IC&RC PRACTICE EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Motivational Interviewing - ✔✔a direct, client-centered counseling style implemented
to elicit behavior change by helping clients resolve their ambivalence to change.
✔✔Mutual Help - ✔✔a process present in many self-help groups by which the members
of such groups rely on and receive support from other members who share the same
condition.
✔✔Problem statement - ✔✔a statement that describes a client's current condition in
behavioral terms
✔✔Projective identification - ✔✔the process by which a person places internal negative
feelings or concepts about oneself onto others.
✔✔Recovery - ✔✔achieving and sustaining a state of health in which the individual no
longer engages in problem behavior or psychoactive substance use and is able to
establish a lifestyle that embraces health and positive goals.
✔✔Regression - ✔✔a mechanism whereby an individual retreats to the use of early-life
or less mature responses in attempting to cope with stress, fears, pain, or memories.
✔✔Screening - ✔✔gathering and sorting of information used to determine whether an
individual has a problem with substance use and, if so, whether a detailed clinical
assessment is appropriate.
✔✔Service coordination - ✔✔the process of prioritizing, managing, and implementing
activities in an individual's treatment plan
✔✔Sobriety - ✔✔the quality or condition of abstinence from psychoactive substance
abuse supported by personal responsibility in recovery.
✔✔System Theory - ✔✔view of behavior as an interactive part of a larger social
structure
✔✔Transdisciplinary - ✔✔knowledge and attitudes that both transcend and are needed
by all disciplines working with a person with substance use disorder
✔✔The Existential Approach - ✔✔(Why Am I Here?!) is also known as "Meaning
Therapy." As Viktor Frankyl put it, "He who knows the 'why' for his existence, will be
able to bear almost any 'how.'" Therapy is concerned with creating one's identity and
establishing meaningful relationships with others.
, You can find a birds-eye view of this at ...
✔✔Client Centered Counseling (Carl Rogers) - ✔✔If I can provide a certain type of
relationship, the other person will discover within himself [sic] the capacity to use that
relationship for growth and change, and personal development will occur
✔✔Psychoanalytical Theory (Sigmund Freud) - ✔✔ure is considered to be dynamic,
meaning
that there is an exchange of energy and transformation. Freud used the
term catharsis to describe this release of this energy .
✔✔Individual Psychology (Alfred Adler) - ✔✔spanning both the past, present, and the
future.
motivated toward this feeling of
belonging. .teleology, which simply put means that a
person is as influenced by future goals as by past experiences. birth order.examination
of faulty logic and empowering the
client to take responsibility to change through a re-educational process. confronting
logic versus behavior. gain insight. take responsibility
✔✔Person-Centered Therapy (Carl Rogers) - ✔✔Rogers viewed human nature as
basically good.
He believed that if given the appropriate environment of acceptance, warmth and
empathy, the individual would move towards self-actualization
✔✔Gestalt (Fritz Perls) - ✔✔Gestalt therapy is considered to be a here-and-now
therapy focusing on
awareness with the belief that when one focuses on what they are and not
what they wish to become, they become self-actualized
✔✔Rational-Emotive Therapy (Albert Ellis) - ✔✔Counselors are direct and active in their
teaching and correcting the:
Ellis believes that a good RET counselor must be bright, knowledgeable, empathetic,
persistent, scientific, interested in helping others and use RET in their personal
lives/Primary goal is to help people live rational and productive lives
✔✔Twelve Core Functions and Global Criteria - ✔✔Screening, Intake, Orientation,
Assessment, Treatment planning, Counseling, Case management, Crisis Intervention,
Referral, Report and Record keeping, Consultation w/other professionals in regard to
client treatment services.
✔✔Stinking-Thinking - ✔✔consists of thoughts that limit the possibilities of an individual,
group, or organization
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Motivational Interviewing - ✔✔a direct, client-centered counseling style implemented
to elicit behavior change by helping clients resolve their ambivalence to change.
✔✔Mutual Help - ✔✔a process present in many self-help groups by which the members
of such groups rely on and receive support from other members who share the same
condition.
✔✔Problem statement - ✔✔a statement that describes a client's current condition in
behavioral terms
✔✔Projective identification - ✔✔the process by which a person places internal negative
feelings or concepts about oneself onto others.
✔✔Recovery - ✔✔achieving and sustaining a state of health in which the individual no
longer engages in problem behavior or psychoactive substance use and is able to
establish a lifestyle that embraces health and positive goals.
✔✔Regression - ✔✔a mechanism whereby an individual retreats to the use of early-life
or less mature responses in attempting to cope with stress, fears, pain, or memories.
✔✔Screening - ✔✔gathering and sorting of information used to determine whether an
individual has a problem with substance use and, if so, whether a detailed clinical
assessment is appropriate.
✔✔Service coordination - ✔✔the process of prioritizing, managing, and implementing
activities in an individual's treatment plan
✔✔Sobriety - ✔✔the quality or condition of abstinence from psychoactive substance
abuse supported by personal responsibility in recovery.
✔✔System Theory - ✔✔view of behavior as an interactive part of a larger social
structure
✔✔Transdisciplinary - ✔✔knowledge and attitudes that both transcend and are needed
by all disciplines working with a person with substance use disorder
✔✔The Existential Approach - ✔✔(Why Am I Here?!) is also known as "Meaning
Therapy." As Viktor Frankyl put it, "He who knows the 'why' for his existence, will be
able to bear almost any 'how.'" Therapy is concerned with creating one's identity and
establishing meaningful relationships with others.
, You can find a birds-eye view of this at ...
✔✔Client Centered Counseling (Carl Rogers) - ✔✔If I can provide a certain type of
relationship, the other person will discover within himself [sic] the capacity to use that
relationship for growth and change, and personal development will occur
✔✔Psychoanalytical Theory (Sigmund Freud) - ✔✔ure is considered to be dynamic,
meaning
that there is an exchange of energy and transformation. Freud used the
term catharsis to describe this release of this energy .
✔✔Individual Psychology (Alfred Adler) - ✔✔spanning both the past, present, and the
future.
motivated toward this feeling of
belonging. .teleology, which simply put means that a
person is as influenced by future goals as by past experiences. birth order.examination
of faulty logic and empowering the
client to take responsibility to change through a re-educational process. confronting
logic versus behavior. gain insight. take responsibility
✔✔Person-Centered Therapy (Carl Rogers) - ✔✔Rogers viewed human nature as
basically good.
He believed that if given the appropriate environment of acceptance, warmth and
empathy, the individual would move towards self-actualization
✔✔Gestalt (Fritz Perls) - ✔✔Gestalt therapy is considered to be a here-and-now
therapy focusing on
awareness with the belief that when one focuses on what they are and not
what they wish to become, they become self-actualized
✔✔Rational-Emotive Therapy (Albert Ellis) - ✔✔Counselors are direct and active in their
teaching and correcting the:
Ellis believes that a good RET counselor must be bright, knowledgeable, empathetic,
persistent, scientific, interested in helping others and use RET in their personal
lives/Primary goal is to help people live rational and productive lives
✔✔Twelve Core Functions and Global Criteria - ✔✔Screening, Intake, Orientation,
Assessment, Treatment planning, Counseling, Case management, Crisis Intervention,
Referral, Report and Record keeping, Consultation w/other professionals in regard to
client treatment services.
✔✔Stinking-Thinking - ✔✔consists of thoughts that limit the possibilities of an individual,
group, or organization
