Counseling Practice
Instrument with 6 dimensions including intoxication/withdrawal, biomedical conditions/complications, cognitive/behavioral/ emotional conditions, readiness to change, relapse/continued use, and recovery environment.
What is the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) assessment?
An approach to help individuals pass through the stages of change emphasizing the foundational components of collaboration, evoking, autonomy and compassion.
What is motivational interviewing (MI)?
The three key attributes associated with this process include commitment, competency and consciousness.
What is ethical decision making?
Most commonly used substances in the world that increase CNS activity and are used medically and recreationally. These can include caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, amphetamines, and methamphetamines.
What are stimulants?
Individuals experience this when returning to substance misuse or problematic behaviors after a period of stopping. The three stages of this are emotional, mental, and physical.
What is relapse?
Screening developed to help identify covert abusers because they often hide their drug problems with lies, subterfuge and defensive responses.
What is the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI-4)?
Depending on the nature and severity of an individual’s SUD, these can serve as an alternative or adjunct to traditional therapies. Included are 12-step, secular and religious recovery programs.
What are self-help groups?
When the counselor projects their unconscious thoughts and feelings onto the client.
What is countertransference?
A hallucinogen and stimulant that alters perception and mood that initially gained popularity as a club drug in the 90s. It's a Schedule I drug that produces euphoria. Tolerance and dependency are difficult to predict.
What is MDMA (Ecstasy)?
Slang used to describe experiences with this drug include: K-hold, The God phase, Baby food, and K-land.
What is ketamine?
This assessment tool looks at the causes of relapse including personal states and situational certainty, or the degree of self-assurance in resisting use in tempting situations.
What is the Situational Confidence Questionnaire?
Theory focusing on concepts of thinking versus feeling/reactivity, emotional triangles, generationally repeating family issues, undifferentiated family ego mass, emotional cutoff, and each individual family member.
What is Murray Bowen’s family systems theory?
The need to “do no harm” in personal and professional relationships.
What is nonmalfeasance?
A fatal heart condition resulting from inhalant use. Risk increases with long-session use and with chemicals contained in aerosols, propane and butane.
What is sudden sniffing death syndrome (SSDS)?
A therapy that aims to differentiate methods that are effective, from those that are not, and to identify areas of strengths to be used in problem solving. It is a social constructionist theory beneficial for treating SUD.
What is solution-focused therapy?
Assessment instrument that collects information on a client’s substance use. The seven domains include medical status, employment/support, drug use, alcohol use, legal status, family/social status, psychiatric status.
What is the Addiction Severity Index?
A therapeutic approach using the ABC model. The central premise of the approach is that irrational thought patterns must be changed in order to change behaviors.
What is rational-emotive-behavior therapy (REBT)?
Consensus-oriented approach combining clinical and ethical decision-making processes. It considers practical and moral consequences of decisions and establishes such grounding through interpersonal assessment rather than absolute truths.
What is clinical pragmatism?
These are prescribed for anxiety/panic, migraines and epileptic seizures that work by increasing the activity of GABA, resulting in sedation.
What are barbiturates?
A drug manufactured synthetically, partially synthetically, or naturally that is classified as a CNS depressant and is primarily used medically for pain management.
What are opioids?
An assessment that offers a collaborative, strengths-based, holistic approach to the diagnosis of SUD considering factors like age, medical history, genetics, culture and environment.
What is the biopsychosocial assessment?
Intervention based on the assumption that individuals with SUD don't have to reach rock bottom to benefit from treatment. It emphasizes the importance of treating the entire family rather than the individual and consists of three sequential stages.
What is the ARISE intervention?
A 4 step method of change based on a trilogy of concepts that include quality planning, control, and improvement. The steps include defining, diagnosing, remediating, and holding.
What is Joseph Juran’s quality improvement process?
This drug produces psychedelic effects via the serotonin 5-hydroxytryptamine 2A receptor and stimulates dopamine receptors. It differs from other hallucinogens in that it is categorized as a phenethylamine.
What is mescaline?
Consistently communicating the same message verbally and nonverbally to convey authenticity on the part of the counselor. The addiction counselor’s words, body language and tone of voice should all convey the same message.
What is congruence?