CRSS Foundation and Recovery Management 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which recovery support service role involves helping individuals identify and access housing, employment, and benefits they are eligible for?
- Recovery coaching
- Case management or brokering (Correct answer)
- Crisis intervention
- Advocacy
Correct answer: Case management or brokering
Case management or brokering involves linking individuals to concrete community resources such as housing, employment, and public benefits.
Question 2: When using a strengths-based approach, a recovery support specialist PRIMARILY focuses on:
- Identifying deficits and areas of dysfunction
- Cataloging the individual's existing strengths, skills, and assets (Correct answer)
- Recommending the most intensive level of clinical care
- Addressing historical trauma before recovery work begins
Correct answer: Cataloging the individual's existing strengths, skills, and assets
A strengths-based approach centers on identifying and building upon the individual's existing capabilities, resources, and resilience.
Question 3: A person in early recovery reports cravings increasing after losing their job. A recovery support specialist's BEST response is to:
- Advise them to return to inpatient treatment immediately
- Explore coping strategies and connect them to employment resources (Correct answer)
- Reduce contact to avoid enabling dependence on support
- Suggest they attend fewer recovery meetings to reduce stress
Correct answer: Explore coping strategies and connect them to employment resources
Addressing both the craving trigger (job loss) and the craving itself by building coping skills and practical support reflects an integrated, person-centered response.
Question 4: What does the term 'recovery capital depletion' describe in the context of relapse risk?
- A federal budget cut to recovery support programs
- The erosion of personal, social, and community supports that protect recovery (Correct answer)
- A clinical diagnosis of treatment-resistant substance use disorder
- The financial cost of repeated treatment episodes
Correct answer: The erosion of personal, social, and community supports that protect recovery
Recovery capital depletion occurs when an individual's protective assets—relationships, housing, employment, health—are eroded, increasing relapse vulnerability.
Question 5: Which federal regulation specifically governs the confidentiality of substance use disorder treatment records?
- HIPAA Privacy Rule
- 42 CFR Part 2 (Correct answer)
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
- ADA Title II
Correct answer: 42 CFR Part 2
42 CFR Part 2 provides stricter confidentiality protections specifically for substance use disorder records beyond general HIPAA requirements.
Question 6: In motivational interviewing, 'rolling with resistance' means the specialist should:
- Confront the client's denial directly and persistently
- Avoid arguing and instead explore ambivalence with curiosity (Correct answer)
- Terminate the session until the client is more motivated
- Document the resistance in the client's file for supervisory review
Correct answer: Avoid arguing and instead explore ambivalence with curiosity
Rolling with resistance means not arguing against ambivalence but instead exploring it with the client to understand their perspective and avoid power struggles.
Question 7: Which statement BEST describes the role of culture in recovery support services?
- Culture is only relevant for clients from immigrant backgrounds
- Cultural identity can influence how individuals understand and pursue recovery (Correct answer)
- Cultural competence is optional for recovery support specialists
- Culture primarily affects which medications are appropriate for treatment
Correct answer: Cultural identity can influence how individuals understand and pursue recovery
Cultural identity—including ethnicity, spirituality, language, and community norms—shapes how individuals conceptualize, pursue, and sustain recovery.
CRSS Foundation and Recovery Management 5
Which recovery support service role involves helping individuals identify and access housing, employment, and benefits they are eligible for?