Advocacy
Professional Responsibility
Mentoring
Recovery Support
Ethics
100

This type of advocacy involves working within an organization to meet the needs of individuals receiving services.

What is systems-level advocacy?

100

This type of responsibility ensures that CRSS professionals maintain confidentiality and follow legal regulations.

What is accountability?

100

This type of relationship is built on trust and provides opportunities for sharing personal skills to facilitate recovery.

What is mentoring?

100

These are the ten key elements defined by SAMHSA that guide recovery-focused practices.

What are the Ten Fundamental Components of Recovery?

100

This is the first step in the seven-step ethical decision-making process.

What is defining the problem?

200

These are the three steps of advocacy that CRSS professionals can use to help individuals progress toward self-advocacy.

What are modeling, supporting, and empowering?

200

This is the federally mandated hotline to report abuse of children in Illinois.

What is the DCFS Hotline?

200

These two types of listening are essential skills for CRSS professionals when supporting peers.

What are active listening and empathic listening?

200

This type of approach focuses on building upon an individual’s strengths and capacities rather than their symptoms.

What is a strengths-based approach?

200

CRSS professionals are prohibited from accepting these from the individuals they serve if they are of significant value.

What are gifts?

300

This document allows individuals to express their treatment preferences in the event they cannot make decisions due to mental illness.

What is a psychiatric advance directive?

300

This type of technique helps to calm situations that are becoming tense or emotionally charged.

What is de-escalation?

300

This process helps individuals learn by observation and interaction with their mentor.

What is social learning?

300

This is a self-directed wellness plan that helps individuals maintain recovery and manage life challenges.

What is a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)?

300

This code of ethics ensures that CRSS professionals maintain appropriate personal conduct and boundaries with peers.

What is the CRSS Code of Ethics?

400

This principle is at the heart of promoting individual choice and self-determination in recovery.

What is person-centered care?

400

CRSS professionals need to maintain these in their relationships with peers to ensure professional and ethical behavior.

What are boundaries?

400

This form of advocacy teaches individuals to express their needs effectively in various settings.

What is self-advocacy?

400

This principle ensures that individuals take control of their recovery and make decisions about their care.

What is self-direction?

400

This ethical principle ensures that professionals guide individuals in recovery by promoting empowerment and self-determination.  

What is autonomy?  

500

CRSS professionals help individuals move from reliance on healthcare professionals to these types of relationships in the community.

What are permanent, natural support relationships?

500

This principle of the CRSS code of ethics ensures that professionals provide accurate information about their capabilities.

What is integrity?

500

In this type of relationship, both parties participate in mutual support rather than relying on one another excessively.

What is interdependence?

500

This type of motivational technique is used to help individuals make positive changes by reinforcing their readiness for recovery.

What is motivational interviewing?


500

CRSS professionals are required to take this action when disclosure is necessary to prevent serious, foreseeable, and imminent harm to an individual or another identifiable person.

What is duty to inform appropriate persons?