STUDY GUIDE FOR NCTRC EXAM
Which of the following is MOST LIKELY to teach social skills to a group of at-risk youth?
a. Bingo
b. Volleyball, because it involves cooperation and competition
c. role plays of asking someone for assistance
d. discussion of appropriate leisure skills in a variety of situations - Correct Answers -C
When using behavior modification with a female child who is emotionally disturbed, the
CTRS teaches her separate hygiene behaviors and then combines them together in a
morning wake up routine. What behavior modification technique is this called?
a. shaping
b. modeling
c. extinction
d. chaining - Correct Answers –D
When a physician or case manager creates a master list of client deficits and develops
a plan of action focused on these deficits, this is called
a. a problem-oriented medical record
b. a clinical pathway
c. the case load of the physician on staff
d. a diagnostic protocol - Correct Answers -A
Which of the following is an appropriate goal for a client who lacks awareness of
personal resources?
a. the client will identify four assets within himself/herself that complement his/her
leisure lifestyle
b. the client will name three leisure resources in the community
c. the client will learn three new leisure activities within the next three months
d. the client will register for one community program within one month - Correct
Answers -A
In the US, which is among the most participated in
a. basketball
b. swimming
c. inline skating
d. bowling - Correct Answers -D
A TR facilitation technique that focuses on taste, touch, sight, smell, hearing, and bodily
movement, and is often combined with reminiscence and remotivation is called:
a. sensory overload
b. aromatherapy
, c. sensory stimulation
d. sensory integration - Correct Answers -C
CTRS is working with teens in a psychiatric inpatient program that is oriented toward
Fruedian psychology. One of the activities the CTRS would recommend for the clients
based on "sublimation of sexual urges" is:
a. crafts
b. a dance
c. gymnastics
d. tennis - Correct Answers -B
Which of the following is the LEAST likely way for a CTRS to improve her continuing
professional competence?
a. attend hospital grand rounds
b. present in-service training sessions to her colleagues
c. read brochures about services at similar facilities
d. attend national conferences - Correct Answers -C
The best direct way to promote the value of TR within a facility is to
a. provide in-service trainings to other disciplines
b. attend hospital grand rounds
c. create and post an activity calendar on the unit
d. create a multidisciplinary assessment - Correct Answers -A
Client A is displaying what type of behavior:
During a discussion on the value of leisure, Client A said, "We need to change topics. I
don't like this one. I think it's for sissies like the rest of you guys."
a. assertive
b. nonassertive (passive)
c. aggressive
d. noncommittal - Correct Answers -C
Managed cared has shifted the responsibility of determining the services a patient
needs from the providers of services to the
a. state governments
b. payers of service
c. patient
d. middle class - Correct Answers -B
Which best represents the theory of recreation substitutability?
a. the activity does not matter, it's the experience that occurs
b. the second string squad often plays as well as the first string squad
c. unable to do one activity, the person chooses another that provides similar
satisfactions and benefits
Which of the following is MOST LIKELY to teach social skills to a group of at-risk youth?
a. Bingo
b. Volleyball, because it involves cooperation and competition
c. role plays of asking someone for assistance
d. discussion of appropriate leisure skills in a variety of situations - Correct Answers -C
When using behavior modification with a female child who is emotionally disturbed, the
CTRS teaches her separate hygiene behaviors and then combines them together in a
morning wake up routine. What behavior modification technique is this called?
a. shaping
b. modeling
c. extinction
d. chaining - Correct Answers –D
When a physician or case manager creates a master list of client deficits and develops
a plan of action focused on these deficits, this is called
a. a problem-oriented medical record
b. a clinical pathway
c. the case load of the physician on staff
d. a diagnostic protocol - Correct Answers -A
Which of the following is an appropriate goal for a client who lacks awareness of
personal resources?
a. the client will identify four assets within himself/herself that complement his/her
leisure lifestyle
b. the client will name three leisure resources in the community
c. the client will learn three new leisure activities within the next three months
d. the client will register for one community program within one month - Correct
Answers -A
In the US, which is among the most participated in
a. basketball
b. swimming
c. inline skating
d. bowling - Correct Answers -D
A TR facilitation technique that focuses on taste, touch, sight, smell, hearing, and bodily
movement, and is often combined with reminiscence and remotivation is called:
a. sensory overload
b. aromatherapy
, c. sensory stimulation
d. sensory integration - Correct Answers -C
CTRS is working with teens in a psychiatric inpatient program that is oriented toward
Fruedian psychology. One of the activities the CTRS would recommend for the clients
based on "sublimation of sexual urges" is:
a. crafts
b. a dance
c. gymnastics
d. tennis - Correct Answers -B
Which of the following is the LEAST likely way for a CTRS to improve her continuing
professional competence?
a. attend hospital grand rounds
b. present in-service training sessions to her colleagues
c. read brochures about services at similar facilities
d. attend national conferences - Correct Answers -C
The best direct way to promote the value of TR within a facility is to
a. provide in-service trainings to other disciplines
b. attend hospital grand rounds
c. create and post an activity calendar on the unit
d. create a multidisciplinary assessment - Correct Answers -A
Client A is displaying what type of behavior:
During a discussion on the value of leisure, Client A said, "We need to change topics. I
don't like this one. I think it's for sissies like the rest of you guys."
a. assertive
b. nonassertive (passive)
c. aggressive
d. noncommittal - Correct Answers -C
Managed cared has shifted the responsibility of determining the services a patient
needs from the providers of services to the
a. state governments
b. payers of service
c. patient
d. middle class - Correct Answers -B
Which best represents the theory of recreation substitutability?
a. the activity does not matter, it's the experience that occurs
b. the second string squad often plays as well as the first string squad
c. unable to do one activity, the person chooses another that provides similar
satisfactions and benefits
