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Transdisciplinary - -Knowledge and skills needed by all disciplines that deal directly with
substance use disorders.
-Four Transdisciplinary Foundations - -1. Understanding Addiction
2. Treatment Knowledge
3. Application to Practice
4. Professional Readiness
-Eight Practice Dimensions - -1. Clinical Evaluation
2. Treatment Planning
3. Referral(s)
4. Service Coordination
5. Counseling
6. Client, Family, and Community Education
7. Documentation
8. Professional and Ethical Responsibility
-Clinical Evaluation - -The systematic approach to screening and assessment of individuals
thought to have a substance use disorder; being considered for admission to addiction-related
services, or presenting in a crisis situation.
-Treatment Planning - -A collaborative process in which professionals and the client develop a
written document that identifies important treatment goals; describes measurable, time-
sensitive action steps toward achieving those goals with expected outcomes; and reflects a
signed agreement between a counselor and client.
-Referral - -The process of facilitating the client's use of available support systems and
community resources to meet needs identified in clinical evaluation or treatment planning
-Service Coordination - -The administrative, clinical, and evaluative activities that bring the
client, treatment services, community agencies, and other resources together to focus on issues
and needs identified in the treatment plan.
-Documentation - -The recording of the screening and intake processes, assessment, treatment
plan, clinical reports, clinical progress notes, discharge summaries, and other client-related
data.
-Counseling - -A collaborative process that facilitates the client's progress toward mutually
determined treatment goals and objectives.
, -Client, Family, and Community Education - -The process of providing clients, families,
significant others, and community groups with information on risks related to psychoactive
substance use, as well as available prevention, treatment, and recovery resources
-Professional and Ethical Responsibilities - -The obligations of an addiction counselor to adhere
to accepted ethical and behavioral standards of conduct and continuing professional
development
-Psychoanalytic Therapy - -Aimed at helping one understand the psychological defenses one
uses to avoid painful emotions and understand how those defenses diminish the quality of
one's life.
-Behavioral Therapy - -A form of psychotherapy that uses basic learning techniques to modify
maladaptive behavior patterns by substituting new responses to given stimuli for undesirable
ones. Also called behavioral therapy, behavioral modification. Replace bad HX with good
techniques
-Adlerian Brief Therapy (ABT) - -An intervention that is concise, deliberate, direct, efficient,
focused, short-term, and purposeful, holistically morning towards goals.
-Gestalt Therapy - -Key concepts are the here and now, direct experiencing, awareness, and
bring unfinished business from the past into the present.
-Person-Centered Therapy - -If the therapist is genuine (congruence) empathetic and has
positive regard for the client, the client will experience truthful change
-Existential Therapy - -Rests on six key propositions: They are expected to put into action in
daily life what they learn about themselves in therapy
-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - -A treatment approach that aims at changing cognitions
(thoughts) that are leading to psychological problems.
-Reality Therapy - -Based on choice theory, this approach provides a way of implementing
therapeutic procedures for helping individuals take more effective control of their lives.
-Motivational Interviewing (MI) involves the following four principles - -1. Express Empathy
2. Develop Discrepancy
3. Roll with Resistance
4. Support Self-Efficacy
-Express Empathy - -Guides therapists to share with clients their understanding of the clients'
perspective.
, -Developing Discrepancy - -Guides therapists to help clients appreciate the value of change by
exploring the discrepancy between how clients want their lives to be vs. how they currently are
(or between their deeply-held values and their day-to-day behavior).
-Roll with Resistance - -Guides therapists to accept client reluctance to change as natural rather
than pathological.
-Support Self-Efficacy - -Guides therapists to explicitly embrace client autonomy (even when
clients choose to not change) and help clients move toward change successfully and with
confidence.
-CAGE questionnaire - -A simple screening questionnaire to identify potential problems with
alcohol by asking the following four questions:
1. Have you ever felt you should Cut down on your drinking?
2. Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?
3. Have you ever felt bad or Guilty about your drinking?
4. Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or get rid of a
hangover (Eye-opener)?
-Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (SMAST) - -Is a 13-item questionnaire that is a fast
and reliable alcoholic test that can diagnose alcohol dependency. This shorter test is comprised
of questions taken directly from the longer Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST).
-Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) - -adapted from MAST, in the past 12 months; self-report
instrument is used to detect abuse of or dependence on drugs other than alcohol
-Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) - -This is a brief self-report, easily
administered psychological screening measure that is available in separate versions for adults
and adolescents.
-Addiction Severity Index (ASI) - -This is a semi-structured interview with seven subscales
addressing problems in the areas of family/social status, medical status, employment and
support, drug use, alcohol use, legal status, and psychiatric status. It is useful for treatment
planning and outcome evaluation with adult clients.
-Six Family Roles in the Chemically Dependent Family - -1. The chemically dependent person
2. The chief enabler
3. The family hero
4. The scapegoat
5. The lost child
6. The mascot
-The Chemically Dependent Person - -Within the family systems perspective, is not diseased
but is playing a role, which is to act irresponsibly. The role has a homeostatic function. Typically,
Transdisciplinary - -Knowledge and skills needed by all disciplines that deal directly with
substance use disorders.
-Four Transdisciplinary Foundations - -1. Understanding Addiction
2. Treatment Knowledge
3. Application to Practice
4. Professional Readiness
-Eight Practice Dimensions - -1. Clinical Evaluation
2. Treatment Planning
3. Referral(s)
4. Service Coordination
5. Counseling
6. Client, Family, and Community Education
7. Documentation
8. Professional and Ethical Responsibility
-Clinical Evaluation - -The systematic approach to screening and assessment of individuals
thought to have a substance use disorder; being considered for admission to addiction-related
services, or presenting in a crisis situation.
-Treatment Planning - -A collaborative process in which professionals and the client develop a
written document that identifies important treatment goals; describes measurable, time-
sensitive action steps toward achieving those goals with expected outcomes; and reflects a
signed agreement between a counselor and client.
-Referral - -The process of facilitating the client's use of available support systems and
community resources to meet needs identified in clinical evaluation or treatment planning
-Service Coordination - -The administrative, clinical, and evaluative activities that bring the
client, treatment services, community agencies, and other resources together to focus on issues
and needs identified in the treatment plan.
-Documentation - -The recording of the screening and intake processes, assessment, treatment
plan, clinical reports, clinical progress notes, discharge summaries, and other client-related
data.
-Counseling - -A collaborative process that facilitates the client's progress toward mutually
determined treatment goals and objectives.
, -Client, Family, and Community Education - -The process of providing clients, families,
significant others, and community groups with information on risks related to psychoactive
substance use, as well as available prevention, treatment, and recovery resources
-Professional and Ethical Responsibilities - -The obligations of an addiction counselor to adhere
to accepted ethical and behavioral standards of conduct and continuing professional
development
-Psychoanalytic Therapy - -Aimed at helping one understand the psychological defenses one
uses to avoid painful emotions and understand how those defenses diminish the quality of
one's life.
-Behavioral Therapy - -A form of psychotherapy that uses basic learning techniques to modify
maladaptive behavior patterns by substituting new responses to given stimuli for undesirable
ones. Also called behavioral therapy, behavioral modification. Replace bad HX with good
techniques
-Adlerian Brief Therapy (ABT) - -An intervention that is concise, deliberate, direct, efficient,
focused, short-term, and purposeful, holistically morning towards goals.
-Gestalt Therapy - -Key concepts are the here and now, direct experiencing, awareness, and
bring unfinished business from the past into the present.
-Person-Centered Therapy - -If the therapist is genuine (congruence) empathetic and has
positive regard for the client, the client will experience truthful change
-Existential Therapy - -Rests on six key propositions: They are expected to put into action in
daily life what they learn about themselves in therapy
-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - -A treatment approach that aims at changing cognitions
(thoughts) that are leading to psychological problems.
-Reality Therapy - -Based on choice theory, this approach provides a way of implementing
therapeutic procedures for helping individuals take more effective control of their lives.
-Motivational Interviewing (MI) involves the following four principles - -1. Express Empathy
2. Develop Discrepancy
3. Roll with Resistance
4. Support Self-Efficacy
-Express Empathy - -Guides therapists to share with clients their understanding of the clients'
perspective.
, -Developing Discrepancy - -Guides therapists to help clients appreciate the value of change by
exploring the discrepancy between how clients want their lives to be vs. how they currently are
(or between their deeply-held values and their day-to-day behavior).
-Roll with Resistance - -Guides therapists to accept client reluctance to change as natural rather
than pathological.
-Support Self-Efficacy - -Guides therapists to explicitly embrace client autonomy (even when
clients choose to not change) and help clients move toward change successfully and with
confidence.
-CAGE questionnaire - -A simple screening questionnaire to identify potential problems with
alcohol by asking the following four questions:
1. Have you ever felt you should Cut down on your drinking?
2. Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?
3. Have you ever felt bad or Guilty about your drinking?
4. Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or get rid of a
hangover (Eye-opener)?
-Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (SMAST) - -Is a 13-item questionnaire that is a fast
and reliable alcoholic test that can diagnose alcohol dependency. This shorter test is comprised
of questions taken directly from the longer Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST).
-Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) - -adapted from MAST, in the past 12 months; self-report
instrument is used to detect abuse of or dependence on drugs other than alcohol
-Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) - -This is a brief self-report, easily
administered psychological screening measure that is available in separate versions for adults
and adolescents.
-Addiction Severity Index (ASI) - -This is a semi-structured interview with seven subscales
addressing problems in the areas of family/social status, medical status, employment and
support, drug use, alcohol use, legal status, and psychiatric status. It is useful for treatment
planning and outcome evaluation with adult clients.
-Six Family Roles in the Chemically Dependent Family - -1. The chemically dependent person
2. The chief enabler
3. The family hero
4. The scapegoat
5. The lost child
6. The mascot
-The Chemically Dependent Person - -Within the family systems perspective, is not diseased
but is playing a role, which is to act irresponsibly. The role has a homeostatic function. Typically,
