ILLINOIS CRSS CREDENTIAL TEST EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Peer support group - ✔✔A group of people who meet regularly to share experiences
associated with a particular condition or personal circumstance they have in common,
and
to encourage and support each other in helping themselves.
✔✔PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) - ✔✔An anxiety disorder characterized by
haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that
lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
✔✔Recovery - ✔✔Process of change through which individuals improve their health
and wellness, live a self-directed life and strive to reach their full potential.
✔✔Self-advocacy - ✔✔A person learning to speak up for themselves to express their
own needs and represent their own interests.
✔✔Stigma - ✔✔Negative attitudes or beliefs about people with SUD or mental illness.
✔✔Strengths-based approach - ✔✔Doesn't focus on the deficits of the person, and
instead focuses on their strengths and capacities.
"Glaring assets"
✔✔Substance Use Disorder - ✔✔The overuse of, or dependence on, a drug (legal or
illegal) that results in consequences for the person
✔✔Trauma - ✔✔Event or set of circumstances that is experience by the person as
physically or emotionally harmful that has lasting negative effects on the person.
✔✔Vicarious Trauma - ✔✔A change in a person's inner experience and well-being as
the cumulative effect of beating witness to other people's suffering.
✔✔Wellness - ✔✔State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity. "Getting Better"
✔✔Recognize and adhere to the rules of confidentiality found in what Domain? -
✔✔Domain 2, Ethical Responsibility
✔✔Describe the skills in needed to self-advocate is found in what Domain? -
✔✔Mentoring and Education
✔✔Assist the individual in identifying basic needs is found in what Domain? -
✔✔Domain 4, Recovery/Wellness Support
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Peer support group - ✔✔A group of people who meet regularly to share experiences
associated with a particular condition or personal circumstance they have in common,
and
to encourage and support each other in helping themselves.
✔✔PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) - ✔✔An anxiety disorder characterized by
haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that
lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
✔✔Recovery - ✔✔Process of change through which individuals improve their health
and wellness, live a self-directed life and strive to reach their full potential.
✔✔Self-advocacy - ✔✔A person learning to speak up for themselves to express their
own needs and represent their own interests.
✔✔Stigma - ✔✔Negative attitudes or beliefs about people with SUD or mental illness.
✔✔Strengths-based approach - ✔✔Doesn't focus on the deficits of the person, and
instead focuses on their strengths and capacities.
"Glaring assets"
✔✔Substance Use Disorder - ✔✔The overuse of, or dependence on, a drug (legal or
illegal) that results in consequences for the person
✔✔Trauma - ✔✔Event or set of circumstances that is experience by the person as
physically or emotionally harmful that has lasting negative effects on the person.
✔✔Vicarious Trauma - ✔✔A change in a person's inner experience and well-being as
the cumulative effect of beating witness to other people's suffering.
✔✔Wellness - ✔✔State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity. "Getting Better"
✔✔Recognize and adhere to the rules of confidentiality found in what Domain? -
✔✔Domain 2, Ethical Responsibility
✔✔Describe the skills in needed to self-advocate is found in what Domain? -
✔✔Mentoring and Education
✔✔Assist the individual in identifying basic needs is found in what Domain? -
✔✔Domain 4, Recovery/Wellness Support
