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Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Dependency


1- No single treatment is appropriate for all individuals.
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2- Addicted or drug-abusing individuals with coexisting mental disorders should have both disorders treated in an integrated way.
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3- Medical detoxification is only the first stage of addiction treatment and by itself does little to change long-term drug use.
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4- Treatment programs should provide assessment for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
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5- Addicted individuals may require prolonged treatment and multiple episodes of treatment to achieve long-term abstinence.
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6- Agonist Maintenance Treatment for opiate addicts usually is conducted in inpatient settings.
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7- Therapeutic Communities are residential programs with planned lengths of stay of 6 to 12 months.
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8- Relapse Prevention is a psychodynamic based treatment method.
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9- Dual disorders recovery counseling (DDRC) is an integrated approach to treatment of patients with drug use disorders and comorbid psychiatric disorders.
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10- The DDRC model was primarily developed for use in a mental health or dual disorders treatment setting.
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11- The DDRC model is not compatible with pharmacotherapy and family treatment.
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12- The counselor needs to be able to effectively network with other service providers since many dually diagnosed patients have multiple psychosocial problems.
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13- Generally, the patient talks the most during individual DDRC sessions
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14- The DDRC approach can be adapted for virtually any type of addiction, mental health disorder, or combination of dual disorders.
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15- The DDRC session ends with a review of what the patient will be doing between this and the next session relating to his or her recovery.
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16- The CMRPT integrates the disease model and abstinence-based counseling methods with recent advances in cognitive, affective, and behavioral therapies.
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17- The ideal setting for the CMRPT is a primary outpatient program.
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18- The CMRPT is not compatible with a variety of other treatments, including 12-step programs.
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19- Whether or not a counselor is in recovery is irrelevant to the delivery of the CMRPT.
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20- Intoxicated clients are allowed to remain in a CMRPT group.
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21- The Living in Balance program is both a psychoeducational and an experiential treatment model.
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22- The Living in Balance approach is specifically oriented for a group setting.
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23- The intent of the Living in Balance program is to save addiction professionals time and expense by providing pre-prepared sessions.
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24- The basic rationale of the LIB model is that persons addicted to drugs develop a sense of imbalance in major areas of life functioning.
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25- The LIB model is designed to be used by anyone who has experience as a drug abuse counselor or who has other professional addictions training.
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26- The primary goal of addiction counseling is to help the client achieve and maintain abstinence from addictive chemicals and behaviors.
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27- Within the addiction counseling model, the agent of change is the counselor.
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28- Lack of adequate supervision can contribute to counselor stress and burnout, both of which are seen frequently.
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29- The Solution-Focused Model neither encourages nor discourages clients from attending existing self-help programs.
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30- In the solution-focused approach, the counselor is seen as a collaborator/consultant hired by the client to achieve the client's goals.
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31- The Solution-Focused Model was developed largely on a population that was mandated into treatment.
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32- Motivational Enhancement Therapy seeks to evoke from clients their own motivation for change and to consolidate a personal decision and plan for change.
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33- MET has been effectively administered by prebachelor's-level university students working as supervised paraprofessional counselors.
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34- Behavioral, spiritual, and cognitive principles form the core of 12-step fellowships such as Alcoholics Anonymous.
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35- The 12-step model regards addiction as an illness characterized by compulsion that overwhelms individual willpower.
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36- The Psychotherapeutic and Skills-Training Approach integrates psychotherapeutic and coping skills-training techniques with abstinence-based addiction counseling.
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