NCTRC Exam QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Leisure Diagnostic Battery (LDB) - Correct Answers --used for a wide range of
individuals, with or without disability
-purpose is to assess the client's leisure functioning, determine the areas in which
improvement of current leisure functioning is needed, determine the impact of offered
services on the client's leisure functioning, facilitate research on the structure of leisure
to enable a better understanding of the value, purpose, and outcomes of leisure
experiences
-measures: perceived leisure competence, perceived leisure control, leisure needs,
depth of involvement in leisure, playfulness, barriers to leisure experience, & leisure
preferences
-overall content covered includes perceived freedom in leisure
Leisurescope - Correct Answers --adolescent/adult clients with little to no cognitive
impairment
-should be used when a CTRS wants to determine patient's leisure interests
-purpose is to identify areas of high leisure interest, identify the emotional motivation for
participation, & identify individuals who need higher arousal experiences (risk takers)
-measures: the degree of interest that an individual has in ten areas of leisure, the
feelings that the individual reports concerning involvement in a variety of activities, & the
degree to which the individual seeks out high arousal (risk-taking) activities
State Technical Institutes Leisure Assessment Process (STILAP) - Correct Answers --
MR/DD and adolescents/adults with physical or psychological disabilities;
adolescents/adults who need more balance in their leisure
-purpose is to help the client achieve a balanced leisure lifestyle which is done by:
assessing the client's leisure skill participation patterns, categorizing these patterns, and
thus assumed skills, into leisure competency areas, & providing guidelines for further
leisure decision making & future program involvement
-measures: the client's indicated interest in various activities, areas that the client is
interested in learning more about, & the degree to which the client's leisure lifestyle is
balanced
-translates activity skills into leisure competencies
-CTRS should use this assessment when measuring participation patterns
Teenscope - Correct Answers -a useful assessment to place adolescent clients into
leisure skill TR programs
,FOX Activity Therapy Social Skills Baseline - Correct Answers --individuals with a
diagnosis of dementia, mental retardation, developmental disability, or brain injury
-adults with developmental disabilities
-purpose is to evaluate the client's relative level of skills in the social/affective domain
-most of the skills included in this assessment are important building blocks to the
development of a mature leisure lifestyle
-measures 6 areas in the social domain: client's reaction to others, client's reaction to
objects, client's seeking attention from others to manipulate the environment, client's
interaction with objects, client's concept of self, & client's interactions with others
Comprehensive Evaluation in RT- Physical Disabilities (CERT)-Physical - Correct
Answers --clients with loss of function
-purpose is to establish a baseline for a client's functional skills related to leisure
activities & reassessments of the same client helps to establish skill recovery or loss
-measures functional ability in 8 areas: gross motor function, fine motor function,
locomotion, motor skills, sensory, cognition, communication, & behavior
Comprehensive Evaluation in RT Scale (CERT)-Psych - Correct Answers --youth/adult
clients with a developmental age of at least 10 years
-psychiatric & rehabilitation populations
-client is observed in a group activity
-provides a useful measure for determining the success of interventions
-purpose is to identify, define, and evaluate behaviors relevant to a person's ability to
successfully integrate into society using his/her social skills
-measures three performance areas: general performance, individual performance, &
group performance
Leisure Competence Measure (LCM) - Correct Answers --designed to measure
outcomes related to TR
-8 subsections: leisure awareness, leisure attitude, leisure skills, cultural/social
behaviors, interpersonal skills, community integration skills, social contact, & community
participation
-scales are evaluated on a 7-point rating system
-has scales that measure elements of leisure based on mastery in areas such as social
appropriateness & community-based participation
-parallels the format of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
-designed to coincide with the Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
Functional Independence Measure (FIM) - Correct Answers --18 item measurement of
physical, psychological, & social function
-measures social interaction, problem solving, & memory
-CTRS is assessing social/cognition
-recommended group: functional mobility impairments
-7 levels:
0: activity does not occur
, 1. total assistance or not testable (subject less than 25%)
2. maximal assistance (subject 25% or more)
3. moderate assistance (subject 50% or more)
4. minimal assistance (subject 75% or more)
5. supervision or setup (subject 100%)
6. modified independence (using device)
7. complete independence (timely, safety)
-measured at admission, goal, & discharge
-encourages repeated measurement/assessment of skills over time
-measures: self-care, sphincter control, transfers, locomotion, communication & social
cognition
*communication is measured by both comprehension of incoming messages and
expression of outgoing messages
-social cognition: social interaction, problem solving, memory
Functional Assessment of Characteristics for Therapeutic Recreation, Revised (FACTR-
R) - Correct Answers --purpose: to determine a client's needs related to his/her basic
functional skills & behaviors
-measures prerequisite skills related to leisure participation; 11 areas in each of 3
domains- physical, cognitive, & social/emotional
-a useful tool for deciding what areas need to be addressed by RT
-makes the assumption about physical functional abilities such as vision, hearing,
ambulation, & bowel/bladder control that some functional abilities are not amenable to
improvement, but are important considerations for TR programming
-recognizes that some functional abilities cannot be improved through TR services
-one of the few assessment instruments that uses the patient's medical record in data
collection
-uses norm-referenced scoring
Idyll Arbor Activity Assessment (IIAA) - Correct Answers --recommended group: older
adults living in long-term care facilities
-purpose: to obtain enough information about a client, in a reasonable amount of time,
to be able to develop a treatment plan
-measures 5 sections: personal & medical history, leisure interests, leisure history,
individual performance/social strengths, & maladaptive behaviors
-primarily an intake assessment to look at the current status of a client so that the
appropriate programming can be provided
Free Time Boredom - Correct Answers --purpose: to identify the degree to which the
participant is bored in the four components that make up boredom
-measures the 4 aspects of boredom: meaningfulness, mental involvement, speed of
time, & physical involvement
Idyll Arbor Leisure Battery - Correct Answers --combination of 4 separate assessments
1. leisure attitude measurement (LAM)
2. leisure interest measure (LIM)
CORRECT ANSWERS
Leisure Diagnostic Battery (LDB) - Correct Answers --used for a wide range of
individuals, with or without disability
-purpose is to assess the client's leisure functioning, determine the areas in which
improvement of current leisure functioning is needed, determine the impact of offered
services on the client's leisure functioning, facilitate research on the structure of leisure
to enable a better understanding of the value, purpose, and outcomes of leisure
experiences
-measures: perceived leisure competence, perceived leisure control, leisure needs,
depth of involvement in leisure, playfulness, barriers to leisure experience, & leisure
preferences
-overall content covered includes perceived freedom in leisure
Leisurescope - Correct Answers --adolescent/adult clients with little to no cognitive
impairment
-should be used when a CTRS wants to determine patient's leisure interests
-purpose is to identify areas of high leisure interest, identify the emotional motivation for
participation, & identify individuals who need higher arousal experiences (risk takers)
-measures: the degree of interest that an individual has in ten areas of leisure, the
feelings that the individual reports concerning involvement in a variety of activities, & the
degree to which the individual seeks out high arousal (risk-taking) activities
State Technical Institutes Leisure Assessment Process (STILAP) - Correct Answers --
MR/DD and adolescents/adults with physical or psychological disabilities;
adolescents/adults who need more balance in their leisure
-purpose is to help the client achieve a balanced leisure lifestyle which is done by:
assessing the client's leisure skill participation patterns, categorizing these patterns, and
thus assumed skills, into leisure competency areas, & providing guidelines for further
leisure decision making & future program involvement
-measures: the client's indicated interest in various activities, areas that the client is
interested in learning more about, & the degree to which the client's leisure lifestyle is
balanced
-translates activity skills into leisure competencies
-CTRS should use this assessment when measuring participation patterns
Teenscope - Correct Answers -a useful assessment to place adolescent clients into
leisure skill TR programs
,FOX Activity Therapy Social Skills Baseline - Correct Answers --individuals with a
diagnosis of dementia, mental retardation, developmental disability, or brain injury
-adults with developmental disabilities
-purpose is to evaluate the client's relative level of skills in the social/affective domain
-most of the skills included in this assessment are important building blocks to the
development of a mature leisure lifestyle
-measures 6 areas in the social domain: client's reaction to others, client's reaction to
objects, client's seeking attention from others to manipulate the environment, client's
interaction with objects, client's concept of self, & client's interactions with others
Comprehensive Evaluation in RT- Physical Disabilities (CERT)-Physical - Correct
Answers --clients with loss of function
-purpose is to establish a baseline for a client's functional skills related to leisure
activities & reassessments of the same client helps to establish skill recovery or loss
-measures functional ability in 8 areas: gross motor function, fine motor function,
locomotion, motor skills, sensory, cognition, communication, & behavior
Comprehensive Evaluation in RT Scale (CERT)-Psych - Correct Answers --youth/adult
clients with a developmental age of at least 10 years
-psychiatric & rehabilitation populations
-client is observed in a group activity
-provides a useful measure for determining the success of interventions
-purpose is to identify, define, and evaluate behaviors relevant to a person's ability to
successfully integrate into society using his/her social skills
-measures three performance areas: general performance, individual performance, &
group performance
Leisure Competence Measure (LCM) - Correct Answers --designed to measure
outcomes related to TR
-8 subsections: leisure awareness, leisure attitude, leisure skills, cultural/social
behaviors, interpersonal skills, community integration skills, social contact, & community
participation
-scales are evaluated on a 7-point rating system
-has scales that measure elements of leisure based on mastery in areas such as social
appropriateness & community-based participation
-parallels the format of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
-designed to coincide with the Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
Functional Independence Measure (FIM) - Correct Answers --18 item measurement of
physical, psychological, & social function
-measures social interaction, problem solving, & memory
-CTRS is assessing social/cognition
-recommended group: functional mobility impairments
-7 levels:
0: activity does not occur
, 1. total assistance or not testable (subject less than 25%)
2. maximal assistance (subject 25% or more)
3. moderate assistance (subject 50% or more)
4. minimal assistance (subject 75% or more)
5. supervision or setup (subject 100%)
6. modified independence (using device)
7. complete independence (timely, safety)
-measured at admission, goal, & discharge
-encourages repeated measurement/assessment of skills over time
-measures: self-care, sphincter control, transfers, locomotion, communication & social
cognition
*communication is measured by both comprehension of incoming messages and
expression of outgoing messages
-social cognition: social interaction, problem solving, memory
Functional Assessment of Characteristics for Therapeutic Recreation, Revised (FACTR-
R) - Correct Answers --purpose: to determine a client's needs related to his/her basic
functional skills & behaviors
-measures prerequisite skills related to leisure participation; 11 areas in each of 3
domains- physical, cognitive, & social/emotional
-a useful tool for deciding what areas need to be addressed by RT
-makes the assumption about physical functional abilities such as vision, hearing,
ambulation, & bowel/bladder control that some functional abilities are not amenable to
improvement, but are important considerations for TR programming
-recognizes that some functional abilities cannot be improved through TR services
-one of the few assessment instruments that uses the patient's medical record in data
collection
-uses norm-referenced scoring
Idyll Arbor Activity Assessment (IIAA) - Correct Answers --recommended group: older
adults living in long-term care facilities
-purpose: to obtain enough information about a client, in a reasonable amount of time,
to be able to develop a treatment plan
-measures 5 sections: personal & medical history, leisure interests, leisure history,
individual performance/social strengths, & maladaptive behaviors
-primarily an intake assessment to look at the current status of a client so that the
appropriate programming can be provided
Free Time Boredom - Correct Answers --purpose: to identify the degree to which the
participant is bored in the four components that make up boredom
-measures the 4 aspects of boredom: meaningfulness, mental involvement, speed of
time, & physical involvement
Idyll Arbor Leisure Battery - Correct Answers --combination of 4 separate assessments
1. leisure attitude measurement (LAM)
2. leisure interest measure (LIM)
