CPSS EVALUATION 2026 TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Empower - ✔✔means to give authority, control and confidence to a previously
disadvantaged group or person.
✔✔Environmental approach - ✔✔Is an approach to mental health treatment that
attempts to influence either the physical environment (such as reducing access to lethal
means) or the social environment (such as providing work or academic opportunities).
✔✔Evaluation - ✔✔is the systematic investigation of the value and impact of an
intervention or program.
✔✔Ethics - ✔✔refer to principles of right and wrong as well as to rules an organization
or group agrees to.
✔✔Evidence - ✔✔based practices (EBP)—are activities or programs that have been
shown to be effective through scientific testing and reproduction of practices. Various
organizations have lists of these practices.
✔✔Facilitation - ✔✔is the practice of working with several people or a group to aid in
learning and discussion.
, ✔✔Family - ✔✔centered services-are services designed to meet the specific needs of
each individual child and family; see also appropriate services, coordinated services,
wraparound services, and cultural competence.
✔✔Family focused - ✔✔means an approach to designing and providing services that
views the child as a member of a family and recognizes that everyone in a family can be
affected by how the others act, what they say, or how they feel or are doing in school or
work. Decisions about services are made considering the strengths and needs of the
family as a whole as well as the individual child with a mental health challenge.
✔✔Family support services - ✔✔are services designed to keep the family together,
while coping with mental health challenges that affect them. These services may include
peer information workshops, in-home supports, family therapy, parenting training, crisis
services, and respite care.
✔✔Frequency - ✔✔refers to the number of occurrences of a disease or injury in a given
unit of time.
✔✔Goal - ✔✔is a broad and high-level statement of general purpose to guide planning
around an issue; it is focused on the end result of the work. In behavioral health, goals
are designed to increase recovery and resilience.
✔✔Hallucination - ✔✔is a false or distorted perception of objects or events, including
sensations of sight, sound, taste, smell, or touch, typically accompanied by a powerful
sense of their reality.
✔✔Health care - ✔✔is medical and nursing care.
✔✔Health promotion - ✔✔is education and support that enables people to increase
their control over the factors that influence their health, thereby improving their health.
✔✔Holistic - ✔✔considering the whole person in the treatment of their illness; i.e., their
physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual and social needs.
✔✔Home - ✔✔based services-refers to help provided in a family's home either for a
defined period of time or for as long as it takes to deal with a mental health problem
without removing the child from the home; these can include parent training, counseling,
and working with family members to identify, find, or provide other necessary help. Also
called inhome supports.
✔✔Homelessness - ✔✔describes people living in a broad spectrum of unsatisfactory
housing conditions ranging from cardboard boxes and park benches through night
shelters and direct access hostels to bed and breakfast accommodation or even
sleeping on a friend's floor.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Empower - ✔✔means to give authority, control and confidence to a previously
disadvantaged group or person.
✔✔Environmental approach - ✔✔Is an approach to mental health treatment that
attempts to influence either the physical environment (such as reducing access to lethal
means) or the social environment (such as providing work or academic opportunities).
✔✔Evaluation - ✔✔is the systematic investigation of the value and impact of an
intervention or program.
✔✔Ethics - ✔✔refer to principles of right and wrong as well as to rules an organization
or group agrees to.
✔✔Evidence - ✔✔based practices (EBP)—are activities or programs that have been
shown to be effective through scientific testing and reproduction of practices. Various
organizations have lists of these practices.
✔✔Facilitation - ✔✔is the practice of working with several people or a group to aid in
learning and discussion.
, ✔✔Family - ✔✔centered services-are services designed to meet the specific needs of
each individual child and family; see also appropriate services, coordinated services,
wraparound services, and cultural competence.
✔✔Family focused - ✔✔means an approach to designing and providing services that
views the child as a member of a family and recognizes that everyone in a family can be
affected by how the others act, what they say, or how they feel or are doing in school or
work. Decisions about services are made considering the strengths and needs of the
family as a whole as well as the individual child with a mental health challenge.
✔✔Family support services - ✔✔are services designed to keep the family together,
while coping with mental health challenges that affect them. These services may include
peer information workshops, in-home supports, family therapy, parenting training, crisis
services, and respite care.
✔✔Frequency - ✔✔refers to the number of occurrences of a disease or injury in a given
unit of time.
✔✔Goal - ✔✔is a broad and high-level statement of general purpose to guide planning
around an issue; it is focused on the end result of the work. In behavioral health, goals
are designed to increase recovery and resilience.
✔✔Hallucination - ✔✔is a false or distorted perception of objects or events, including
sensations of sight, sound, taste, smell, or touch, typically accompanied by a powerful
sense of their reality.
✔✔Health care - ✔✔is medical and nursing care.
✔✔Health promotion - ✔✔is education and support that enables people to increase
their control over the factors that influence their health, thereby improving their health.
✔✔Holistic - ✔✔considering the whole person in the treatment of their illness; i.e., their
physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual and social needs.
✔✔Home - ✔✔based services-refers to help provided in a family's home either for a
defined period of time or for as long as it takes to deal with a mental health problem
without removing the child from the home; these can include parent training, counseling,
and working with family members to identify, find, or provide other necessary help. Also
called inhome supports.
✔✔Homelessness - ✔✔describes people living in a broad spectrum of unsatisfactory
housing conditions ranging from cardboard boxes and park benches through night
shelters and direct access hostels to bed and breakfast accommodation or even
sleeping on a friend's floor.
