CPRP MAIN EXAMINATION 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔SAMHSA's definition of 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 Four Major Dimensions of Recovery - ✔✔1. HEALTH: Overcoming or
managing one's disease(s) as well as living in a physically and emotionally healthy way;
2. HOME: A stable and safe place to live;
3. PURPOSE: Meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school, volunteerism, family
caretaking, or creative endeavors, and the independence, income, and resources to
participate in society;
4. COMMUNITY: Relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship,
love, and hope.
✔✔The Medical Perspective on Psychiatric Disability - ✔✔-Focused on treating the
mental health condition (the symptoms of the psychiatric illness).
-Use language such as mental impairment, psychiatric disorder, emotional disturbance,
or diagnosis.
-Follows the DSM- to be a disorder:
-symptoms must be noticeable (clinically significant)
-must be/or at risk of causing difficulty in role functioning
-must have abnormal/not "culturally-sanctioned"
reactions/behaviors to events
-a faulty way of perceiving or reacting to the world
✔✔The Disability Perspective - ✔✔-psych disabilities occur when a mental health
condition interferes with a person's function in living, learning, working, and/or social
environments and roles.
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) definition for Disability - ✔✔-a physical or
mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such
individual
✔✔Social Security Act (SSA) definition for Disability - ✔✔-"the inability to engage in any
substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental
impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be
expected to last for a continuous period of no less than 12 months."
✔✔PRA's definition for Disability - ✔✔-the concept is seen as more relevant to
rehabilitation than is the concept of illness and implies the hope of reacquiring abilities
and valued roles.
, ✔✔The Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective - ✔✔-the health condition is seen as interacting
with environmental and personal factors to affect an individual's functioning at the level
of body functions and structures, in performance of daily activities, and in participation in
values roles and life domains.
✔✔Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective Functions related to Symptoms of the Body -
✔✔ABC
-Affective functions: experience, expression, regulation of affect.
-Behavioral functions: energy and drive, sleep and appetites, and psychomotor
functions
-Cognitive functions: experience of self and time, attention/concentration, memory, and
executive functions
✔✔Positive Symptoms (in regards to Medical Perspective of Psychiatric Disbility) - ✔✔-
additions to typical behaviors (present)
Ex. delusion, hallucinations, bizzare behaviors, etc.
✔✔Negative Symptoms (in regards to Medical Perspective of Psychiatric Disbility) -
✔✔-showing a lack of something (absent)
Ex. social withdrawl, difficulty producing thoughts or speech, blunted of flat affect, etc.
✔✔The Social Perspective on Psychiatric Disability - ✔✔-sees the disability as a
product of the social and interpersonal factors.
-"there is no such thing as a mental illness"
-believes that psychiatric symptoms can be a healthy response to a dysfunctional world.
-"what looks like illness often represents a method of surviving difficult times or coping
with trauma
-Believes that because the environment helps to define 'disability', disability is a socially
constructed concept.
✔✔Competency - ✔✔-the ability to apply or use knowledge, skills, attitudes, and
personal characteristics to successfully perform critical work tasks, specific functions, or
operate in a given role or position.
✔✔KSA - ✔✔Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes
✔✔KSA's Three competency blocks - ✔✔Foundational (bottom tier), industry-related
(middle tier), and occupation-related (top tier)
✔✔KSA's Foundational Block - ✔✔-can be generalized/are core competencies
-three tiers: basic workplace skills, basic academic skills, and the personal effectiveness
skill (soft skills)
✔✔Accredidation - ✔✔the approval of an organization stating that they meet the
expected standards and competencies
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔SAMHSA's definition of 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 Four Major Dimensions of Recovery - ✔✔1. HEALTH: Overcoming or
managing one's disease(s) as well as living in a physically and emotionally healthy way;
2. HOME: A stable and safe place to live;
3. PURPOSE: Meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school, volunteerism, family
caretaking, or creative endeavors, and the independence, income, and resources to
participate in society;
4. COMMUNITY: Relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship,
love, and hope.
✔✔The Medical Perspective on Psychiatric Disability - ✔✔-Focused on treating the
mental health condition (the symptoms of the psychiatric illness).
-Use language such as mental impairment, psychiatric disorder, emotional disturbance,
or diagnosis.
-Follows the DSM- to be a disorder:
-symptoms must be noticeable (clinically significant)
-must be/or at risk of causing difficulty in role functioning
-must have abnormal/not "culturally-sanctioned"
reactions/behaviors to events
-a faulty way of perceiving or reacting to the world
✔✔The Disability Perspective - ✔✔-psych disabilities occur when a mental health
condition interferes with a person's function in living, learning, working, and/or social
environments and roles.
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) definition for Disability - ✔✔-a physical or
mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such
individual
✔✔Social Security Act (SSA) definition for Disability - ✔✔-"the inability to engage in any
substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental
impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be
expected to last for a continuous period of no less than 12 months."
✔✔PRA's definition for Disability - ✔✔-the concept is seen as more relevant to
rehabilitation than is the concept of illness and implies the hope of reacquiring abilities
and valued roles.
, ✔✔The Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective - ✔✔-the health condition is seen as interacting
with environmental and personal factors to affect an individual's functioning at the level
of body functions and structures, in performance of daily activities, and in participation in
values roles and life domains.
✔✔Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective Functions related to Symptoms of the Body -
✔✔ABC
-Affective functions: experience, expression, regulation of affect.
-Behavioral functions: energy and drive, sleep and appetites, and psychomotor
functions
-Cognitive functions: experience of self and time, attention/concentration, memory, and
executive functions
✔✔Positive Symptoms (in regards to Medical Perspective of Psychiatric Disbility) - ✔✔-
additions to typical behaviors (present)
Ex. delusion, hallucinations, bizzare behaviors, etc.
✔✔Negative Symptoms (in regards to Medical Perspective of Psychiatric Disbility) -
✔✔-showing a lack of something (absent)
Ex. social withdrawl, difficulty producing thoughts or speech, blunted of flat affect, etc.
✔✔The Social Perspective on Psychiatric Disability - ✔✔-sees the disability as a
product of the social and interpersonal factors.
-"there is no such thing as a mental illness"
-believes that psychiatric symptoms can be a healthy response to a dysfunctional world.
-"what looks like illness often represents a method of surviving difficult times or coping
with trauma
-Believes that because the environment helps to define 'disability', disability is a socially
constructed concept.
✔✔Competency - ✔✔-the ability to apply or use knowledge, skills, attitudes, and
personal characteristics to successfully perform critical work tasks, specific functions, or
operate in a given role or position.
✔✔KSA - ✔✔Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes
✔✔KSA's Three competency blocks - ✔✔Foundational (bottom tier), industry-related
(middle tier), and occupation-related (top tier)
✔✔KSA's Foundational Block - ✔✔-can be generalized/are core competencies
-three tiers: basic workplace skills, basic academic skills, and the personal effectiveness
skill (soft skills)
✔✔Accredidation - ✔✔the approval of an organization stating that they meet the
expected standards and competencies
