CCAR Recovery Coach Practice Exam

Recovery coaches operate in a non-clinical, peer-based role focused on guidance and resource navigation. They support individuals in recovery by listening, sharing lived experience, helping set goals, and connecting people to community resources such as housing, employment, peer support groups, and services that remove barriers to recovery. Importantly, they do not diagnose mental illness, provide clinical therapy, substitute for licensed clinicians in treatment planning, or manage medications. When clinical assessment, diagnosis, or medical treatment is needed, a licensed professional should be involved. This distinction—support and resource navigation without clinical treatment or medical management—explains why the statement describing peer-based guidance and resource navigation, not clinical therapy, and not diagnosing or treating mental illness, is the best description.