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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 Dimentions -✓✓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.
‣ Gestal 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 growthful 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.
Complete Correct Answers and
Review Guide
‣ 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 Dimentions -✓✓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.
‣ Gestal 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 growthful 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.
