CRSS Wellness and Recovery Support 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the primary goal of a wellness recovery action plan (WRAP)?
- To document a client's criminal history
- To help individuals identify personal wellness tools and create crisis plans (Correct answer)
- To replace professional mental health treatment
- To track a client's medication compliance
Correct answer: To help individuals identify personal wellness tools and create crisis plans
WRAP is a self-designed plan that helps individuals identify personal wellness tools, early warning signs, and steps for crisis prevention and response.
Question 2: Environmental wellness in recovery refers to:
- Avoiding all outdoor activities
- Creating living and social environments that support health and well-being (Correct answer)
- Only addressing housing stability
- Ensuring the client lives alone
Correct answer: Creating living and social environments that support health and well-being
Environmental wellness involves creating and maintaining safe, supportive, and stimulating living and social environments that promote recovery.
Question 3: Which statement BEST reflects a trauma-informed approach to wellness support?
- Trauma history is irrelevant if the client is currently sober
- Understanding trauma's impact helps provide safety, trust, and empowerment in support (Correct answer)
- Clients should be required to share trauma details before receiving services
- Trauma-informed care is only for licensed therapists, not peer specialists
Correct answer: Understanding trauma's impact helps provide safety, trust, and empowerment in support
Trauma-informed care recognizes how trauma affects behavior and health, and promotes safety, trustworthiness, and empowerment in all interactions.
Question 4: A client says they feel worthless and hopeless during recovery. Which response by a CRSS is MOST appropriate?
- Tell the client to think positive and move on
- Listen empathetically, validate feelings, and assess for safety concerns (Correct answer)
- Immediately call 911 without speaking with the client
- Remind the client that hopelessness is a sign of weak commitment
Correct answer: Listen empathetically, validate feelings, and assess for safety concerns
Empathetic listening, validation, and safety assessment are appropriate first steps when a client expresses hopelessness.
Question 5: Intellectual wellness in the context of recovery support is BEST described as:
- Achieving a college degree
- Engaging in creative and mentally stimulating activities that expand knowledge (Correct answer)
- Avoiding media and technology
- Memorizing recovery literature
Correct answer: Engaging in creative and mentally stimulating activities that expand knowledge
Intellectual wellness involves engaging in activities that stimulate the mind, foster creativity, and expand knowledge as part of a balanced life.
Question 6: Which tool helps a client track daily wellness activities and identify patterns that support or hinder their recovery?
- AUDIT-C
- Daily Maintenance Plan (from WRAP) (Correct answer)
- DSM-5 criteria checklist
- CAGE questionnaire
Correct answer: Daily Maintenance Plan (from WRAP)
The Daily Maintenance Plan, a component of WRAP, helps individuals track wellness activities and identify what keeps them feeling well.
Question 7: Which behavior BEST exemplifies a peer specialist modeling wellness for a client?
- Describing their own ongoing recovery practices and self-care strategies (Correct answer)
- Telling clients to do as they say, not as they do
- Keeping all personal recovery experience confidential at all times
- Presenting only clinical information without personal insight
Correct answer: Describing their own ongoing recovery practices and self-care strategies
Peer specialists use their lived experience, including personal wellness practices, as a tool to inspire and guide clients in their own recovery.
CRSS Wellness and Recovery Support 3
What is the primary goal of a wellness recovery action plan (WRAP)?