SAMHSA COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Client - ✔✔individual, significant other, or community agent who presents for alcohol
and drug
abuse education, prevention, intervention, treatment, and consultation services.
✔✔Collateral sources - ✔✔persons or organizations providing pertinent information
about a client
(can include family members and legal, educational, and medical personnel).
✔✔Competency - ✔✔specific counselor functions comprising requisite knowledge,
skills, and
attitudes.
✔✔Confidentiality - ✔✔a client's right to privacy as defined by applicable Federal and
State statutes.
✔✔Confidentiality rules and regulations - ✔✔rules established by Federal and State
agencies to
limit disclosure of information about a client's substance use disorder and treatment
(described
in 42 CFR, Part 2B 16). Programs must notify clients of their rights to confidentiality,
provide a
written summary of these rights, and establish written procedures regulating access to
and use
of client records.
✔✔Confrontation - ✔✔a form of interpersonal exchange in which individuals present to
one another
their observations of, and reactions to, behaviors and attitudes that are matters of
concern.
Feedback is provided on behavior, and an appeal is made to the client for personal
honesty,
truthfulness in dealing with others, and responsible behavior.
✔✔Content - ✔✔the subjects discussed in the context of counseling.
✔✔Continuing care - ✔✔care that supports a client's progress, monitors his or her
condition, and responds to a return to substance use or a return of mental disorder
symptoms. It is both
a process of post treatment monitoring and a form of treatment itself; sometimes
referred to
as aftercare.
, ✔✔Continuum of care - ✔✔the array of services that differ in terms of unique needs of
clients
throughout the course of treatment and recovery.
✔✔Contracting - ✔✔the process by which the client and the counselor enter into an
agreement to
address specific problems, issues, or behaviors.
✔✔Co-occurring disorder/coexisting disorder - ✔✔the presence of concurrent
psychiatric or
medical disorders in combination with a substance use disorder.
✔✔Counseling - ✔✔a therapeutic process aimed at meeting specific identified needs of
the client.
✔✔Countertransference - ✔✔a counselor's unresolved feelings for significant others
that may be
transferred to the client.
✔✔Craving - ✔✔an urgent, seemingly overpowering desire to use a substance, which
often is
associated with tension, anxiety, or other dysphoric, depressive, or negative affective
states.
✔✔Cultural competency - ✔✔the capacity of a service provider or organization to
understand and
work effectively in accord with the beliefs and practices of persons from a given
ethnic/racial/
religious/social group or sexual orientation. It includes the holding of knowledge, skills,
and
attitudes that allow the treatment provider and program to understand the full context of
a
client's current and past socioenvironmental situation.
✔✔Cultural diversity - ✔✔the vast array of different cultural groups based on varying
behaviors,
attitudes, values, languages, celebrations, rituals, and histories.
✔✔Culture - ✔✔the vast structure of behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, habits, beliefs,
customs,
language, rituals, ceremonies, histories, and practices distinctive to a particular group of
people.
✔✔Diagnosis - ✔✔classification of the nature and severity of the substance use,
medical, mental
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Client - ✔✔individual, significant other, or community agent who presents for alcohol
and drug
abuse education, prevention, intervention, treatment, and consultation services.
✔✔Collateral sources - ✔✔persons or organizations providing pertinent information
about a client
(can include family members and legal, educational, and medical personnel).
✔✔Competency - ✔✔specific counselor functions comprising requisite knowledge,
skills, and
attitudes.
✔✔Confidentiality - ✔✔a client's right to privacy as defined by applicable Federal and
State statutes.
✔✔Confidentiality rules and regulations - ✔✔rules established by Federal and State
agencies to
limit disclosure of information about a client's substance use disorder and treatment
(described
in 42 CFR, Part 2B 16). Programs must notify clients of their rights to confidentiality,
provide a
written summary of these rights, and establish written procedures regulating access to
and use
of client records.
✔✔Confrontation - ✔✔a form of interpersonal exchange in which individuals present to
one another
their observations of, and reactions to, behaviors and attitudes that are matters of
concern.
Feedback is provided on behavior, and an appeal is made to the client for personal
honesty,
truthfulness in dealing with others, and responsible behavior.
✔✔Content - ✔✔the subjects discussed in the context of counseling.
✔✔Continuing care - ✔✔care that supports a client's progress, monitors his or her
condition, and responds to a return to substance use or a return of mental disorder
symptoms. It is both
a process of post treatment monitoring and a form of treatment itself; sometimes
referred to
as aftercare.
, ✔✔Continuum of care - ✔✔the array of services that differ in terms of unique needs of
clients
throughout the course of treatment and recovery.
✔✔Contracting - ✔✔the process by which the client and the counselor enter into an
agreement to
address specific problems, issues, or behaviors.
✔✔Co-occurring disorder/coexisting disorder - ✔✔the presence of concurrent
psychiatric or
medical disorders in combination with a substance use disorder.
✔✔Counseling - ✔✔a therapeutic process aimed at meeting specific identified needs of
the client.
✔✔Countertransference - ✔✔a counselor's unresolved feelings for significant others
that may be
transferred to the client.
✔✔Craving - ✔✔an urgent, seemingly overpowering desire to use a substance, which
often is
associated with tension, anxiety, or other dysphoric, depressive, or negative affective
states.
✔✔Cultural competency - ✔✔the capacity of a service provider or organization to
understand and
work effectively in accord with the beliefs and practices of persons from a given
ethnic/racial/
religious/social group or sexual orientation. It includes the holding of knowledge, skills,
and
attitudes that allow the treatment provider and program to understand the full context of
a
client's current and past socioenvironmental situation.
✔✔Cultural diversity - ✔✔the vast array of different cultural groups based on varying
behaviors,
attitudes, values, languages, celebrations, rituals, and histories.
✔✔Culture - ✔✔the vast structure of behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, habits, beliefs,
customs,
language, rituals, ceremonies, histories, and practices distinctive to a particular group of
people.
✔✔Diagnosis - ✔✔classification of the nature and severity of the substance use,
medical, mental
