NCAC II Exam with correct answers
Pharmacology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the branch of science that examines
how psychoactive substances taken to alter bodily functions or enhance bodily
functions interact with the brain and body.
Due to it's short half-life, which requires a divided dosing? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Wellbutrin
The first stage in group process may be referred to as: - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Dependency
The ICRC/AODA defines assessment as: - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔An
identification of the client's strengths, weaknesses, needs and problems to
develop the treatment plan.
In regard to crisis situations, the most useful criterion for evaluating the
effectiveness of actions taken between sessions is: - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Level of functioning, compared to pre-crisis level
The Cephalocaudle Principle - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Development
proceeds from the head downward, with control over the head and face first,
then the arms, and finally the legs. Within two months from birth infants
develop control over head and face movements. In the following few months,
they are able to use their arms to lift themselves up. Control over the legs
,develops between 6 to 12 months of age, with infants then able crawl, stand,
and eventually walk. Arm coordination always precedes leg coordination.
The Proximodistal Principle - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Development
proceeds from the center of the body outward. Thus, arms develop before
hands, and the fingers and toes follow. Muscle control over the fingers and toes
develops last, as well.
Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Freud emphasized the
significance of childhood events and experiences, but focused nearly entirely
on abnormal development instead of normal functioning. Freud described
child development as a set of "psychosexual stages," referred to as oral, anal,
phallic, latency and genital.
Erik Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A neo-Freudian psychologist that
hypothesized that people face pass through 8 social development stages from
infancy to old age. Each challenge has an outcome that affects a persons social
and personality development.
Jean Piaget - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Theorist Jean Piaget focused primarily
on the mental aspects of childhood, and proposed a four-stage theory of
cognitive development. He pioneered the idea that children's knowledge of the
world is gained by active interaction, describing them as "little scientists" in
this endeavor.
Rational Emotive Psychotherapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The earliest form
of a cognitive-behaviour approach to social work practice, in which personal
problems are understood to be the result of irrational patterns of thinking and
,the dysfunctional behaviours that happen as a result. The goal of the therapist
is to help a client to see that the negative emotions experienced are due to a
flawed perception of reality.
Motivational Enhancement Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a brief,
nonconfrontational, client-centered therapy designed to change specific
problematic behaviors such as alcohol or drug use
Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔based on the idea
that people are influenced considerably by their unconscious, inner drives.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a popular
integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating
thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
Socratic Dialogue - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A process that cognitive
therapists use in helping clients empirically test their core beliefs. Clients form
hypotheses about their behavior through observation and monitoring.
Gestalt therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔therapy that aims to integrate
different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of
self
Person Centered Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a nondirective insight
therapy based on the work of Carl Rogers in which the client does all the
talking and the therapist listens
, Priviledge - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔refers to the right of an individual not to
have confidential information disclosed in legal proceedings.
Transactional Analysis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔treatment that focuses on
patterns of interaction with others, especially patterns that indicate personal
problems
When is privilege waived? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Privilege is waived in
the following ways: 1) when the client has agreed that the counselor may
reveal confidential information, 2) when a third person has been made privy to
the information, and 3) under certain legal conditions. The therapist cannot
claim privilege once the client has agreed to waive privilege.
Existential Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a therapy that encourages
clients to accept responsibility for their lives and to live with greater meaning
and value
Informed Consent - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔requires that an individual not
only provide voluntary consent, but that he or she be adequately informed
regarding choices, options, and outcomes to have properly understood the
meaning of the consent or refusal that was given. Typically this requires
disclosure of:
nature and purpose of the treatment
the risks and consequences
the available alternatives
the risks of no treatment.
Pharmacology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the branch of science that examines
how psychoactive substances taken to alter bodily functions or enhance bodily
functions interact with the brain and body.
Due to it's short half-life, which requires a divided dosing? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Wellbutrin
The first stage in group process may be referred to as: - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Dependency
The ICRC/AODA defines assessment as: - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔An
identification of the client's strengths, weaknesses, needs and problems to
develop the treatment plan.
In regard to crisis situations, the most useful criterion for evaluating the
effectiveness of actions taken between sessions is: - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Level of functioning, compared to pre-crisis level
The Cephalocaudle Principle - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Development
proceeds from the head downward, with control over the head and face first,
then the arms, and finally the legs. Within two months from birth infants
develop control over head and face movements. In the following few months,
they are able to use their arms to lift themselves up. Control over the legs
,develops between 6 to 12 months of age, with infants then able crawl, stand,
and eventually walk. Arm coordination always precedes leg coordination.
The Proximodistal Principle - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Development
proceeds from the center of the body outward. Thus, arms develop before
hands, and the fingers and toes follow. Muscle control over the fingers and toes
develops last, as well.
Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Freud emphasized the
significance of childhood events and experiences, but focused nearly entirely
on abnormal development instead of normal functioning. Freud described
child development as a set of "psychosexual stages," referred to as oral, anal,
phallic, latency and genital.
Erik Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A neo-Freudian psychologist that
hypothesized that people face pass through 8 social development stages from
infancy to old age. Each challenge has an outcome that affects a persons social
and personality development.
Jean Piaget - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Theorist Jean Piaget focused primarily
on the mental aspects of childhood, and proposed a four-stage theory of
cognitive development. He pioneered the idea that children's knowledge of the
world is gained by active interaction, describing them as "little scientists" in
this endeavor.
Rational Emotive Psychotherapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The earliest form
of a cognitive-behaviour approach to social work practice, in which personal
problems are understood to be the result of irrational patterns of thinking and
,the dysfunctional behaviours that happen as a result. The goal of the therapist
is to help a client to see that the negative emotions experienced are due to a
flawed perception of reality.
Motivational Enhancement Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a brief,
nonconfrontational, client-centered therapy designed to change specific
problematic behaviors such as alcohol or drug use
Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔based on the idea
that people are influenced considerably by their unconscious, inner drives.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a popular
integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating
thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
Socratic Dialogue - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A process that cognitive
therapists use in helping clients empirically test their core beliefs. Clients form
hypotheses about their behavior through observation and monitoring.
Gestalt therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔therapy that aims to integrate
different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of
self
Person Centered Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a nondirective insight
therapy based on the work of Carl Rogers in which the client does all the
talking and the therapist listens
, Priviledge - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔refers to the right of an individual not to
have confidential information disclosed in legal proceedings.
Transactional Analysis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔treatment that focuses on
patterns of interaction with others, especially patterns that indicate personal
problems
When is privilege waived? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Privilege is waived in
the following ways: 1) when the client has agreed that the counselor may
reveal confidential information, 2) when a third person has been made privy to
the information, and 3) under certain legal conditions. The therapist cannot
claim privilege once the client has agreed to waive privilege.
Existential Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a therapy that encourages
clients to accept responsibility for their lives and to live with greater meaning
and value
Informed Consent - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔requires that an individual not
only provide voluntary consent, but that he or she be adequately informed
regarding choices, options, and outcomes to have properly understood the
meaning of the consent or refusal that was given. Typically this requires
disclosure of:
nature and purpose of the treatment
the risks and consequences
the available alternatives
the risks of no treatment.
