ADC ICRC CORE EXAM SET 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Invented Rational-Emotive Therapy - ✔✔Albert Ellis
✔✔Invented Transactional Analysis Therapy - ✔✔Eric Berne
✔✔Invented Gestalt Therapy - ✔✔Fritz Perls
✔✔Invented Reality Therapy - ✔✔William Glasser
✔✔Types of Behaviorism - ✔✔Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning
✔✔Inventor of Classical Conditioning - ✔✔Pavlov
✔✔Inventor of Operant Conditioning - ✔✔BF Skinner
✔✔Four Parts of Operant Conditioning - ✔✔Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Punishment
Extinction
✔✔Types of Extinction - ✔✔Implosive Therapy and Flooding (PE)
✔✔Basis of a Treatment Plan - ✔✔Assessment
✔✔Who invented Johari's Window - ✔✔Joe and Harry
✔✔Psychodynamic Theory Personalities - ✔✔Id, Ego, SuperEgo
✔✔The event does not cause the action - ✔✔RET
✔✔Helping the individual get back in touch with objective and moral reality by making
responsible choices - ✔✔Reality Therapy
✔✔Satisfaction without harming others - ✔✔Reality Therapy
✔✔Three Ego States of Transactional Analysis Therapy - ✔✔Parent, Adult, Child
✔✔Transactional Analysis - ✔✔Based on life experience, a person develops one of four
life positions from which he/she views himself, other and the world
✔✔Goal of therapy: new response to old stimulus - ✔✔Behaviorism
, ✔✔Common Co-Occuring Disorder for addiction counselors - ✔✔Personality Disorders,
Mood Disorders, and Psychotic Disorders
✔✔3 Perspectives - ✔✔Moral, Legal, Ethical
✔✔Wyatt V Stickney:
Rights of involuntarily committed patients, constitutionally entitled to treatment -
✔✔Patient Rights
✔✔Confidentiality of alcohol and drug abuse patients - ✔✔42 C.F.R. Part 2
✔✔Tarasoff V Regents:
Threatening violence to specific victim, warn both intended victim and police
Only when reasonable identifiable victims when client is violent party - ✔✔Duty to warn
✔✔5 MI principles - ✔✔1. Empathy through reflective listening
2. Develop discrepancy
3. Avoid argument and confrontation
4. Adjust to resistance
5. Roll with resistance
✔✔Stages of Change - ✔✔1. Pre-contemplation
2. Contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance
✔✔Cultural Sensitivity - ✔✔being open to working with issues of culture and diversity
✔✔Cultural Competence - ✔✔Examine and understand nuances and exercise full
cultural empathy
✔✔Cultural Proficiency - ✔✔working to advance the field through leadership, research,
and outreach.
✔✔ASAM Criteria: 3 Types of Programs for People with COD - ✔✔Addiction only
services, Co-Occuring capable, Co-Occuring enhanced
✔✔Basic example of a system - ✔✔SAMSHA
✔✔Comprehensive Continuous Integrated Systems of Care - ✔✔Model to bring the
mental health and substance abuse treatment systems into an integrated planning
process to develip a compmrehensive, integrated system of care
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Invented Rational-Emotive Therapy - ✔✔Albert Ellis
✔✔Invented Transactional Analysis Therapy - ✔✔Eric Berne
✔✔Invented Gestalt Therapy - ✔✔Fritz Perls
✔✔Invented Reality Therapy - ✔✔William Glasser
✔✔Types of Behaviorism - ✔✔Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning
✔✔Inventor of Classical Conditioning - ✔✔Pavlov
✔✔Inventor of Operant Conditioning - ✔✔BF Skinner
✔✔Four Parts of Operant Conditioning - ✔✔Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Punishment
Extinction
✔✔Types of Extinction - ✔✔Implosive Therapy and Flooding (PE)
✔✔Basis of a Treatment Plan - ✔✔Assessment
✔✔Who invented Johari's Window - ✔✔Joe and Harry
✔✔Psychodynamic Theory Personalities - ✔✔Id, Ego, SuperEgo
✔✔The event does not cause the action - ✔✔RET
✔✔Helping the individual get back in touch with objective and moral reality by making
responsible choices - ✔✔Reality Therapy
✔✔Satisfaction without harming others - ✔✔Reality Therapy
✔✔Three Ego States of Transactional Analysis Therapy - ✔✔Parent, Adult, Child
✔✔Transactional Analysis - ✔✔Based on life experience, a person develops one of four
life positions from which he/she views himself, other and the world
✔✔Goal of therapy: new response to old stimulus - ✔✔Behaviorism
, ✔✔Common Co-Occuring Disorder for addiction counselors - ✔✔Personality Disorders,
Mood Disorders, and Psychotic Disorders
✔✔3 Perspectives - ✔✔Moral, Legal, Ethical
✔✔Wyatt V Stickney:
Rights of involuntarily committed patients, constitutionally entitled to treatment -
✔✔Patient Rights
✔✔Confidentiality of alcohol and drug abuse patients - ✔✔42 C.F.R. Part 2
✔✔Tarasoff V Regents:
Threatening violence to specific victim, warn both intended victim and police
Only when reasonable identifiable victims when client is violent party - ✔✔Duty to warn
✔✔5 MI principles - ✔✔1. Empathy through reflective listening
2. Develop discrepancy
3. Avoid argument and confrontation
4. Adjust to resistance
5. Roll with resistance
✔✔Stages of Change - ✔✔1. Pre-contemplation
2. Contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance
✔✔Cultural Sensitivity - ✔✔being open to working with issues of culture and diversity
✔✔Cultural Competence - ✔✔Examine and understand nuances and exercise full
cultural empathy
✔✔Cultural Proficiency - ✔✔working to advance the field through leadership, research,
and outreach.
✔✔ASAM Criteria: 3 Types of Programs for People with COD - ✔✔Addiction only
services, Co-Occuring capable, Co-Occuring enhanced
✔✔Basic example of a system - ✔✔SAMSHA
✔✔Comprehensive Continuous Integrated Systems of Care - ✔✔Model to bring the
mental health and substance abuse treatment systems into an integrated planning
process to develip a compmrehensive, integrated system of care
