LCAS UPDATED TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Medication assisted treatment - ✔✔reduce the use of illicit drugs alcohol; reduction
in criminal behavior and improvement of social behavior and psychological well being
✔✔MAT - ✔✔Methadone: synthetic narcotic analgesic compound is the most commonly
used form of pharmacotherapy for opiate drugs.
✔✔MAT - ✔✔It is safe and has few side effects
✔✔MAT - ✔✔Naltrexone: an opiate antagonist, approved for treatment of alcohol
✔✔MAT - ✔✔Buprenorphine: a mixed agonist-antagonist agent. It is long acting and
blocks the effects of other opiate drugs.
✔✔MAT - ✔✔Produce less physical dependence than methadone.
✔✔MAT - ✔✔Antabuse: interfers with the metabolism of alcohol, causing unpleasant
side effect when alcohol is ingested
✔✔Stage of recovery (Transtheoretical model) - ✔✔pre-contemplation: person does not
consider or do not want to change a particular behavior; contemplation: person
acknowledge a problem and are considering a change; preparation: person plan to
change soon and begin to take steps towards change; action: person plan to actively
change or modify behavior; maintenance: person sustain the changes or relapse
✔✔confidentiality - ✔✔an ethical obligation -not legal term
✔✔privilege - ✔✔a legal term meaning that the client and counselor are not required to
disclose the content of their communication as client and counselor; nor are they
, obligated to allow the disclosure of the client's personal treatment records during legal
proceedings.
✔✔holder of privilege - ✔✔that a therapist cannot reveal confidential information in a
legal proceeding unless the privilege has been waivered by the client
✔✔Duty to warn - ✔✔Tarasoff vs Regents of University of California
✔✔42CFR - ✔✔Confidentiality Federal Regulations
✔✔42CFR - ✔✔any person or organization that in whole or part, provides alcohol/drug
abuse diagnosis, treatment or referral for treatment and receives federal assistance.
✔✔Hatch amendment - ✔✔Requires parental consent for a student to participate in
programs designed to reveal information pertaining to personal beliefs, behavior or
family relationships
✔✔Screening - ✔✔Evaluate psychological, social and physiological signs/symptoms of
alcohol and other drugs
✔✔Screening - ✔✔Identify any coexisting conditions (i.e., medical, psychiatric)
✔✔Assessment - ✔✔Identify methods and procedures for obtaining corroborative
information from significant secondary sources
✔✔supervision - ✔✔1 hour for every 20 hours of client contact
✔✔Four supervision components - ✔✔available, accessibility, affable, able
✔✔four overlapping dimensions of effective supervision - ✔✔administrative, clinical,
evaluation and supportive
✔✔acetylcholine - ✔✔an excitatory neurotransmitter release by axons
✔✔GABA - ✔✔gamma aminobutryric acid
✔✔GABA - ✔✔an inhibitory neurotransmitter, one that blocks the transfer of nerve
impulses to an adjoining neuron in the brain
✔✔glycine - ✔✔neurotransmitter that is found in the spinal cord
✔✔enkephalins and endorphins - ✔✔both compounds are extracted from the brain and
pituitary gland that have pain killing properties that are more powerful than morphine
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Medication assisted treatment - ✔✔reduce the use of illicit drugs alcohol; reduction
in criminal behavior and improvement of social behavior and psychological well being
✔✔MAT - ✔✔Methadone: synthetic narcotic analgesic compound is the most commonly
used form of pharmacotherapy for opiate drugs.
✔✔MAT - ✔✔It is safe and has few side effects
✔✔MAT - ✔✔Naltrexone: an opiate antagonist, approved for treatment of alcohol
✔✔MAT - ✔✔Buprenorphine: a mixed agonist-antagonist agent. It is long acting and
blocks the effects of other opiate drugs.
✔✔MAT - ✔✔Produce less physical dependence than methadone.
✔✔MAT - ✔✔Antabuse: interfers with the metabolism of alcohol, causing unpleasant
side effect when alcohol is ingested
✔✔Stage of recovery (Transtheoretical model) - ✔✔pre-contemplation: person does not
consider or do not want to change a particular behavior; contemplation: person
acknowledge a problem and are considering a change; preparation: person plan to
change soon and begin to take steps towards change; action: person plan to actively
change or modify behavior; maintenance: person sustain the changes or relapse
✔✔confidentiality - ✔✔an ethical obligation -not legal term
✔✔privilege - ✔✔a legal term meaning that the client and counselor are not required to
disclose the content of their communication as client and counselor; nor are they
, obligated to allow the disclosure of the client's personal treatment records during legal
proceedings.
✔✔holder of privilege - ✔✔that a therapist cannot reveal confidential information in a
legal proceeding unless the privilege has been waivered by the client
✔✔Duty to warn - ✔✔Tarasoff vs Regents of University of California
✔✔42CFR - ✔✔Confidentiality Federal Regulations
✔✔42CFR - ✔✔any person or organization that in whole or part, provides alcohol/drug
abuse diagnosis, treatment or referral for treatment and receives federal assistance.
✔✔Hatch amendment - ✔✔Requires parental consent for a student to participate in
programs designed to reveal information pertaining to personal beliefs, behavior or
family relationships
✔✔Screening - ✔✔Evaluate psychological, social and physiological signs/symptoms of
alcohol and other drugs
✔✔Screening - ✔✔Identify any coexisting conditions (i.e., medical, psychiatric)
✔✔Assessment - ✔✔Identify methods and procedures for obtaining corroborative
information from significant secondary sources
✔✔supervision - ✔✔1 hour for every 20 hours of client contact
✔✔Four supervision components - ✔✔available, accessibility, affable, able
✔✔four overlapping dimensions of effective supervision - ✔✔administrative, clinical,
evaluation and supportive
✔✔acetylcholine - ✔✔an excitatory neurotransmitter release by axons
✔✔GABA - ✔✔gamma aminobutryric acid
✔✔GABA - ✔✔an inhibitory neurotransmitter, one that blocks the transfer of nerve
impulses to an adjoining neuron in the brain
✔✔glycine - ✔✔neurotransmitter that is found in the spinal cord
✔✔enkephalins and endorphins - ✔✔both compounds are extracted from the brain and
pituitary gland that have pain killing properties that are more powerful than morphine
