Addictive Treatment Quiz Questions
In current studies of compulsive buying, how many of the subjects are women?
80%
Sensitivity
A measure of the ratio of persons correctly screened "positive" for having a substance use disorder to those who actually have the disorder
Continuing Education
A method to keep counselors abreast of new developments and research that impact their understanding, competency, and treatment provision in addictions counseling.
Relapse
A return to repeated use after a commitment to abstinence
Lapse
A single return to use
HRS
An acronym referring to the situations that individuals identify as high risk for relapse
Behavioral goals of relapse prevention may include all of the following EXCEPT: An observable change in diet and exercise, identification of high risk situations and new coping strategies, a reduction of the severity or frequency of relapse, or a psychoanalysis of the underlying factors of addiction
An observable change in diet and exercise
Managed Care
Any type of intervention aimed at the financing of health care, with the intent focused on the elimination of unnecessary and inappropriate care and reduction of costs.
Expectancy
Beliefs about the outcomes of use
Gambling Addiction
Binge drinking or other drug use is often associated with this
Hope
Confident, yet uncertain, expectation of achieving a future good
ToF: "Indirect methods of screening" refers to the style of questions on an instrument that enables the respondents to determine the purpose of the questions by merely reading the questions.
False
ToF: A lapse is more severe than a relapse.
False
ToF: An instrument created using a criterion keyed approach is appropriate for clients who may attempt to "fake good."
False
ToF: Assessment is a one-time event that should be comprehensive.
False
ToF: Easy access to credit and media messages have no impact on compulsive buyers to purchase goods.
False
ToF: In terms of counselor competency, it is okay to treat adolescents if the counselor's experience has been with adults because everything is essentially the same, just the age of the client is different.
False
ToF: Licensure is the second most rigorous form of professional regulation.
False
ToF: Researchers have not found evidence that pathological gambling is related to changes in neuroadaptation, tolerance, and withdrawal symptoms.
False
ToF: Semi-structured interviews allow the client to more freely share experience, which may help build rapport with the counselor and allow resistance to be addressed.
False
ToF: The most common co-morbid condition is the dual diagnosis of a substance abuse disorder and an organic illness.
False
ToF: Unstructured Interviews provide a framework for addictions counselors to use while still allowing a sophisticated clinician to pursue areas of important client information and disclosure not addressed by a structured assessment tool.
False
Spirituality
Hard to define and has many manifestations to different people; participants with high measurement scores had significantly fewer days of substance use
Eating Disorder
Low tolerance for change and new situations often hallmarks this type of process addiction
Which of the following instruments is not a stand-alone substance abuse screen but has a scale for screening substance abuse? T-ACE, MAST, MMPI-2, or SASSI-3?
MMPI-2
Workaholism
Not easily defined or recognized as an addiction
Sexual Addiction
Often exists with concurrent anxiety, personality disorders, relationship issues, and/or bipolar disorder
Common characteristics of sexual addicts include all of the following except: Isolation, Depression, Perfectionism, and Guilt.
Perfectionism
Which strategy listed below is NOT an effective method of gaining self-efficacy? Rehearsing alternative responses in problematic situations, identifying personal strengths and resources in the environment, placing self in high risk situations during high stress times, or developing a hierarchy of high risk situations.
Placing self in high risk situations during high stress times.
Cost-Efficiency
Refers to direct costs associated with the purchase of an instrument and the costs related to the implications of a screen's results
Accreditation
Refers to the specific counselor education program within colleges and universities that educate the training addictions counselors.
Postsecondary Trauma
Refers to the stress and trauma that substance abuse counselors incur when working with AOD clients.
Which of the following instruments is used almost exclusively to screen risk drinking in pregnant women? SSASSI-II, TWEAK, Atlanta Drinking Tool, or AUDIT?
TWEAK
Absinence Violation Effect
The belief that a lapse is a sign of failure and there is no longer any use of continuing to try
Reliability
The consistency of screen's results. A screen should not vary in its measurement, provided the construct being measured does not vary.
Validity
The degree to which a screen accurately represents the construct or criterion it was designed to measure.
A major difference in principles between AA and other treatment programs centers around the belief that: The individual is powerless, lifestyle change is nessessary, there is a need to abstain from all mind-altering drugs, or a support system is essential?
The individual is powerless
Coping
These strategies help those in recovery deal with internal and external triggers
Intrapersonal Triggers
Thought patterns and related emotions
What are the objectives of an addictions assessor?
To plan appropriate interventions, to evaluate the effectiveness of interpretations implemented, and to involve appropriate family members or significant others, as needed, in the individual's treatment.
Evidence-Based Research
Treatment practices supported by controlled research
Findings indicate that approximately 90% of alcoholics return to drinking within a 4-year period of abstinence.
True
ToF: Diagnosis using the DSM as a guide has a vital place in best practices for clients with addictions.
True
ToF: Evidence-based practices are interventions for which empirical verification exists to suggest that these interventions improve client outcomes.
True
ToF: Identifying High Risk Situations is one of the primary strategies in relapse prevention therapy.
True
ToF: Multiple addictions are termed comorbidities.
True
ToF: One objective of assessment is to plan appropriate interventions with the client.
True
ToF: One of the concerns among professionals in the addictions field is that research does not always inform practice and counselors rely on personal experience, or what has worked before, rather than on recent research findings when working with clients.
True
ToF: One problem in identifying patients with substance abuse is that patients are not being referred by their primary care physician.
True
ToF: One problem in the addictions field is the lack of unified national standards for the credentialing of addiction counselors.
True
ToF: One study found that over 50% of addiction counselors were in recovery themselves.
True
ToF: One unique aspect of the addictions field is that it is multidimensional and multidisciplinary, and those providing treatment for individuals with addictions can be physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, clergy, family therapists, as well as addictions counselors.
True
ToF: Screening is often the first step in the evaluation process.
True
ToF: Standardized assessment instruments allow clinicians to compare clients against a normative group and ensure objectivity.
True
ToF: Structured interviews are instruments that optimize reliability and validity with the intent of limiting assessor bias. Items are constructed with specific outcomes in mind.
True
ToF: The definition of relapse is dependent upon the therapeutic treatment being used.
True
ToF: The five characteristics of a good screen are sensitivity, specificity, reliability, validity, and cost-efficiency.
True
ToF: The likelihood of relapse is an important topic of discussion throughout treatment
True
ToF: The process of screening leads to referral for treatment, ruling out addiction, and/or requesting a more comprehensive assessment.
True
ToF: Three reasons given for the rising incidence of sexual addiction are increased affordability, easy access to sexual materials, and anonymity of the internet.
True
ToF: Workaholism can be supported and even rewarded in the workplace.
True
Multimodel Therapies
Using a variety of procedures and approaches to treatment
Readiness for Change
Willingness to engage in the recovery process to alter one's life