Question 1

What model utilizes the counselor as the case manager?

Accepted Answer

In this model the counselor provides the therapy and the resource acquisition help.

Question 2

It is important that quality case management insures that all serve a client cooperatively toward meeting the client's needs. Which consideration is not utilized by this case management system?

Accepted Answer

Criminal justice institutions are often an important aspect of case management as many chemical dependency clients have broken the law. However there is little link between it and the other case management services.

Question 3

Continuing care is another term for what of the following?

Accepted Answer

Aftercare is another term for continuing care and follows discharge. In this phase of treatment the client and counselor make plans for the client to take responsibility for the client's life.

Question 4

What response answers the question: what do others need to know to respond therapeutically?

Accepted Answer

This is the guiding question that can be used in determining the entries put in client records.

Question 5

Why should you epxlain the need for an assessment to adult clients?

Accepted Answer

The reason to explain the need for an assessment is to enlist the client's cooperation. If the assessment is read aloud the client feels the counselor is sincere in wishing the client understands the procedures and the reasons for them.

Question 6

What case management terms refer to the phases of substance abuse/dependence treatment, aftercare and disengagement?

Accepted Answer

Treatment continuum refers to the phases involved with substance abuse/dependency treatment,

Question 7

Most of these case management models were adopted from the mental heath treatment plan; one was not. Which one is not?

Accepted Answer

This is not a model adopted by the mental health treatment plan. Those other clinical dependency recovery plans utilize the resources of the clinical programs. Its main strength comes from the spiritual and group support that is provided by others that are recovering, such as a twelve step program, AA.

Question 8

You have an adolescent client that has suddenly withdrawn from group interactions. In the initial interview he denied any suicide attempts. Records show there have been suicide attempts in the past. What are the two most appropriate options?

Accepted Answer

These two options begin the stages of crisis intervention. To call the parents or institute a group confrontation might not be appropriate at this time. The cohesiveness so important in treatment might suffer negatively. The steps just initiated should cover all the bases at this time.

Question 9

Of these steps in crisis intervention which does not belong?

Accepted Answer

Arrange for discharge plans is not a crisis intervention step and would be most inappropriate. A counselor does not know until investigation reveals the seriousness of the crisis. The crisis can be that a sleeping pill taken on no sleep for five days alarmed the client; or blood pressure may have shot up out of control causing a life threatening situation. To find the most accurate information you must give support and assess the crisis. Action plans may have unconsciously or consciously been discarded; more plans may be needed.

Question 10

What is the most important task of a group leader is?

Accepted Answer

the most important task for a group leader is to help build group cohesion. As the group process develops the other tasks will fall into place if cohesion has been encourage. With cohesion there is trust, conflicts have little power and subgroups are too involved with the major process to distract. The issues of relapse quickly fall into place as the process continues.

Question 11

What is storming?

Accepted Answer

This is one of the initial group stages during which the leaders of the group attempt to take power. This takes a good part of flexibility to keep trust high and the momentum of the grouping going in the way the counselor knows it needs to go.

Question 12

In order to be effective, counselor interventions must match the client's stage of readiness. Which of these instruments can be used to signal a client's willingness to change?

Accepted Answer

The Treatment Eagerness Stage is designed to access a client's willingness to make the positive changes necessary for recovery.

Question 13

For a counselor what is the most important task of a group leader?

Accepted Answer

The most important task for a group leader is to help build group cohesion. As the group process develops the other tasks will fall into place if cohesion has been encourage. With cohesion there is trust, conflicts have little power and subgroups are too involved with the major process to distract. The issues of relapse quickly fall into place as the process continues.

Question 14

Which is the correct statement?

Accepted Answer

In working together, cohesively, they help each other change and grow. They have just gone through the Norming stage and are now cohesive.

Question 15

What is a counselor's most important task of a group leader?

Accepted Answer

The most important task for a group leader is to help build group cohesion. As the group process develops the other tasks will fall into place if cohesion has been encouraged. With cohesion there is trust, conflicts have little power and subgroups are too involved with the major process to distract. The issues of relapse quickly fall into place as the process continues.

Question 16

In which group developmental stage does the counselor see the most individual progress?

Accepted Answer

In working together cohesively they help each other change and grow. They have formed and stormed. Now they work on why they came there.

Question 17

Denial is a defense mechanism that utilizes forces in our personality to override a belief. Which force, Id, superego or ego, is most likely used for individuals to continue drinking or drugging?

Accepted Answer

The Id unconsciously controls your pain center. It is a principle part of our personality and its main role is to avoid pain and obtain pleasure.

Question 18

What counseling theories focused on unfinished business from the past and the here and now?

Accepted Answer

This therapy uses open-ended questions and the promotion of characteristics such as genuine-ness, unconditional positive regard and several similar characteristics to enhance the group process. It uses personal characteristics such as empathy, unconditional positive regard and several others.

Question 19

A treatment plan is an assessment of resources utilized by the client to achieve the goals that the client and the counselor establish. The goals will be long turn and short turn goals. The plan will also identify the strengths, weaknesses, and planned treatment methods used to reach the goals. What resources can the treatment plan can list resources for a fifty-year-old widowed man employed as an investment broker for thirty years that lives alone in a large city and whose goal is to continue sobriety?

Accepted Answer

Those would be excellent sources for a newly sober single man living alone. These two resources would be support and provide the possibility for social interaction without the temptation in a bar. A cruise would not provide the needed AA support; but an alcohol free cruise might be a possibility.

Question 20

Observations of client's behavior are an important part of the gathering of assessments in a treatment plan. Which statement is not correct?

Accepted Answer

Observations by family members should be considered unreliable. Substance abuse clients are members of a family known for dynamics involving distrust and manipulation. Their reports should be considered carefully.

Quiz 1: Criminal Justice Addictions