LCAS NC CORRECT EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Rational-Emotive Therapy - ✔✔Albert Ellis is the founder. Goal of therapy - teaching
a client to analyze his/her belief system and correct the irrational distortions.
Techniques including engaging in active dialogue with client and identifying client's
irrational belief.
✔✔Reality Therapy - ✔✔William Glasser is the Founder. Goal of therapy: helping the
individual get back in touch with objective and moral reality by making responsible
choices. This process involves a plan for change, good rapport, focus on the present,
and work on getting one's needs met within reality.
✔✔Transactional Analysis - ✔✔Eric Berne is the Founder. Each person has three ego
states that are continuously functioning - parent, adult, and child. These ego states
interact with the ego states of another person and this exchange is called a
"transaction". Goal of Therapy: To identify the types of transactions in which the person
participates. The transactions are interpreted in light of the client's script. Games are
identified. Role in script is defined. Client is helped to function from the rational adult
position whic is considered the healthiest place.
✔✔Behaviorism - ✔✔Pavlov and Skinner are founders. This therapeutic approach
focuses only on observable behavior and not the inner being. All people are subject to
"conditioning". Goal of therapy: Client learns new responses to old stimulus.
Techniques: Behavior modification, Contracting, Systemic desensitization, Modeling
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔A particular behavior is weakened by the consequences of not
experiencing a positive condition or stopping a negative condition. Part of behavior
modification.
✔✔Systematic Desensitization - ✔✔Because it is difficult to feel both pleasant and
anxious at the same time, this technique is aimed at teaching an individual to relax and
, behave in some way that is inconsistent with anxiety while in the presence of anxiety-
producing stimulus. Involves repeated exposure to stimulus.
✔✔Aversion Therapy - ✔✔Modifying an undesirable behavior by the "old fashioned
method" of punishment.
✔✔Existential Therapy - ✔✔Viktor Frankl; Rollo May are founders. Goal of Therapy: To
provide conditions for maximizing self-awareness. Removal of blocks to fulfillment of full
potential. To help clients discover and use freedom of choice by expanding self-
awareness and enable them to be free and responsible for the direction of their own
lives.
✔✔Cluster A Personality Disorders - ✔✔Odd or Ecentric Behavior including paranoid,
schizoid and schizotypal.
✔✔Cluster B Personality Disorders - ✔✔Dramatic, emotional or erratic including
antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic.
✔✔Cluster C Personality Disorders - ✔✔Anxious, fearful behavior including avoidant,
dependent, and obsessive-compulsive types
✔✔Motivational Interviewing - ✔✔A counseling style based on the assumption that
ambivalence about change is normal and can be resolved by working with client's
intrinsic motivations and values. The alliance between client and counselor is a
collaborative partnership to which you each bring important expertise, and an
empathetic, supportive, yet directive counseling style provides conditions under which
change can occur.
✔✔Stages of Change - ✔✔Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, and
Maintenance.
✔✔OTP - ✔✔opioid treatment program
✔✔Naturally Occurring Opiates - ✔✔Morphine, Codiene
✔✔12 Core Functions - ✔✔Screening, Intake, Orientation, Assessment, Treatment
Planning, Counseling, Case Management, Crisis Intervention, Client Education,
Referral, Record Keeping, Consultation
✔✔ Methadone - ✔✔the only long-acting full opioid agonist approved for treatment, at
this time. It provides a range of effects similar to those of short-acting opitates like
Heroin and Morphine, surpressing withdrawal symptoms and avoiding cravings as the
opioid is eliminated from the body. Dose needed for cross-tolerance depends on client's
level of tolerance for the drug(s).
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Rational-Emotive Therapy - ✔✔Albert Ellis is the founder. Goal of therapy - teaching
a client to analyze his/her belief system and correct the irrational distortions.
Techniques including engaging in active dialogue with client and identifying client's
irrational belief.
✔✔Reality Therapy - ✔✔William Glasser is the Founder. Goal of therapy: helping the
individual get back in touch with objective and moral reality by making responsible
choices. This process involves a plan for change, good rapport, focus on the present,
and work on getting one's needs met within reality.
✔✔Transactional Analysis - ✔✔Eric Berne is the Founder. Each person has three ego
states that are continuously functioning - parent, adult, and child. These ego states
interact with the ego states of another person and this exchange is called a
"transaction". Goal of Therapy: To identify the types of transactions in which the person
participates. The transactions are interpreted in light of the client's script. Games are
identified. Role in script is defined. Client is helped to function from the rational adult
position whic is considered the healthiest place.
✔✔Behaviorism - ✔✔Pavlov and Skinner are founders. This therapeutic approach
focuses only on observable behavior and not the inner being. All people are subject to
"conditioning". Goal of therapy: Client learns new responses to old stimulus.
Techniques: Behavior modification, Contracting, Systemic desensitization, Modeling
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔A particular behavior is weakened by the consequences of not
experiencing a positive condition or stopping a negative condition. Part of behavior
modification.
✔✔Systematic Desensitization - ✔✔Because it is difficult to feel both pleasant and
anxious at the same time, this technique is aimed at teaching an individual to relax and
, behave in some way that is inconsistent with anxiety while in the presence of anxiety-
producing stimulus. Involves repeated exposure to stimulus.
✔✔Aversion Therapy - ✔✔Modifying an undesirable behavior by the "old fashioned
method" of punishment.
✔✔Existential Therapy - ✔✔Viktor Frankl; Rollo May are founders. Goal of Therapy: To
provide conditions for maximizing self-awareness. Removal of blocks to fulfillment of full
potential. To help clients discover and use freedom of choice by expanding self-
awareness and enable them to be free and responsible for the direction of their own
lives.
✔✔Cluster A Personality Disorders - ✔✔Odd or Ecentric Behavior including paranoid,
schizoid and schizotypal.
✔✔Cluster B Personality Disorders - ✔✔Dramatic, emotional or erratic including
antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic.
✔✔Cluster C Personality Disorders - ✔✔Anxious, fearful behavior including avoidant,
dependent, and obsessive-compulsive types
✔✔Motivational Interviewing - ✔✔A counseling style based on the assumption that
ambivalence about change is normal and can be resolved by working with client's
intrinsic motivations and values. The alliance between client and counselor is a
collaborative partnership to which you each bring important expertise, and an
empathetic, supportive, yet directive counseling style provides conditions under which
change can occur.
✔✔Stages of Change - ✔✔Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, and
Maintenance.
✔✔OTP - ✔✔opioid treatment program
✔✔Naturally Occurring Opiates - ✔✔Morphine, Codiene
✔✔12 Core Functions - ✔✔Screening, Intake, Orientation, Assessment, Treatment
Planning, Counseling, Case Management, Crisis Intervention, Client Education,
Referral, Record Keeping, Consultation
✔✔ Methadone - ✔✔the only long-acting full opioid agonist approved for treatment, at
this time. It provides a range of effects similar to those of short-acting opitates like
Heroin and Morphine, surpressing withdrawal symptoms and avoiding cravings as the
opioid is eliminated from the body. Dose needed for cross-tolerance depends on client's
level of tolerance for the drug(s).
