IL CADC COMPLETE EXAM REVIEW WITH
FULL SOLUTIONS
●● Counseling is a....
Answer: Co1laborative process sensitive to individual client
characteristics, influence of significant others, and client cultural and
social context
●● Counselors help clients to
Answer: 1. Explore and enhance their motivation to chance behavior
2. Set appropriate treatment goals
3. understand the structure, expectations, purpose, and limitations of the
counseling process
●● Counselors must continually evaluate the client's level of risk
regarding
Answer: personal safety and relapse potential in order to anticipate and
respond to crisis situations like high risk situations
●● Counselor skill include knowing how to
Answer: individualize treatment plans, adapt counseling strategies to
client charactistics and circumstances, apply culturally and linguistically
responsive communication syles and practices
,●● The effectiveness of addition treatment is measured by
Answer: Client's improved functioning, reduced suffering, psysiological
indicators, retention in treatment, enhances interactions with other
people, work performance
●● The connection between the client and the counselor is
Answer: the therapeutic alliance
●● 3 components of the therapeutic alliance
Answer: 1. relationship or bond b/w the therapist & client
2. consensus b/w the two regarding treatment techniques/methods
3. consensus b/w the 2 regarding treatment goals
●● The collaboration occurs when the clinical knowledge of the
counselor combines with the experiential knowledge of the client
because
Answer: the client is the true expert in their life
●● over 80% of positive treatment outcomes may be due to the
therapeutic relationships contributing elements of
Answer: warmth, empathy, and respect for the client
,●● Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Answer: a directive, client-centered style for eliciting behavior change
by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence. The fuel for the
chamce process is the client's motivation to make the change. Can
enhance motivations starting at the screening and lasting through the
treatment process
●● Motivational style of counseling communication is based on the
following assumptions
Answer: 1. Ambivelnce about change is normal and creates a significant
obstacle to the recovery process
2. Ambivalence can be resolved by working with the client's intrinsic
motivations and values
3. The alliance b/w counselor and client is a collborative partnership to
which each brings important expertise
4. An empathetic, supportive yet directive counseling style provides
conditions under which change can occure
5. direct argument and confrontaion may tend to increase client
defensiveness and reduce the liklihood of behavioral change
●● 5 general principles of MI
Answer: 1. Express empathy thru reflective or active listening
2. Develop discrepancy b/w client's goals or values and their current
behavior
3.Avoid argument and confrontation
, 4. Adjust to client resistance rather than oppose it directly
5. Support self-efficacy and optimism
●● Strategies based on 5 principles
Answer: 1. Ask open ended questions to facilitate dialogue in a neutral
way
2. Listen reflectively and provide a synthesis of content and process,
which reduces the likelihood of resistance and cements the therapeutic
alliance.
3. Summarize- to link the clients's positive and negative feelings to
promote the perception of discrepancy
4. Affirm- to promote self-efficacy and validate client's feelings
5. Elicit self-motivational statements- that include problem recognition,
concern about the problem, intention to change, optimism toward the
future.
●● The Spirit of MI is based on 4 key elements
Answer: 1.Partnership/collaboration-avoid the expert role
2. Acceptance/Autonomy-respecting and accepting the clients autonomy,
potentials, strengths, perspectives.
(Four aspects of acceptance-worth, empathy, autonomy, affirmation)
3. Compassion-keeping client's best interest in mind
FULL SOLUTIONS
●● Counseling is a....
Answer: Co1laborative process sensitive to individual client
characteristics, influence of significant others, and client cultural and
social context
●● Counselors help clients to
Answer: 1. Explore and enhance their motivation to chance behavior
2. Set appropriate treatment goals
3. understand the structure, expectations, purpose, and limitations of the
counseling process
●● Counselors must continually evaluate the client's level of risk
regarding
Answer: personal safety and relapse potential in order to anticipate and
respond to crisis situations like high risk situations
●● Counselor skill include knowing how to
Answer: individualize treatment plans, adapt counseling strategies to
client charactistics and circumstances, apply culturally and linguistically
responsive communication syles and practices
,●● The effectiveness of addition treatment is measured by
Answer: Client's improved functioning, reduced suffering, psysiological
indicators, retention in treatment, enhances interactions with other
people, work performance
●● The connection between the client and the counselor is
Answer: the therapeutic alliance
●● 3 components of the therapeutic alliance
Answer: 1. relationship or bond b/w the therapist & client
2. consensus b/w the two regarding treatment techniques/methods
3. consensus b/w the 2 regarding treatment goals
●● The collaboration occurs when the clinical knowledge of the
counselor combines with the experiential knowledge of the client
because
Answer: the client is the true expert in their life
●● over 80% of positive treatment outcomes may be due to the
therapeutic relationships contributing elements of
Answer: warmth, empathy, and respect for the client
,●● Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Answer: a directive, client-centered style for eliciting behavior change
by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence. The fuel for the
chamce process is the client's motivation to make the change. Can
enhance motivations starting at the screening and lasting through the
treatment process
●● Motivational style of counseling communication is based on the
following assumptions
Answer: 1. Ambivelnce about change is normal and creates a significant
obstacle to the recovery process
2. Ambivalence can be resolved by working with the client's intrinsic
motivations and values
3. The alliance b/w counselor and client is a collborative partnership to
which each brings important expertise
4. An empathetic, supportive yet directive counseling style provides
conditions under which change can occure
5. direct argument and confrontaion may tend to increase client
defensiveness and reduce the liklihood of behavioral change
●● 5 general principles of MI
Answer: 1. Express empathy thru reflective or active listening
2. Develop discrepancy b/w client's goals or values and their current
behavior
3.Avoid argument and confrontation
, 4. Adjust to client resistance rather than oppose it directly
5. Support self-efficacy and optimism
●● Strategies based on 5 principles
Answer: 1. Ask open ended questions to facilitate dialogue in a neutral
way
2. Listen reflectively and provide a synthesis of content and process,
which reduces the likelihood of resistance and cements the therapeutic
alliance.
3. Summarize- to link the clients's positive and negative feelings to
promote the perception of discrepancy
4. Affirm- to promote self-efficacy and validate client's feelings
5. Elicit self-motivational statements- that include problem recognition,
concern about the problem, intention to change, optimism toward the
future.
●● The Spirit of MI is based on 4 key elements
Answer: 1.Partnership/collaboration-avoid the expert role
2. Acceptance/Autonomy-respecting and accepting the clients autonomy,
potentials, strengths, perspectives.
(Four aspects of acceptance-worth, empathy, autonomy, affirmation)
3. Compassion-keeping client's best interest in mind
