Assessments Question and answers
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Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) - correct answer ✔Abnormal
Movement Test
Academic Competence Evaluation Scales (ACES) - correct answer ✔This
tool assesses the skills, attitudes, and behaviors of students that contribute to
school success. Research using the ACES has indicated that the skills,
attitudes and behaviors contributing to academic competence fall into one of
two domains: Academic Skills or Academic Enablers.
Age Range: 5-12 years
Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - Substance Abuse (AAQ-SA) - correct
answer ✔Psychological flexibility is a relatively new clinical construct targeted
by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a behavior analytic treatment
incorporating mindfulness and values interventions, among other processes.
Poor psychological flexibility has been shown to relate to clinical problems as
well as normative life challenges, and efforts to increase psychological
flexibility have correlated with improvements for a variety of psychological
difficulties, including substance abuse.
Addiction Admission Scale (AAS) - correct answer ✔An MMPI-2 scale that
detects alcohol/drug abuse problems in the context of a clinical personality
assessment.
Consists of 13 items and is available in either pencil-and-paper self-
administered or computer self-administered format.
,It is especially helpful for literate, adult subjects with at least a sixth-grade
reading level.
Addiction Behavior Checklist (ABC) - correct answer ✔A brief, 20-item
instrument designed to track behaviors characteristic of addiction related to
prescription opioid medications in chronic pain populations.
The tool was designed to be administered in an interview format and scored
based on the participant's responses to questions.
Addiction Counseling Self-Efficacy Scale (ACSES) - correct answer ✔A 32-
item scale which assesses aspects of addiction counselors' perceived self-
efficacy for working with clients in the areas of: (a) specific addiction
counseling skills; (b) assessment, treatment planning, and referral skills; (c)
co-occurring disorders skills; (d) group counseling skills; and (e) basic
counseling skills.
Addiction Disorder Screen-7 (ADS-7) - correct answer ✔An addictive
disorder screening tool to predict potential risk for seven addictive disorders:
chemical dependency (drugs)
chemical dependency (alcohol)
compulsive buying (or shopping addiction)
compulsive gambling
eating disorders
workaholism
sex addictions
Addiction Research Center Inventory (ARCI) - correct answer ✔A
standardized questionnaire used for assessing subjective effects of
,psychoactive drugs that were developed in the early 1960s at the National
Institute of Mental Health Addiction Research Center. Using the "private
language of users," this assessment tool was developed to address the
problem of the discrepancy of observer/user terminology by constructing the
items from empirically validated, solicited responses of former addicts under
the influence of various drugs. This self-report inventory was developed from
the use of "sentence completion" and other association techniques on male
subjects under drug and no-drug conditions. In addition, to demonstrated
"drug-sensitive" questions, the final form of the inventory (550 "true-false"
items) also contains items which were thought to delineate to some extent
schizoid and "psychopathic" characteristics.
Addiction Severity Index (ASI) - correct answer ✔Substance Use Inventory
This is a semi structured interview designed to provide data regarding aspects
of the life of clients that may contribute to their substance-abuse problems.
This tool provides a general overview of substance-abuse problems.
ADE Needs Assessment - correct answer ✔130-question, comprehensive,
adult assessment tool. This instrument addresses life stress, attitude and
emotional stability, criminal history and alcohol/drug use.
Admission and Discharge Criteria and Assessment Tools (ADAT) - correct
answer ✔A comprehensive approach to establishing an initial treatment plan
which identifies the most appropriate level and intensity of care for a client
entering addictions treatment system (or whether the client is ready for
discharge). The Admission criteria, in particular, use the results of the
Assessment Tools to this end. The Assessment Tools component is a suite of
clinical assessment tools to be used by professionals to identify a client's
strengths and needs in seven areas.
Adolescent Drug Abuse Diagnosis (ADAD) - correct answer ✔The purpose
of this instrument is to assess substance use and other life problems, to assist
, with treatment planning, and to assess changes in life problem areas and
severity over time. This is a 150-item structured interview that looks at the
following content areas: medical status, drug and alcohol use, legal status,
family background and problems, school/employment, social activities and
peer relations, and psychological status. The interviewer uses a 10-point scale
to rate the client's need for additional treatment in each content area. These
severity ratings translate to a problem severity dimension (no problem, slight,
moderate, considerable, and extreme problem). The drug use section includes
a detailed drug use list and a brief set of items that looks at specific areas of
drug involvement (e.g., polydrug use, attempts at abstinence, withdrawal
symptoms, use in school).
Adolescent Problem Severity Index (APSI) - correct answer ✔A semi-
structured interview modeled after the ASI, developed by Metzger and
colleagues to assist juvenile probation officers in identifying, documenting,
and responding to drug and alcohol abuse and problems. This assessment
tool includes a general information section that addresses the reason for the
assessment and the referral source, as well as the adolescent's
understanding of the reason for the interview. Additional sections of this tool
include drug/alcohol use, family relationships, education/work, legal, medical,
psycho/social adjustment, and personal relationships. Some concurrent
validity for the alcohol/drug section has been empirically demonstrated.
Alcohol Craving Experience Questionnaire (ACE) - correct answer ✔The 27-
item assessment designed to measure sensory aspects of craving (imagining
taste, smell, or sensations of drinking and intrusive cognitions associated with
craving) when craving was maximal during the previous week (ACE-S:
Strength, 13 items), and to assess frequency of desire-related thoughts in the
past week (ACE-F: Frequency, 14 items).
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) - correct answer
✔Developed by Tom Babor and others for the World Health Organization to
identify persons whose alcohol consumption has become hazardous or
harmful to their health.
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Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) - correct answer ✔Abnormal
Movement Test
Academic Competence Evaluation Scales (ACES) - correct answer ✔This
tool assesses the skills, attitudes, and behaviors of students that contribute to
school success. Research using the ACES has indicated that the skills,
attitudes and behaviors contributing to academic competence fall into one of
two domains: Academic Skills or Academic Enablers.
Age Range: 5-12 years
Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - Substance Abuse (AAQ-SA) - correct
answer ✔Psychological flexibility is a relatively new clinical construct targeted
by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a behavior analytic treatment
incorporating mindfulness and values interventions, among other processes.
Poor psychological flexibility has been shown to relate to clinical problems as
well as normative life challenges, and efforts to increase psychological
flexibility have correlated with improvements for a variety of psychological
difficulties, including substance abuse.
Addiction Admission Scale (AAS) - correct answer ✔An MMPI-2 scale that
detects alcohol/drug abuse problems in the context of a clinical personality
assessment.
Consists of 13 items and is available in either pencil-and-paper self-
administered or computer self-administered format.
,It is especially helpful for literate, adult subjects with at least a sixth-grade
reading level.
Addiction Behavior Checklist (ABC) - correct answer ✔A brief, 20-item
instrument designed to track behaviors characteristic of addiction related to
prescription opioid medications in chronic pain populations.
The tool was designed to be administered in an interview format and scored
based on the participant's responses to questions.
Addiction Counseling Self-Efficacy Scale (ACSES) - correct answer ✔A 32-
item scale which assesses aspects of addiction counselors' perceived self-
efficacy for working with clients in the areas of: (a) specific addiction
counseling skills; (b) assessment, treatment planning, and referral skills; (c)
co-occurring disorders skills; (d) group counseling skills; and (e) basic
counseling skills.
Addiction Disorder Screen-7 (ADS-7) - correct answer ✔An addictive
disorder screening tool to predict potential risk for seven addictive disorders:
chemical dependency (drugs)
chemical dependency (alcohol)
compulsive buying (or shopping addiction)
compulsive gambling
eating disorders
workaholism
sex addictions
Addiction Research Center Inventory (ARCI) - correct answer ✔A
standardized questionnaire used for assessing subjective effects of
,psychoactive drugs that were developed in the early 1960s at the National
Institute of Mental Health Addiction Research Center. Using the "private
language of users," this assessment tool was developed to address the
problem of the discrepancy of observer/user terminology by constructing the
items from empirically validated, solicited responses of former addicts under
the influence of various drugs. This self-report inventory was developed from
the use of "sentence completion" and other association techniques on male
subjects under drug and no-drug conditions. In addition, to demonstrated
"drug-sensitive" questions, the final form of the inventory (550 "true-false"
items) also contains items which were thought to delineate to some extent
schizoid and "psychopathic" characteristics.
Addiction Severity Index (ASI) - correct answer ✔Substance Use Inventory
This is a semi structured interview designed to provide data regarding aspects
of the life of clients that may contribute to their substance-abuse problems.
This tool provides a general overview of substance-abuse problems.
ADE Needs Assessment - correct answer ✔130-question, comprehensive,
adult assessment tool. This instrument addresses life stress, attitude and
emotional stability, criminal history and alcohol/drug use.
Admission and Discharge Criteria and Assessment Tools (ADAT) - correct
answer ✔A comprehensive approach to establishing an initial treatment plan
which identifies the most appropriate level and intensity of care for a client
entering addictions treatment system (or whether the client is ready for
discharge). The Admission criteria, in particular, use the results of the
Assessment Tools to this end. The Assessment Tools component is a suite of
clinical assessment tools to be used by professionals to identify a client's
strengths and needs in seven areas.
Adolescent Drug Abuse Diagnosis (ADAD) - correct answer ✔The purpose
of this instrument is to assess substance use and other life problems, to assist
, with treatment planning, and to assess changes in life problem areas and
severity over time. This is a 150-item structured interview that looks at the
following content areas: medical status, drug and alcohol use, legal status,
family background and problems, school/employment, social activities and
peer relations, and psychological status. The interviewer uses a 10-point scale
to rate the client's need for additional treatment in each content area. These
severity ratings translate to a problem severity dimension (no problem, slight,
moderate, considerable, and extreme problem). The drug use section includes
a detailed drug use list and a brief set of items that looks at specific areas of
drug involvement (e.g., polydrug use, attempts at abstinence, withdrawal
symptoms, use in school).
Adolescent Problem Severity Index (APSI) - correct answer ✔A semi-
structured interview modeled after the ASI, developed by Metzger and
colleagues to assist juvenile probation officers in identifying, documenting,
and responding to drug and alcohol abuse and problems. This assessment
tool includes a general information section that addresses the reason for the
assessment and the referral source, as well as the adolescent's
understanding of the reason for the interview. Additional sections of this tool
include drug/alcohol use, family relationships, education/work, legal, medical,
psycho/social adjustment, and personal relationships. Some concurrent
validity for the alcohol/drug section has been empirically demonstrated.
Alcohol Craving Experience Questionnaire (ACE) - correct answer ✔The 27-
item assessment designed to measure sensory aspects of craving (imagining
taste, smell, or sensations of drinking and intrusive cognitions associated with
craving) when craving was maximal during the previous week (ACE-S:
Strength, 13 items), and to assess frequency of desire-related thoughts in the
past week (ACE-F: Frequency, 14 items).
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) - correct answer
✔Developed by Tom Babor and others for the World Health Organization to
identify persons whose alcohol consumption has become hazardous or
harmful to their health.
