ILLINOIS CADC MAIN EXAMINATION SET QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (2) - ✔✔Alcohol affects almost all of
the body's system and this makes alcoholics a high risk for serious illness, physical
disorders must also be treated, hospitalization may be required for detoxification,
withdrawal from alcohol can be fatal
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (3) - ✔✔Seizures, D T, mood
disorders, violence, psychosis and death are all commonly associated with withdrawal,
psychodynamic approach is the least effective in achieving goals in treatment
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (4) - ✔✔Favorable outcome is
associated with high motivation, supportive family, early recognition of a problem,
availability of adequate treatment facilities
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (5) - ✔✔Relapse is often associated
with social pressures to drink, inability to deal with emotions and the presence of
interpersonal conflicts
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (6) - ✔✔a single form of therapy is
often inadequate to deal with alcoholism and no one treatment is equally effective for all
patients
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (7) - ✔✔Treatment often incorporates
group, family, individual, vocational, antabuse and AA. Total abstinence should be the
goal of treatment
✔✔Alcohol Levels and Bodily Effects (1) - ✔✔.02 Equivalent to one drink and the
person is relaxed; .05 Equivalent to 2.5 drinks and judgment becomes impaired; .08 to
.10 legally drunk, little or no judgment, poor coordination, equivalent to 5 drinks
✔✔Alcohol Levels and Bodily Effects (2) - ✔✔.20 Equivalent to 10 drinks, erratic
emotions, lack of coordination, legally drunk for 6 hours; .4 equivalent to 1 pint, stupors,
no judgment, no coordination; .65 equivalent to 1 1/4 pints, coma and possible death
✔✔Alcohol Absorption - ✔✔Small amounts absorbed in mouth, up to 20% absorbed in
stomach, pyloric valve may close and trap the ETOH in the stomach, 80% absorbed in
small intestine, 5% excreted through breath, sweat and urine, and 95% metabolized by
liver
✔✔Alcohol's Effects on the Body (1) - ✔✔interferes with brain activity, affecting first
judgement then muscular coordination and then sensory perception; has few effects on
the heart or lungs unless taken in high quantities then it can be fatal
,✔✔Alcohol's Effects on the Body (2) - ✔✔Interferes with the liver's ability to maintain
stable blood sugar, leads to increased production of urine by kidneys, often leads to
impotence in men
✔✔Alcohol's Effects on the Body (3) - ✔✔Irritates intestinal system increases acid
secretion by the stomach and the CNS is the bodily system most affected by alcohol
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Biological Treatments - ✔✔Antabuse; physical is
required before administering, often patients try sobriety without it and then agree to
take it. Antabuse produces nausea, vomiting, pounding heart, interferes with the body's
metabolizing of alcohol
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Individual Counseling - Insight Oriented
Therapies - ✔✔Most often used when a client is unwilling to join A A or group or family
therapy. Insight is gained during interaction with the counselor
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Individual Counseling - Here and Now Oriented
Therapy (1) - ✔✔Uses directive and confrontative techniques to help the alcoholic solve
immediate problems. In the beginning the client is encouraged to understand and feel
the advantages of not drinking.
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Individual Counseling - Here and Now Oriented
Therapy (2) - ✔✔Clinician should be supportive and directive. Problems tend to reveal
themselves after alcohol leaves the system
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Behavioral Approaches - ✔✔Goals: Eliminating
excessive alcohol consumption which occurs as a response to stress or other
unpleasant situations and establishing alternative coping behaviors
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Behavioral Approaches - Aversion Therapy -
✔✔Based on classical conditioning; administering negative punishment chemical
substance prior to having a drink so patient gets ill. repeated until aversion to alcohol is
developed
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Behavioral Approaches - Contingency
Management - ✔✔Alternative reinforcers are established that are powerful enough to
both stop the target behavior and to diminish the reinforcement derived from it
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Behavioral Approaches - Other Methods -
✔✔Systematic desensitization and assertiveness training
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Family Therapy - ✔✔When alcoholism is severe,
family therapy cannot stand alone as an effective treatment
,✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Group Therapy - ✔✔Most used treatment in the
last 30 years. Teaches interdependence instead of dependence on counselor. Group is
most advisable with the client who has little or no support system and is beyond detox
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Alcoholic Anonymous - ✔✔Widely used
approach to treat alcoholism and only requirement is a desire to stop drinking
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 1 & 2 - ✔✔1. We admitted we were powerless over
alcohol that our lives became unmanageable; 2. Came to believe that a power greater
than ourselves could restore us to sanity
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 3 & 4 - ✔✔3. Made a decision to turn our will and our
lives over to the care of God as we understood him; 4. Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 5 & 6 - ✔✔5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to
another human being the exact nature of our wrongs; 6. Were entirely ready to have
God remove all these defects of character
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 7 & 8 - ✔✔7. Humbly asked him to remove our
shortcomings; 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make
amends to them
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 9 & 10 - ✔✔9. Made direct amends to such people
wherever possible, except when to do so would injure others; 10. Continued to take a
personal inventory and when we were wrong admitted it
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 11 - ✔✔11. Sought through prayer and meditation to
improve our conscious contact with God as we understand him, praying only for
knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 12 - ✔✔12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the
result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and practice these
principles in all our affairs
✔✔Primary Assumptions of A A (1) - ✔✔Alcoholism is a disease which, without
intervention, will result in death; Only appropriate treatment goal for alcoholism is total
abstinence
✔✔Primary Assumptions of A A (2) - ✔✔Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic -
Alcoholism is a disease that cannot be cured but, instead controlled through spiritual
change and social support
, ✔✔Primary Assumptions of A A (3) - ✔✔Alcoholics cannot control their drinking without
support and members are encouraged to abandon their belief in self sufficiency
✔✔Propositions of Existential Therapy Rollo May (1) - ✔✔We have the capacity for self-
awareness; Because we are basically free beings we must accept responsibility that
accompanies our freedom
✔✔Propositions of Existential Therapy Rollo May (2) - ✔✔We have concern to preserve
our uniqueness and identity - we come to know ourselves in relation to knowing and
interacting with others
✔✔Propositions of Existential Therapy Rollo May (3) - ✔✔The significance about our
existence and the meaning of life are never fixed once and for all; instead we create
ourselves through our projects
✔✔Propositions of Existential Therapy Rollo May (4) - ✔✔Anxiety is a normal part of the
human condition. There are two types of anxiety: Normal anxiety - Appropriate response
to an event; Neurotic Anxiety - Response out of proportion to situation
✔✔Propositions of Existential Therapy Rollo May (5) - ✔✔Death is also a basic human
condition, and awareness of it gives significance of living. Clients are worthy of respect,
behaviors are an attempt to cope successfully with the world as it is experienced
✔✔Therapeutic Goals of Existential Therapy Rollo May (1) - ✔✔Help the individual see
they are free to be aware of their possibilities. therapy is a vehicle for understanding the
client and for the client's self-acceptance and ability to make new choices
✔✔Therapeutic Goals of Existential Therapy Rollo May(2) - ✔✔Challenge clients to
recognize that they are doing something that they formerly thought was happening to
them
✔✔Therapeutic Goals of Existential Therapy Rollo May (3) - ✔✔To recognize personal
factors that block freedom
✔✔Existential Therapy Rollo May Role of Therapist - ✔✔Task is to understand the
reality of the client and what meaning life has for the client. Therapist must display a
great deal of empathy and focus on the here and now and any inter or intra psychic
issues
✔✔Client-Centered Approach- Carl Rogers (1) - ✔✔Positive view of humanity; sees the
person as innately striving toward becoming fully functioning; positive relationship with
clinician will help increase self awareness
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (2) - ✔✔Alcohol affects almost all of
the body's system and this makes alcoholics a high risk for serious illness, physical
disorders must also be treated, hospitalization may be required for detoxification,
withdrawal from alcohol can be fatal
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (3) - ✔✔Seizures, D T, mood
disorders, violence, psychosis and death are all commonly associated with withdrawal,
psychodynamic approach is the least effective in achieving goals in treatment
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (4) - ✔✔Favorable outcome is
associated with high motivation, supportive family, early recognition of a problem,
availability of adequate treatment facilities
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (5) - ✔✔Relapse is often associated
with social pressures to drink, inability to deal with emotions and the presence of
interpersonal conflicts
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (6) - ✔✔a single form of therapy is
often inadequate to deal with alcoholism and no one treatment is equally effective for all
patients
✔✔Facts about Treatment and Substance Abuse (7) - ✔✔Treatment often incorporates
group, family, individual, vocational, antabuse and AA. Total abstinence should be the
goal of treatment
✔✔Alcohol Levels and Bodily Effects (1) - ✔✔.02 Equivalent to one drink and the
person is relaxed; .05 Equivalent to 2.5 drinks and judgment becomes impaired; .08 to
.10 legally drunk, little or no judgment, poor coordination, equivalent to 5 drinks
✔✔Alcohol Levels and Bodily Effects (2) - ✔✔.20 Equivalent to 10 drinks, erratic
emotions, lack of coordination, legally drunk for 6 hours; .4 equivalent to 1 pint, stupors,
no judgment, no coordination; .65 equivalent to 1 1/4 pints, coma and possible death
✔✔Alcohol Absorption - ✔✔Small amounts absorbed in mouth, up to 20% absorbed in
stomach, pyloric valve may close and trap the ETOH in the stomach, 80% absorbed in
small intestine, 5% excreted through breath, sweat and urine, and 95% metabolized by
liver
✔✔Alcohol's Effects on the Body (1) - ✔✔interferes with brain activity, affecting first
judgement then muscular coordination and then sensory perception; has few effects on
the heart or lungs unless taken in high quantities then it can be fatal
,✔✔Alcohol's Effects on the Body (2) - ✔✔Interferes with the liver's ability to maintain
stable blood sugar, leads to increased production of urine by kidneys, often leads to
impotence in men
✔✔Alcohol's Effects on the Body (3) - ✔✔Irritates intestinal system increases acid
secretion by the stomach and the CNS is the bodily system most affected by alcohol
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Biological Treatments - ✔✔Antabuse; physical is
required before administering, often patients try sobriety without it and then agree to
take it. Antabuse produces nausea, vomiting, pounding heart, interferes with the body's
metabolizing of alcohol
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Individual Counseling - Insight Oriented
Therapies - ✔✔Most often used when a client is unwilling to join A A or group or family
therapy. Insight is gained during interaction with the counselor
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Individual Counseling - Here and Now Oriented
Therapy (1) - ✔✔Uses directive and confrontative techniques to help the alcoholic solve
immediate problems. In the beginning the client is encouraged to understand and feel
the advantages of not drinking.
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Individual Counseling - Here and Now Oriented
Therapy (2) - ✔✔Clinician should be supportive and directive. Problems tend to reveal
themselves after alcohol leaves the system
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Behavioral Approaches - ✔✔Goals: Eliminating
excessive alcohol consumption which occurs as a response to stress or other
unpleasant situations and establishing alternative coping behaviors
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Behavioral Approaches - Aversion Therapy -
✔✔Based on classical conditioning; administering negative punishment chemical
substance prior to having a drink so patient gets ill. repeated until aversion to alcohol is
developed
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Behavioral Approaches - Contingency
Management - ✔✔Alternative reinforcers are established that are powerful enough to
both stop the target behavior and to diminish the reinforcement derived from it
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Behavioral Approaches - Other Methods -
✔✔Systematic desensitization and assertiveness training
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Family Therapy - ✔✔When alcoholism is severe,
family therapy cannot stand alone as an effective treatment
,✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Group Therapy - ✔✔Most used treatment in the
last 30 years. Teaches interdependence instead of dependence on counselor. Group is
most advisable with the client who has little or no support system and is beyond detox
✔✔Treatment Options for Alcoholism - Alcoholic Anonymous - ✔✔Widely used
approach to treat alcoholism and only requirement is a desire to stop drinking
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 1 & 2 - ✔✔1. We admitted we were powerless over
alcohol that our lives became unmanageable; 2. Came to believe that a power greater
than ourselves could restore us to sanity
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 3 & 4 - ✔✔3. Made a decision to turn our will and our
lives over to the care of God as we understood him; 4. Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 5 & 6 - ✔✔5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to
another human being the exact nature of our wrongs; 6. Were entirely ready to have
God remove all these defects of character
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 7 & 8 - ✔✔7. Humbly asked him to remove our
shortcomings; 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make
amends to them
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 9 & 10 - ✔✔9. Made direct amends to such people
wherever possible, except when to do so would injure others; 10. Continued to take a
personal inventory and when we were wrong admitted it
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 11 - ✔✔11. Sought through prayer and meditation to
improve our conscious contact with God as we understand him, praying only for
knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out
✔✔Alcoholics Anonymous Steps 12 - ✔✔12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the
result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and practice these
principles in all our affairs
✔✔Primary Assumptions of A A (1) - ✔✔Alcoholism is a disease which, without
intervention, will result in death; Only appropriate treatment goal for alcoholism is total
abstinence
✔✔Primary Assumptions of A A (2) - ✔✔Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic -
Alcoholism is a disease that cannot be cured but, instead controlled through spiritual
change and social support
, ✔✔Primary Assumptions of A A (3) - ✔✔Alcoholics cannot control their drinking without
support and members are encouraged to abandon their belief in self sufficiency
✔✔Propositions of Existential Therapy Rollo May (1) - ✔✔We have the capacity for self-
awareness; Because we are basically free beings we must accept responsibility that
accompanies our freedom
✔✔Propositions of Existential Therapy Rollo May (2) - ✔✔We have concern to preserve
our uniqueness and identity - we come to know ourselves in relation to knowing and
interacting with others
✔✔Propositions of Existential Therapy Rollo May (3) - ✔✔The significance about our
existence and the meaning of life are never fixed once and for all; instead we create
ourselves through our projects
✔✔Propositions of Existential Therapy Rollo May (4) - ✔✔Anxiety is a normal part of the
human condition. There are two types of anxiety: Normal anxiety - Appropriate response
to an event; Neurotic Anxiety - Response out of proportion to situation
✔✔Propositions of Existential Therapy Rollo May (5) - ✔✔Death is also a basic human
condition, and awareness of it gives significance of living. Clients are worthy of respect,
behaviors are an attempt to cope successfully with the world as it is experienced
✔✔Therapeutic Goals of Existential Therapy Rollo May (1) - ✔✔Help the individual see
they are free to be aware of their possibilities. therapy is a vehicle for understanding the
client and for the client's self-acceptance and ability to make new choices
✔✔Therapeutic Goals of Existential Therapy Rollo May(2) - ✔✔Challenge clients to
recognize that they are doing something that they formerly thought was happening to
them
✔✔Therapeutic Goals of Existential Therapy Rollo May (3) - ✔✔To recognize personal
factors that block freedom
✔✔Existential Therapy Rollo May Role of Therapist - ✔✔Task is to understand the
reality of the client and what meaning life has for the client. Therapist must display a
great deal of empathy and focus on the here and now and any inter or intra psychic
issues
✔✔Client-Centered Approach- Carl Rogers (1) - ✔✔Positive view of humanity; sees the
person as innately striving toward becoming fully functioning; positive relationship with
clinician will help increase self awareness
