Practice Quizzes

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders

1: When an addicted person enters counseling, counselors should:
deal first with the underlying problems.
use psychoanalytic approaches.
see the family first.
treat the addiction first.
2: Addiction treatment:
only involves counseling.
involves many tasks beyond counseling.
deals only with people who solely have drug and alcohol problems.
involves knowing 10 major schools of counseling.
3: In developing a counseling relationship counselors need to:
be supportive, emphatic, and collaborative.
be confrontational, direct, and controlling.
take command and make suggestions for recovery
be sympathetic but authoritative.
4: Which of the following is not one of the eight TAP 21 practice dimensions?
Treatment planning
Service coordination
Education
Have a list of activities that client must do
5: Clients who have involuntary, mandated, or stipulated requirements:
rarely succeed in addiction recovery.
may be motivated by "therapeutic leverage."
should be treated in a separate program.
are only common in mental health and other types of treatment programs.
6: Treatment differs from recovery because:
recovery does not involve professionals.
treatment is long term and expensive.
treatment is a short episode for a chronic problem.
recovery can not occur without treatment.
7: "Level of Care" refers to:
the ratio of clients to counselors in a program.
the intensity of treatment indicated by assessment.
the quality of care as indicated by JCAHO.
all addicts have dependent personality disorder.
8: When it comes to treatment:
programs are uniform.
all clients require a minimum of 30 days of care.
there is tremendous diversity in types of care.
insurance covers all type of programs.
9: Using ASAM 's Levels of Care, which of the following is in Level lll?
Outpatient
Intensive outpatient program
Medically managed intensive impatient
Residential services
10: ASAM criteria is designed to:
screen out inappropriate clients.
provide guidelines for diagnosis of addiction.
determine level of care by severity of addiction.
provide guideline for treatment programs.
11: Which of the following is a major difference between outpatient and intensive outpatient?
Clients in intensive outpatient have serious mental illnesses.
Outpatient can only be once or twice a week.
Outpatient is less than 10 hours and inpatient 10 to 30 hours a week.
There is no group treatment in outpatient.
12: Oxford House is an example of:
a model treatment program.
a 12-step program.
a facility for people with co-occurring disorders.
a cooperative living arrangement with recovering alcoholics.
13: Methadone maintenance is effective because:
it provides a cheaper high.
it costs less than heroine.
it cannot be abused.
it is administered orally and reduces the rushes, highs, and lows of other opiates.
14: Brand names for buprenorphine include:
Milltown and Methadone.
Allay and Normed.
Subutex and Suboxone.
Sublimaze and Duragesic.
15: Detoxification is designed to:
get the client to agree to inpatient care.
start learning about how alcohol and other drugs affect the body and mind.
improve the client's attitude and mental thinking.
stabilize the patient and allow for safe withdrawal.
16: Since 1987, inpatient treatment has:
increased by 50%
decreased by more than half
decreased by 10%
increased by 20%
17: An agonist drug is a drug that occupies a receptor cite and blocks and does not mimic any of the effects of the drug.
TRUE
FALSE
18: Disulfiram (Anabuse) treats alcoholism by:
reducing cravings for the drug.
causing the drinker to be violently ill if he or she drinks any alcohol.
acting as an anti-depressant.
blocking the effects of the neurotransmitter GABA.
19: AA was started in 1935 by:
William Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith.
Prochaska and DiClemente.
William Miller.
Christopher Smithers.
20: Since AA has been so successful, counselors should discourage attendance at any other self-help program or movement.
TRUE
FALSE
21: When it comes to the efficacy of a particular school of therapy, there is definite evidence that certain schools of therapy are more effective with addiction than others.
TRUE
FALSE
22: No personality type fits all SUDs.
TRUE
FALSE
23: Initial referral and admissions should be determined by insurance and need for detox.
TRUE
FALSE
24: The objectives of counseling ethics is to:
protect the counselor from malpractice.
maintain and protect client's welfare.
protect the public from consequences of addiction.
maintain the integrity of the agency.
(Optional) Fill out the fields below to send a copy of your score to your professor:
Your Name:
Your Email:
Professor's Email:



« Back to All Practice Quizzes