CTPRP EXAM COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS SET
TESTED QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Data that already exists and that are maintained by an organization or
entity. Typically, this refers to collected data repositories maintained by
state agencies, such as Highway Patrol (for DUI accidents and fatalities),
Health Services (for AOD related hospitalizations), and Treatment
admissions for AOD substance use problems.
Answer: Archival Data
⩥ The term "_______" refers to the various types and levels of resources
that an individual, organization, or collaborative has at its disposal to
meet the implementation demands of specific interventions.
Answer: Capacity
⩥ A capacity building process through which a community of
individuals, organizations, policy makers, or governmental
representatives plans, carries out, and evaluates activities on a
participating basis to improve health or other needs. It empowers
individuals and groups to take some kind of action to facilitate change
based on needs they have identified. Communities may initiate the
process themselves or maybe motivated by outsiders to act.
Answer: Community Mobilization
,⩥ The formal names given to community mobilization types of efforts.
All share a common theme: a group of individuals and/or agencies
agreeing to work together for a common purpose. They may vary in
formality, size, and composition. To be most effective, these community
mobilizing efforts should have a membership that reflects the broader
community. Cultural awareness and sensitivity are hallmarks of
successful community mobilizing efforts.
Answer: Community Partnerships
Collaboratives
Coalitions
⩥ The extent to which a community is adequately prepared to implement
a substance abuse prevention program. The underlying premise of
community readiness is change in AOD use cannot occur if there exists a
high level of community denial about this problem.
Answer: Community Readiness
⩥ This refers to an ability to interact effectively with individuals from
different cultural backgrounds. It comprises of four components: 1)
Awareness of one's cultural world view, 2) Attitudes towards cultural
differences, 3) Knowledge and awareness of different cultural practices,
beliefs and world views, and 4) Possessing cross-cultural skills.
Answer: Cultural Competence (Awareness)
,⩥ _____represents the "values, norms, and traditions that affect how
individuals of a particular group perceived, think, interact, behave, and
make judgment about the world." Chamberlain (2005).
Answer: Culture
⩥ This term applies to replicating a program model or strategy. To have
"_______," the program needs to be implemented with the same
specifications of the original program. ______can be balanced with
adaptation to meet local needs.
Answer: Fidelity
⩥ Broad, future oriented action statements to be achieved by a program.
Neither dates nor responsibilities are included. A program may have
multiple (1 to 5), but not so many as to confuse staff and the general
community.
Answer: Goal Statements
⩥ Findings about effective prevention programs as identified through
research.
Answer: Guiding Principles
⩥ A planning tool that enables a group or its manager to identify, among
other things, the strategies, best practices, guiding principles, and
evaluation plan. This can contribute to the establishment of direction and
clarity of vision for the implementation group.
, Answer: Implementation Plan
⩥ Those programs and strategies designed to target specific individuals
at risk for substance abuse problems.
Answer: Indicated
⩥ A variable that relates directly to some part of a program goal or
objective. Positive change on an indicator is presumed to show progress
in accomplishing the larger program objective.
Answer: Indicator
⩥ An approach, since adopted by CSAP and the prevention field that: 1)
view prevention as part of an overall continuum of services, concluding
with treatment; 2) identifies three levels of prevention: universal,
selected, and indicated that refers to populations at varying levels of risk
involving substances which in turn dictates that level and type of
prevention services appropriate for the level of risk evident in the
various population groupings.
Answer: Institution of Medicine (IOM) Model
⩥ Narrative or graphical depictions of processes in real life that
communicate the underlying assumptions upon which an activity is
expected to lead to a specific result. Logic models illustrate a sequence
of cause-and-effect relationships - a systems approach to communicate
the path toward a desired result.
TESTED QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Data that already exists and that are maintained by an organization or
entity. Typically, this refers to collected data repositories maintained by
state agencies, such as Highway Patrol (for DUI accidents and fatalities),
Health Services (for AOD related hospitalizations), and Treatment
admissions for AOD substance use problems.
Answer: Archival Data
⩥ The term "_______" refers to the various types and levels of resources
that an individual, organization, or collaborative has at its disposal to
meet the implementation demands of specific interventions.
Answer: Capacity
⩥ A capacity building process through which a community of
individuals, organizations, policy makers, or governmental
representatives plans, carries out, and evaluates activities on a
participating basis to improve health or other needs. It empowers
individuals and groups to take some kind of action to facilitate change
based on needs they have identified. Communities may initiate the
process themselves or maybe motivated by outsiders to act.
Answer: Community Mobilization
,⩥ The formal names given to community mobilization types of efforts.
All share a common theme: a group of individuals and/or agencies
agreeing to work together for a common purpose. They may vary in
formality, size, and composition. To be most effective, these community
mobilizing efforts should have a membership that reflects the broader
community. Cultural awareness and sensitivity are hallmarks of
successful community mobilizing efforts.
Answer: Community Partnerships
Collaboratives
Coalitions
⩥ The extent to which a community is adequately prepared to implement
a substance abuse prevention program. The underlying premise of
community readiness is change in AOD use cannot occur if there exists a
high level of community denial about this problem.
Answer: Community Readiness
⩥ This refers to an ability to interact effectively with individuals from
different cultural backgrounds. It comprises of four components: 1)
Awareness of one's cultural world view, 2) Attitudes towards cultural
differences, 3) Knowledge and awareness of different cultural practices,
beliefs and world views, and 4) Possessing cross-cultural skills.
Answer: Cultural Competence (Awareness)
,⩥ _____represents the "values, norms, and traditions that affect how
individuals of a particular group perceived, think, interact, behave, and
make judgment about the world." Chamberlain (2005).
Answer: Culture
⩥ This term applies to replicating a program model or strategy. To have
"_______," the program needs to be implemented with the same
specifications of the original program. ______can be balanced with
adaptation to meet local needs.
Answer: Fidelity
⩥ Broad, future oriented action statements to be achieved by a program.
Neither dates nor responsibilities are included. A program may have
multiple (1 to 5), but not so many as to confuse staff and the general
community.
Answer: Goal Statements
⩥ Findings about effective prevention programs as identified through
research.
Answer: Guiding Principles
⩥ A planning tool that enables a group or its manager to identify, among
other things, the strategies, best practices, guiding principles, and
evaluation plan. This can contribute to the establishment of direction and
clarity of vision for the implementation group.
, Answer: Implementation Plan
⩥ Those programs and strategies designed to target specific individuals
at risk for substance abuse problems.
Answer: Indicated
⩥ A variable that relates directly to some part of a program goal or
objective. Positive change on an indicator is presumed to show progress
in accomplishing the larger program objective.
Answer: Indicator
⩥ An approach, since adopted by CSAP and the prevention field that: 1)
view prevention as part of an overall continuum of services, concluding
with treatment; 2) identifies three levels of prevention: universal,
selected, and indicated that refers to populations at varying levels of risk
involving substances which in turn dictates that level and type of
prevention services appropriate for the level of risk evident in the
various population groupings.
Answer: Institution of Medicine (IOM) Model
⩥ Narrative or graphical depictions of processes in real life that
communicate the underlying assumptions upon which an activity is
expected to lead to a specific result. Logic models illustrate a sequence
of cause-and-effect relationships - a systems approach to communicate
the path toward a desired result.
