NAADAC CORE REVIEWS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Barriers that prevent treatment for elderly with substance abuse problems -
✔✔Ageism, lack of awareness, behavior of clinicians and services professionals,
existence of both medical and psychiatric conditions.
✔✔Counselors, continued assessment and treatment planning for patient. - ✔✔need to
continue to play an active role after admission of a client.
✔✔Elderly and alcohol use - ✔✔Research states that between 2 and 10% of persons
65 or older are addicted to alcohol. And 1 out of 5 are treated for medical or psychiatric
problems also have alcohol problems.
✔✔Eight referral elements used. - ✔✔Relationship, re-evaluation, client self referral,
Meet client needs, have an clear explanation for referral, referral information exchange
from other agency, Confidentiality, effectiveness of the referral.
✔✔Informing of educating the client, family and community about risks of substance
abuse. - ✔✔Is very important because it effects the family, client and community and
they all will have some understanding of how to deal with client substance abuse.
✔✔Treatment planning process of client evaluation - ✔✔Plan needs to reflect the most
important points discovered in the assessment. Problem statement, goal statement, list
of measurable objectives, should be realistic for the client.
✔✔Screening process - ✔✔The primary goal is to determine if the client is right for the
program and services that it provide.
✔✔Dual Disorders - ✔✔Means the presence of two medical disorders that are
independent but interactive. Treatment is characterized by treating one disorder
followed by the second. Could involve two treatment programs.
,✔✔Post-tramatic stress disorder - ✔✔30 to 60% of drug abusers show symptoms, A
disorder caused by exposure to a terrifying event.
✔✔Crisis Counseling - ✔✔Refers to a time in which the client is facing complete
upheaval of his world coupled with extreme frustration. Three States: External factors,
Internal distress, and Transitional states
✔✔Action Response - ✔✔Can be probes or questions, confrontations or interpretation:
Should be open ended and non-judgmental.
✔✔Suicide Assessment [three components] - ✔✔Behavioral indications, Historical
patterns, Present situation, and Degree of lethality.
✔✔Listening responses - ✔✔Good eye contact, Clarifying what client said, Restating or
paraphrasing, and reflection.
✔✔Short and long term treatment drug abuse programs - ✔✔6 months for short term
and 12 months for long term
✔✔Client and Counselor relationship - ✔✔Both parties are responsible for its creation.
✔✔Types of counseling - ✔✔Individual, group and Family
✔✔Relationship between stress and substance abuse - ✔✔Stress is a natural
occurrence in life for all people, it can cause relapse for substance abuse users.
✔✔Transfer of addictive behaviors - ✔✔Not good because compulsive behavior take
away the ability to have free choice in one's actions.
✔✔Continuum of drug use - ✔✔Initiation, intoxication, substance use disorder,
withdrawal, craving, relapse, and recovery
✔✔Psychoactive substance - ✔✔A chemical that can change consciousness, mood and
thoughts.
✔✔Relapse Prevention - ✔✔The process of knowing the signs and developing a plan to
prevent the return to drug use after a period of abstinence.
✔✔Multimodality - ✔✔Treatment that is a combination of several methods
✔✔Interdisciplinary Approach - ✔✔A training process based on using more than one
approach to direct or change behavior.
, ✔✔Collaborate - ✔✔To work together with other individuals or agencies to bring about a
desired result.
✔✔Motivational Enhancement Therapy - ✔✔Getting the patient to motivate himself for
change. Help him see the connection between his behavior and his goals.
✔✔Reality Therapy - ✔✔is a therapeutic approach that focuses on problem-solving and
making better choices in order to achieve specific goals.
✔✔Behavioral Therapy - ✔✔is a treatment that helps change potentially self-destructing
behaviors. It is also called behavioral modification or cognitive behavioral therapy.
Medical professionals use this type of therapy to replace bad habits with good ones.
✔✔Existential Therapy - ✔✔Existential therapy uses a positive approach that applauds
human capacities and aspirations while simultaneously acknowledging human
limitations.
✔✔transference is a key aspect of what therapy. - ✔✔psychoanalysis
✔✔Adlerian Therapy - ✔✔encourages to acquire a more positive and productive way of
life by developing new insights, skills, and behaviors.
✔✔Psychoanalytic Therapy - ✔✔Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud
(1856-1939). Freud believed that people could be cured by making conscious their
unconscious thoughts and motivations, thus gaining "insight"
✔✔Person-centered therapy - ✔✔Is an approach to counseling and psychotherapy that
places much of the responsibility for the treatment process on the client, with the
therapist taking a nondirective role
✔✔Solutions focused therapy - ✔✔focus on the solution and not the problem.
✔✔What is amphetamine - ✔✔A Stimulant type of prescription drug used in the
treatment of ADD and ADHD. Stimulants speed up activity in the brain and cause an
increase in heart rate, blood pressure and metabolism. It also causes a decrease in
blood flow and oxygen to the heart.
✔✔What is barbiturates - ✔✔Tranquillizers that are types of prescription drugs that are
used for anxiety and sleep problems. It decreases in brain activity, which causes
feelings of drowsiness and calmness. It also results in a decrease in heart rate and
blood pressure.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Barriers that prevent treatment for elderly with substance abuse problems -
✔✔Ageism, lack of awareness, behavior of clinicians and services professionals,
existence of both medical and psychiatric conditions.
✔✔Counselors, continued assessment and treatment planning for patient. - ✔✔need to
continue to play an active role after admission of a client.
✔✔Elderly and alcohol use - ✔✔Research states that between 2 and 10% of persons
65 or older are addicted to alcohol. And 1 out of 5 are treated for medical or psychiatric
problems also have alcohol problems.
✔✔Eight referral elements used. - ✔✔Relationship, re-evaluation, client self referral,
Meet client needs, have an clear explanation for referral, referral information exchange
from other agency, Confidentiality, effectiveness of the referral.
✔✔Informing of educating the client, family and community about risks of substance
abuse. - ✔✔Is very important because it effects the family, client and community and
they all will have some understanding of how to deal with client substance abuse.
✔✔Treatment planning process of client evaluation - ✔✔Plan needs to reflect the most
important points discovered in the assessment. Problem statement, goal statement, list
of measurable objectives, should be realistic for the client.
✔✔Screening process - ✔✔The primary goal is to determine if the client is right for the
program and services that it provide.
✔✔Dual Disorders - ✔✔Means the presence of two medical disorders that are
independent but interactive. Treatment is characterized by treating one disorder
followed by the second. Could involve two treatment programs.
,✔✔Post-tramatic stress disorder - ✔✔30 to 60% of drug abusers show symptoms, A
disorder caused by exposure to a terrifying event.
✔✔Crisis Counseling - ✔✔Refers to a time in which the client is facing complete
upheaval of his world coupled with extreme frustration. Three States: External factors,
Internal distress, and Transitional states
✔✔Action Response - ✔✔Can be probes or questions, confrontations or interpretation:
Should be open ended and non-judgmental.
✔✔Suicide Assessment [three components] - ✔✔Behavioral indications, Historical
patterns, Present situation, and Degree of lethality.
✔✔Listening responses - ✔✔Good eye contact, Clarifying what client said, Restating or
paraphrasing, and reflection.
✔✔Short and long term treatment drug abuse programs - ✔✔6 months for short term
and 12 months for long term
✔✔Client and Counselor relationship - ✔✔Both parties are responsible for its creation.
✔✔Types of counseling - ✔✔Individual, group and Family
✔✔Relationship between stress and substance abuse - ✔✔Stress is a natural
occurrence in life for all people, it can cause relapse for substance abuse users.
✔✔Transfer of addictive behaviors - ✔✔Not good because compulsive behavior take
away the ability to have free choice in one's actions.
✔✔Continuum of drug use - ✔✔Initiation, intoxication, substance use disorder,
withdrawal, craving, relapse, and recovery
✔✔Psychoactive substance - ✔✔A chemical that can change consciousness, mood and
thoughts.
✔✔Relapse Prevention - ✔✔The process of knowing the signs and developing a plan to
prevent the return to drug use after a period of abstinence.
✔✔Multimodality - ✔✔Treatment that is a combination of several methods
✔✔Interdisciplinary Approach - ✔✔A training process based on using more than one
approach to direct or change behavior.
, ✔✔Collaborate - ✔✔To work together with other individuals or agencies to bring about a
desired result.
✔✔Motivational Enhancement Therapy - ✔✔Getting the patient to motivate himself for
change. Help him see the connection between his behavior and his goals.
✔✔Reality Therapy - ✔✔is a therapeutic approach that focuses on problem-solving and
making better choices in order to achieve specific goals.
✔✔Behavioral Therapy - ✔✔is a treatment that helps change potentially self-destructing
behaviors. It is also called behavioral modification or cognitive behavioral therapy.
Medical professionals use this type of therapy to replace bad habits with good ones.
✔✔Existential Therapy - ✔✔Existential therapy uses a positive approach that applauds
human capacities and aspirations while simultaneously acknowledging human
limitations.
✔✔transference is a key aspect of what therapy. - ✔✔psychoanalysis
✔✔Adlerian Therapy - ✔✔encourages to acquire a more positive and productive way of
life by developing new insights, skills, and behaviors.
✔✔Psychoanalytic Therapy - ✔✔Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud
(1856-1939). Freud believed that people could be cured by making conscious their
unconscious thoughts and motivations, thus gaining "insight"
✔✔Person-centered therapy - ✔✔Is an approach to counseling and psychotherapy that
places much of the responsibility for the treatment process on the client, with the
therapist taking a nondirective role
✔✔Solutions focused therapy - ✔✔focus on the solution and not the problem.
✔✔What is amphetamine - ✔✔A Stimulant type of prescription drug used in the
treatment of ADD and ADHD. Stimulants speed up activity in the brain and cause an
increase in heart rate, blood pressure and metabolism. It also causes a decrease in
blood flow and oxygen to the heart.
✔✔What is barbiturates - ✔✔Tranquillizers that are types of prescription drugs that are
used for anxiety and sleep problems. It decreases in brain activity, which causes
feelings of drowsiness and calmness. It also results in a decrease in heart rate and
blood pressure.
