CRPA EXAM PREP | 147 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
2025/2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
What is a Peer's primary job? Answer - To set boundaries, to help remove
personal and environmental obstacles to recovery, link the Individual to the
recovering community, and serve as a personal guide in the management of
personal and family recovery.
Is a Peer a sponsor, counselor, or medical professional? Answer - No, a Peer is
not a sponsor, counselor, nurse, doctor, lawyer, priest, minister, or rabbi.
What should a Peer do if an Individual asks for help outside the Peer's scope of
practice? Answer - Redirect them to the appropriate professional and respect
boundaries.
List the roles of a Peer. Answer - Motivator/Cheerleader, Ally/Confidant, Truth-
teller, Role Model, Problem Solver, Resource Broker, Advocate, Community
Organizer, Lifestyle Consultant, Friend, and Companion.
What are some responsibilities of a Peer? Answer - Mandated reporter,
advocacy, navigating resources, preparing for the future, being flexible, setting
boundaries, being respectful, trustworthy, and reliable.
What communication skills should a Peer possess? Answer - Active listening,
paraphrasing, assertive communication, ability to have difficult conversations.
,What is the Peer's role in difficult conversations? Answer - To be
knowledgeable, to know their own triggers, and know how to have difficult
conversations.
What is a Peer's role in promoting recovery? Answer - Removing barriers and
obstacles to recovery and serving as a personal guide for people seeking or in
recovery.
How is recovery defined? Answer - A process of change through which
individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive
to reach their full potential. It is also a combination of physical, mental, and
spiritual models of engagement.
What actions does a person in recovery take? Answer - Consistent and
conscious actions to address their substance use and mindset surrounding their
substance use.
What is essential to the Individual's recovery? Answer - Agency and the
Individual's willingness to change.
Can an individual be in recovery even if they use substances? Answer - The
text introduces the concept of moderation-based recovery, which involves the
sustained deceleration of substance use to a sub-clinical level. This suggests
that recovery does not always require complete abstinence.
What is the first core value of recovery? Answer - All individuals are unique
and have special needs, goals, health attitudes, behaviors, and expectations for
recovery.
, What is the second core value of recovery? Answer - Individuals in recovery
share some similarities; however, management of their lives will require
different pathways at different times.
What is the third core value of recovery? Answer - All persons should have
equal access to recovery and the opportunity to participate in their recovery
process.
How does the service/support relationship differ between a counselor, Peer,
and sponsor? Answer - Counselor: Significant power differential; high external
accountability. Peer: Minimal power differential. Sponsor: Minimal power
differential, support-based accountability.
How does the style of helping differ between a counselor, Peer, and sponsor?
Answer - Counselor: Formal, personally guarded, structured.
Peer: Variable by organizational setting.
Sponsor: Informal, open, spontaneous.
How does the use of self differ between a counselor, Peer, and sponsor?
Answer - Counselor: Self-disclosure discouraged or prohibited.
Peer: Strategic use of one's own story.
Sponsor: Strategic use of one's own story; role model.
How does temporal orientation differ between a counselor, Peer, and sponsor?
Answer - Counselor: Focus on past experiences.
Peer: Focus on present and future.
Sponsor: Focus on present.
2025/2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
What is a Peer's primary job? Answer - To set boundaries, to help remove
personal and environmental obstacles to recovery, link the Individual to the
recovering community, and serve as a personal guide in the management of
personal and family recovery.
Is a Peer a sponsor, counselor, or medical professional? Answer - No, a Peer is
not a sponsor, counselor, nurse, doctor, lawyer, priest, minister, or rabbi.
What should a Peer do if an Individual asks for help outside the Peer's scope of
practice? Answer - Redirect them to the appropriate professional and respect
boundaries.
List the roles of a Peer. Answer - Motivator/Cheerleader, Ally/Confidant, Truth-
teller, Role Model, Problem Solver, Resource Broker, Advocate, Community
Organizer, Lifestyle Consultant, Friend, and Companion.
What are some responsibilities of a Peer? Answer - Mandated reporter,
advocacy, navigating resources, preparing for the future, being flexible, setting
boundaries, being respectful, trustworthy, and reliable.
What communication skills should a Peer possess? Answer - Active listening,
paraphrasing, assertive communication, ability to have difficult conversations.
,What is the Peer's role in difficult conversations? Answer - To be
knowledgeable, to know their own triggers, and know how to have difficult
conversations.
What is a Peer's role in promoting recovery? Answer - Removing barriers and
obstacles to recovery and serving as a personal guide for people seeking or in
recovery.
How is recovery defined? Answer - A process of change through which
individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive
to reach their full potential. It is also a combination of physical, mental, and
spiritual models of engagement.
What actions does a person in recovery take? Answer - Consistent and
conscious actions to address their substance use and mindset surrounding their
substance use.
What is essential to the Individual's recovery? Answer - Agency and the
Individual's willingness to change.
Can an individual be in recovery even if they use substances? Answer - The
text introduces the concept of moderation-based recovery, which involves the
sustained deceleration of substance use to a sub-clinical level. This suggests
that recovery does not always require complete abstinence.
What is the first core value of recovery? Answer - All individuals are unique
and have special needs, goals, health attitudes, behaviors, and expectations for
recovery.
, What is the second core value of recovery? Answer - Individuals in recovery
share some similarities; however, management of their lives will require
different pathways at different times.
What is the third core value of recovery? Answer - All persons should have
equal access to recovery and the opportunity to participate in their recovery
process.
How does the service/support relationship differ between a counselor, Peer,
and sponsor? Answer - Counselor: Significant power differential; high external
accountability. Peer: Minimal power differential. Sponsor: Minimal power
differential, support-based accountability.
How does the style of helping differ between a counselor, Peer, and sponsor?
Answer - Counselor: Formal, personally guarded, structured.
Peer: Variable by organizational setting.
Sponsor: Informal, open, spontaneous.
How does the use of self differ between a counselor, Peer, and sponsor?
Answer - Counselor: Self-disclosure discouraged or prohibited.
Peer: Strategic use of one's own story.
Sponsor: Strategic use of one's own story; role model.
How does temporal orientation differ between a counselor, Peer, and sponsor?
Answer - Counselor: Focus on past experiences.
Peer: Focus on present and future.
Sponsor: Focus on present.
