IC&RC Minnesota Exam Questions and
Answers Graded A+
Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, Planning - Correct answer-4 Motivational
Interviewing process
Engaging - Correct answer-MI: Establish helpful connection and working
relationship - therapeutic engagement
Focusing - Correct answer-MI: Develop and maintain a specific direction in the
conversation about change.
Evoking - Correct answer-MI: Eliciting the client's motivations for change, and
client's own thoughts and ideas about why and how to change
Planning - Correct answer-MI: Developing a committment to change and
formulating a specific plan of action
OARS - Correct answer-MI: Open-ended, affirming, reflective listening,
summarizing (+ Informing and advising)
Step 1 - Correct answer-Admitted Powerless - lives Unmanageable.
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, Step 2 - Correct answer-Power Greater - Restore us to Sanity.
Step 3 - Correct answer-Turn Will and Lives Over to God
Step 4 - Correct answer-Searching, Fearless Moral Inventory
Step 5 - Correct answer-Admitted to God, to Ourselves and Another Exact Nature
of Wrongs.
Step 6 - Correct answer-Have God Remove Defects of Character.
Step 7 - Correct answer-Humbly ask remove shortcomings
Step 8 - Correct answer-List of Persons Harmed, Willing to Make Amends
Step 9 - Correct answer-Made Direct Amends, Except for Injury
Step 10 - Correct answer-Continued Personal Inventory
Step 11 - Correct answer-Sought through Prayer and Meditation
Step 12 - Correct answer-Spiritual Awakening, Carry this Message
(i) an overview of the transdisciplinary foundations of alcohol and drug
counseling, including theories of chemical dependency, the continuum of care, and
the process of change;
(ii) pharmacology of substance abuse disorders and the dynamics of addiction,
including medication-assisted therapy;
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Answers Graded A+
Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, Planning - Correct answer-4 Motivational
Interviewing process
Engaging - Correct answer-MI: Establish helpful connection and working
relationship - therapeutic engagement
Focusing - Correct answer-MI: Develop and maintain a specific direction in the
conversation about change.
Evoking - Correct answer-MI: Eliciting the client's motivations for change, and
client's own thoughts and ideas about why and how to change
Planning - Correct answer-MI: Developing a committment to change and
formulating a specific plan of action
OARS - Correct answer-MI: Open-ended, affirming, reflective listening,
summarizing (+ Informing and advising)
Step 1 - Correct answer-Admitted Powerless - lives Unmanageable.
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, Step 2 - Correct answer-Power Greater - Restore us to Sanity.
Step 3 - Correct answer-Turn Will and Lives Over to God
Step 4 - Correct answer-Searching, Fearless Moral Inventory
Step 5 - Correct answer-Admitted to God, to Ourselves and Another Exact Nature
of Wrongs.
Step 6 - Correct answer-Have God Remove Defects of Character.
Step 7 - Correct answer-Humbly ask remove shortcomings
Step 8 - Correct answer-List of Persons Harmed, Willing to Make Amends
Step 9 - Correct answer-Made Direct Amends, Except for Injury
Step 10 - Correct answer-Continued Personal Inventory
Step 11 - Correct answer-Sought through Prayer and Meditation
Step 12 - Correct answer-Spiritual Awakening, Carry this Message
(i) an overview of the transdisciplinary foundations of alcohol and drug
counseling, including theories of chemical dependency, the continuum of care, and
the process of change;
(ii) pharmacology of substance abuse disorders and the dynamics of addiction,
including medication-assisted therapy;
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