Certified Prevention Specialist CPS Questions and Revised
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Prevention strategies, activities, or approaches that have been shown through research and evaluation to be effective in the prevention and/or
delay of substance use or abuse. - ✔✔✔Best Practices
Data that already exists and that are maintained by an organization or entity. Typically, this refers to collected data repositories maintained by
state agencies, such as Highway Patrol (for DUI accidents and fatalities), Health Services (for AOD related hospitalizations), and Treatment
admissions for AOD substance use problems. - ✔✔✔Archival Data
The term "_______" refers to the various types and levels of resources that an individual, organization, or collaborative has at its disposal to
meet the implementation demands of specific interventions. - ✔✔✔Capacity
A capacity building process through which a community of individuals, organizations, policy makers, or governmental representatives plans,
carries out, and evaluates activities on a participating basis to improve health or other needs. It empowers individuals and groups to take some
kind of action to facilitate change based on needs they have identified. Communities may initiate the process themselves or maybe motivated
by outsiders to act. - ✔✔✔Community Mobilization
The formal names given to community mobilization types of efforts. All share a common theme: a group of individuals and/or agencies agreeing
to work together for a common purpose. They may vary in formality, size, and composition. To be most effective, these community mobilizing
efforts should have a membership that reflects the broader community. Cultural awareness and sensitivity are hallmarks of successful
community mobilizing efforts. - ✔✔✔Community Partnerships
Collaboratives
Coalitions
The extent to which a community is adequately prepared to implement a substance abuse prevention program. The underlying premise of
community readiness is change in AOD use cannot occur if there exists a high level of community denial about this problem. - ✔✔✔Community
Readiness
This refers to an ability to interact effectively with individuals from different cultural backgrounds. It comprises of four components: 1)
Awareness of one's cultural world view, 2) Attitudes towards cultural differences, 3) Knowledge and awareness of different cultural practices,
beliefs and world views, and 4) Possessing cross-cultural skills. - ✔✔✔Cultural Competence (Awareness)
_____represents the "values, norms, and traditions that affect how individuals of a particular group perceived, think, interact, behave, and
make judgment about the world." Chamberlain (2005). - ✔✔✔Culture
This term applies to replicating a program model or strategy. To have "_______," the program needs to be implemented with the same
specifications of the original program. ______can be balanced with adaptation to meet local needs. - ✔✔✔Fidelity
Broad, future oriented action statements to be achieved by a program. Neither dates nor responsibilities are included. A program may have
multiple (1 to 5), but not so many as to confuse staff and the general community. - ✔✔✔Goal Statements
,Findings about effective prevention programs as identified through research. - ✔✔✔Guiding Principles
A planning tool that enables a group or its manager to identify, among other things, the strategies, best practices, guiding principles, and
evaluation plan. This can contribute to the establishment of direction and clarity of vision for the implementation group. -
✔✔✔Implementation Plan
Those programs and strategies designed to target specific individuals at risk for substance abuse problems. - ✔✔✔Indicated
A variable that relates directly to some part of a program goal or objective. Positive change on an indicator is presumed to show progress in
accomplishing the larger program objective. - ✔✔✔Indicator
An approach, since adopted by CSAP and the prevention field that: 1) view prevention as part of an overall continuum of services, concluding
with treatment; 2) identifies three levels of prevention: universal, selected, and indicated that refers to populations at varying levels of risk
involving substances which in turn dictates that level and type of prevention services appropriate for the level of risk evident in the various
population groupings. - ✔✔✔Institution of Medicine (IOM) Model
Narrative or graphical depictions of processes in real life that communicate the underlying assumptions upon which an activity is expected to
lead to a specific result. Logic models illustrate a sequence of cause-and-effect relationships - a systems approach to communicate the path
toward a desired result. - ✔✔✔Logic Model
The broadcast statement of intent for an organization. They should be brief and to the point. They do not include dates or assign responsibility.
There is only one mission statement for a program. - ✔✔✔Mission Statement
A systematic process for examining the current conditions and identifying the level of risk and protection within a community. It should also
include the documentation of resources available in the community to address the problem areas. - ✔✔✔Needs Assessment
Statements that, minimally, have four main qualities that distinguish them from goals or mission statements. They are: 1) specific, 2)
measurable, 3) achievable, and 4) timebound. - ✔✔✔Objective Statements
Used in the development of the logic model. They specify the expected results, short-term, intermediate, and long-term. They identify ways in
which the participants in the prevention intervention could be expected to change by the conclusion of the service (e.g., change in behaviors,
reduced consumption levels, etc.). - ✔✔✔Outcome Benchmarks
Refers to the type of substance, amount, and frequency of use. At times, the place/occasion of use is also noted. This information is typically
picked up in individually administered surveys. - ✔✔✔Patterns of Consumption
As defined by SAMHSA, "A proactive process that empowers individuals and systems to meet the challenges of life events and transitions by
creating and reinforcing conditions that promote healthy behaviors and lifestyles." - ✔✔✔Prevention
, Information that is difficult to measure, count, or express in numerical terms and is therefore often presented in narrative forms. This type of
research typically uses observation, interviewing, open ended responses, and document review to collect data. - ✔✔✔Qualitative Data
Information that is reported in numerical form such as substance use rates, number of people attending a program, or number of alcohol
related deaths. The strength of this data is their use in testing hypotheses and determining the strength and direction of effects. -
✔✔✔Quantitative Data
In the public health model, this is the AOD substance of concern causing harm to the individual (e.g., tobacco, alcohol, other drug). This acts
directly on the "host" (individual) and is influenced by the "environment" (community, culture, norms settings, politics, and values). -
✔✔✔Agent
This approach to substance abuse prevention is based on the assumption that involving high-risk youth in activities that are free of alcohol,
tobacco, and other drugs will occupy their leisure time with pro-social activities and allow them to make friends with more social peers. These
approaches fall into several broad categories: Athletic; Recreational Alternatives; Adventure Oriented; Cultural Specific Models; Aimed at High-
Risk; Entrepreneurial; Community Service; Creative; Artistic; and Drop-in Centers. - ✔✔✔Alternative Activities
A widely used framework created by Search Institute, which includes relationships, opportunities, skills, values, and commitments children and
adolescents need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible. The research-based framework is organized into two types of assets. External
assets refer to the support and opportunities that are provided by family, friends, organizations, and communities. The internal assets focus on
the capacities, skills, and values that young people need to internalize as part of developing their character, identity, and life skills. - ✔✔✔Asset
Development Model
Strategies that aim to enhance the ability of the community to more effectively provide prevention and treatment services for substance abuse.
Services in this strategy include organizing, planning, and enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of services implementation, interagency
collaboration, coalition building, and networking. - ✔✔✔Community-Based Processes
The attitudes toward policies about drug use and crime that a community holds. They are communicated in a variety of ways: through laws and
written policies; through informal social practices; and through the expectations that parents and other members of the community have of
young people. - ✔✔✔Community Norms
CSAP Strategies - ✔✔✔1) Information Dissemination
2) Prevention Education
3) Alternative Activities
4) Problem Identification and Referral
5) Community-Based Processes
6) Environmental Approaches.
Behavior by adolescents (younger than 18) that is antisocial or in violation of the law. - ✔✔✔Delinquency
In the public health model, what represents the broader context in which the "agent" interacts with the "host." In AOD planning, this would
includes the community, culture, norms, laws and regulation that affect the distribution and availability of the "agent" (e.g., tobacco, alcohol,
and other drugs). By changing the this it is expected that changes will occur with the "agent's" availability leading to reduced problems with the
"host" (individual). - ✔✔✔Environment
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Prevention strategies, activities, or approaches that have been shown through research and evaluation to be effective in the prevention and/or
delay of substance use or abuse. - ✔✔✔Best Practices
Data that already exists and that are maintained by an organization or entity. Typically, this refers to collected data repositories maintained by
state agencies, such as Highway Patrol (for DUI accidents and fatalities), Health Services (for AOD related hospitalizations), and Treatment
admissions for AOD substance use problems. - ✔✔✔Archival Data
The term "_______" refers to the various types and levels of resources that an individual, organization, or collaborative has at its disposal to
meet the implementation demands of specific interventions. - ✔✔✔Capacity
A capacity building process through which a community of individuals, organizations, policy makers, or governmental representatives plans,
carries out, and evaluates activities on a participating basis to improve health or other needs. It empowers individuals and groups to take some
kind of action to facilitate change based on needs they have identified. Communities may initiate the process themselves or maybe motivated
by outsiders to act. - ✔✔✔Community Mobilization
The formal names given to community mobilization types of efforts. All share a common theme: a group of individuals and/or agencies agreeing
to work together for a common purpose. They may vary in formality, size, and composition. To be most effective, these community mobilizing
efforts should have a membership that reflects the broader community. Cultural awareness and sensitivity are hallmarks of successful
community mobilizing efforts. - ✔✔✔Community Partnerships
Collaboratives
Coalitions
The extent to which a community is adequately prepared to implement a substance abuse prevention program. The underlying premise of
community readiness is change in AOD use cannot occur if there exists a high level of community denial about this problem. - ✔✔✔Community
Readiness
This refers to an ability to interact effectively with individuals from different cultural backgrounds. It comprises of four components: 1)
Awareness of one's cultural world view, 2) Attitudes towards cultural differences, 3) Knowledge and awareness of different cultural practices,
beliefs and world views, and 4) Possessing cross-cultural skills. - ✔✔✔Cultural Competence (Awareness)
_____represents the "values, norms, and traditions that affect how individuals of a particular group perceived, think, interact, behave, and
make judgment about the world." Chamberlain (2005). - ✔✔✔Culture
This term applies to replicating a program model or strategy. To have "_______," the program needs to be implemented with the same
specifications of the original program. ______can be balanced with adaptation to meet local needs. - ✔✔✔Fidelity
Broad, future oriented action statements to be achieved by a program. Neither dates nor responsibilities are included. A program may have
multiple (1 to 5), but not so many as to confuse staff and the general community. - ✔✔✔Goal Statements
,Findings about effective prevention programs as identified through research. - ✔✔✔Guiding Principles
A planning tool that enables a group or its manager to identify, among other things, the strategies, best practices, guiding principles, and
evaluation plan. This can contribute to the establishment of direction and clarity of vision for the implementation group. -
✔✔✔Implementation Plan
Those programs and strategies designed to target specific individuals at risk for substance abuse problems. - ✔✔✔Indicated
A variable that relates directly to some part of a program goal or objective. Positive change on an indicator is presumed to show progress in
accomplishing the larger program objective. - ✔✔✔Indicator
An approach, since adopted by CSAP and the prevention field that: 1) view prevention as part of an overall continuum of services, concluding
with treatment; 2) identifies three levels of prevention: universal, selected, and indicated that refers to populations at varying levels of risk
involving substances which in turn dictates that level and type of prevention services appropriate for the level of risk evident in the various
population groupings. - ✔✔✔Institution of Medicine (IOM) Model
Narrative or graphical depictions of processes in real life that communicate the underlying assumptions upon which an activity is expected to
lead to a specific result. Logic models illustrate a sequence of cause-and-effect relationships - a systems approach to communicate the path
toward a desired result. - ✔✔✔Logic Model
The broadcast statement of intent for an organization. They should be brief and to the point. They do not include dates or assign responsibility.
There is only one mission statement for a program. - ✔✔✔Mission Statement
A systematic process for examining the current conditions and identifying the level of risk and protection within a community. It should also
include the documentation of resources available in the community to address the problem areas. - ✔✔✔Needs Assessment
Statements that, minimally, have four main qualities that distinguish them from goals or mission statements. They are: 1) specific, 2)
measurable, 3) achievable, and 4) timebound. - ✔✔✔Objective Statements
Used in the development of the logic model. They specify the expected results, short-term, intermediate, and long-term. They identify ways in
which the participants in the prevention intervention could be expected to change by the conclusion of the service (e.g., change in behaviors,
reduced consumption levels, etc.). - ✔✔✔Outcome Benchmarks
Refers to the type of substance, amount, and frequency of use. At times, the place/occasion of use is also noted. This information is typically
picked up in individually administered surveys. - ✔✔✔Patterns of Consumption
As defined by SAMHSA, "A proactive process that empowers individuals and systems to meet the challenges of life events and transitions by
creating and reinforcing conditions that promote healthy behaviors and lifestyles." - ✔✔✔Prevention
, Information that is difficult to measure, count, or express in numerical terms and is therefore often presented in narrative forms. This type of
research typically uses observation, interviewing, open ended responses, and document review to collect data. - ✔✔✔Qualitative Data
Information that is reported in numerical form such as substance use rates, number of people attending a program, or number of alcohol
related deaths. The strength of this data is their use in testing hypotheses and determining the strength and direction of effects. -
✔✔✔Quantitative Data
In the public health model, this is the AOD substance of concern causing harm to the individual (e.g., tobacco, alcohol, other drug). This acts
directly on the "host" (individual) and is influenced by the "environment" (community, culture, norms settings, politics, and values). -
✔✔✔Agent
This approach to substance abuse prevention is based on the assumption that involving high-risk youth in activities that are free of alcohol,
tobacco, and other drugs will occupy their leisure time with pro-social activities and allow them to make friends with more social peers. These
approaches fall into several broad categories: Athletic; Recreational Alternatives; Adventure Oriented; Cultural Specific Models; Aimed at High-
Risk; Entrepreneurial; Community Service; Creative; Artistic; and Drop-in Centers. - ✔✔✔Alternative Activities
A widely used framework created by Search Institute, which includes relationships, opportunities, skills, values, and commitments children and
adolescents need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible. The research-based framework is organized into two types of assets. External
assets refer to the support and opportunities that are provided by family, friends, organizations, and communities. The internal assets focus on
the capacities, skills, and values that young people need to internalize as part of developing their character, identity, and life skills. - ✔✔✔Asset
Development Model
Strategies that aim to enhance the ability of the community to more effectively provide prevention and treatment services for substance abuse.
Services in this strategy include organizing, planning, and enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of services implementation, interagency
collaboration, coalition building, and networking. - ✔✔✔Community-Based Processes
The attitudes toward policies about drug use and crime that a community holds. They are communicated in a variety of ways: through laws and
written policies; through informal social practices; and through the expectations that parents and other members of the community have of
young people. - ✔✔✔Community Norms
CSAP Strategies - ✔✔✔1) Information Dissemination
2) Prevention Education
3) Alternative Activities
4) Problem Identification and Referral
5) Community-Based Processes
6) Environmental Approaches.
Behavior by adolescents (younger than 18) that is antisocial or in violation of the law. - ✔✔✔Delinquency
In the public health model, what represents the broader context in which the "agent" interacts with the "host." In AOD planning, this would
includes the community, culture, norms, laws and regulation that affect the distribution and availability of the "agent" (e.g., tobacco, alcohol,
and other drugs). By changing the this it is expected that changes will occur with the "agent's" availability leading to reduced problems with the
"host" (individual). - ✔✔✔Environment
