12 Core Functions
Procedure by which a counselor/program identifies and evaluates an individuals strength, weaknesses, problems, and needs for the development of a treatment plan.
What is Assessment?
Effectively assess a client's status in several areas, and the composite score measures how a clients need for treatment changes over time.
What is Addiction Severity Index? (ASI)
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?
Drugs that suppress or slow the activity of the brain and nerves, acting directly on the central nervous system to create a calming or sedating effect.
What is Depressants?
During his treatment, Vic started having painful urination ad feared he might have a sexually transmitted disease. Vic has not been to a doctor in at least ten years and did not have a regular doctor to call. The counselor gave him the name of a local physician who would treat a new patient on a short notice. This process is best viewed as an example of:
What is Referral?
Describing to the client the following: general nature and goals of the program; rules governing client conduct and infractions that can lead to disciplinary action or discharge from the program; the hours which services are available; etc.
What is Orientation?
A self-report screening instrument consisting of 4 yes-no questions. Requires approximately 1 min to complete.
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?
Drugs that accelerate the activity of the central nervous system. Stimulants can make you feel energetic, focused, and alert. This class of drugs can also make you feel edgy, angry, or paranoid.
What is Stimulants?
Bertrand qualifies for job re-training because of a disability. His counselor made an appointment with the state rehabilitation commission to evaluate the type of training that might be beneficial for Bertrand. The counselor also made arrangements for Bertrand to be transported to the appointment, although he was still in primary treatment. the counselors actions BEST described as:
What is Case Management?
What is Counseling?
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)
Psychedelics, these drugs act on the central nervous system to alter your perception of reality, time, and space. Hallucinogens may cause you to hear or see things that don't exist or imagine situations that aren't real.
What is Hallucinogens?
A client must be told the limits of confidentiality before the first therapy session, along with the cost of the services. These issues are part of the process known as:
What is Obtaining informed consent?
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What is Orientation?
Activities which bring services, agencies, resources, or people together within a planned framework of action toward the achievement of established goals.
What is Case Management?
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.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
Most commonly prescribed medicines worldwide and are commonly used to treat pain and cough.
What is Opioids?
Bethany acknowledged in a group session that she was unfaithful to her husband for several months. Although she has ended the affair, she is now convinced that her husband is cheating on her. The counselor would rightly conclude that the ego defense mechanism of ________ is at work here.
What is Projection?
Identifying the needs of a client that cannot be met by the counselor or agency and assisting the client to utilize the support systems and community resources available.
What is Referral?
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.
What is Adlerian Therapy?
Most of the substances in this class can exist in vapor form at room temperature
What is Inhalants?
In group therapy, Sara consistently perceives Gary as an angry critical man (like her father) who cares little for other group members' feelings although other group members perceive Gary as kind, caring, and gentle. This interpretation may be described as:
What is Transference?