CATC UPDATED 2026 EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Time line follow back procedure(TLFB) - ✔✔This instrument makes connection
between significant events in client's life and alcohol/ drug use patterns and intensity for
the past year. It includes a calendar and a standard drink conversion to chart aid
memory. It's useful with working with elderly client's especially
✔✔Diagnostic instruments - ✔✔ADS, DIS-IV, ICS, OCDS, SADD and SDSS
✔✔Alcohol dependence scale (ADS) - ✔✔This 25 item instrument provides a
quantitative measure of the severity of alcohol dependence
✔✔Diagnostic interview schedule(DIS-IV) alcohol model - ✔✔The 28 questions permit
diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence
✔✔Impaired control scale ( ICS) - ✔✔This pencil and paper self administered
instrument measures client's attempt to control their drinking during the last 6 months
and their perception of their ability to control it now.
✔✔Addiction severity index (ASI) - ✔✔This is a semi structured interview with 7 sub
scales addressing problems in the areas of family/ social status, medical status,
employment and support, drug use, alcohol use, legal status, and psychiatric status . It's
useful for treatment planning and outcome evaluation with adult client's.
✔✔Psychological instruments other than substance abuse - ✔✔MMPI-2, the mental
status exam, the Myers Briggs type indicator( MBTI
✔✔The Minnesota multi phasic personality inventory( MMPI-2 - ✔✔Is a personality
inventory that contains several clinical scales that detect pathology.
✔✔The mental status exam - ✔✔Is a series of observations about a client's
appearance, behavior, attention, mood, affect, perceptual, and thought processes,
judgement, memory at a given time.
✔✔The Myers - Briggs type indicator( MBTI) - ✔✔Is a personality inventory that looks at
client's preferred way of being in the world and assigns them to 1-16 personality types.
It doesn't detect pathology. It's used in vocational and relationship counseling
✔✔Enzyme multiplied test (EMT) - ✔✔Uses antibodies that react to the presence of a
drug or its metabolites. Kits can detect PCP, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana
metabolites.
, ✔✔Instruments for suicide risks - ✔✔Suicide assessment checklist, suicide intent scale,
and SAD PERSONS Scale
✔✔Some risks factors for suicide - ✔✔Being male, being over 65, having depression,
having attempted in the past, having alcohol and drug abuse, being psychotic, having
little social support, and having a chronic illness
✔✔SOCRATES scale - ✔✔Provides scores on 3 scales that indicate motivation to
change drinking behavior
✔✔URICA - ✔✔A self report instrument that measures client's motivation to change
✔✔Family tree questionnaire ( FTQ) - ✔✔Helps clients report information about the
incidence of alcohol problems in their relatives.
✔✔Axis I of DSM-IV-TR - ✔✔Contains 16 categories of clinical disorders includes
substance related disorders and substance induced disorders includes intoxication,
withdrawal, substance induced delirium, persisting dementia, persisting amnestic
disorders, psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, sexual dysfunction,
and sleep disorders
✔✔Others categories in Axis I - ✔✔Are mood disorders, anxiety disorders,
schizophrenia, and psychotic disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, and
in teens.
✔✔Axis II - ✔✔Contains personality disorders and mental retardation.
✔✔Cluster A in Axis II - ✔✔Includes personality disorders that are odd, eccentric,
isolation, suspicious behavior like paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality
disorders.
✔✔Cluster B in Axis II - ✔✔Includes disorders that co occur with substance abuse and
dependence by dramatic, emotional, erratic , or impulsive, or no empathy behavior.
Includes anti social personality disorder, borderline personality disorders and histrionic
personality disorders
✔✔Cluster C in Axis II - ✔✔Includes personality disorders features anxious, fearful and
perfectionist behavior. They are avoidant, dependent , and obsessive-compulsive
personality disorders
✔✔Axis III - ✔✔Contains 16 general medical conditions that are relevant to
understanding or management of the client's diagnosed disorder
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Time line follow back procedure(TLFB) - ✔✔This instrument makes connection
between significant events in client's life and alcohol/ drug use patterns and intensity for
the past year. It includes a calendar and a standard drink conversion to chart aid
memory. It's useful with working with elderly client's especially
✔✔Diagnostic instruments - ✔✔ADS, DIS-IV, ICS, OCDS, SADD and SDSS
✔✔Alcohol dependence scale (ADS) - ✔✔This 25 item instrument provides a
quantitative measure of the severity of alcohol dependence
✔✔Diagnostic interview schedule(DIS-IV) alcohol model - ✔✔The 28 questions permit
diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence
✔✔Impaired control scale ( ICS) - ✔✔This pencil and paper self administered
instrument measures client's attempt to control their drinking during the last 6 months
and their perception of their ability to control it now.
✔✔Addiction severity index (ASI) - ✔✔This is a semi structured interview with 7 sub
scales addressing problems in the areas of family/ social status, medical status,
employment and support, drug use, alcohol use, legal status, and psychiatric status . It's
useful for treatment planning and outcome evaluation with adult client's.
✔✔Psychological instruments other than substance abuse - ✔✔MMPI-2, the mental
status exam, the Myers Briggs type indicator( MBTI
✔✔The Minnesota multi phasic personality inventory( MMPI-2 - ✔✔Is a personality
inventory that contains several clinical scales that detect pathology.
✔✔The mental status exam - ✔✔Is a series of observations about a client's
appearance, behavior, attention, mood, affect, perceptual, and thought processes,
judgement, memory at a given time.
✔✔The Myers - Briggs type indicator( MBTI) - ✔✔Is a personality inventory that looks at
client's preferred way of being in the world and assigns them to 1-16 personality types.
It doesn't detect pathology. It's used in vocational and relationship counseling
✔✔Enzyme multiplied test (EMT) - ✔✔Uses antibodies that react to the presence of a
drug or its metabolites. Kits can detect PCP, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana
metabolites.
, ✔✔Instruments for suicide risks - ✔✔Suicide assessment checklist, suicide intent scale,
and SAD PERSONS Scale
✔✔Some risks factors for suicide - ✔✔Being male, being over 65, having depression,
having attempted in the past, having alcohol and drug abuse, being psychotic, having
little social support, and having a chronic illness
✔✔SOCRATES scale - ✔✔Provides scores on 3 scales that indicate motivation to
change drinking behavior
✔✔URICA - ✔✔A self report instrument that measures client's motivation to change
✔✔Family tree questionnaire ( FTQ) - ✔✔Helps clients report information about the
incidence of alcohol problems in their relatives.
✔✔Axis I of DSM-IV-TR - ✔✔Contains 16 categories of clinical disorders includes
substance related disorders and substance induced disorders includes intoxication,
withdrawal, substance induced delirium, persisting dementia, persisting amnestic
disorders, psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, sexual dysfunction,
and sleep disorders
✔✔Others categories in Axis I - ✔✔Are mood disorders, anxiety disorders,
schizophrenia, and psychotic disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, and
in teens.
✔✔Axis II - ✔✔Contains personality disorders and mental retardation.
✔✔Cluster A in Axis II - ✔✔Includes personality disorders that are odd, eccentric,
isolation, suspicious behavior like paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality
disorders.
✔✔Cluster B in Axis II - ✔✔Includes disorders that co occur with substance abuse and
dependence by dramatic, emotional, erratic , or impulsive, or no empathy behavior.
Includes anti social personality disorder, borderline personality disorders and histrionic
personality disorders
✔✔Cluster C in Axis II - ✔✔Includes personality disorders features anxious, fearful and
perfectionist behavior. They are avoidant, dependent , and obsessive-compulsive
personality disorders
✔✔Axis III - ✔✔Contains 16 general medical conditions that are relevant to
understanding or management of the client's diagnosed disorder
