LCDC Exam Study Guide for Texas LCDC Exam 2026/2027 Questions and Answers | Graded A+

LCDC Exam Study Guide for Texas LCDC Exam 2026/2027 Questions and Answers | Graded A+ 12 Core Functions - answer-1. Screening 2. Intake 3. Orientation 4. Assessment 5. Treatment Planning 6. Counseling 7. Case Management 8. Crisis Intervention 9. Client Education 10. Referral 11. Reports & Record Keeping 12. Consultation Define Screening - answer-The process by which a client is determined appropriate and eligible for admission to a particular program. Define Intake - answer-Administrative and initial assessment procedures for admission to a program. Define Orientation - answer-Describing to the client the general nature and goals of the program; the rules governing client conduct and infractions that can lead to disciplinary actionor discharge from the program, the hours during which services are available; the treatment costs that are to be borne by the client, if any; and the client's rights. Define Assessment - answer-Those procedures by which a counselor/program identifies and evaluates an individual's strengths, weaknesses, problems, and needs for the development of the treatment plan. Define Treatment Planning - answer-The process in which the counselor and the client identify and rank problems needing resolution, establish agreed upon immediate and long-term goals, and decide on the treatment methods and resources to be used. Define Counseling - answer-The utilization of special skills to assist individuals, families, or groups in achieving objectives through exploration of a problem and its ramifications; examination of attitudes and feelings; consideration of alternative solutions; and decision making. Define Case Management - answer-Activities intended to bring services, agencies, resources, or people together within a planned framework of action toward the achievement of established goals. It may involve liaison activities and collateral contacts. Define Crisis Intervention - answer-Those services which respond to an alcohol and/or other drug abuser's needs during acute emotional and/or physical distress. Define Client Education - answer-Provision of information to individuals and groups concerning alcohol and other drug abuse and the available services and resources. Define Referral - answer-Identification of client's needs that cannot be met by the counselor or agency and assisting the client to use the support systems and community resources available.Define Reports and Record Keeping - answer-Charting the results of the assessment and treatment plan; writing reports, progress notes, discharge summaries, and other client-related data. Define Consultation - answer-Relating with counselors and other professionals in regard to client treatment (services) to assure comprehensive quality care for the client. Psychosocial Stage: Infancy (Birth to 18 months) - answer-Trust vs Mistrust: Psychosocial Stage: Early Childhood (2 to 3 years) - answer-Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt Psychosocial Stage: Preschool (3 to 5 years) - answer-Initiative vs Guilt Psychosocial Stage: School Age (6 to 11 years) - answer-Industry vs Inferiority Psychosocial Stage: Adolescence (12 to 18 years) - answer-Indentity vs Role Confusion Psychosocial Stage: Young Adulthood (19 to 40 years) - answer-Intimacy vs Isolation Psychosocial Stage: Middle Adulthood (40 to 65) - answer-Generativity vs Stagnation Psychosocial Stage: Maturity (65 to death) - answer-Ego Integrity vs Despair The 12 Steps: Step 1 - answer-We admitted we are powerless over our addiction--that our lives had become unmanageable.The 12 Steps: Step 2 - answer-Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The 12 Steps: Step 3 - answer-Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God. The 12 Steps: Step 4 - answer-Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves The 12 Steps: Step 5 - answer-Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs The 12 Steps: Step 6 - answer-We're entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. The 12 Steps: Step 7 - answer-Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings The 12 Steps: Step 8 - answer-Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all The 12 Steps: Step 9 - answer-Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. The 12 Steps: Step 10 - answer-Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. The 12 Steps: Step 11 - answer-Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that outThe 12 Steps: Step 12 - answer-Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Define Assimilation - answer-Adaptation to a new culture by taking on a new identity and abandoning the old cultural identity. Define Acculturation - answer-Refers to accommodation to the rules and expectations of the majority culture without entirely giving up cultural identity. Define Assimilated - answer-Individuals consciously or subconsciously reject their culture of origin in favor of their adopted culture. These clients may resist placement in a group with clients of their own ethnicity or may prefer a clinician form their adopted culture. Define Bicultural/Multicultural - answer-Individuals that are proud of their cultures and can function in, fulfill their needs through, and be proud of the dominant culture. Their emotional, educational, economic, and spiritual needs are usually fulfilled in a diverse, integrated living environment that honors two (or more) cultures. Define Culturally Immersed - answer-Individuals have rejected mainstream culture, and their emotional and spiritual needs are met exclusively in their ethnic community or in the gay community. Define Traditional - answer-Individuals are defined as carriers of the community ethos. They neither overtly accept nor reject their ethnic identity. Traditional persons have most of their emotional, spiritual, and, to some degree, educational needs met through their ethnic community and have limited contact with the dominant culture or any outside communities. Define: Trust vs Mistrust - answer-Children develop a sense of trust when caregivers provide reliability, care, and affection. A lack of this will lead to mistrust.Define: Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt - answer-Children need to develop a sense of personal control over physical skills and a sense of independence. Success lead to feelings of autonomy, failure results in feelings of shame and doubt. Define: Initiative vs Guilt - answer-Children need to begin asserting control and power over the environment. Success in this stage leads to a sense of purpose. Children who try to exert too much power experience disapproval, resulting in a sense of guilt. Define: Industry vs Inferiority - answer-Children need to cope with new social and academic demands. Success leads to a sense of competence, while a failure results in feelings of inferiority.