LCDC REVIEW-IN PROGRESS
2026 EXPERT VERIFED ACE
THE TEST
8 Domains - ANSWER ✔✔1. Clinical Evaluation
2. Treatment Planning
3. Referral
4. Service Coordination
5. Counseling
6. Client, Family, and Community Education
7. Documentation
,8. Professional and Ethical Responsibilities
Domain 1: Clinical Evaluation - ANSWER ✔✔Includes: Screening
and Assessment
Definition: The systematic approach to screening and assessment of
individuals thought to have a substance use disorder, being considered
for admission to addiction-related services, or presenting in a crisis
situation.
Domain 2: Treatment Planning - ANSWER ✔✔Definition: A
collaborative process in which professionals and the client develop a
written document that identifies important treatment goals; describes
measurable, time-sensitive action steps toward achieving those goals
with expected outcomes; and reflects a verbal agreement between a
counselor and a client. At a minimum an individualized treatment plan
addresses the identified bustance use disorder(s), as well as issues
related to treatment progress, including relationships with family and
significant others, potential mental conditions, employment, education,
spirituality, health concerns, and social and legal needs.
Domain 3: Referral - ANSWER ✔✔Definition: The process of
facilitating the client's use of available support systems and community
,resources to meet needs identified in clinical evaluation or treatment
planning.
Domain 4: Service Coordination - ANSWER ✔✔Includes:
Implementing the Treatment Plan, Consulting, and Continuing
Assessment and Treatment Planning
Definition: The administrative, clinical, and evaluative activities that bring
the client, treatment services, community agencies, and other resources
together to focus on issues and needs identified in the treatment plan.
Service coordination, which includes case management and client
advocacy, establishes a framework of action to enable the client to
achieve specified goals. It involves collaboration with the client and
significant others, coordination of treatment and referral services, liaison
activities with community resources and managed care systems, client
advocacy, and ongoing evaluation of treatment progress and client
needs.
Domain 5: Counseling - ANSWER ✔✔Includes: Individual
Counseling, Group Counseling, Counseling Families, Couples, and
Significant Others
Definition: A collaborative process that facilitates the client's progress
toward mutually determined treatment goals and objectives. Counseling
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, includes methods that are sensitive to individual client characteristics
and to the influence of significant others, as well as the client's cultural
and social context. Competence in counseling is built on an understand
of, appreciation of, and ability to appropriately use the contributions of
various addiction counseling models as they apply to modalities of care
for individuals, groups, families, couples, and significant others.
Domain 6: Client, Family, and Community Education - ANSWER
✔✔Definition: The process of providing clients, families, significant
others, and community groups with information on risks related to
psychoactive substance use, as well as available prevention, treatment,
and recovery resources.
Domain 7: Documentation - ANSWER ✔✔Definition: The recording of
the screening and intake process, assessment, treatment plan, clinical
reports, clinical progress notes, discharge summaries, and other client-
related data.
Domain 8: Professional and Ethical Responsibilities - ANSWER
✔✔Definition: The obligations of an addiction counselor to adhere to
accepted ethical and behavioral standards of conduct and continuing
professional development.
12 Core Functions - ANSWER ✔✔1. Screening
2026 EXPERT VERIFED ACE
THE TEST
8 Domains - ANSWER ✔✔1. Clinical Evaluation
2. Treatment Planning
3. Referral
4. Service Coordination
5. Counseling
6. Client, Family, and Community Education
7. Documentation
,8. Professional and Ethical Responsibilities
Domain 1: Clinical Evaluation - ANSWER ✔✔Includes: Screening
and Assessment
Definition: The systematic approach to screening and assessment of
individuals thought to have a substance use disorder, being considered
for admission to addiction-related services, or presenting in a crisis
situation.
Domain 2: Treatment Planning - ANSWER ✔✔Definition: A
collaborative process in which professionals and the client develop a
written document that identifies important treatment goals; describes
measurable, time-sensitive action steps toward achieving those goals
with expected outcomes; and reflects a verbal agreement between a
counselor and a client. At a minimum an individualized treatment plan
addresses the identified bustance use disorder(s), as well as issues
related to treatment progress, including relationships with family and
significant others, potential mental conditions, employment, education,
spirituality, health concerns, and social and legal needs.
Domain 3: Referral - ANSWER ✔✔Definition: The process of
facilitating the client's use of available support systems and community
,resources to meet needs identified in clinical evaluation or treatment
planning.
Domain 4: Service Coordination - ANSWER ✔✔Includes:
Implementing the Treatment Plan, Consulting, and Continuing
Assessment and Treatment Planning
Definition: The administrative, clinical, and evaluative activities that bring
the client, treatment services, community agencies, and other resources
together to focus on issues and needs identified in the treatment plan.
Service coordination, which includes case management and client
advocacy, establishes a framework of action to enable the client to
achieve specified goals. It involves collaboration with the client and
significant others, coordination of treatment and referral services, liaison
activities with community resources and managed care systems, client
advocacy, and ongoing evaluation of treatment progress and client
needs.
Domain 5: Counseling - ANSWER ✔✔Includes: Individual
Counseling, Group Counseling, Counseling Families, Couples, and
Significant Others
Definition: A collaborative process that facilitates the client's progress
toward mutually determined treatment goals and objectives. Counseling
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2026. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, includes methods that are sensitive to individual client characteristics
and to the influence of significant others, as well as the client's cultural
and social context. Competence in counseling is built on an understand
of, appreciation of, and ability to appropriately use the contributions of
various addiction counseling models as they apply to modalities of care
for individuals, groups, families, couples, and significant others.
Domain 6: Client, Family, and Community Education - ANSWER
✔✔Definition: The process of providing clients, families, significant
others, and community groups with information on risks related to
psychoactive substance use, as well as available prevention, treatment,
and recovery resources.
Domain 7: Documentation - ANSWER ✔✔Definition: The recording of
the screening and intake process, assessment, treatment plan, clinical
reports, clinical progress notes, discharge summaries, and other client-
related data.
Domain 8: Professional and Ethical Responsibilities - ANSWER
✔✔Definition: The obligations of an addiction counselor to adhere to
accepted ethical and behavioral standards of conduct and continuing
professional development.
12 Core Functions - ANSWER ✔✔1. Screening
