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A child has trouble understanding that the amount of juice she sees being poured is the same
amount when it is in her sippy cup and when it is in her baby brother's bottle. She believes the
narrower bottle has more juice. She is in the developmental stage labeled by Piaget as
✔✔concrete operations
A counselor is conducting a suicide risk assessment on a new patient. Which of the following
would be considered inappropriate? ✔✔Do you know how you will kill yourself?
Aaron Beck ✔✔Cognitive Behavior Therapy [CBT]
Abandonment during the referral process occurs when ✔✔a counselor does not make suitable
arrangements for client.
Acceptance skills ✔✔-Radical acceptance, turning the mind toward acceptance, and willingness
vs. mindfulness
,Action Response ✔✔Can be probes or questions, confrontations or interpretation: Should be
open ended and non-judgmental.
Addiction Counseling Practices
*Assessment generally has five major objectives* ✔✔*1)* To identify those who have a
condition related to a psychoactive substance use disorder.
*2)* To assess the full range of difficulties currently experienced by the client. The addiction
counselor or other helping professional should rate the symptom severity, diagnose evident
mental health disorders and screen for related difficulties or challenges;
*3)* To plan appropriate treatment interventions for the client;
*4)* To involve the appropriate family members or significant others in the client's evaluation
and treatment;
*5)* To determine the methods for evaluating the effectiveness of the treatment interventions
that will be implemented.
Addiction Counseling Practices
*Assessment* ✔✔The second phase of evaluation where the client is interviewed extensively to
determine the most effective treatment plan after he or she is admitted into the treatment
program.
,*Assessment of the client's history, experiences and mental status*
Addiction Counseling Practices
*Evaluation* ✔✔A systematic and ongoing process in which a relationship is initially formed
with the evaluating counselor in the initiation of a two-phase process: *Screening* and
*Assessment*
Addiction Counseling Practices
*Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)* ✔✔Pre DSM5 for accessing for Axis V
Addiction Counseling Practices
*Individualized Treatment Plan* ✔✔*Reflects the salient points of the assessment and outlines
the next steps for the client.*
lt is important for the *client to be involved* in this process as it fosters a sense of ownership
and, internal motivation to pursue the agreed upon goals,
Addiction Counseling Practices
*Intake* ✔✔Generally the business end of services that must be finalized before treatment can
begin i.e. ROIs, Consent for services, clarification of fees, etc
, Addiction Counseling Practices
*Screening* ✔✔The first phase of evaluation where the potential client is briefly interviewed to
determine if he or she is appropriate for that specific facility
Addiction Counseling Practices
*Treatment Plan Key Elements* ✔✔Need
Goal Statement
Measurable Objective
Strategies and Interventions
Addiction Counselor Qualities
*Action Responses* ✔✔*Probing or Questioning* Asking a question to further explore
*Interpretation* A type of action response when the addiction counselor or other helping
professional provides a client with another explanation for his or her thoughts, attitudes and or
behaviors,
Addiction Counselor Qualities
*Five Key Traits* ✔✔*Immediacy*