CAADC EXAM PRACTICE TEST
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⫸ 6 Dimensions of ASAM Answer: 1. Acute Intoxication/Withdrawal
2.Biomedical
3.Emotional/Behavioral
4.Readiness to Change
5.Relapse or Continued Use Potential
6.Recovery/Living Environment
⫸ 12 Core Functions Answer: screening, intake, orientation,
assessment, treatment planning, counseling, case management, crisis
intervention, client education, referral, report/record keeping,
consultation
⫸ ASAM Answer: American Society of Addiction Medicine
⫸ ASAM Continuum of Care: 5 Levels of Care Answer: 0.5 Early
Intervention
1.0 Outpatient services
2.0 Intensive Outpatient/partial hospitalization (2.1=intensive outpatient;
2.5=partial hospitalization)
3.0 Residential/Inpatient (3.1=clinically managed low intensity
residential; 3.3=clinically managed population specific high intensity
,residential; 3.5=clinically managed high intensity residential;
3.7=medically monitored intensive inpatient services
4.0 Medically Monitored Intensive Inpatient Services
⫸ CBT Answer: A short term focused approach to helping people
become abstinent. Assumption that learning processes play an important
role. Based on the idea that feelings and behaviors are cause by a
persons thoughts. People may not be able to change their circumstances
but they can change how they think about them. The goal is to teach the
person to recognize situations in which they may drink, avoid these
situations and cope with other problems that may lead to substance
abuse.
⫸ Counseling Groups Answer: Counseling groups are a process group,
and generally less educations. All counseling groups shall be facilitated
by professional staff.
⫸ Cultural Blindness Answer: Ignores differences and proceeds as if
they did not exist
⫸ Cultural Destructiveness Answer: Counselors filter interactions
through a biased lens without engaging in self reflection
⫸ Didactic Group Answer: Didactic groups primary purpose is to
educate patients and their significant others on a specific treatment
related topic in a group setting. Should not exceed 24 people
,⫸ Dimensions included in an effective ROSC Answer: Health, Home,
Purpose, Community
⫸ Disease Model Answer: Addiction is a disease. Comes as result of the
impairment of healthy neurochemical or behavioral processes. Jellinek is
the pioneer of this model.
⫸ Informed Consent Answer: The client has a right and power to
consent to treatment. Elements include the clients rational capacity to
provide consent, clients comprehension, and clients sense of self
determination
⫸ Intake Answer: The process of enrolling a client in a specific course
of treatment. Primarily an administrative function. It is the extension of
the screening process. 1) Establish Eligibility 2) Complete basic data
collection 3) Identify barriers 4) Establish a treatment approach
⫸ Moral Model Answer: the belief that people abuse alcohol because
they choose to do so. This model has no sympathy for people with
serious addictions believing that the addict demonstrated a great moral
failure.
⫸ Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) Answer: *method of
counseling where the client's internal motivation is the driving force for
changing problem bx
*FRAMES (feedback, emphasis on personal responsibility, clear advice
to change, a menu of alternative, therapist empathy, facilitation of client
self efficacy)
, *Goes hand in hand with the stages of change
Used in arenas where sessions are infrequent
⫸ Motivational Interviewing Answer: a collaborative, person-centered
form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change. 1) Ask
open ended questions 2) Listen Reflectively 3) Summarize 4) Affirm 5)
Elicit self-motivational statements
⫸ Orientation Answer: Involves describing the nature and goals of the
program to the client and the family.
⫸ Prefrontal Cortex Answer: The part of the brain that enables us to
assess situations. This part of the brain is still maturing during
adolescence.
⫸ Psychological Model Answer: Substance use results from deficits in
learning, emotional dysfunction, or psychopathology that can be treated
behaviorally or psychoanalytically oriented therapies.
⫸ Recovery Management Answer: Model of care
Wraps traditional interventions in a continuum of recovery support
services
⫸ ROSC's Answer: Recovery Oriented Systems of Care- distinctive
emphasis on post treatment monitoring and support.
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⫸ 6 Dimensions of ASAM Answer: 1. Acute Intoxication/Withdrawal
2.Biomedical
3.Emotional/Behavioral
4.Readiness to Change
5.Relapse or Continued Use Potential
6.Recovery/Living Environment
⫸ 12 Core Functions Answer: screening, intake, orientation,
assessment, treatment planning, counseling, case management, crisis
intervention, client education, referral, report/record keeping,
consultation
⫸ ASAM Answer: American Society of Addiction Medicine
⫸ ASAM Continuum of Care: 5 Levels of Care Answer: 0.5 Early
Intervention
1.0 Outpatient services
2.0 Intensive Outpatient/partial hospitalization (2.1=intensive outpatient;
2.5=partial hospitalization)
3.0 Residential/Inpatient (3.1=clinically managed low intensity
residential; 3.3=clinically managed population specific high intensity
,residential; 3.5=clinically managed high intensity residential;
3.7=medically monitored intensive inpatient services
4.0 Medically Monitored Intensive Inpatient Services
⫸ CBT Answer: A short term focused approach to helping people
become abstinent. Assumption that learning processes play an important
role. Based on the idea that feelings and behaviors are cause by a
persons thoughts. People may not be able to change their circumstances
but they can change how they think about them. The goal is to teach the
person to recognize situations in which they may drink, avoid these
situations and cope with other problems that may lead to substance
abuse.
⫸ Counseling Groups Answer: Counseling groups are a process group,
and generally less educations. All counseling groups shall be facilitated
by professional staff.
⫸ Cultural Blindness Answer: Ignores differences and proceeds as if
they did not exist
⫸ Cultural Destructiveness Answer: Counselors filter interactions
through a biased lens without engaging in self reflection
⫸ Didactic Group Answer: Didactic groups primary purpose is to
educate patients and their significant others on a specific treatment
related topic in a group setting. Should not exceed 24 people
,⫸ Dimensions included in an effective ROSC Answer: Health, Home,
Purpose, Community
⫸ Disease Model Answer: Addiction is a disease. Comes as result of the
impairment of healthy neurochemical or behavioral processes. Jellinek is
the pioneer of this model.
⫸ Informed Consent Answer: The client has a right and power to
consent to treatment. Elements include the clients rational capacity to
provide consent, clients comprehension, and clients sense of self
determination
⫸ Intake Answer: The process of enrolling a client in a specific course
of treatment. Primarily an administrative function. It is the extension of
the screening process. 1) Establish Eligibility 2) Complete basic data
collection 3) Identify barriers 4) Establish a treatment approach
⫸ Moral Model Answer: the belief that people abuse alcohol because
they choose to do so. This model has no sympathy for people with
serious addictions believing that the addict demonstrated a great moral
failure.
⫸ Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) Answer: *method of
counseling where the client's internal motivation is the driving force for
changing problem bx
*FRAMES (feedback, emphasis on personal responsibility, clear advice
to change, a menu of alternative, therapist empathy, facilitation of client
self efficacy)
, *Goes hand in hand with the stages of change
Used in arenas where sessions are infrequent
⫸ Motivational Interviewing Answer: a collaborative, person-centered
form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change. 1) Ask
open ended questions 2) Listen Reflectively 3) Summarize 4) Affirm 5)
Elicit self-motivational statements
⫸ Orientation Answer: Involves describing the nature and goals of the
program to the client and the family.
⫸ Prefrontal Cortex Answer: The part of the brain that enables us to
assess situations. This part of the brain is still maturing during
adolescence.
⫸ Psychological Model Answer: Substance use results from deficits in
learning, emotional dysfunction, or psychopathology that can be treated
behaviorally or psychoanalytically oriented therapies.
⫸ Recovery Management Answer: Model of care
Wraps traditional interventions in a continuum of recovery support
services
⫸ ROSC's Answer: Recovery Oriented Systems of Care- distinctive
emphasis on post treatment monitoring and support.
