CASAC LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
RATED A+
✔✔TLFB (Time Line Follow Back Procedure) - ✔✔This is a Comprehensive Measure of
Drinking which makes connections between significant events in the client's life and
alcohol/drug use patterns and intensity, for the past year.
✔✔ADS (Alcohol Dependence Scale) - ✔✔This diagnostic instrument is a 25-item
instrument that provides a quantitative measure of the severity of alcohol dependence.
✔✔DIS-IV (Diagnostic Interview Schedule - Alcohol Module) - ✔✔This diagnostic
instrument asks 28 questions that permit diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence.
✔✔ICS (Impaired Control Scale) - ✔✔This diagnostic instrument is a pencil and paper
self-administered insturment that measures clients' attempts to control drinking during
the last 6 months and their perception of their ability to control it now.
✔✔OCDS - ✔✔Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale
✔✔SADD - ✔✔Short Alcohol Dependence Data
✔✔SDSS - ✔✔Substance Dependence Severity Scale
✔✔ASI (Addiction Severity Index) - ✔✔This is a semi-structured interview with seven
subscales addressing problems in the areas of family/social status, medical status,
employment and support, drug use, alcohol use, legal status, and psychiatric status. It is
useful for treatment planning and outcome evaluation with adult clients.
✔✔AUI (Alcohol Use Inventory) - ✔✔This self-report inventory is in multiple-choice
format, for ages 16 and up. It is based on the multiple condition theory, which takes into
account individuals' different styles of drinking, perceptions of alcohol's benefits and
consequences, and how they want to deal with drinking problems.
✔✔CBI (Coping Behaviors Index) - ✔✔This instrument measures factors related to
relapse risk: positive thinking, negative thinking, avoidance/distraction, and seeking
social supports.
✔✔WAIS-III (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) - ✔✔This is a popular intelligence test.
✔✔The Strong Interest Inventory - ✔✔A vocational interest scale that compares clients'
interests to those of people who are happy in different occupations.
✔✔MMPI-2 - ✔✔The Minnesorta Multiphasic Personality Inventory contaings several
clinical scales that detect pathology including the MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale.
, ✔✔The Mental Status Exam - ✔✔A series of observations about a client's appearance,
behavior, attention, mood, affect, perceptual and thought processes, judgement, and
memory at a given point in time. Includes observations of a client's orientation to time,
place and person.
✔✔MBTI (The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) - ✔✔This is a personality inventory that
looks at clients' preferred ways of being in the world and assigns them to 1 of 16
personality types. Frequently used in vocational and relationship counseling.
✔✔The Beck Depression Inventory II - ✔✔Used to track changing levels of depression
over the course of treatment for clients age 13 and over. Individuals rate themselves on
21 groups of statements that tap the affective, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological
symptoms of depression for the 2 weeks prior to testing.
✔✔Biomarkers - ✔✔Measuring these physiological markers at intervals throughout
treatment may provide early identification of relapse.
✔✔EMIT - ✔✔Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Test - this urine testing kit uses
antibodies that react to the presence of a drug or its metabolites.
✔✔GGT - ✔✔Gamma-glutamyltransferase - indicates prolonged, rather than episodic
drinking.
✔✔ASAT - ✔✔Aspartate aminotransferase - screens for heavy drinking.
✔✔ALAT - ✔✔Alanine aminotransferase - screens for heavy drinking.
✔✔CDT - ✔✔Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin - sensitive enough to pick up moderate
drinking over a peoiod of a few weeks.
✔✔SOCRATES - ✔✔A readiness-to-change scale that stands for Stages Of Change
Readiness And Treatment Eagerness Scale.
✔✔URICA - ✔✔A readiness-to-change scale that stands for the University of Rhode
Island Change Assessment.
✔✔FTQ - ✔✔Family Tree Questionnaire helps clients report information about the
incidence of alcohol problems in their blood relatives.
✔✔Genogram - ✔✔A pictorial representation of family structure, using a least three
generations and a standard set of symbols.
RATED A+
✔✔TLFB (Time Line Follow Back Procedure) - ✔✔This is a Comprehensive Measure of
Drinking which makes connections between significant events in the client's life and
alcohol/drug use patterns and intensity, for the past year.
✔✔ADS (Alcohol Dependence Scale) - ✔✔This diagnostic instrument is a 25-item
instrument that provides a quantitative measure of the severity of alcohol dependence.
✔✔DIS-IV (Diagnostic Interview Schedule - Alcohol Module) - ✔✔This diagnostic
instrument asks 28 questions that permit diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence.
✔✔ICS (Impaired Control Scale) - ✔✔This diagnostic instrument is a pencil and paper
self-administered insturment that measures clients' attempts to control drinking during
the last 6 months and their perception of their ability to control it now.
✔✔OCDS - ✔✔Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale
✔✔SADD - ✔✔Short Alcohol Dependence Data
✔✔SDSS - ✔✔Substance Dependence Severity Scale
✔✔ASI (Addiction Severity Index) - ✔✔This is a semi-structured interview with seven
subscales addressing problems in the areas of family/social status, medical status,
employment and support, drug use, alcohol use, legal status, and psychiatric status. It is
useful for treatment planning and outcome evaluation with adult clients.
✔✔AUI (Alcohol Use Inventory) - ✔✔This self-report inventory is in multiple-choice
format, for ages 16 and up. It is based on the multiple condition theory, which takes into
account individuals' different styles of drinking, perceptions of alcohol's benefits and
consequences, and how they want to deal with drinking problems.
✔✔CBI (Coping Behaviors Index) - ✔✔This instrument measures factors related to
relapse risk: positive thinking, negative thinking, avoidance/distraction, and seeking
social supports.
✔✔WAIS-III (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) - ✔✔This is a popular intelligence test.
✔✔The Strong Interest Inventory - ✔✔A vocational interest scale that compares clients'
interests to those of people who are happy in different occupations.
✔✔MMPI-2 - ✔✔The Minnesorta Multiphasic Personality Inventory contaings several
clinical scales that detect pathology including the MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale.
, ✔✔The Mental Status Exam - ✔✔A series of observations about a client's appearance,
behavior, attention, mood, affect, perceptual and thought processes, judgement, and
memory at a given point in time. Includes observations of a client's orientation to time,
place and person.
✔✔MBTI (The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) - ✔✔This is a personality inventory that
looks at clients' preferred ways of being in the world and assigns them to 1 of 16
personality types. Frequently used in vocational and relationship counseling.
✔✔The Beck Depression Inventory II - ✔✔Used to track changing levels of depression
over the course of treatment for clients age 13 and over. Individuals rate themselves on
21 groups of statements that tap the affective, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological
symptoms of depression for the 2 weeks prior to testing.
✔✔Biomarkers - ✔✔Measuring these physiological markers at intervals throughout
treatment may provide early identification of relapse.
✔✔EMIT - ✔✔Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Test - this urine testing kit uses
antibodies that react to the presence of a drug or its metabolites.
✔✔GGT - ✔✔Gamma-glutamyltransferase - indicates prolonged, rather than episodic
drinking.
✔✔ASAT - ✔✔Aspartate aminotransferase - screens for heavy drinking.
✔✔ALAT - ✔✔Alanine aminotransferase - screens for heavy drinking.
✔✔CDT - ✔✔Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin - sensitive enough to pick up moderate
drinking over a peoiod of a few weeks.
✔✔SOCRATES - ✔✔A readiness-to-change scale that stands for Stages Of Change
Readiness And Treatment Eagerness Scale.
✔✔URICA - ✔✔A readiness-to-change scale that stands for the University of Rhode
Island Change Assessment.
✔✔FTQ - ✔✔Family Tree Questionnaire helps clients report information about the
incidence of alcohol problems in their blood relatives.
✔✔Genogram - ✔✔A pictorial representation of family structure, using a least three
generations and a standard set of symbols.
