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Chemical Dependency Counselor
License Exam
1.What instrument evaluates a client’s person, place and time while taking
the assessment?
A. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
. B. The Strong interest Inventory
. C. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence
. D. The Mental Status Exam.
Answer: D The tool that actuates the client’s time, place and person is The Mental Status
Exam. This assessment includes observation related to judgment, behavior, thought
process, perception and
2.What is the proper diagnosis for anxiety that is a direct consequence of drugs?
A. Substanceinduced anxiety disorder
B. Mental Retardation.
C. Substance abuse.
D. Substance dependence.
Answer: A The proper diagnosis for an anxiety disorder that is a direct physiological
consequence of drug or medication abuse is a substanceinduced anxiety disorder.
Counselors are likely to encounter several of these mood disorders when working with
chemical abusing clients.
3.In motivational interviewing which term is not recommended?
A. Homosexual.
B. Person first language.
C. Schizophrenia
. D. Alcoholic.
Answer: D Alcoholic is considered to be the most defensive to a client that has not accepted
the possibility that he or she has the disease. Being titled that name reduces the acceptance
of that person’s alcoholism.
4.Which of these screening instruments are considered particularly useful
in working with the elderly client?
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A. ADS.
B. TLFD.
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C. TWEAK
. D. SASSI.
Answer: B TLFD, Time Line Follow Back, is an instrument that uses a calendar and
conversion drink chart to help aid in recalling the establishment of a connection in the
pattern and intensity of the client’s chemical use.
5.Which of these tests is selfadministrated and assesses the attempts to control
the drinking during the past six months and now?
A. Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS-IV)
B. Impaired Control Scale (ICS)
C. Instruments to Aid Treatment Planning (IATP).
D. Addiction Severity Index (ASI).
Answer: B This Impaired Control Scale (ICS) is a selfadministered pencil and paper
instrument that measures the client’s attempt to control their drinking and their
perception of their ability to control this drinking.
6.
Why should you epxlain the need for an assessment to adult clients?
A. To encourage the client to enlist the help of a spouse to approve the questions
B. To assist in building client rapport and cooperation
C. So that the client will not interrupt and ask questions
D. To allow the client to reword the questions
Answer: B The reason to explain the need for an assessment is to enlist the client’s
cooperation. If the assessment is read aloud the client feels the counselor is sincere in
wishing the client understands the procedures and the reasons for them.
7.What would be the reason for the psychiatric assessment?
A. The client presents difficulties in focusing and low motivation
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Chemical Dependency Counselor
License Exam
1.What instrument evaluates a client’s person, place and time while taking
the assessment?
A. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
. B. The Strong interest Inventory
. C. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence
. D. The Mental Status Exam.
Answer: D The tool that actuates the client’s time, place and person is The Mental Status
Exam. This assessment includes observation related to judgment, behavior, thought
process, perception and
2.What is the proper diagnosis for anxiety that is a direct consequence of drugs?
A. Substanceinduced anxiety disorder
B. Mental Retardation.
C. Substance abuse.
D. Substance dependence.
Answer: A The proper diagnosis for an anxiety disorder that is a direct physiological
consequence of drug or medication abuse is a substanceinduced anxiety disorder.
Counselors are likely to encounter several of these mood disorders when working with
chemical abusing clients.
3.In motivational interviewing which term is not recommended?
A. Homosexual.
B. Person first language.
C. Schizophrenia
. D. Alcoholic.
Answer: D Alcoholic is considered to be the most defensive to a client that has not accepted
the possibility that he or she has the disease. Being titled that name reduces the acceptance
of that person’s alcoholism.
4.Which of these screening instruments are considered particularly useful
in working with the elderly client?
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A. ADS.
B. TLFD.
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C. TWEAK
. D. SASSI.
Answer: B TLFD, Time Line Follow Back, is an instrument that uses a calendar and
conversion drink chart to help aid in recalling the establishment of a connection in the
pattern and intensity of the client’s chemical use.
5.Which of these tests is selfadministrated and assesses the attempts to control
the drinking during the past six months and now?
A. Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS-IV)
B. Impaired Control Scale (ICS)
C. Instruments to Aid Treatment Planning (IATP).
D. Addiction Severity Index (ASI).
Answer: B This Impaired Control Scale (ICS) is a selfadministered pencil and paper
instrument that measures the client’s attempt to control their drinking and their
perception of their ability to control this drinking.
6.
Why should you epxlain the need for an assessment to adult clients?
A. To encourage the client to enlist the help of a spouse to approve the questions
B. To assist in building client rapport and cooperation
C. So that the client will not interrupt and ask questions
D. To allow the client to reword the questions
Answer: B The reason to explain the need for an assessment is to enlist the client’s
cooperation. If the assessment is read aloud the client feels the counselor is sincere in
wishing the client understands the procedures and the reasons for them.
7.What would be the reason for the psychiatric assessment?
A. The client presents difficulties in focusing and low motivation
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