chance that an event or behavior may occur - ✔✔Likelihood
✔✔Severity of harm (if event/behavior occurs) - ✔✔Outcome
✔✔1. An unlikely event/behavior with a high-severity outcome
2. A likely event with a low-severity outcome - ✔✔Lower Risk
✔✔1. a likely event or behavior with a high-severity outcome. - ✔✔Higher Risk
✔✔1. Safety
2. Professionalism
3. Litigation - ✔✔Reasons for Team Intervention
✔✔1. First on the scene
2. Confident/competent
, 3. Best rapport - ✔✔Team Leader
✔✔1. Planning
2. Decision Making
3. Communication
4. Safety
5. Postvention Approaches - ✔✔Team Leader/Incident Manager Duties
✔✔Care, Welfare, Safety and Security - ✔✔CPI Core Values
✔✔Movement - ✔✔Biomechanical Benefit
✔✔Limit aggressive range of motion - ✔✔Hold and Stabilize
✔✔Move in opposite directions - ✔✔Push/Pull
✔✔Combining momentum with movement around a single point creating a linear and
angular motion - ✔✔Lever
✔✔1. Keep partner safe
2. Help partner learn
3. Provide partner feedback - ✔✔Role of Practice Partner
✔✔1. Adjust approach to promote skill development
2. Safe enough to prevent harm - ✔✔Safe Realism
✔✔1. Did staff minimize risk to self?
2. Did staff minimize risk to the person in crisis?
3. Did staff safely manage the behavior? - ✔✔Determining Acceptability
✔✔A weapon (body part or object) making contact with a target - ✔✔Strikes
✔✔Maintaining physical contact without consent - ✔✔Grabs/Holds
✔✔Wrist/Arm Holds, Neck, Clothing, Body Hug, Hair, Bite - ✔✔List of Grab/Holds
✔✔1. Safe: What makes these skills safe?
2. Effective: What makes it an effective strategy?
3. Acceptable: Would this be viewed as an acceptable response to risk behavior?
4. Transferable: Is this skill transferable? - ✔✔Physical Skills Framework (SEAT)
✔✔1. Relax and Downplay
2. Explain or Ask
