CAADC EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2026
5 stages of change -Correct Answer ✔-Pre-Contemplation, Contemplation,
Preparation, Action, Maintenance
6 Dimensions of ASAM -Correct Answer ✔-1. Acute Intoxication/Withdrawal
2.Biomedical
3.Emotional/Behavioral
4.Readiness to Change
5.Relapse or Continued Use Potential
6.Recovery/Living Environment
12 Core Functions -Correct Answer ✔-screening, intake, orientation, assessment,
treatment planning, counseling, case management, crisis intervention, client
education, referral, report/record keeping, consultation
ASAM -Correct Answer ✔-American Society of Addiction Medicine
ASAM Continuum of Care: 5 Levels of Care -Correct Answer ✔-0.5 Early
Intervention
1.0 Outpatient services
2.0 Intensive Outpatient/partial hospitalization (2.1=intensive outpatient;
2.5=partial hospitalization)
3.0 Residential/Inpatient (3.1=clinically managed low intensity residential;
3.3=clinically managed population specific high intensity residential;
3.5=clinically managed high intensity residential; 3.7=medically monitored
intensive inpatient services
4.0 Medically Monitored Intensive Inpatient Services
CBT -Correct Answer ✔-A short term focused approach to helping people become
abstinent. Assumption that learning processes play an important role. Based on the
idea that feelings and behaviors are cause by a persons thoughts. People may not
be able to change their circumstances but they can change how they think about
them. The goal is to teach the person to recognize situations in which they may
,drink, avoid these situations and cope with other problems that may lead to
substance abuse.
Counseling Groups -Correct Answer ✔-Counseling groups are a process group,
and generally less educations. All counseling groups shall be facilitated by
professional staff.
Cultural Blindness -Correct Answer ✔-Ignores differences and proceeds as if they
did not exist
Cultural Destructiveness -Correct Answer ✔-Counselors filter interactions through
a biased lens without engaging in self reflection
Didactic Group -Correct Answer ✔-Didactic groups primary purpose is to educate
patients and their significant others on a specific treatment related topic in a group
setting. Should not exceed 24 people
Dimensions included in an effective ROSC -Correct Answer ✔-Health, Home,
Purpose, Community
Disease Model -Correct Answer ✔-Addiction is a disease. Comes as result of the
impairment of healthy neurochemical or behavioral processes. Jellinek is the
pioneer of this model.
Informed Consent -Correct Answer ✔-The client has a right and power to consent
to treatment. Elements include the clients rational capacity to provide consent,
clients comprehension, and clients sense of self determination
Intake -Correct Answer ✔-The process of enrolling a client in a specific course of
treatment. Primarily an administrative function. It is the extension of the screening
process. 1) Establish Eligibility 2) Complete basic data collection 3) Identify
barriers 4) Establish a treatment approach
, Moral Model -Correct Answer ✔-the belief that people abuse alcohol because they
choose to do so. This model has no sympathy for people with serious addictions
believing that the addict demonstrated a great moral failure.
Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) -Correct Answer ✔-*method of
counseling where the client's internal motivation is the driving force for changing
problem bx
*FRAMES (feedback, emphasis on personal responsibility, clear advice to change,
a menu of alternative, therapist empathy, facilitation of client self efficacy)
*Goes hand in hand with the stages of change
Used in arenas where sessions are infrequent
Motivational Interviewing -Correct Answer ✔-a collaborative, person-centered
form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change. 1) Ask open ended
questions 2) Listen Reflectively 3) Summarize 4) Affirm 5) Elicit self-motivational
statements
Orientation -Correct Answer ✔-Involves describing the nature and goals of the
program to the client and the family.
Prefrontal Cortex -Correct Answer ✔-The part of the brain that enables us to assess
situations. This part of the brain is still maturing during adolescence.
Psychological Model -Correct Answer ✔-Substance use results from deficits in
learning, emotional dysfunction, or psychopathology that can be treated
behaviorally or psychoanalytically oriented therapies.
Recovery Management -Correct Answer ✔-Model of care
Wraps traditional interventions in a continuum of recovery support services
ROSC's -Correct Answer ✔-Recovery Oriented Systems of Care- distinctive
emphasis on post treatment monitoring and support.
Sociocultural Model -Correct Answer ✔-The cultural milieu in developing
substance use disorders.
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2026
5 stages of change -Correct Answer ✔-Pre-Contemplation, Contemplation,
Preparation, Action, Maintenance
6 Dimensions of ASAM -Correct Answer ✔-1. Acute Intoxication/Withdrawal
2.Biomedical
3.Emotional/Behavioral
4.Readiness to Change
5.Relapse or Continued Use Potential
6.Recovery/Living Environment
12 Core Functions -Correct Answer ✔-screening, intake, orientation, assessment,
treatment planning, counseling, case management, crisis intervention, client
education, referral, report/record keeping, consultation
ASAM -Correct Answer ✔-American Society of Addiction Medicine
ASAM Continuum of Care: 5 Levels of Care -Correct Answer ✔-0.5 Early
Intervention
1.0 Outpatient services
2.0 Intensive Outpatient/partial hospitalization (2.1=intensive outpatient;
2.5=partial hospitalization)
3.0 Residential/Inpatient (3.1=clinically managed low intensity residential;
3.3=clinically managed population specific high intensity residential;
3.5=clinically managed high intensity residential; 3.7=medically monitored
intensive inpatient services
4.0 Medically Monitored Intensive Inpatient Services
CBT -Correct Answer ✔-A short term focused approach to helping people become
abstinent. Assumption that learning processes play an important role. Based on the
idea that feelings and behaviors are cause by a persons thoughts. People may not
be able to change their circumstances but they can change how they think about
them. The goal is to teach the person to recognize situations in which they may
,drink, avoid these situations and cope with other problems that may lead to
substance abuse.
Counseling Groups -Correct Answer ✔-Counseling groups are a process group,
and generally less educations. All counseling groups shall be facilitated by
professional staff.
Cultural Blindness -Correct Answer ✔-Ignores differences and proceeds as if they
did not exist
Cultural Destructiveness -Correct Answer ✔-Counselors filter interactions through
a biased lens without engaging in self reflection
Didactic Group -Correct Answer ✔-Didactic groups primary purpose is to educate
patients and their significant others on a specific treatment related topic in a group
setting. Should not exceed 24 people
Dimensions included in an effective ROSC -Correct Answer ✔-Health, Home,
Purpose, Community
Disease Model -Correct Answer ✔-Addiction is a disease. Comes as result of the
impairment of healthy neurochemical or behavioral processes. Jellinek is the
pioneer of this model.
Informed Consent -Correct Answer ✔-The client has a right and power to consent
to treatment. Elements include the clients rational capacity to provide consent,
clients comprehension, and clients sense of self determination
Intake -Correct Answer ✔-The process of enrolling a client in a specific course of
treatment. Primarily an administrative function. It is the extension of the screening
process. 1) Establish Eligibility 2) Complete basic data collection 3) Identify
barriers 4) Establish a treatment approach
, Moral Model -Correct Answer ✔-the belief that people abuse alcohol because they
choose to do so. This model has no sympathy for people with serious addictions
believing that the addict demonstrated a great moral failure.
Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) -Correct Answer ✔-*method of
counseling where the client's internal motivation is the driving force for changing
problem bx
*FRAMES (feedback, emphasis on personal responsibility, clear advice to change,
a menu of alternative, therapist empathy, facilitation of client self efficacy)
*Goes hand in hand with the stages of change
Used in arenas where sessions are infrequent
Motivational Interviewing -Correct Answer ✔-a collaborative, person-centered
form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change. 1) Ask open ended
questions 2) Listen Reflectively 3) Summarize 4) Affirm 5) Elicit self-motivational
statements
Orientation -Correct Answer ✔-Involves describing the nature and goals of the
program to the client and the family.
Prefrontal Cortex -Correct Answer ✔-The part of the brain that enables us to assess
situations. This part of the brain is still maturing during adolescence.
Psychological Model -Correct Answer ✔-Substance use results from deficits in
learning, emotional dysfunction, or psychopathology that can be treated
behaviorally or psychoanalytically oriented therapies.
Recovery Management -Correct Answer ✔-Model of care
Wraps traditional interventions in a continuum of recovery support services
ROSC's -Correct Answer ✔-Recovery Oriented Systems of Care- distinctive
emphasis on post treatment monitoring and support.
Sociocultural Model -Correct Answer ✔-The cultural milieu in developing
substance use disorders.
