NCTRC ACTUAL PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST 2025 ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||NEWEST VERSIONS
The first step in choosing the best type of assessment for a client is to
a. identify the purpose of the assessment
b. discuss assessment options with the client
c. determine which assessment was used most often in the past
d. find the easiest assessment for the client to complete - correct answer a. identify the
purpose of the assessment
Which of the following is the FIRST step of a leisure education program for a client who has a
dual diagnosis of clinical depression and chronic alcoholism?
a. demonstrate recreational skills
b. discuss time management
c. explore leisure resources
d. develop leisure awareness - correct answer d. develop leisure awareness
Which of the following skills would a therapeutic recreation intervention for a client with
Duchenne's muscular dystrophy address?
a. memory
b. gross motor
c. fine motor
d. conentration - correct answer b. gross motor
Which therapeutic recreation practice model is designed to help clients to recover from a
threat to their health and to achieve optimal health through participation in perspective
activity, recreation, and leisure?
a. leisure ability
b. optimizing lifelong health and well-being
c. self-determination and enjoyment enhancement
d. health protection/ health promotion - correct answer d. health protection/ health promotion
The unit psychologist informs a CTRS that a client is being educated about obsessive-compulsive
disorder. The CTRS recommends and provides a book for the client to read that helps bring new
insight into the illness. Which intervention is the CTRS using?
a. remotivation
,NCTRC ACTUAL PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST 2025 ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||NEWEST VERSIONS
b. bibliotherapy
c. validation
d. orientation - correct answer d. bibliotherapy
Prior to a CTRS teaching a client how to access the internet for movie times, the CTRS makes a
list of the steps involved and places them in their proper sequence. Which of the following type
of analysis has the CTRS completed?
a. task
b. content
c. activity
d. behavioral - correct answer a. task
A 58 year old client is currently residing in a long term care facility surrounded by persons who
are considerably older. The client repeatedly complains of loneliness, boredom, and being
ignored by friends and family. which of the following verbal responses by the CTRS would be
effective?
a. probing
b. informing
c. self-disclosing
d. confronting - correct answer a. probing
Which of the following therapeutic recreation ethical principles is being violated when the CTRS
fails to discuss the results of an assessment and related plan for intervention with the client?
a. fidelity
b. confidentiality
c. veracity
d. non-maleficence - correct answer c. veracity
Which of the following service settings is a CTRS working in when reviewing the client's
Functional Independence Measure (FIM) score and intake summary prior to conducting an
assessment?
a. acute care
b. behavioral health care
c. outpatient ambulatory services
, NCTRC ACTUAL PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST 2025 ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||NEWEST VERSIONS
d. inpatient rehabilitation - correct answer d. inpatient rehabilitation
Which of the following activities may be used to improve dynamic balance?
a. walking heel to toe on a balance beam
b. standing and balancing on one foot
c. maintaining balance while seated on a fitness ball
d. balancing on the knees with the toes raised off the floor - correct answer a. waling heel to
toe on a balance beam
In a nursing home setting, which of the following interdisciplinary tools would a CTRS be
responsible for completing?
a. inpatient rehabilitation facility-patient assessment instrument (IRF-PAI)
b. functional independecne measure (FIM)
c. leisure attitude measurement (LAM)
d. minimum data set (MDS) - correct answer minimum data set (MDS)
Which of the following is of LEAST importance to the CTRS attempting to deliver culturally
relevant programming?
a. language translation skills
b. culturally-specific behaviors
c. culturally-specific values
d. socio-economic conditions - correct answer d. socio-economic conditions
According to standard ethical principles, placing a client in an activity that poses a high risk of
danger without programming for those risks is a violation of
a. autonomy
b. veracity
c. non-maleficence
d. competence - correct answer c. non-maleficence
All of the following should be included in a discharge summary EXCEPT
a. frequency of involvement
b. duration of involvement
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||NEWEST VERSIONS
The first step in choosing the best type of assessment for a client is to
a. identify the purpose of the assessment
b. discuss assessment options with the client
c. determine which assessment was used most often in the past
d. find the easiest assessment for the client to complete - correct answer a. identify the
purpose of the assessment
Which of the following is the FIRST step of a leisure education program for a client who has a
dual diagnosis of clinical depression and chronic alcoholism?
a. demonstrate recreational skills
b. discuss time management
c. explore leisure resources
d. develop leisure awareness - correct answer d. develop leisure awareness
Which of the following skills would a therapeutic recreation intervention for a client with
Duchenne's muscular dystrophy address?
a. memory
b. gross motor
c. fine motor
d. conentration - correct answer b. gross motor
Which therapeutic recreation practice model is designed to help clients to recover from a
threat to their health and to achieve optimal health through participation in perspective
activity, recreation, and leisure?
a. leisure ability
b. optimizing lifelong health and well-being
c. self-determination and enjoyment enhancement
d. health protection/ health promotion - correct answer d. health protection/ health promotion
The unit psychologist informs a CTRS that a client is being educated about obsessive-compulsive
disorder. The CTRS recommends and provides a book for the client to read that helps bring new
insight into the illness. Which intervention is the CTRS using?
a. remotivation
,NCTRC ACTUAL PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST 2025 ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||NEWEST VERSIONS
b. bibliotherapy
c. validation
d. orientation - correct answer d. bibliotherapy
Prior to a CTRS teaching a client how to access the internet for movie times, the CTRS makes a
list of the steps involved and places them in their proper sequence. Which of the following type
of analysis has the CTRS completed?
a. task
b. content
c. activity
d. behavioral - correct answer a. task
A 58 year old client is currently residing in a long term care facility surrounded by persons who
are considerably older. The client repeatedly complains of loneliness, boredom, and being
ignored by friends and family. which of the following verbal responses by the CTRS would be
effective?
a. probing
b. informing
c. self-disclosing
d. confronting - correct answer a. probing
Which of the following therapeutic recreation ethical principles is being violated when the CTRS
fails to discuss the results of an assessment and related plan for intervention with the client?
a. fidelity
b. confidentiality
c. veracity
d. non-maleficence - correct answer c. veracity
Which of the following service settings is a CTRS working in when reviewing the client's
Functional Independence Measure (FIM) score and intake summary prior to conducting an
assessment?
a. acute care
b. behavioral health care
c. outpatient ambulatory services
, NCTRC ACTUAL PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST 2025 ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||NEWEST VERSIONS
d. inpatient rehabilitation - correct answer d. inpatient rehabilitation
Which of the following activities may be used to improve dynamic balance?
a. walking heel to toe on a balance beam
b. standing and balancing on one foot
c. maintaining balance while seated on a fitness ball
d. balancing on the knees with the toes raised off the floor - correct answer a. waling heel to
toe on a balance beam
In a nursing home setting, which of the following interdisciplinary tools would a CTRS be
responsible for completing?
a. inpatient rehabilitation facility-patient assessment instrument (IRF-PAI)
b. functional independecne measure (FIM)
c. leisure attitude measurement (LAM)
d. minimum data set (MDS) - correct answer minimum data set (MDS)
Which of the following is of LEAST importance to the CTRS attempting to deliver culturally
relevant programming?
a. language translation skills
b. culturally-specific behaviors
c. culturally-specific values
d. socio-economic conditions - correct answer d. socio-economic conditions
According to standard ethical principles, placing a client in an activity that poses a high risk of
danger without programming for those risks is a violation of
a. autonomy
b. veracity
c. non-maleficence
d. competence - correct answer c. non-maleficence
All of the following should be included in a discharge summary EXCEPT
a. frequency of involvement
b. duration of involvement
