LCDC (Texas LCDC) Exam Questions and Answers | Latest 2023/2024 | GRADED

LCDC (Texas LCDC) Exam Questions and Answers | Latest 2023/2024 | GRADED. Define Assessment - Correct answer-Those procedures by which a counselor/program identifies and evaluates an individual's strengths, weaknesses, problems, and needs for the development of the treatment plan. Define Treatment Planning - Correct answer-The process in which the counselor and the client identify and rank problems needing resolution, establish agreed upon immediate and long-term goals, and decide on the treatment methods and resources to be used. Define Counseling - Correct answer-The utilization of special skills to assist individuals, families, or groups in achieving objectives through exploration of a problem and its ramifications; examination of attitudes and feelings; consideration of alternative solutions; and decision making. Define Case Management - Correct answer-Activities intended to bring services, agencies, resources, or people together within a planned framework of action toward the achievement of established goals. It may involve liaison activities and collateral contacts. Define Crisis Intervention - Correct answer-Those services which respond to an alcohol and/or other drug abuser's needs during acute emotional and/or physical distress. Define Client Education - Correct answer-Provision of information to individuals and groups concerning alcohol and other drug abuse and the available services and resources. Define Referral - Correct answer-Identification of client's needs that cannot be met by the counselor or agency and assisting the client to use the support systems and community resources available. Define Reports and Record Keeping - Correct answer-Charting the results of the assessment and treatment plan; writing reports, progress notes, discharge summaries, and other client-related data. Define Consultation - Correct answer-Relating with counselors and other professionals in regard to client treatment (services) to assure comprehensive quality care for the client. Psychosocial Stage: Infancy (Birth to 18 months) - Correct answer-Trust vs Mistrust: Psychosocial Stage: Early Childhood (2 to 3 years) - Correct answer-Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt Psychosocial Stage: Preschool (3 to 5 years) - Correct answer-Initiative vs Guilt Psychosocial Stage: School Age (6 to 11 years) - Correct answer-Industry vs Inferiority Psychosocial Stage: Adolescence (12 to 18 years) - Correct answer-Indentity vs Role Confusion Psychosocial Stage: Young Adulthood (19 to 40 years) - Correct answer-Intimacy vs Isolation Psychosocial Stage: Middle Adulthood (40 to 65) - Correct answer-Generativity vs Stagnation Psychosocial Stage: Maturity (65 to death) - Correct answer-Ego Integrity vs Despair The 12 Steps: Step 1 - Correct answer-We admitted we are powerless over our addiction--that our lives had become unmanageable. The 12 Steps: Step 2 - Correct answer-Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The 12 Steps: Step 3 - Correct answer-Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God. The 12 Steps: Step 4 - Correct answer-Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves The 12 Steps: Step 5 - Correct answer-Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs The 12 Steps: Step 6 - Correct answer-We're entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. The 12 Steps: Step 7 - Correct answer-Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings The 12 Steps: Step 8 - Correct answer-Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all The 12 Steps: Step 9 - Correct answer-Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. The 12 Steps: Step 10 - Correct answer-Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. The 12 Steps: Step 11 - Correct answer-Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out The 12 Steps: Step 12 - Correct answer-Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Define Assimilation - Correct answer-Adaptation to a new culture by taking on a new identity and abandoning the old cultural identity. Define Acculturation - Correct answer-Refers to accommodation to the rules and expectations of the majority culture without entirely giving up cultural identity. Define Assimilated - Correct answer-Individuals consciously or subconsciously reject their culture of origin in favor of their adopted culture. These clients may resist placement in a group with clients of their own ethnicity or may prefer a clinician form their adopted culture. Define Bicultural/Multicultural - Correct answer-Individuals that are proud of their cultures and can function in, fulfill their needs through, and be proud of the dominant culture. Their emotional, educational, economic, and spiritual needs are usually fulfilled in a diverse, integrated living environment that honors two (or more) cultures. Define Culturally Immersed - Correct answer-Individuals have rejected mainstream culture, and their emotional and spiritual needs are met exclusively in their ethnic community or in the gay community. Define Traditional - Correct answer-Individuals are defined as carriers of the community ethos. They neither overtly accept nor reject their ethnic identity. Traditional persons have most of their emotional, spiritual, and, to some degree, educational needs met through their ethnic community and have limited contact with the dominant culture or any outside communities. Define: Trust vs Mistrust - Correct answer-Children develop a sense of trust when caregivers provide reliability, care, and affection. A lack of this will lead to mistrust. Define: Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt - Correct answer-Children need to develop a sense of personal control over physical skills and a sense of independence. Success lead to feelings of autonomy, failure results in feelings of shame and doubt. Define: Initiative vs Guilt - Correct answer-Children need to begin asserting control and power over the environment. Success in this stage leads to a sense of purpose. Children who try to exert too much power experience disapproval, resulting in a sense of guilt. Define: Industry vs Inferiority - Correct answer-Children need to cope with new social and academic demands. Success leads to a sense of competence, while a failure results in feelings of inferiority. Define: Identity vs Role Confusion - Correct answer-Teens need to develop a sense of self and personal identity. Success leads to an ability to stay true to yourself, while failure leads to role confusion and a weak sense of self. Define: Intimacy vs Isolation - Correct answer-Young adults need to form intimate, loving relationships with other people. Success leads to strong relationships, while failure results in loneliness and isolation.