ASAM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST EXAM 2025
What are the principles of the NAADAC ethical standards? - CORRECT ANSWERS –
1. The Counseling Relationship
2. Confidentiality and Privileged information
3. Professional Responsibilities and Workplace Standards
4. Working in a Culturally Diverse World
5. Assessment, Evaluation, and Interpretation
6. E-Therapy, E-Supervision, and Social Media
7. Supervision and Consultation
8. Resolving Ethical Concerns
9. Research and Publication
Addiction Professionals understand and accept their responsibility to ensure the safety and welfare of
their client, and to act for the good of each client while exercising respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Providers shall treat each client with dignity, honor, and respect, and act in the best interest of each
client. - CORRECT ANSWERS - NAADAC Ethical Standards: Principle 1 The Counseling Relationship- Client
Welfare
Addiction Professionals understand the right of each client to be fully informed about treatment, and
shall provide clients with information in clear and understandable language regarding the purpose, risks,
limitation, and costs of treatment services, reasonable alternatives, their right to refuse services, and
their right to withdraw consent within time frames delineated in the consent. Providers have an
obligation to review with their client the rights and responsibilities of both Providers and clients.
Providers shall have clients attest to their understanding of the parameters covered by Informed
Consent - CORRECT ANSWERS - NAADAC Ethical Standards: Principle 1 The Counseling Relationship-
Informed Consent
According to the NAADAC ethical standards what needs to included in Informed Consent forms? -
CORRECT ANSWERS –
, 1. explanation of all services, methodologies, and theories typically used in treatment
2. purposes, goals, techniques, and procedures, limitations, potential risks, and benefits of the services
3. the addiction professional's qualifications, credentials, experience and approach
4. right to confidentiality and duty to warn
5. policies regarding continuation of services upon the incapacitation or death of counselor
6. the role of technology, including boundaries around electronic transmissions with clients and social
networking
7. implications of diagnosis, tests, and reports used
8. fees, billing, non-payment, and the policies around these
9. specifics about clinical supervision and consultation
10. their right to refuse services
11. their right to refuse to be treated by a person-in-training, without fear of retribution
What does Limits of confidentiality mean? - CORRECT ANSWERS - Addiction professionals clarify when a
client's right to to confidentiality will be limited, the relationships of whom the counselor will share the
information. This must be clarified at the beginning of treatment services
What is considered a dual relationship according to the NAADAC code of ethics? - CORRECT ANSWERS -
Provider's immediate or extended family, business associates of the professional, or individuals who
have a close personal relationship with the professional or the professional's family while this client is in
treatment.
According to the ethical standards of NAADAC , what does a addiction counselor need to do before
initiating contact with a previous client? - CORRECT ANSWERS - Seek consultation/ supervision and
document this supervision
What does the NAADAC code ethics define a previous relationship as? - CORRECT ANSWERS - This
includes anyone with whom the Provider had a casual, distant, or past relationship. Prior to engaging in
a counseling relationship with a person from a previous relationship, the Provider shall seek consultation
or supervision. The burden is on the Provider to ensure that their judgment is not impaired and that
exploitation is not occurring.
LATEST EXAM 2025
What are the principles of the NAADAC ethical standards? - CORRECT ANSWERS –
1. The Counseling Relationship
2. Confidentiality and Privileged information
3. Professional Responsibilities and Workplace Standards
4. Working in a Culturally Diverse World
5. Assessment, Evaluation, and Interpretation
6. E-Therapy, E-Supervision, and Social Media
7. Supervision and Consultation
8. Resolving Ethical Concerns
9. Research and Publication
Addiction Professionals understand and accept their responsibility to ensure the safety and welfare of
their client, and to act for the good of each client while exercising respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Providers shall treat each client with dignity, honor, and respect, and act in the best interest of each
client. - CORRECT ANSWERS - NAADAC Ethical Standards: Principle 1 The Counseling Relationship- Client
Welfare
Addiction Professionals understand the right of each client to be fully informed about treatment, and
shall provide clients with information in clear and understandable language regarding the purpose, risks,
limitation, and costs of treatment services, reasonable alternatives, their right to refuse services, and
their right to withdraw consent within time frames delineated in the consent. Providers have an
obligation to review with their client the rights and responsibilities of both Providers and clients.
Providers shall have clients attest to their understanding of the parameters covered by Informed
Consent - CORRECT ANSWERS - NAADAC Ethical Standards: Principle 1 The Counseling Relationship-
Informed Consent
According to the NAADAC ethical standards what needs to included in Informed Consent forms? -
CORRECT ANSWERS –
, 1. explanation of all services, methodologies, and theories typically used in treatment
2. purposes, goals, techniques, and procedures, limitations, potential risks, and benefits of the services
3. the addiction professional's qualifications, credentials, experience and approach
4. right to confidentiality and duty to warn
5. policies regarding continuation of services upon the incapacitation or death of counselor
6. the role of technology, including boundaries around electronic transmissions with clients and social
networking
7. implications of diagnosis, tests, and reports used
8. fees, billing, non-payment, and the policies around these
9. specifics about clinical supervision and consultation
10. their right to refuse services
11. their right to refuse to be treated by a person-in-training, without fear of retribution
What does Limits of confidentiality mean? - CORRECT ANSWERS - Addiction professionals clarify when a
client's right to to confidentiality will be limited, the relationships of whom the counselor will share the
information. This must be clarified at the beginning of treatment services
What is considered a dual relationship according to the NAADAC code of ethics? - CORRECT ANSWERS -
Provider's immediate or extended family, business associates of the professional, or individuals who
have a close personal relationship with the professional or the professional's family while this client is in
treatment.
According to the ethical standards of NAADAC , what does a addiction counselor need to do before
initiating contact with a previous client? - CORRECT ANSWERS - Seek consultation/ supervision and
document this supervision
What does the NAADAC code ethics define a previous relationship as? - CORRECT ANSWERS - This
includes anyone with whom the Provider had a casual, distant, or past relationship. Prior to engaging in
a counseling relationship with a person from a previous relationship, the Provider shall seek consultation
or supervision. The burden is on the Provider to ensure that their judgment is not impaired and that
exploitation is not occurring.
