Deck 1: Assessment

Question 1

A seventeen year old girl is arrested for possession. She denies using drugs saying she was given some just before arrested. She is pregnant. Recently the procedure has been to jail pregnant chemical abusers until delivery to protect the unborn child. As this is the child's first arrest the judge is reluctant to do that. As your treatment center provides education to that precinct your center was called. What course would you advise?

A)Administer the TWEAK and give the results to the judge to decide.
B)Administer the TWEAK, interview the adolescence and parents to determine the extent of the drug usage. Recommend appropriate treatment outside of jail if the interview and assessment indicates a beginning drug dependency and one is available that is bette
C)Do your best to persuade the judge to keep the adolescent in jail until delivery as releasing her would put the child at risk.
D)Talk to the parents about begging the judge to refer the adolescent to your treatment center as you treat adolescents and have a good program.

Answer 1

Administer the TWEAK, interview the adolescence and parents to determine the extent of the drug usage. Recommend appropriate treatment outside of jail if the interview and assessment indicates a beginning drug dependency and one is available that is bette

Question 2

A client disclosed the behavior before coming into treatment during which he had started masturbating while watching his teenage girl bath through a peephole. During which category would that disorder fall into? Choose those that apply.

A)Substance Use Disorder.
B)Substance Induced Disorder.
C)Substance Abuse Delirium.
D)Substance Dependence.

Answer 2

Substance Induced Disorder.
Substance Abuse Delirium.

Question 3

If an adolescent entering treatment has a history of multidrug usage what step should be take?

A)The client should be placed in an area where staff is present.
B)Friends should be contacted to give him support.
C)The client should be put in a padded room and the door locked.

Answer 3

The client should be placed in an area where staff is present.

Question 4

What is the proper diagnosis for anxiety that is a direct consequence of drugs?

A)Substance-induced anxiety disorder.
B)Mental Retardation.
C)Substance abuse.
D)Substance dependence.

Question 5

What instrument assesses anxiety as a direct physiological consequence of a drug and/or medication abuse?

A)The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
B)The Strong interest Inventory.
C)The Wechsler Adult Intelligence.
D)The Mental Status Exam.

Question 6

A former client calls asking to be admitted. He has completed treatment in this center two times before; both times have been within the recent eight months. He says he has been sober for 6 months; but he has relapsed. What recommendation is the most appropriate?

A)Client should be asked to come immediately for an assessment interview. if he is drinking, transportation should be arranged.
B)As he has been sober for six months he should return to AA at the first available AA meeting.
C)The counselor and the client will review the discharge plan in an attempt to identify the cause for the relapse. The plan will be amended or redrawn.
D)Staff will determine that he has plenty of orange juice on hand and client is told to wait until the counselor returns to work.

Question 7

A woman calls from a high-crime area of the city saying that she needs treatment and gives insurance information and her address. Two staff members go to pick her up; but she refuses to leave the room. During the conversation she reveals she is a history professor from out of town, divorced with no children and sober for thirty nine years. She demands that the staff members leave, saying she has changed her mind. She becomes increasingly hostile and threatens to attack them. What should be done?

A)Leave a card and tell her to call again if she changes her mind
B)Call the police complaining about a drunk woman who has threatened to harm someone
C)Wait her out until she changes her mind
D)None of the above

Question 8

What measuring tool evaluates the client's orientation to time, place and person?

A)The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
B)The Strong interest Inventory
C)The Wechsler Adult Intelligence
D)The Mental Status Exam.

Question 9

CSAT represents which of the following?

A)Cocaine substance abuse treatment
B)Collective summary alcohol treatment
C)Client substance assessment treatment

Question 10

A client that is expected of being suicidal is often given which two of the tests below?

A)The Mental Status Exam
B)The Strong Interest Inventory
C)The Beck Depression Inventory 11
D)Family Tree Questionnaire

Question 11

A biopsychosocial perspective is necessary for an assessment. What statement is not relevant to that perspective?

A)Biological factors
B)Genetic factors
C)Friend's genetic factors.

Question 12

Which is not considered one of the four main components of a treatment plan?

A)Problems.
B)Goals.
C)Summary.
D)Strategies.

Question 13

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

A)To encourage the client to enlist the help of a spouse to approve the questions
B)To assist in building client rapport and cooperation
C)So that the client will not interrupt and ask questions
D)To allow the client to reword the questions

Question 14

What would be the reason for the psychiatric assessment?

A)The client presents difficulties in focusing and low motivation.
B)It is an additional procedure for which the client can be charged.
C)This assessment could identify a possible physical problem.