CAADC CORE EXAM SET 2025/2026 ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Highly structured daily routines, a system of rewards and punishments, and frequent
group confrontation are characteristics of:
A. Intensive outpatient treatment.
B. Therapeutic communities.
C. Any primary care setting
D. Gestalt therapy - ✔✔B. Therapeutic communities.
✔✔Collateral interviews:
A. Involve asking significant others about their opinions as to whether or not a person
has an SUD problem.
B. Do not require release of information documents if the information is voluntarily
given.
C. Involve gathering information from another person who are or who have been
associated with the person being assessed.
D. Should only be done with immediate family members and no one else. - ✔✔C.
Involve gathering information from other persons who are or who have been associated
with the person being assessed.
✔✔A major criticism of the ________ is that the questions are so obvious that this test
cannot possibly detect alcoholics who deny having a problem.
A. MAST
B. ASI
C. SASSI
D. POSIT - ✔✔A. MAST
✔✔The goal of complete abstinence is most consistent with the ______ model of
addiction
A. moral
B. Disease.
C. Sociocultural.
D. Psychological. - ✔✔B. Disease.
✔✔_______ can develop between natural and synthetic opiates, but not between
opiates and CNS depressants.
A. Nonsynergistic interaction
B. Gestalt
C. Cross tolerance.
D. Negative symptoms. - ✔✔C. Cross tolerance.
✔✔Appropriate treatment goals must be:
A. Observable and measurable in order to facilitate monitoring process
B. Typed and signed in order to ensure compliance by unwilling client.
, C. Written in the order that will be addressed in treatment.
D. Finalized by the time the client is admitted for services. - ✔✔A. Observable and
measurable in order to facilitate monitoring process.
✔✔When is confrontation probably least appropriate?
A. Prior to establishing rapport with the client.
B. When directed at the client strengths.
C. When addressed to specific aspects of a clients behavior.
D. When used to point out a discrepancy between the clients verbal statements and his
or her behavior. - ✔✔A. Prior to establishing rapport with the client.
✔✔The goal of screening is to:
A. Provide clients with an opportunity to discuss their past problems.
B. Determine whether a client is appropriate in eligible for a particular treatment service.
C gathering some general information about the future goals of the potential client
D. Assign a counselor who fits the clients personality. - ✔✔B. Determine whether a
client is appropriate in eligible for a particular treatment service.
✔✔________ drugs are used to treat mental disorders.
A. Psychoactive.
B. Psychotropic.
C. Psychosomatic.
D. Psycho interactive. - ✔✔B. Psychotropic.
✔✔Jamal believes that he has everything he will ever need material and financially, so
he has decided to devote his time to music and other creative outlets for self
expression. Jamal's motivation is best accounted for by:
A. Psychoanalytic theory.
B. Homeostatic considerations.
C. Humanistic theories.
D. Biological factors. - ✔✔C. Humanistic theories.
✔✔The idea that people have an inborn desire to self-actualize is associated with:
A. Psychoanalytic theory.
B. Humanistic theory.
C. Cognitive behaviorism.
D. Classical conditioning. - ✔✔B. Humanistic theory.
✔✔Methadone, Tramadol and Morphine are all _______________________.
A. Schedule V drugs.
B. CNS stimulants.
C. Barbiturates.
D. Opiates. - ✔✔D. Opiates.
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Highly structured daily routines, a system of rewards and punishments, and frequent
group confrontation are characteristics of:
A. Intensive outpatient treatment.
B. Therapeutic communities.
C. Any primary care setting
D. Gestalt therapy - ✔✔B. Therapeutic communities.
✔✔Collateral interviews:
A. Involve asking significant others about their opinions as to whether or not a person
has an SUD problem.
B. Do not require release of information documents if the information is voluntarily
given.
C. Involve gathering information from another person who are or who have been
associated with the person being assessed.
D. Should only be done with immediate family members and no one else. - ✔✔C.
Involve gathering information from other persons who are or who have been associated
with the person being assessed.
✔✔A major criticism of the ________ is that the questions are so obvious that this test
cannot possibly detect alcoholics who deny having a problem.
A. MAST
B. ASI
C. SASSI
D. POSIT - ✔✔A. MAST
✔✔The goal of complete abstinence is most consistent with the ______ model of
addiction
A. moral
B. Disease.
C. Sociocultural.
D. Psychological. - ✔✔B. Disease.
✔✔_______ can develop between natural and synthetic opiates, but not between
opiates and CNS depressants.
A. Nonsynergistic interaction
B. Gestalt
C. Cross tolerance.
D. Negative symptoms. - ✔✔C. Cross tolerance.
✔✔Appropriate treatment goals must be:
A. Observable and measurable in order to facilitate monitoring process
B. Typed and signed in order to ensure compliance by unwilling client.
, C. Written in the order that will be addressed in treatment.
D. Finalized by the time the client is admitted for services. - ✔✔A. Observable and
measurable in order to facilitate monitoring process.
✔✔When is confrontation probably least appropriate?
A. Prior to establishing rapport with the client.
B. When directed at the client strengths.
C. When addressed to specific aspects of a clients behavior.
D. When used to point out a discrepancy between the clients verbal statements and his
or her behavior. - ✔✔A. Prior to establishing rapport with the client.
✔✔The goal of screening is to:
A. Provide clients with an opportunity to discuss their past problems.
B. Determine whether a client is appropriate in eligible for a particular treatment service.
C gathering some general information about the future goals of the potential client
D. Assign a counselor who fits the clients personality. - ✔✔B. Determine whether a
client is appropriate in eligible for a particular treatment service.
✔✔________ drugs are used to treat mental disorders.
A. Psychoactive.
B. Psychotropic.
C. Psychosomatic.
D. Psycho interactive. - ✔✔B. Psychotropic.
✔✔Jamal believes that he has everything he will ever need material and financially, so
he has decided to devote his time to music and other creative outlets for self
expression. Jamal's motivation is best accounted for by:
A. Psychoanalytic theory.
B. Homeostatic considerations.
C. Humanistic theories.
D. Biological factors. - ✔✔C. Humanistic theories.
✔✔The idea that people have an inborn desire to self-actualize is associated with:
A. Psychoanalytic theory.
B. Humanistic theory.
C. Cognitive behaviorism.
D. Classical conditioning. - ✔✔B. Humanistic theory.
✔✔Methadone, Tramadol and Morphine are all _______________________.
A. Schedule V drugs.
B. CNS stimulants.
C. Barbiturates.
D. Opiates. - ✔✔D. Opiates.
