CAADC EXAMINATION REVIEW 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
◉ 6 Dimensions of ASAM. Answer: 1. Acute Intoxication/Withdrawal
2.Biomedical
3.Emotional/Behavioral
4.Readiness to Change
5.Relapse or Continued Use Potential
6.Recovery/Living Environment
◉ 12 Core Functions. Answer: screening, intake, orientation,
assessment, treatment planning, counseling, case management,
crisis intervention, client education, referral, report/record keeping,
consultation
◉ ASAM. Answer: American Society of Addiction Medicine
◉ ASAM Continuum of Care: 5 Levels of Care. Answer: 0.5 Early
Intervention
1.0 Outpatient services
,2.0 Intensive Outpatient/partial hospitalization (2.1=intensive
outpatient; 2.5=partial hospitalization)
3.0 Residential/Inpatient (3.1=clinically managed low intensity
residential; 3.3=clinically managed population specific high intensity
residential; 3.5=clinically managed high intensity residential;
3.7=medically monitored intensive inpatient services
4.0 Medically Monitored Intensive Inpatient Services
◉ CBT. Answer: A short term focused approach to helping people
become abstinent. Assumption that learning processes play an
important role. Based on the idea that feelings and behaviors are
cause by a persons thoughts. People may not be able to change their
circumstances but they can change how they think about them. The
goal is to teach the person to recognize situations in which they may
drink, avoid these situations and cope with other problems that may
lead to substance abuse.
◉ Counseling Groups. Answer: Counseling groups are a process
group, and generally less educations. All counseling groups shall be
facilitated by professional staff.
◉ Cultural Blindness. Answer: Ignores differences and proceeds as if
they did not exist
◉ Cultural Destructiveness. Answer: Counselors filter interactions
through a biased lens without engaging in self reflection
,◉ Didactic Group. Answer: Didactic groups primary purpose is to
educate patients and their significant others on a specific treatment
related topic in a group setting. Should not exceed 24 people
◉ Dimensions included in an effective ROSC. Answer: Health, Home,
Purpose, Community
◉ Disease Model. Answer: Addiction is a disease. Comes as result of
the impairment of healthy neurochemical or behavioral processes.
Jellinek is the pioneer of this model.
◉ Informed Consent. Answer: The client has a right and power to
consent to treatment. Elements include the clients rational capacity
to provide consent, clients comprehension, and clients sense of self
determination
◉ Intake. Answer: The process of enrolling a client in a specific
course of treatment. Primarily an administrative function. It is the
extension of the screening process. 1) Establish Eligibility 2)
Complete basic data collection 3) Identify barriers 4) Establish a
treatment approach
◉ Moral Model. Answer: the belief that people abuse alcohol
because they choose to do so. This model has no sympathy for
, people with serious addictions believing that the addict
demonstrated a great moral failure.
◉ Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET). Answer: *method of
counseling where the client's internal motivation is the driving force
for changing problem bx
*FRAMES (feedback, emphasis on personal responsibility, clear
advice to change, a menu of alternative, therapist empathy,
facilitation of client self efficacy)
*Goes hand in hand with the stages of change
Used in arenas where sessions are infrequent
◉ Motivational Interviewing. Answer: a collaborative, person-
centered form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for
change. 1) Ask open ended questions 2) Listen Reflectively 3)
Summarize 4) Affirm 5) Elicit self-motivational statements
◉ Orientation. Answer: Involves describing the nature and goals of
the program to the client and the family.
◉ Prefrontal Cortex. Answer: The part of the brain that enables us to
assess situations. This part of the brain is still maturing during
adolescence.
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
◉ 6 Dimensions of ASAM. Answer: 1. Acute Intoxication/Withdrawal
2.Biomedical
3.Emotional/Behavioral
4.Readiness to Change
5.Relapse or Continued Use Potential
6.Recovery/Living Environment
◉ 12 Core Functions. Answer: screening, intake, orientation,
assessment, treatment planning, counseling, case management,
crisis intervention, client education, referral, report/record keeping,
consultation
◉ ASAM. Answer: American Society of Addiction Medicine
◉ ASAM Continuum of Care: 5 Levels of Care. Answer: 0.5 Early
Intervention
1.0 Outpatient services
,2.0 Intensive Outpatient/partial hospitalization (2.1=intensive
outpatient; 2.5=partial hospitalization)
3.0 Residential/Inpatient (3.1=clinically managed low intensity
residential; 3.3=clinically managed population specific high intensity
residential; 3.5=clinically managed high intensity residential;
3.7=medically monitored intensive inpatient services
4.0 Medically Monitored Intensive Inpatient Services
◉ CBT. Answer: A short term focused approach to helping people
become abstinent. Assumption that learning processes play an
important role. Based on the idea that feelings and behaviors are
cause by a persons thoughts. People may not be able to change their
circumstances but they can change how they think about them. The
goal is to teach the person to recognize situations in which they may
drink, avoid these situations and cope with other problems that may
lead to substance abuse.
◉ Counseling Groups. Answer: Counseling groups are a process
group, and generally less educations. All counseling groups shall be
facilitated by professional staff.
◉ Cultural Blindness. Answer: Ignores differences and proceeds as if
they did not exist
◉ Cultural Destructiveness. Answer: Counselors filter interactions
through a biased lens without engaging in self reflection
,◉ Didactic Group. Answer: Didactic groups primary purpose is to
educate patients and their significant others on a specific treatment
related topic in a group setting. Should not exceed 24 people
◉ Dimensions included in an effective ROSC. Answer: Health, Home,
Purpose, Community
◉ Disease Model. Answer: Addiction is a disease. Comes as result of
the impairment of healthy neurochemical or behavioral processes.
Jellinek is the pioneer of this model.
◉ Informed Consent. Answer: The client has a right and power to
consent to treatment. Elements include the clients rational capacity
to provide consent, clients comprehension, and clients sense of self
determination
◉ Intake. Answer: The process of enrolling a client in a specific
course of treatment. Primarily an administrative function. It is the
extension of the screening process. 1) Establish Eligibility 2)
Complete basic data collection 3) Identify barriers 4) Establish a
treatment approach
◉ Moral Model. Answer: the belief that people abuse alcohol
because they choose to do so. This model has no sympathy for
, people with serious addictions believing that the addict
demonstrated a great moral failure.
◉ Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET). Answer: *method of
counseling where the client's internal motivation is the driving force
for changing problem bx
*FRAMES (feedback, emphasis on personal responsibility, clear
advice to change, a menu of alternative, therapist empathy,
facilitation of client self efficacy)
*Goes hand in hand with the stages of change
Used in arenas where sessions are infrequent
◉ Motivational Interviewing. Answer: a collaborative, person-
centered form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for
change. 1) Ask open ended questions 2) Listen Reflectively 3)
Summarize 4) Affirm 5) Elicit self-motivational statements
◉ Orientation. Answer: Involves describing the nature and goals of
the program to the client and the family.
◉ Prefrontal Cortex. Answer: The part of the brain that enables us to
assess situations. This part of the brain is still maturing during
adolescence.
