ILLINOIS CRSS TEST PAPER 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Recovery is based on respect - ✔✔Community, systems, and societal acceptance
for people affected by mental health and substance use problems include protecting
their rights and eliminating discrimination and stigma.
✔✔Recovery Support Specialist - ✔✔A person with lived experience who helps others
on their recovery journey in a formal manner and is paid for his service
✔✔System level Advocacy - ✔✔Communicating effectively within an organization to get
the needs of persons participating in services met. Often involves changes that affect
groups of people
✔✔self advocacy - ✔✔going for it" with courage, persistence and determination on the
road to recovery CRSS helps individuals learn to express themselves clearly and calmly
✔✔Spirituality - ✔✔Find meaning and purpose in your life. Identify what matters to you
the most
✔✔Support - ✔✔Lean on others for encouragement Depend on others to hold you
accountable
✔✔Emotional Wellness - ✔✔To have positive self-concept deal constructively with your
feelings and develop positive qualities
✔✔Spiritual Wellness - ✔✔To develop set of beliefs principles or values that give
meaning or purpose to your life ; to develop faith in something beyond yourself
✔✔Environmental Wellness - ✔✔Good health by occupying pleasant stimulating
environment that supports well being
✔✔Occupational Wellness - ✔✔Personal satisfaction and enrichment derived from ones
work
✔✔System - ✔✔a set of parts working together in an organized way for a common
purpose
✔✔Self Advocacy Steps - ✔✔Modeling, Supporting and Empowering
✔✔Wellness Focused Approach - ✔✔The focus is predominantly fixed on the diagnosis
of an illness and targeted at reducing symptoms. A wellness-focused approach is
strength based. It facilitates
, hope and helps to motivate the person to take an active role in the recovery of their
wellness.
✔✔cultural competence - ✔✔the enabling of health care providers to deliver services
that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices, and cultural and
linguistic needs of diverse patients
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔behaving responsibly toward one another and communicating
openly about our responsibilities. We ensure that actions are consistent with what we as
individuals, peers and organizations have committed ourselves to
✔✔Social Learning - ✔✔Learning through observing others and interacting
✔✔Stages of Change - ✔✔pre-contemplation, contemplation, action change,
maintenance, and relapse
✔✔motivational interviewing - ✔✔a collaborative, person-centered form of guiding to
elicit and strengthen motivation for change
✔✔Stages of Recovery - ✔✔Impact of Illness, Life is Limited, Change is Possible,
Commitment to Change, Actions for Change
✔✔Co-occuring disorders (COD) - ✔✔have one or more substancerelated disorder as
well as one or more mental health diagnosis. These conditions may also be referred to
as Dual Diagnosis
✔✔Integrated Interventions - ✔✔specific treatment strategies or therapeutic techniques
in which interventions for all COD diagnoses or symptoms are combined in a single
contact or in a series of contacts over time
✔✔Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment (IDDT) - ✔✔This evidence based practice
supports the recovery process of individuals who have both serious mental illnesses
and substance use problems. This service is provided by a multidisciplinary team of
specially trained mental health staff who provide individualized services such as case
management, counseling, and education
✔✔ Hope - ✔✔Believing you can do something and completing goals
✔✔Working Recovery - ✔✔A process of change through which individuals improve their
health and wellness, live a self directed life, and strive to reach their full potential
✔✔SAMHSA's 4 major dimensions that support a life in recovery - ✔✔Health, Home,
Purpose and Community
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Recovery is based on respect - ✔✔Community, systems, and societal acceptance
for people affected by mental health and substance use problems include protecting
their rights and eliminating discrimination and stigma.
✔✔Recovery Support Specialist - ✔✔A person with lived experience who helps others
on their recovery journey in a formal manner and is paid for his service
✔✔System level Advocacy - ✔✔Communicating effectively within an organization to get
the needs of persons participating in services met. Often involves changes that affect
groups of people
✔✔self advocacy - ✔✔going for it" with courage, persistence and determination on the
road to recovery CRSS helps individuals learn to express themselves clearly and calmly
✔✔Spirituality - ✔✔Find meaning and purpose in your life. Identify what matters to you
the most
✔✔Support - ✔✔Lean on others for encouragement Depend on others to hold you
accountable
✔✔Emotional Wellness - ✔✔To have positive self-concept deal constructively with your
feelings and develop positive qualities
✔✔Spiritual Wellness - ✔✔To develop set of beliefs principles or values that give
meaning or purpose to your life ; to develop faith in something beyond yourself
✔✔Environmental Wellness - ✔✔Good health by occupying pleasant stimulating
environment that supports well being
✔✔Occupational Wellness - ✔✔Personal satisfaction and enrichment derived from ones
work
✔✔System - ✔✔a set of parts working together in an organized way for a common
purpose
✔✔Self Advocacy Steps - ✔✔Modeling, Supporting and Empowering
✔✔Wellness Focused Approach - ✔✔The focus is predominantly fixed on the diagnosis
of an illness and targeted at reducing symptoms. A wellness-focused approach is
strength based. It facilitates
, hope and helps to motivate the person to take an active role in the recovery of their
wellness.
✔✔cultural competence - ✔✔the enabling of health care providers to deliver services
that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices, and cultural and
linguistic needs of diverse patients
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔behaving responsibly toward one another and communicating
openly about our responsibilities. We ensure that actions are consistent with what we as
individuals, peers and organizations have committed ourselves to
✔✔Social Learning - ✔✔Learning through observing others and interacting
✔✔Stages of Change - ✔✔pre-contemplation, contemplation, action change,
maintenance, and relapse
✔✔motivational interviewing - ✔✔a collaborative, person-centered form of guiding to
elicit and strengthen motivation for change
✔✔Stages of Recovery - ✔✔Impact of Illness, Life is Limited, Change is Possible,
Commitment to Change, Actions for Change
✔✔Co-occuring disorders (COD) - ✔✔have one or more substancerelated disorder as
well as one or more mental health diagnosis. These conditions may also be referred to
as Dual Diagnosis
✔✔Integrated Interventions - ✔✔specific treatment strategies or therapeutic techniques
in which interventions for all COD diagnoses or symptoms are combined in a single
contact or in a series of contacts over time
✔✔Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment (IDDT) - ✔✔This evidence based practice
supports the recovery process of individuals who have both serious mental illnesses
and substance use problems. This service is provided by a multidisciplinary team of
specially trained mental health staff who provide individualized services such as case
management, counseling, and education
✔✔ Hope - ✔✔Believing you can do something and completing goals
✔✔Working Recovery - ✔✔A process of change through which individuals improve their
health and wellness, live a self directed life, and strive to reach their full potential
✔✔SAMHSA's 4 major dimensions that support a life in recovery - ✔✔Health, Home,
Purpose and Community
