2026 CCAPP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔A client can acknowledge a situation requiring change. Alternatives are being sought
and or considered. Immediate intervention is needed. At this time counselor can focus
on specific actions the client can take - ✔✔Determination
✔✔Significant changes in Behavior have been made and must be sustained by
continuing new reinforcement behaviors counselor May assist client in identifying
factors that may prompt relapse and prevention methods - ✔✔Maintenance
✔✔Individual is not considering change and there is no perception of me. The problem
has been noted by someone else. The clinician raises doubt and help the CDP
recognize the potential risks involved in continuing the behavior - ✔✔Precontemplation
✔✔Individual is ambivalent and has mixed feelings about change they are weighing the
pros and cons. It is helpful for the counselor to try to tip the balance in favor of change.
Emphasize the benefits of change versus the risk of continuing the status quo -
✔✔Contemplation
✔✔The client is engaged in implementing the plan, which may include formal treatment.
The counselor will assist the implementation and will facilitate the steps identify -
✔✔Action
✔✔Here the client returns to previous Behavior patterns. The clinician will find it
necessary to go through the changes I can beginning with contemplation - ✔✔Relapse
✔✔In chemical dependency treatment, abstinence is - ✔✔The goal of recovery
✔✔Recovery is - ✔✔Complete when the patient finishes Post Acute withdrawal,
requires biochemical healing as well as cognitive behavioral changes, is it processed
with identifiable stages
, ✔✔Relapse - ✔✔Should be treated by The Counselor as a learning events for the
patient, is a process not an event, can be identified by signs and symptoms and maybe
intervened on
✔✔The American Society of addiction medicine Asam identified Six Dimensions or
criteria for determining the appropriate treatment setting for the patient these include -
✔✔Acute intoxication likelihood of withdrawal syndromes in biomedical conditions and
complications, emotional behavioral conditions in acceptance of the need for treatment,
relapse or likelihood of continued use and Recovery environment
✔✔The aod counselor should educate the patients about what - ✔✔The stages of
relapse and identifying warning signs and symptoms, the cognitive and memory
problems sleep and stress problems as well as emotional difficulties associated with
Post Acute withdrawal, the developmental model of the bio physio social disease of
addiction
✔✔The patients should be educated about triggers - ✔✔And how to identify their
personal triggers which can bring about Cravings, which are any internal or external
occurrence people places things in situations that activate cravings, and Cravings which
are physiological causing thoughts of using
✔✔Understanding and acceptance of the disease model of addiction - ✔✔Is important
to the patient and understanding they are not a bad person trying to get good trying to
get well, it's important to understand that recovery is possible and the drug is but a
symptom
✔✔Physical set up are a ways people physically sabotaged recovery - ✔✔Such as poor
diet resulting in malnourishment and inability for your brain and body to rebuild itself,
including poor sleep habits causing our body and brain to be too tired and allow us to be
more susceptible to stress and cognitive dysfunction, and for Stress Management
increases our susceptibility to cravings
✔✔Psychological setups would be - ✔✔Participating and euphoric recall or
exaggerating the pleasurable memories of using while blocking or repressing the bad
memories, current dissatisfaction with sobriety awfulizing sobriety called by Gorski
euphoric recall and Reverse by being unable to recognize the benefits of sobriety or
manifest as feeling of boredom, positive expectancy that drugs and alcohol would at
least temporarily solve my current problems. It can also be fed by inability to move past
the need for instant gratification, denial and Division in which we resist the belief that we
are doing any of this also recognized as falling prey to my distorted beliefs about using
✔✔Social setups - ✔✔Are the basis of the sayings we need new Playmates and new
playgrounds in recovery and stick with the winners, would often manifests itself through
isolation when we are stressed or uncomfortable with our self-pity grandiosity or in bad
✔✔A client can acknowledge a situation requiring change. Alternatives are being sought
and or considered. Immediate intervention is needed. At this time counselor can focus
on specific actions the client can take - ✔✔Determination
✔✔Significant changes in Behavior have been made and must be sustained by
continuing new reinforcement behaviors counselor May assist client in identifying
factors that may prompt relapse and prevention methods - ✔✔Maintenance
✔✔Individual is not considering change and there is no perception of me. The problem
has been noted by someone else. The clinician raises doubt and help the CDP
recognize the potential risks involved in continuing the behavior - ✔✔Precontemplation
✔✔Individual is ambivalent and has mixed feelings about change they are weighing the
pros and cons. It is helpful for the counselor to try to tip the balance in favor of change.
Emphasize the benefits of change versus the risk of continuing the status quo -
✔✔Contemplation
✔✔The client is engaged in implementing the plan, which may include formal treatment.
The counselor will assist the implementation and will facilitate the steps identify -
✔✔Action
✔✔Here the client returns to previous Behavior patterns. The clinician will find it
necessary to go through the changes I can beginning with contemplation - ✔✔Relapse
✔✔In chemical dependency treatment, abstinence is - ✔✔The goal of recovery
✔✔Recovery is - ✔✔Complete when the patient finishes Post Acute withdrawal,
requires biochemical healing as well as cognitive behavioral changes, is it processed
with identifiable stages
, ✔✔Relapse - ✔✔Should be treated by The Counselor as a learning events for the
patient, is a process not an event, can be identified by signs and symptoms and maybe
intervened on
✔✔The American Society of addiction medicine Asam identified Six Dimensions or
criteria for determining the appropriate treatment setting for the patient these include -
✔✔Acute intoxication likelihood of withdrawal syndromes in biomedical conditions and
complications, emotional behavioral conditions in acceptance of the need for treatment,
relapse or likelihood of continued use and Recovery environment
✔✔The aod counselor should educate the patients about what - ✔✔The stages of
relapse and identifying warning signs and symptoms, the cognitive and memory
problems sleep and stress problems as well as emotional difficulties associated with
Post Acute withdrawal, the developmental model of the bio physio social disease of
addiction
✔✔The patients should be educated about triggers - ✔✔And how to identify their
personal triggers which can bring about Cravings, which are any internal or external
occurrence people places things in situations that activate cravings, and Cravings which
are physiological causing thoughts of using
✔✔Understanding and acceptance of the disease model of addiction - ✔✔Is important
to the patient and understanding they are not a bad person trying to get good trying to
get well, it's important to understand that recovery is possible and the drug is but a
symptom
✔✔Physical set up are a ways people physically sabotaged recovery - ✔✔Such as poor
diet resulting in malnourishment and inability for your brain and body to rebuild itself,
including poor sleep habits causing our body and brain to be too tired and allow us to be
more susceptible to stress and cognitive dysfunction, and for Stress Management
increases our susceptibility to cravings
✔✔Psychological setups would be - ✔✔Participating and euphoric recall or
exaggerating the pleasurable memories of using while blocking or repressing the bad
memories, current dissatisfaction with sobriety awfulizing sobriety called by Gorski
euphoric recall and Reverse by being unable to recognize the benefits of sobriety or
manifest as feeling of boredom, positive expectancy that drugs and alcohol would at
least temporarily solve my current problems. It can also be fed by inability to move past
the need for instant gratification, denial and Division in which we resist the belief that we
are doing any of this also recognized as falling prey to my distorted beliefs about using
✔✔Social setups - ✔✔Are the basis of the sayings we need new Playmates and new
playgrounds in recovery and stick with the winners, would often manifests itself through
isolation when we are stressed or uncomfortable with our self-pity grandiosity or in bad
