IC&RC TEST PAPER 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Maintenance Stage - ✔✔In the maintenance stage, the client learns to successfully
avoid triggers and other temptations that would lead back to active addiction. People in
this stage tend to remind themselves of their progress and build community supports
that reinforce their recovery goals. In order to ensure ongoing recovery, a competent
treatment team will assist the client in case management, helping the client to gather
essential resources and supports prior to leaving the facility.
Supporting our loved ones in recovery can often feel overwhelming and full of conflicting
emotions. By understanding what motivates clients to change, treatment professionals
can work more effectively to develop individualized treatment plans that encourage
healthy progress towards recovery. Once in treatment, individuals begin to develop the
tools and resources to ensure ongoing support and maintain recovery as they transition
back into their day-to-day lives.
✔✔Different stages of change - ✔✔Pre-contemplation
contemplation
preparation
action
maintenance/Recovery
Relaspe
In addiction there are 5 stages of change
✔✔Adlerian Therapy - ✔✔Theory that is also called "Individual Psychology."
Encouragement is a major tool in Adlerian therapy and this approach places a strong
emphasis on helping the client recognize their own strengths and believe in their own
dignity and self-worth.
✔✔behavior modification - ✔✔changing human behavior by the application of positive
and negative reinforcement of behavior or by other learning techniques.
✔✔Behavior approach - ✔✔systematic application of learning principles and techniques
to the treatment of behavior disorders. Behavior therapist assume the disorders are
learned ways of behaving that are maladaptive and consequently can best be modified
in more adaptive directions through relearning behaviors
✔✔Client-Centered Therapy - ✔✔A humanistic therapy based on Carl Roger's beliefs
that an individual has an unlimited capacity for psychological growth and will continue to
grow unless barriers are placed in the way.
, ✔✔cognitive approach - ✔✔a counseling technique which focuses on developing
understanding of and effecting change in ones thought patterns and processes in order
to change feelings and behavior.
✔✔decision making - ✔✔the process of arriving at a course of action in the context of
various possible choices to deal with a problem. the process has been described as
having five stages when used as an approach to working with clients. they are
1. developing rapport/structuring
2. defining problem and identifying assets
3. determining possible outcomes
4. generating alternative solutions
5. generalizing or transferring learning to the real world outside of the counseling
setting.
✔✔Eligibility - ✔✔the fit between the client's specific problem and/or condition, the
client's demographic characteristics, the client's financial resources, and the program's
treatment focus and admissions guidelines.
✔✔Individualized - ✔✔the tailoring of counseling theory and techniques to address and
individuals unique needs in order to increase the likelihood of change.
✔✔Global Criteria - ✔✔These are the specific skills that are required for each of the
Twelve Core Functions. All of the global criteria are meant to be independent. That
means that the global criteria under one Core Function will not appear again under
another Core function.
✔✔Jungian Therapy - ✔✔Carl Jung's psychoanalytic school was known as Analytic
psychology. He developed the concepts of the collective unconscious and archetypes
and defined introversion and extroversion as the two types of personality organization.
The goal of Jungian therapy is to have the clients become adequately adapted to reality
allowing them to fulfill their creative potential. Individuation is the ultimate goal of
Jungian therapy.
✔✔Rational Emotive Therapy - ✔✔A cognitive behavior therapy method developed by
Albert Ellis. The method looks at an individual's specific beliefs about a set of specific
behaviors or events and how those beliefs lead to specific consequences. The
rationality of those beliefs is then challenged and where beliefs are found to be
irrational, new rational beliefs are substituted. The theory holds that with appropriate
beliefs, there will be new and appropriate behaviors and consequences.
✔✔ MUST be considered when consulting with out-of-agency professionals - ✔✔Best
practices related to confidentiality
✔✔During which stage of change is the stage specific to task to raise doubts and
increase concern and awareness around the target behavior? - ✔✔Precontemplation
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Maintenance Stage - ✔✔In the maintenance stage, the client learns to successfully
avoid triggers and other temptations that would lead back to active addiction. People in
this stage tend to remind themselves of their progress and build community supports
that reinforce their recovery goals. In order to ensure ongoing recovery, a competent
treatment team will assist the client in case management, helping the client to gather
essential resources and supports prior to leaving the facility.
Supporting our loved ones in recovery can often feel overwhelming and full of conflicting
emotions. By understanding what motivates clients to change, treatment professionals
can work more effectively to develop individualized treatment plans that encourage
healthy progress towards recovery. Once in treatment, individuals begin to develop the
tools and resources to ensure ongoing support and maintain recovery as they transition
back into their day-to-day lives.
✔✔Different stages of change - ✔✔Pre-contemplation
contemplation
preparation
action
maintenance/Recovery
Relaspe
In addiction there are 5 stages of change
✔✔Adlerian Therapy - ✔✔Theory that is also called "Individual Psychology."
Encouragement is a major tool in Adlerian therapy and this approach places a strong
emphasis on helping the client recognize their own strengths and believe in their own
dignity and self-worth.
✔✔behavior modification - ✔✔changing human behavior by the application of positive
and negative reinforcement of behavior or by other learning techniques.
✔✔Behavior approach - ✔✔systematic application of learning principles and techniques
to the treatment of behavior disorders. Behavior therapist assume the disorders are
learned ways of behaving that are maladaptive and consequently can best be modified
in more adaptive directions through relearning behaviors
✔✔Client-Centered Therapy - ✔✔A humanistic therapy based on Carl Roger's beliefs
that an individual has an unlimited capacity for psychological growth and will continue to
grow unless barriers are placed in the way.
, ✔✔cognitive approach - ✔✔a counseling technique which focuses on developing
understanding of and effecting change in ones thought patterns and processes in order
to change feelings and behavior.
✔✔decision making - ✔✔the process of arriving at a course of action in the context of
various possible choices to deal with a problem. the process has been described as
having five stages when used as an approach to working with clients. they are
1. developing rapport/structuring
2. defining problem and identifying assets
3. determining possible outcomes
4. generating alternative solutions
5. generalizing or transferring learning to the real world outside of the counseling
setting.
✔✔Eligibility - ✔✔the fit between the client's specific problem and/or condition, the
client's demographic characteristics, the client's financial resources, and the program's
treatment focus and admissions guidelines.
✔✔Individualized - ✔✔the tailoring of counseling theory and techniques to address and
individuals unique needs in order to increase the likelihood of change.
✔✔Global Criteria - ✔✔These are the specific skills that are required for each of the
Twelve Core Functions. All of the global criteria are meant to be independent. That
means that the global criteria under one Core Function will not appear again under
another Core function.
✔✔Jungian Therapy - ✔✔Carl Jung's psychoanalytic school was known as Analytic
psychology. He developed the concepts of the collective unconscious and archetypes
and defined introversion and extroversion as the two types of personality organization.
The goal of Jungian therapy is to have the clients become adequately adapted to reality
allowing them to fulfill their creative potential. Individuation is the ultimate goal of
Jungian therapy.
✔✔Rational Emotive Therapy - ✔✔A cognitive behavior therapy method developed by
Albert Ellis. The method looks at an individual's specific beliefs about a set of specific
behaviors or events and how those beliefs lead to specific consequences. The
rationality of those beliefs is then challenged and where beliefs are found to be
irrational, new rational beliefs are substituted. The theory holds that with appropriate
beliefs, there will be new and appropriate behaviors and consequences.
✔✔ MUST be considered when consulting with out-of-agency professionals - ✔✔Best
practices related to confidentiality
✔✔During which stage of change is the stage specific to task to raise doubts and
increase concern and awareness around the target behavior? - ✔✔Precontemplation
