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This counseling technique is the skill of providing group members with encouragement and reinforcement, especially whenthey are disclosing personal information, when they are exploring painful feelings, and when they are taking risks.

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Supporting

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A blood alcohol concentration of ____% can make a person seriously intoxicated and lose consciousness, but probably not enough to produce death.

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.35

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What category drug is Psilocybin (Mushrooms)?

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Hallucinogen

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Group planning occurs most often during this stage.

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Intimacy Stage

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In the course of working as an addictions counselor you have a client who has threatened a specific person and the threat seems imminent and serious, ethically you must:

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Discharge your duty to warn

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You are meeting with the Smith family for a family counseling session. They complain that the children have "acting out behaviors" and problems with discipline. When Mr. Smith walks in you smell alcohol on his breath. Mrs. Smith is very quiet and withdrawn. The children seem very frightened of you and sit especially close to their father. What is the most important initial concern?

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possible child abuse/neglect

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What category drug is Xanax?

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Depressant

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Summarizing is especially needed at:

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The end of a group

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In the Adlerian therapeutic system, Adlerians are not bound by any set of techniques, and they have a diversity of therapeutic styles. They tend to be _________ in drawing from many techniques suited to the individual needs of their clients.

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Eclectic

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An addiction professional is attending a social gathering where alcoholic beverages are being served. Everyone is a bit plastered, and a colleague tells her about an incident that indicates that he is sexually abusing his children. What is the addiction professional's responsibility at this point?

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To report the occurence to the child protection authorities

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Some of the most significant developers of the Adlerian therapeutic system.

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Rudolf Dreikurs and Don Dinkmeyer

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome among Native Americans is ___

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33 times greater than the Caucasian population

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Dr. Lawrence Weed's charting method, "SOAP", refers to:

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Subjective, objective, assessment, and plan

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Percentage of patients who were admitted to emergency rooms and tested positive for Cocaine:

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28.4%

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Percentage of inidiviuals with alcohol withdrawal who experience alcohol withdrawal delirium (or Delirium Tremens or DTs)

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Less than 5%

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This counseling technique is the skill of responding to the essence of what a person has communicated.

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Reflecting Feelings

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One of the most common pharmathrapeutic intervention programs.

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Methadone Programs

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Typically refers to individual and/or group treatment used to provide support and direction following primary treatment.

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Aftercare

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Is most helpful for identifying family structures.

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Genogram

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A numeric scoring of an individual's degree of alcoholism arrived through the interview process.

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The Comprehensive Drinker Profile

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It is the client's responsibility to identify and set goals.

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Reality therapy goals

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According to Erickson the task to be accomplished in adulthood.

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Intimacy vs. Isolation

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Drug use by adolescents is _______

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most affected by peer drug use.

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Long-term effects of alcoholism

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Cerebral atrophy and cardiovascular damage

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The counselor characteristic or ability used to guide the client in relating and communicating in specific terms rather than in general or abstract terms.

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Concreteness

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One of the earliest models for case management services in the criminal justice system. It was created in 1972 when the White House launched a demonstration program.

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Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC)

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The agency you work for wants you to lead a group for dually diagnosed clients. You have no training in this area. You should:

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Inform your supervisor you do not have the qualifications to lead the group.

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Simple assessment with 4 questions that refer to: cutting down on drinking, feeling annoyed, feeling guilty, and dealing with hangovers.

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Cage Test

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The primary focus of intervention in the criminal justice system.

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Protect the health, safety, and the welfare of the public.

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To serve as a guide in helping clients while behaving in a fair way to colleagues.

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Primary purpose of a professional code of ethics

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To provide recognition of demonstrated competency in addictions counseling.

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Primary purpose of professional standards of practice

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The tendency of the family to try and maintain balance.

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Homeostasis

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To facilitate the growth of the group by relating to client or group issues.

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Therapeutic reasoning for self-disclosure in group counseling

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Women more often than men will cite a traumatic event that precipitated their drinking.

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A psychological and sociological difference between male and female alcohol abusers.

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Two of the best indicators of alcohol or other drug dependence.

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Presence of withdrawal symptoms and increased tolerance

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Before beginning treatment a counselor must:

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Identify the problem

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A partnership between AA and the profesisonal treamtent community was repeatedly emphasized by the founders of AA.

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Relationship between AA and the professional treatment community

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Pre-contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action Maintenance, Relapse

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6 Stages of Change

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We admitted we were powerless over our addiction—that our lives had become unmanageable.

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Step 1 of the 12 Steps

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Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

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Step 2 of the 12 Steps

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Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

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Step 3 of the 12 Steps

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Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

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Step 4 of the 12 Steps

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Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

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Step 5 of the 12 Steps

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Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

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Step 6 of the 12 Steps

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Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

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Step 7 of the 12 Steps

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Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

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Step 8 of the 12 Steps

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Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

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Step 9 of the 12 Steps

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Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

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Step 10 of the 12 Steps

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Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

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Step 11 of the 12 Steps

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Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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Step 12 of the 12 Steps

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1- No Treatment, 2- Education, 3- Brief/Short-term Treatment, 4- Intermediate Treatment, 5- Long-term Treatment

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