Master Addiction Counselor Exam
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adaptive consequences - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔behavioral enhancements that
preserve family dysfunction. (i.e., researchers have noted that couples
were often more relaxed and communicative when the alcoholic partner
was drinking, as opposed to abstaining).
What are the principle behavioral features of addiction? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1)
obsession/preoccupation with the behavior or drug; 2) continued
use/conduct despite serious negative consequences; 3) compulsive/out-of-
control behavior
Kinney and Leaton's six stages of family responses to alcoholism (1987) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔1) denial; 2) bargaining; 3) disorganization & chaos; 4)
reorganizing around the problem; 5) efforts to escape; 6) family
, reorganization where the user is eventually excluded and must reenter the
family as a different (sober) person. These responses are also identical to
codependent features of a family.
What is the ASUS? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Adult Substance Use Survey: 64-item
self-report survey. Administration time is 8 to 10 mins; takes less than 5
mins to score and no training to administer.
What is the AUDIT? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Alcohol Use Disorders Identification
Test: 10-item instrument with tree sub scales. Self-administered or given
via interview; admin time is 2 mins. Must be given by trained professional.
What is the CRAFFT questionnaire? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔6-item screen for
alcohol and drug use among adolescents; self-administered in less than 1
min.
CMRS questionnaire - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Circumstances (external motivation),
Motivation (internal), Readiness (openness to treatment) and Suitability
(perception of the client's appropriateness for the proposed treatment
modality).
What is the VAT? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Venerability Assessment Tool:
recommended for assessing homeless/comorbid populations. Addresses
2025/2026 Exam Questions with 100%
Correct Answers | Latest Update
adaptive consequences - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔behavioral enhancements that
preserve family dysfunction. (i.e., researchers have noted that couples
were often more relaxed and communicative when the alcoholic partner
was drinking, as opposed to abstaining).
What are the principle behavioral features of addiction? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1)
obsession/preoccupation with the behavior or drug; 2) continued
use/conduct despite serious negative consequences; 3) compulsive/out-of-
control behavior
Kinney and Leaton's six stages of family responses to alcoholism (1987) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔1) denial; 2) bargaining; 3) disorganization & chaos; 4)
reorganizing around the problem; 5) efforts to escape; 6) family
, reorganization where the user is eventually excluded and must reenter the
family as a different (sober) person. These responses are also identical to
codependent features of a family.
What is the ASUS? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Adult Substance Use Survey: 64-item
self-report survey. Administration time is 8 to 10 mins; takes less than 5
mins to score and no training to administer.
What is the AUDIT? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Alcohol Use Disorders Identification
Test: 10-item instrument with tree sub scales. Self-administered or given
via interview; admin time is 2 mins. Must be given by trained professional.
What is the CRAFFT questionnaire? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔6-item screen for
alcohol and drug use among adolescents; self-administered in less than 1
min.
CMRS questionnaire - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Circumstances (external motivation),
Motivation (internal), Readiness (openness to treatment) and Suitability
(perception of the client's appropriateness for the proposed treatment
modality).
What is the VAT? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Venerability Assessment Tool:
recommended for assessing homeless/comorbid populations. Addresses
