CPP Study Guide 2026
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📋 CPP Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CPP Topics to Study (69)
✍️ Sample CPP Questions & Answers
1. What challenge is most commonly encountered in program evaluation & outcomes within Certified Prevention Professional practice?
The most common challenge in program evaluation & outcomes is overcoming resistance to change while maintaining consistent implementation across diverse stakeholders.
2. A prevention program measures changes in participants' knowledge, attitudes, and intentions before and after the intervention. These are examples of which type of evaluation outcomes?
Knowledge, attitudes, and intentions are intermediate outcomes that are expected to change before behavioral outcomes like actual substance use.
3. When a community prevention program is seen as being imposed from outside, which strategy most effectively shifts ownership to the community?
Allowing the community to name and brand the program is a concrete act of ownership that signals authentic local control.
4. According to the risk and protective factor approach, interventions are most effective when they target risk factors that are:
Effective prevention targets modifiable risk factors that appear across multiple domains (family, peer, school, community) because changing them yields the greatest population-level impact.
5. Which evaluation design is most appropriate when random assignment is not feasible in a community prevention setting?
Quasi-experimental designs using matched comparison groups provide stronger causal evidence than pre-post only designs when full randomization is ethically or practically impossible.
6. Cost-effectiveness analysis in prevention programs differs from cost-benefit analysis in that cost-effectiveness:
Cost-effectiveness analysis expresses costs per unit of outcome (e.g., cost per person who did not use substances) without converting outcomes to dollars, unlike cost-benefit analysis.