Diagnosis
The painful (and sometimes fatal) combination of physical and/or psychological symptoms that a person might feel in the absence of using a substance.
What is withdrawal?
The standard amount of ounces in one drink of liquor.
What is 1.5 ounces.
The function that determines a client's eligibility for admission / referral.
What is screening?
A person in this stage of change might be setting up their environment in a way that prepares them for successful recovery.
What is the preparation stage?
A visual representation of a person's family that is often used to help clinician's understand a family's impact on their client's substance use, and also assist the client with similar insight.
What is a genogram?
The diagnostic criteria that was once a criteria for the diagnosis of substance abuse in the DSM-IV, and no longer is used as a criteria for substance use disorder in the DSM-5.
What are recurrent substance-related legal problems.
The standard amount of ounces in one drink of wine.
What is 5 ounces?
The procedure by which a counselor identifies and evaluates an individual's use of substances, as well as a multitude of other life issues, and the impact that substance use has had across all life domains.
What is assessment?
A person in this stage of change may not consider their behavior problematic, and usually has no interest in talking about changing.
What is the precontemplation stage?
The diagnostic criteria that was added to the DSM-5 as a criteria for the diagnosis of substance use disorder, but was not a criteria used in the DSM-IV for diagnoses of substance abuse or substance dependence.
What is craving, or a strong desire or urge to use.
According to NIAAA, the maximum WEEKLY drinking limits for a healthy man under the age of 65.
What are 14 drinks.
The process during which a counselor and client identify and rank problems in need of resolution, and identify goals and objectives to focus on during the course of treatment.
What is treatment planning?
A person in this stage of change has successfully modified their behavior for a sustained period of time.
What is the maintenance stage?
The number of criteria a person must meet in order to be diagnosed by the DSM-5 with a substance use disorder, moderate.
What are 4-5 criteria?
According to NIAAA, the maximum WEEKLY drinking limits for a healthy woman under the age of 65.
What are 7 drinks?
Services that focus on an individual's needs during acute emotional and/or physical distress.
What is crisis intervention?
A person in this stage of change is in a high state of ambivalence, considering the need to change and also not quite ready to do so.
What is the contemplation stage of change?
A person is said to have met the diagnostic criteria for this if they have to consume larger amounts of a substance to achieve the effect they once felt with less of that substance.
What is tolerance?
The maximum amount of drinks per week for individuals who do not have the "addiction gene".
What is a trick question?
While science shows genetics to play a role in an individuals risk for developing a substance use disorder, we have not isolated a single gene that leads to the development of addiction.
Matching client needs and/or problems to appropriate resources.
A person in this stage of change has begun to shift from thinking about change to taking steps towards doing so.
What is the action stage?