Chemical Dependency
A fundamental difference between AA meetings and 12 step treatment models is:
a. AA meetings stress the voluntary nature of attendance
The SASSI differs from other substance abuse assessments because:
a. Most of the true/false items on one side of the form do not inquire directly about substance abuse
A person who is triggered to gamble by crowded parking lots is experiencing a conditioned response.
a. TRUE
Hoarding is increasingly seen as a separate disorder from compulsive spending.
a. TRUE
There is no correlation between the availability of gambling and the rate of gambling addiction.
b. FALSE
Before using a short screening tool, it is helpful to remove a stigma that surrounds addiction by:
b. Letting clients know that the screening questions are routine and asked of all clients.
Persons who wish for help with managing to drink moderately should attend:
b. Moderation Management
Harm reduction strategies for alcohol misuse are based on the premise that alcohol use ranges across a continuum, starting with no consequences for use and ending with devastating consequences for use.
a. TRUE
Which of the following is the screen that CSAT recommends for use in substance abuse or other settings to help identify clients who may have mental health problems?
c. Mental Health Screening Form- III
A skill that is not particularly helpful for counselors in developing culturally sensitive practices is:
c. confrontation
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is based on the idea that:
c. maladaptive thinking and bad habits are the mechanisms that cause addictive problems
Which of the following helps to reduce angry outbursts?
c. petting the dog
Which characteristic does not describe the characteristics of moderation management members?
c. poorly educated
As related by Raymond Silos, an American Indian, sobriety is the traditional way. His philosophy is called
a. The Red Road
The use of traditional cultural and spiritual practices in Native American treatment
b. needs more systematic evaluation before we can assess the efficacy of this approach
According to a National Council study, the suicide rate is highest among which of the following addictions?
b. pathological gamblers
Compared to men, women who have problems with substance misuse
d. are more likely to have a serious mental disorder
The concept of culture
b. refers to learned values, behaviors, and beliefs that are shared by other group members.
Parallel or sequential treatment with persons who have COD had annual rates of remission of:
b. 5%
The notion of "brain lock" is used by Schwartz to explain the disorder:
a. OCD
The self-help group for individuals with eating problems is
a. called Overeaters Anonymous (OA)
Compulsive gambling surveys consistently report that _____ are the group most likely to experience pathological gambling problems.
a. men
The phrase "no wrong door" refers to
b. integrated treatment practices
In the persuasion stage of Stage-Wise Treatment, the goal is to
c. open up opportunities for the client to think about their own goals.
Which helps reduce angry outbursts?
c. petting the dog
Which of the following does not describe empathy as described by Carl Rogers and William Miller:
c. repeating back what the client said
Protective factors among young, low-income, Mexican American women include
d. the responsibility of providing family connection and care of the children
In spite of the prevalence of substance misuse among people with disabilities and the American Disabilities Act of 1990, there is evidence that these persons are less likely to enter or complete treatment.
a. TRUE
Internet gambling is the fastest-growing segment of the gambling market.
a. TRUE
Moderation Management is not intended for people who experience significant withdrawal symptoms when they stop drinking.
a. TRUE
The "immigrant paradox" is when foreign-born immigrant family members are found to have fewer problems than their U.S. born children who are moving toward acculturation.
a. TRUE
The quadrant model is a way of conceptualizing the variations of co-occurring disorders in individuals to match treatment to their different needs.
a. TRUE
The suicide rate for pathological gamblers is higher than that of any other addictive disorder.
a. TRUE
There is evidence to indicate that AA is a very useful approach for alcoholics trying to stop drinking.
a. TRUE
There is no single "gold standard" for COD assessment.
a. TRUE
sex addiction will be recognized in DSM-5 as hypersexual disorder.
a. TRUE
Motivational interviewing was developed by _____ as he demonstrated his motivational techniques to Norwegian student interns.
a. William Miller
A strength-based approach to detoxification services would include which part of the following:
a. focus on immediate housing needs
Alcoholics Anonymous, as practiced as a mutual-help group in the community:
a. is run by recovering individuals
Most clients come to treatment in the
a. precontemplation and contemplation stages
Which of the following characterizes Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)?
a. recognized as a best practice approach
Self-change or "natural recovery" occurs with what percent of persons who quit smoking altogether?
b. 80-90%
Which of the following requires a spiritual orientation?
b. Alcoholics Anonymous
SMART recovery is drawn from the principles of
b. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
12 step groups and 12 step facilitation are one and the same.
b. FALSE
A person in the "contemplation" stage exhibits little or no ambivalence about making a change.
b. FALSE
According to the text concerning shopping addiction, the key factor is materialism.
b. FALSE
Alcoholics Anonymous requires people to believe in a Christian God.
b. FALSE
The ASAM classification system is not widely used.
b. FALSE
The myth of the "model minority" is a term applied to Native Americans.
b. FALSE
The requirement to join Gamblers Anonymous is
b. a desire to stop gambling
The principle advantage of screening tools is to provide
b. a method of quickly detecting the possibility of addiction problems
The outcome measurement for harm reduction therapy is:
b. any step in the direction of reducing harm
According to the views of moderation management (MM), drinking problems are viewed as:
b. bad habits
Gamblers Anonymous is
b. becoming more friendly to women
Which of the following does integrated treatment programs not provide?
b. focus on substance abuse problems before mental health problems
A group that has no conditions for group membership, no requirement for attendance or participation, and no requirement for abstinence or the desire for abstinence is best described as a:
b. harm-reduction drop-in group
In the recent past, women who were identified as alcoholics, drug addicts, or compulsive gamblers were considered
b. promiscuous
Which of the following best describes the effectiveness research on cognitive-behavioral therapy?
b. the most empirically supported of all the group therapy interventions
Which is the only alcohol screening test designed and validated for international use in a wide variety of populations, cultures, and languages?
c. AUDIT
Which of the following has been validated for screening substance abuse problems with older adults?
c. Geriatric MAST
Which factor does no account for the low rate of alcohol/drug misuse for the Asian/Pacific Islander group?
d. Asians are the "model minority" without many addiction problems
The term "Hispanic" or "Latino" describes a population that includes the following subgroups except
d. Jamaicans
Which of the following cautions do not apply to persons who are part of ethnic minority groups or who do not use English as a first language?
d. asking questions
Among the criteria listed by DSM-5 for gambling disorder are all except:
d. being a young to middle-aged male
A major focus in motivational interviewing is to help clients:
d. explore and resolve ambivalence
Which of the following is not recommended for building a relationship and finding client strengths?
d. require clients to fill out intake forms before seeing a counselor
