CAC Addiction Counselor 2025/2026
Exam Questions and Corresponding
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Answers with Surety of 100% Pass Mark
Adlerian Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Focuses on the patient's ability to control his
destiny by setting goals and exhibiting purposeful behaviors
Adlerian Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Uses fictional finalism as an imagined central
goal that gives us purpose and guides our behavior
Phenomenology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A counselor attempts to view the world from
the same frame of reference as the patient
Behavioral Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Focuses on modifying patient's learned
behaviors that are negatively affecting his life
Classical conditioning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A model of behavioral therapy developed
by Pavlov, where a response to a stimuli can be elicited over time by association
with a related stimulus
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,Operant conditioning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Developed by BF Skinner; behavior is
reinforced and learned based on consequences of behavior
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Modeling - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Developed by Albert Bandura, where a behavior is
learned by observing the consequences of someone else's experiences
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Developed by Aaron Beck
originally as a short-term treatment for depression; self-defeating thoughts,
emotions and behaviors cause dysfunction and are taught to be recognized and
replaced.
Gestalt Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Developed by Fritz Perls, a method where the
patient gains awareness of what he is currently experiencing and learns personal
responsibility for his thoughts, emotions and behaviors
Focuses primarily on understanding how one behaves, rather than why. Process-
oriented, unfinished business.
Motivational Enhancement Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A therapeutic approach that
addresses ambivalence and helps clients consider the advantages and disadvantages
of continuing substance use
Based on the Stages of Change model
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, Person-Centered Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A humanistic therapy, developed by
Carl Rogers, in which the therapist creates an accepting, empathic environment to
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facilitate the client's growth
Congruence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The ability to match external behavior and
expression with internal feelings and thoughts
Unconditional Positive Regard - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A caring, accepting,
nonjudgmental attitude, conducive to developing self-awareness and self-
acceptance
Pharmacotherapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The use of medically prescribed psychoactive
chemicals to treat psychiatric and behavioral conditions
Sensitizers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pharmacotherapies that cause unpleasant effects if
certain psychoactive chemicals are taken in conjunction with it
Antagonists - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pharmacotherapies that block the effects of certain
drugs to either prevent overdose or as a treatment approach for maintaining
sobriety
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Exam Questions and Corresponding
1
Answers with Surety of 100% Pass Mark
Adlerian Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Focuses on the patient's ability to control his
destiny by setting goals and exhibiting purposeful behaviors
Adlerian Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Uses fictional finalism as an imagined central
goal that gives us purpose and guides our behavior
Phenomenology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A counselor attempts to view the world from
the same frame of reference as the patient
Behavioral Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Focuses on modifying patient's learned
behaviors that are negatively affecting his life
Classical conditioning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A model of behavioral therapy developed
by Pavlov, where a response to a stimuli can be elicited over time by association
with a related stimulus
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Operant conditioning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Developed by BF Skinner; behavior is
reinforced and learned based on consequences of behavior
2
Modeling - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Developed by Albert Bandura, where a behavior is
learned by observing the consequences of someone else's experiences
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Developed by Aaron Beck
originally as a short-term treatment for depression; self-defeating thoughts,
emotions and behaviors cause dysfunction and are taught to be recognized and
replaced.
Gestalt Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Developed by Fritz Perls, a method where the
patient gains awareness of what he is currently experiencing and learns personal
responsibility for his thoughts, emotions and behaviors
Focuses primarily on understanding how one behaves, rather than why. Process-
oriented, unfinished business.
Motivational Enhancement Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A therapeutic approach that
addresses ambivalence and helps clients consider the advantages and disadvantages
of continuing substance use
Based on the Stages of Change model
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Person-Centered Therapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A humanistic therapy, developed by
Carl Rogers, in which the therapist creates an accepting, empathic environment to
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facilitate the client's growth
Congruence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The ability to match external behavior and
expression with internal feelings and thoughts
Unconditional Positive Regard - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A caring, accepting,
nonjudgmental attitude, conducive to developing self-awareness and self-
acceptance
Pharmacotherapy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The use of medically prescribed psychoactive
chemicals to treat psychiatric and behavioral conditions
Sensitizers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pharmacotherapies that cause unpleasant effects if
certain psychoactive chemicals are taken in conjunction with it
Antagonists - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pharmacotherapies that block the effects of certain
drugs to either prevent overdose or as a treatment approach for maintaining
sobriety
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
