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crisis management -
correct answer ✅1. Focuses on present or immediate past.
2. Goal is to have situation subside.
3. Meet in person if possible, nonverbal communication is
important
4. Uses verbal de-escalation, establishes rapport, NOT long history
of the problem.
Relapse Prevention -
correct answer ✅A focus on changing one's lifestyle to healthy and
positive changes which set a strong foundation to ward off triggers
and temptations.
-Concentrates on coping and prevention skills necessary to be
prepared throughout the process.
-Does not end abruptly
-If it happens, it should be seen as a learning experience
-Focuses on cognitive and behavioral techniques
CENAPS Components -
correct answer ✅1. Assessment
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2. Warning Sign Identification
3. Warning Sign Management
4. Recovery Planning
5. Relapse Early Intervention Training
CENAPS Stages -
correct answer ✅1. Transition: accept powerlessness and
abstinence as the only solution.
2. Stabilization: recuperate from effects of withdrawal, work
through feelings of guilt, shame, and remorse
3. Early Recovery: Live with the past and who we are individually.
4. Middle Recovery: repair damage addiction has caused
5. Late Recovery: overcome dysfunction and obstacles to healthy
living
6. Maintenance: continually grow and practice daily recovery
CENAPS Definition -
correct answer ✅Center of applied science; Terrence Gorski:
addiction is a disease and strives for the client to be completely
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abstinent and make positive changes in lifestyle through five stages
or components.
Abstinence Violation Effect -
correct answer ✅Marlatt & Gordon: A reaction to an initial lapse
that influences whether it becomes a full-blown relapse. Focuses
on emotional response to lapse and causes of lapse. The
progression from lapse to relapse is NOT inevitable.
Marlatt & Gordon's Model -
correct answer ✅Relapse is caused by immediate determinants
and covert antecedents.
Immediate Determinants: High risk situation coping skills, outcome
expectations, abstinence violation affect
Covert Antecedents: Lifestyle factors, urges, and cravings.
Use both specific and global intervention strategies.
Specific: identify high-risk situation, and hence coping skills, self
efficacy, illuminate myths about effects, manage lapses, restructure
perception of relapse process.
Global: balance lifestyle, develop positive addictions, stimulus
control and urge management techniques, relapse roadmaps.
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EBP goals -
correct answer ✅EBP provide scientific evidence of why certain
treatments work.
The goal is to help the process as a whole, not eradicate other
means
EBPs incorporate opinions of clinical experts, uses science to
determine usable evidence, incorporates individual tendencies of
client and caregiver into the treatment plan.
Motivational Enhancement -
correct answer ✅Proposes to quicken the process to encourage
rapid development through initial assessment. This includes battery
assessment and individual sessions at a rapid pace.
Contingency Management -
correct answer ✅A type of behavioral therapy where patients are
rewarded or reinforced for positive changes. Uses positive
reinforcement to increase a behavior or frequency.
EX: gift cards for negative UA's.
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crisis management -
correct answer ✅1. Focuses on present or immediate past.
2. Goal is to have situation subside.
3. Meet in person if possible, nonverbal communication is
important
4. Uses verbal de-escalation, establishes rapport, NOT long history
of the problem.
Relapse Prevention -
correct answer ✅A focus on changing one's lifestyle to healthy and
positive changes which set a strong foundation to ward off triggers
and temptations.
-Concentrates on coping and prevention skills necessary to be
prepared throughout the process.
-Does not end abruptly
-If it happens, it should be seen as a learning experience
-Focuses on cognitive and behavioral techniques
CENAPS Components -
correct answer ✅1. Assessment
,NCAC/CADC II Exam Questions and
Answers 100% score Latest update
2026
2. Warning Sign Identification
3. Warning Sign Management
4. Recovery Planning
5. Relapse Early Intervention Training
CENAPS Stages -
correct answer ✅1. Transition: accept powerlessness and
abstinence as the only solution.
2. Stabilization: recuperate from effects of withdrawal, work
through feelings of guilt, shame, and remorse
3. Early Recovery: Live with the past and who we are individually.
4. Middle Recovery: repair damage addiction has caused
5. Late Recovery: overcome dysfunction and obstacles to healthy
living
6. Maintenance: continually grow and practice daily recovery
CENAPS Definition -
correct answer ✅Center of applied science; Terrence Gorski:
addiction is a disease and strives for the client to be completely
,NCAC/CADC II Exam Questions and
Answers 100% score Latest update
2026
abstinent and make positive changes in lifestyle through five stages
or components.
Abstinence Violation Effect -
correct answer ✅Marlatt & Gordon: A reaction to an initial lapse
that influences whether it becomes a full-blown relapse. Focuses
on emotional response to lapse and causes of lapse. The
progression from lapse to relapse is NOT inevitable.
Marlatt & Gordon's Model -
correct answer ✅Relapse is caused by immediate determinants
and covert antecedents.
Immediate Determinants: High risk situation coping skills, outcome
expectations, abstinence violation affect
Covert Antecedents: Lifestyle factors, urges, and cravings.
Use both specific and global intervention strategies.
Specific: identify high-risk situation, and hence coping skills, self
efficacy, illuminate myths about effects, manage lapses, restructure
perception of relapse process.
Global: balance lifestyle, develop positive addictions, stimulus
control and urge management techniques, relapse roadmaps.
, NCAC/CADC II Exam Questions and
Answers 100% score Latest update
2026
EBP goals -
correct answer ✅EBP provide scientific evidence of why certain
treatments work.
The goal is to help the process as a whole, not eradicate other
means
EBPs incorporate opinions of clinical experts, uses science to
determine usable evidence, incorporates individual tendencies of
client and caregiver into the treatment plan.
Motivational Enhancement -
correct answer ✅Proposes to quicken the process to encourage
rapid development through initial assessment. This includes battery
assessment and individual sessions at a rapid pace.
Contingency Management -
correct answer ✅A type of behavioral therapy where patients are
rewarded or reinforced for positive changes. Uses positive
reinforcement to increase a behavior or frequency.
EX: gift cards for negative UA's.
