CATC Exam Questions and Answers
(2026) | Comprehensive Study Guide
and Review
• Treatment Planning . Answer: Collaborative process with counselor
and client that identifies important treatment goals; described in
behavioral and measureable, time-s ensitive action steps with expected
outcomes. Specific activity that links the problem with the goal.
Contract must be regularly reviewed and modified appropriately.
• Referral . Answer: identifying needs of client that cannot be met by the
counselor or agency. Facilitating client's use of available support
systems and community resources to meet needs identified in clinical
evaluation or treatment planning.
• Service Coordination . Answer: Also known as Case Management;
activities that bring client, treatment services, community agencies, and
other resources together to focus on issues and needs identified in
treatment plan.
• 3 Definable elements of Service Coordination . Answer: 1.
Implementing the treatment plan.
2. Counsulting and carrying on the process of ongoing assessment and
treatment planning
3. Counseling, of course, elements of individual, group, and family
counseling.
, • Counseling . Answer: a collaborative process that facilitates the
client's progress toward mutually determined treatment goal and
objectives through: exploration of a problem and it's ramifications
examination of attitudes and feelings
consideration of alternative solutions
decision-making.
• Demonstrate at least 3 Counseling Approach Goals . Answer: Reality
Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Systemic Counseling, Tranactional
Analysis, Stategic Family Therapy, Client Centered Therapy, etc.
• Behavioral Approach Example . Answer: Suggested for clients who are
resistant, manipulative, and having difficulty antiipating consequences
and regulating impulses.
• Cognitive Approach Example . Answer: Suggested for a client who is
depressed, yet insightful and articulate.
• Client Family, and Community Education . Answer: 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. Includes
providing lists of self-help groups and other community resources that
can be utilized to maintain recovery.
(2026) | Comprehensive Study Guide
and Review
• Treatment Planning . Answer: Collaborative process with counselor
and client that identifies important treatment goals; described in
behavioral and measureable, time-s ensitive action steps with expected
outcomes. Specific activity that links the problem with the goal.
Contract must be regularly reviewed and modified appropriately.
• Referral . Answer: identifying needs of client that cannot be met by the
counselor or agency. Facilitating client's use of available support
systems and community resources to meet needs identified in clinical
evaluation or treatment planning.
• Service Coordination . Answer: Also known as Case Management;
activities that bring client, treatment services, community agencies, and
other resources together to focus on issues and needs identified in
treatment plan.
• 3 Definable elements of Service Coordination . Answer: 1.
Implementing the treatment plan.
2. Counsulting and carrying on the process of ongoing assessment and
treatment planning
3. Counseling, of course, elements of individual, group, and family
counseling.
, • Counseling . Answer: a collaborative process that facilitates the
client's progress toward mutually determined treatment goal and
objectives through: exploration of a problem and it's ramifications
examination of attitudes and feelings
consideration of alternative solutions
decision-making.
• Demonstrate at least 3 Counseling Approach Goals . Answer: Reality
Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Systemic Counseling, Tranactional
Analysis, Stategic Family Therapy, Client Centered Therapy, etc.
• Behavioral Approach Example . Answer: Suggested for clients who are
resistant, manipulative, and having difficulty antiipating consequences
and regulating impulses.
• Cognitive Approach Example . Answer: Suggested for a client who is
depressed, yet insightful and articulate.
• Client Family, and Community Education . Answer: 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. Includes
providing lists of self-help groups and other community resources that
can be utilized to maintain recovery.
