Substance Abuse Screening & Assessments Instruments
Effectively assess a client's status in several areas, and the composite score measures how a client's need for treatment changes over time.
AKA. Our DSM Assessments
What is Addiction Severity Index? (ASI)
Founder: Sigmund Freud
View of the Person: The mind is composed of 3 parts. (ID, Ego, Super Ego)
Goal of Therapy: To make the unconscious conscious. To reconstruct the basic personality. To assist clients in reliving earlier experiences and working through repressed conflicts. Intellectual awareness.
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?
The attitude that the beliefs, customs, or practices of one's own ethnic group, nation, or culture are superior, or an excessive or inappropriate concern for racial matters.
AKA "Our culture is normal; others are weird. Stereotype discrimination
What is Ethnocentrism?
Accusing others of motives and traits that the person senses are true about themselves but find unacceptable.
What is Projection?
Juanita has been seeing a counselor for a few weeks and has recently been responding in an argumentative fashion, saying.... "You are just like my father, always on my case."
The patient's feelings toward the counselor.
What is Transference?
A self-report screening instrument consisting of 4 yes-no questions. Requires approximately 1 min to complete. AKA "ETOH use
What is CAGE questionnaire?
Founder: Carl Rogers
View of the Person: A person is essentially good. A person is capable of living a meaningful life.
Goal of Therapy: Self healing through self-discovery and self acceptance.
What is Client-Centered Therapy?
Social norms and responses that condition the behavior of a group of people, that answer life's fundamental questions about the origin and nature of things.
What is Culture?
Finding a satisfactory reason for doing something unacceptable.
What is Rationalization?
Destructiveness
Incapacity
Blindness
Pre-competence
Competence
What are the Stages of Cultural Competence?
Quantifies the severity of alcohol for adults, using a 24-item self-administered questionnaire calling for "yes" and "no" responses.
What is Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test? (MAST)
Founder: Albert Ellis
Goal of Therapy: To eliminate clients' self-defeating outlook on life and assist them in acquiring a more tolerant and rational view of life.
What is Rational-Emotive Therapy? (RET)
The beliefs, values, customs, or practices of a specific group (e.g, its characteristics, languages, common history, or national origin).
What is Ethnicity?
Returning to more immature behavior that was once satisfying occurs more frequently under extreme pressure.
What is Regression?
Highly structured daily routines, a system of rewards and punishments, and frequent group confrontation. Being held accountable for actions or none thereof.
What is Therapeutic Communities?
1) to provide a brief, simple, practical, but valid method for identifying individuals who are abusing psychoactive drugs. 2) To yield a quantitative index score of the degree of problems related to drug use and misuse.
What is Drug Abuse Screening Test? (DAST)
Founder: Frederick (Fritz) Perls
Goal of Therapy: To assist clients in gaining awareness of moment-to-moment experiencing. To challenge them to accept responsibility for internal support as opposed to depending on external support
AKA: Empty Chair, and Argumentative
What is Gestalt Therapy?
The act of treating a person, issue, or behavior unjustly or inequitably as a result of prejudice.
What is Discrimination?
One person creates discomfort, but there is too much anxiety to talk directly with that person, so the individual takes his or her feelings out on someone or something else less threatening.
What is Displacement?
The counselor's feelings towards the patient.
What is Countertransference?
Designed to be used within suspected drug-involved adult defendants/offenders to determine specific drug intervention disposition.
What is Offender Profile Index? (OPI)
Goal of Therapy: To challenge clients' basic premises and goals. To offer encouragement so they can develop socially useful goals. To change faulty motivation and help them feel equal to others.
AKA Purpose Driven Life
What is Adlerian Therapy?
Being comfortable with many standards and customs, the ability to adapt behavior and judgments to a variety of interpersonal settings.
All Cultures should be valued for inclusion.
What is Multiculturalism?
Forcing unacceptable thoughts and feelings from the conscious mind to the unconscious mind.
What is Repression?
The phenomenon where developing a tolerance to one drug also causes tolerance to other, chemically similar drugs, such as between alcohol and benzodiazepines.
What is Cross-tolerance?