LCDC LATEST 2026 SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Group approaches - ✔✔*exploratory
*Supportive group
*interactional groups
*interpersonal problem-solving
✔✔Addiction Severity Index (ASI) - ✔✔most useful as a general intake screening tool.
Assesses a client's status in several areas, measures how a client's need for treatment
changes over time.
✔✔Adolescent drinking index - ✔✔24 item paper and pencil self report rating scale
intended to measure the severity of drinking. 5 min. completion time. Need 5th grade
reading level.
✔✔Adolescent Drinking Inventory - ✔✔25-question self-reports instrument to screen
adolescents. it focuses on drinking-related loss of control and social, psychological and
physical symptoms of alcohol problems.
✔✔Adolescent drug involvement scale - ✔✔paper and pencil drug abuse screening
instruments adapted from the adolescent involvement scale.
✔✔Alcohol dependence scale - ✔✔25-item multiple-choice questionnaire to assess the
alcohol dependence syndrome. it is derived from the alcohol use inventory. It yields an
index of severity of alcohol dependence.
✔✔alcohol expectancy questionnaire - ✔✔used to gauge high risk circumstances that
may be lead to alcohol use.
✔✔Alcohol use disorder identification test AUDIT - ✔✔identify persons whose alcohol
consumption has become hazardous or harmful to their health.
✔✔American Drug and Alcohol Survey (ADAS) - ✔✔57-item self-report instrument. it
requires 20-25 minutes to complete. it develops a typology of 9 styles of use of drugs
that are listed in order of increasing severity of drug involvement.
✔✔Assessment of Chemical Health Inventory (ACHI) - ✔✔128-item self-administrated
instrument assesses the nature and extent of substances abuse and associated
psychosocial problems problems and facilitates communication between treatment
providers.
✔✔Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) - ✔✔21 items to assess the intensity of
depression. Can be used to determine whether there is any current indication of the
need of a referral for further evaluation.
, ✔✔CAGE questionnaire - ✔✔cut down, annoyed, guilty, eye opener. 4 yes or no
questions. 1 minute to complete.
✔✔chemical dependency assessment profile - ✔✔235 multiple-choice and true-false
self-report instrument to assess alcohol and other drug use and chemical dependency
problems. can be administrated by computer or in paper and pencil format. a
computerized report can be generated.
✔✔circumstances, motivation, and readiness scales (CMR scales) - ✔✔predict
retention in treatment and is applicable treatment modalities. consists of four derived
scales measuring external pressure to enter treatment, external pressure to leave
treatment, motivation to change, readiness for treatment. developed from focus group of
recovering staff and clients and retain much of the original language. clients entering
substance abuse treatment perceive the items as relevant experience.
✔✔comprehensive addiction severity index for adolescents (CASI-A) - ✔✔this
structured interview was designed to evaluate drug and alcohol use and psychosocial
severity in adolescent populations in a variety of settings. it is administrated by an
assessor to the youth and takes approximately 45 to 60 minutes. a computerized
scoring technique takes about 45 minutes to enter and 10 minutes to score.
✔✔comprehensive drinker profile (CDP) - ✔✔this in an 88-item structed interview
questionnaire. it is designed to provide a history of drinking practices and problems. it
incorporates the Michigan alcoholism screening test. it requires from 1-2 hours to
administer.
✔✔Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) - ✔✔the purpose is to (1) to provide a brief,
simple, practical, but valid method for identifying individuals who are abusing
psychoactive drugs; and 2. to yield a quantitative index score of the degree of problems
related to drug use and misuse. it is especially useful in screening and case finding;
level of treatment and treatment /goal planning. there is both and adult and an
adolescent version.
✔✔Drug Offender Profile Evaluation/Referral Strategies (DOPERS) - ✔✔assesses
suspected drug-involved adult probationers. help determine specific supervision in
treatment recommendations. it is an interview format that takes approximately 25
minutes to complete. a 2 1/2 day training session is required to use the instrument.
✔✔Drug Use Screening Inventory (DUSI) - ✔✔149-item instrument evaluates
adolescent drug use and the youth's health, psychiatric, and psychosocial problems,
identifies problem areas, and quantitively monitors treatment, and treatment/prevention
summary plan. a sixth grade reading level is needed and completion takes 20-40
minutes. scoring takes 15-20 minutes.
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Group approaches - ✔✔*exploratory
*Supportive group
*interactional groups
*interpersonal problem-solving
✔✔Addiction Severity Index (ASI) - ✔✔most useful as a general intake screening tool.
Assesses a client's status in several areas, measures how a client's need for treatment
changes over time.
✔✔Adolescent drinking index - ✔✔24 item paper and pencil self report rating scale
intended to measure the severity of drinking. 5 min. completion time. Need 5th grade
reading level.
✔✔Adolescent Drinking Inventory - ✔✔25-question self-reports instrument to screen
adolescents. it focuses on drinking-related loss of control and social, psychological and
physical symptoms of alcohol problems.
✔✔Adolescent drug involvement scale - ✔✔paper and pencil drug abuse screening
instruments adapted from the adolescent involvement scale.
✔✔Alcohol dependence scale - ✔✔25-item multiple-choice questionnaire to assess the
alcohol dependence syndrome. it is derived from the alcohol use inventory. It yields an
index of severity of alcohol dependence.
✔✔alcohol expectancy questionnaire - ✔✔used to gauge high risk circumstances that
may be lead to alcohol use.
✔✔Alcohol use disorder identification test AUDIT - ✔✔identify persons whose alcohol
consumption has become hazardous or harmful to their health.
✔✔American Drug and Alcohol Survey (ADAS) - ✔✔57-item self-report instrument. it
requires 20-25 minutes to complete. it develops a typology of 9 styles of use of drugs
that are listed in order of increasing severity of drug involvement.
✔✔Assessment of Chemical Health Inventory (ACHI) - ✔✔128-item self-administrated
instrument assesses the nature and extent of substances abuse and associated
psychosocial problems problems and facilitates communication between treatment
providers.
✔✔Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) - ✔✔21 items to assess the intensity of
depression. Can be used to determine whether there is any current indication of the
need of a referral for further evaluation.
, ✔✔CAGE questionnaire - ✔✔cut down, annoyed, guilty, eye opener. 4 yes or no
questions. 1 minute to complete.
✔✔chemical dependency assessment profile - ✔✔235 multiple-choice and true-false
self-report instrument to assess alcohol and other drug use and chemical dependency
problems. can be administrated by computer or in paper and pencil format. a
computerized report can be generated.
✔✔circumstances, motivation, and readiness scales (CMR scales) - ✔✔predict
retention in treatment and is applicable treatment modalities. consists of four derived
scales measuring external pressure to enter treatment, external pressure to leave
treatment, motivation to change, readiness for treatment. developed from focus group of
recovering staff and clients and retain much of the original language. clients entering
substance abuse treatment perceive the items as relevant experience.
✔✔comprehensive addiction severity index for adolescents (CASI-A) - ✔✔this
structured interview was designed to evaluate drug and alcohol use and psychosocial
severity in adolescent populations in a variety of settings. it is administrated by an
assessor to the youth and takes approximately 45 to 60 minutes. a computerized
scoring technique takes about 45 minutes to enter and 10 minutes to score.
✔✔comprehensive drinker profile (CDP) - ✔✔this in an 88-item structed interview
questionnaire. it is designed to provide a history of drinking practices and problems. it
incorporates the Michigan alcoholism screening test. it requires from 1-2 hours to
administer.
✔✔Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) - ✔✔the purpose is to (1) to provide a brief,
simple, practical, but valid method for identifying individuals who are abusing
psychoactive drugs; and 2. to yield a quantitative index score of the degree of problems
related to drug use and misuse. it is especially useful in screening and case finding;
level of treatment and treatment /goal planning. there is both and adult and an
adolescent version.
✔✔Drug Offender Profile Evaluation/Referral Strategies (DOPERS) - ✔✔assesses
suspected drug-involved adult probationers. help determine specific supervision in
treatment recommendations. it is an interview format that takes approximately 25
minutes to complete. a 2 1/2 day training session is required to use the instrument.
✔✔Drug Use Screening Inventory (DUSI) - ✔✔149-item instrument evaluates
adolescent drug use and the youth's health, psychiatric, and psychosocial problems,
identifies problem areas, and quantitively monitors treatment, and treatment/prevention
summary plan. a sixth grade reading level is needed and completion takes 20-40
minutes. scoring takes 15-20 minutes.
