ADC STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔One basic principle of documentation requires the counselor to: - ✔✔B. Describe
events in objective terms, using measurable language that can be easily understood.
✔✔The ___ model of addiction explains addiction as a consequence of personal choice.
- ✔✔B. Moral
✔✔How does solution-focused brief therapy differ from many of the other approaches to
counseling? - ✔✔A. Emphasis is place on the present and future while devaluing the
past.
✔✔Case reviews: - ✔✔D. enable the counselor to assess progress and make any
necessary changes in the treatment plan.
✔✔The tendency of the family to try and maintain balance when dealing with a loved
one's substance use disorder is called: - ✔✔C. homeostasis
✔✔You client expresses growing feeling of rage. He has recurring nightmares in which
attacks random women on the street. If you followed through with what you believed
was a duty to warn, under what circumstances would you be LEAST likely to be
disciplined? - ✔✔D. If the client discloses the name of a person he plans to harm.
✔✔In his second counseling session, a client reveals to the counselor that he is gay.
Having never worked with a member of this special population, the counselor's BEST
course of action is to: - ✔✔B. offer to refer the client to someone with experience in with
special issues associated with the gay community.
✔✔Determining a client's eligibility and appropriateness for treatment occurs during the
____ process - ✔✔D. Screening
✔✔Highly structured daily routines, a system of rewards and punishments, and frequent
group confrontation are characteristics of: - ✔✔B. Therapeutic communities
✔✔Collateral interviews - ✔✔C. involve gathering information from other persons who
are, or have been, associated with the person being assessed.
✔✔A major criticism of the _____ is that the questions are so obvious that this test
cannot possibly detect alcoholics who deny having a problem. - ✔✔A. MAST
✔✔The goal of complete abstinence is most consistent with the ____ model of
addiction. - ✔✔B. Disease
, ✔✔_____ can develop between natural and synthetic opiates, but not between opiates
and CNS depressants. - ✔✔C. Cross tolerance
✔✔Appropriate treatment goals must be: - ✔✔Observable and measurable, in order to
facilitate monitoring progress
✔✔When is confrontation probably least appropriate? - ✔✔A. Prior to establishing
rapport with the client
✔✔The goal of screening is to: - ✔✔B. determine whether a client is appropriate and
eligible for a particular treatment service.
✔✔_______ drugs are used to treat mental disorders - ✔✔B. Psychotropic
✔✔Jamal believes that he has everything he will ever need materially and financially, so
he has decided to devote his time to music and other creative outlets for self-
expression. Jamal's motivation is best accounted for by: - ✔✔C. Humanistic theories
✔✔The idea that people have an in-born desire to self-actualize is associated with: -
✔✔B. Humanistic theory
✔✔Methadone, Tramadol and Morphine are all - ✔✔D. opiates
✔✔The central focus or "charge" of the twelfth step of Alcoholics anonymous is: - ✔✔A.
Service to others
✔✔A counselor's personal values: - ✔✔D. are communicated through the therapeutic
goals they offer and how they attempt to reach those goals with the client.
✔✔Nonmaleficence is the ethical principle that means: - ✔✔C. Do no harm
✔✔________ interventions have been developed or are being sought to block the
effects of abused drugs, reduce cravings from drugs and block the toxic effects of
drugs. - ✔✔B. Pharmacological
✔✔The terminology now being used in the DSM-5 for diagnostic categories is: - ✔✔C.
Substance Use Disorders
✔✔Which statement BEST described the relevance of counselor self-exploration? -
✔✔B. Counselors can benefit greatly from being clients themselves, at some point.
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔One basic principle of documentation requires the counselor to: - ✔✔B. Describe
events in objective terms, using measurable language that can be easily understood.
✔✔The ___ model of addiction explains addiction as a consequence of personal choice.
- ✔✔B. Moral
✔✔How does solution-focused brief therapy differ from many of the other approaches to
counseling? - ✔✔A. Emphasis is place on the present and future while devaluing the
past.
✔✔Case reviews: - ✔✔D. enable the counselor to assess progress and make any
necessary changes in the treatment plan.
✔✔The tendency of the family to try and maintain balance when dealing with a loved
one's substance use disorder is called: - ✔✔C. homeostasis
✔✔You client expresses growing feeling of rage. He has recurring nightmares in which
attacks random women on the street. If you followed through with what you believed
was a duty to warn, under what circumstances would you be LEAST likely to be
disciplined? - ✔✔D. If the client discloses the name of a person he plans to harm.
✔✔In his second counseling session, a client reveals to the counselor that he is gay.
Having never worked with a member of this special population, the counselor's BEST
course of action is to: - ✔✔B. offer to refer the client to someone with experience in with
special issues associated with the gay community.
✔✔Determining a client's eligibility and appropriateness for treatment occurs during the
____ process - ✔✔D. Screening
✔✔Highly structured daily routines, a system of rewards and punishments, and frequent
group confrontation are characteristics of: - ✔✔B. Therapeutic communities
✔✔Collateral interviews - ✔✔C. involve gathering information from other persons who
are, or have been, associated with the person being assessed.
✔✔A major criticism of the _____ is that the questions are so obvious that this test
cannot possibly detect alcoholics who deny having a problem. - ✔✔A. MAST
✔✔The goal of complete abstinence is most consistent with the ____ model of
addiction. - ✔✔B. Disease
, ✔✔_____ can develop between natural and synthetic opiates, but not between opiates
and CNS depressants. - ✔✔C. Cross tolerance
✔✔Appropriate treatment goals must be: - ✔✔Observable and measurable, in order to
facilitate monitoring progress
✔✔When is confrontation probably least appropriate? - ✔✔A. Prior to establishing
rapport with the client
✔✔The goal of screening is to: - ✔✔B. determine whether a client is appropriate and
eligible for a particular treatment service.
✔✔_______ drugs are used to treat mental disorders - ✔✔B. Psychotropic
✔✔Jamal believes that he has everything he will ever need materially and financially, so
he has decided to devote his time to music and other creative outlets for self-
expression. Jamal's motivation is best accounted for by: - ✔✔C. Humanistic theories
✔✔The idea that people have an in-born desire to self-actualize is associated with: -
✔✔B. Humanistic theory
✔✔Methadone, Tramadol and Morphine are all - ✔✔D. opiates
✔✔The central focus or "charge" of the twelfth step of Alcoholics anonymous is: - ✔✔A.
Service to others
✔✔A counselor's personal values: - ✔✔D. are communicated through the therapeutic
goals they offer and how they attempt to reach those goals with the client.
✔✔Nonmaleficence is the ethical principle that means: - ✔✔C. Do no harm
✔✔________ interventions have been developed or are being sought to block the
effects of abused drugs, reduce cravings from drugs and block the toxic effects of
drugs. - ✔✔B. Pharmacological
✔✔The terminology now being used in the DSM-5 for diagnostic categories is: - ✔✔C.
Substance Use Disorders
✔✔Which statement BEST described the relevance of counselor self-exploration? -
✔✔B. Counselors can benefit greatly from being clients themselves, at some point.
