CATC EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2024/2025
I. Clinical Evaluation - ANSWERSScreening & Assessment of individuals thought to have a substance disorder. Evaluating an individual's strengths, wweaknesses, problems and needs for the development of a treament plan. Determine eligibility to a particula...
I. Clinical Evaluation - ANSWERSScreening & Assessment of individuals thought to have a substance
disorder. Evaluating an individual's strengths, wweaknesses, problems and needs for the development of
a treament plan. Determine eligibility to a particular program.
II. Treatment Planning - ANSWERSCollaborative process with counselor and client that identifies
important treatment goals; described in behavioral and measureable, time-s ensitive action steps with
expected outcomes. Specific activity that links the problem with the goal. Contract must be regularly
reviewed and modified appropriately.
III. Referral - ANSWERSidentifying needs of client that cannot be met by the counselor or agency.
Facilitating client's use of available support systems and community resources to meet needs identified
in clinical evaluation or treatment planning.
IV. Service Coordination - ANSWERSAlso known as Case Management; activities that bring client,
treatment services, community agencies, and other resources together to focus on issues and needs
identified in treatment plan.
3 Definable elements of Service Coordination - ANSWERS1. Implementing the treatment plan.
2. Counsulting and carrying on the process of ongoing assessment and treatment planning
3. Counseling, of course, elements of individual, group, and family counseling.
V. Counseling - ANSWERSa collaborative process that facilitates the client's progress toward mutually
determined treatment goal and objectives through: exploration of a problem and it's ramifications
examination of attitudes and feelings
consideration of alternative solutions
decision-making.
, Demonstrate at least 3 Counseling Approach Goals - ANSWERSReality Therapy, Behavior Therapy,
Systemic Counseling, Tranactional Analysis, Stategic Family Therapy, Client Centered Therapy, etc.
Behavioral Approach Example - ANSWERSSuggested for clients who are resistant, manipulative, and
having difficulty antiipating consequences and regulating impulses.
Cognitive Approach Example - ANSWERSSuggested for a client who is depressed, yet insightful and
articulate.
VI. Client Family, and Community Education - ANSWERSProcess of providing clients, families, significant
others, and community groups with information on risks related to psychoactive substance use, as well
as available prevention, treatment, and recovery resources. Includes providing lists of self-help groups
and other community resources that can be utilized to maintain recovery.
VII. Documentation - ANSWERSReport and Record Keeping; the recording (charting) of the clinical
evaluation, Intake process, treatment plan, clinical reports, clinical progress, discharge summaries, and
other client-related data.
Benefits of documentation - ANSWERS-provides ongoing hx of client and their progress, or lack of.
-allows for continous review of the services provided and how they reflect client's treatment contract.
-assists the counselor's supervisor or clinical supervisor to provide timely feedback.
-valuable reference for other programs providing service to client in the future.
-provides accountability to the funding and licensing sources.
-ultimate goal of ALL documentation is to enhance the entire treatment experience.
VIII. Professional & Ethical Responsibilities - ANSWERSThe obligations of counselor to adhere to accepted
ethical and behavioral standards of conduct and continuing professional development.
Tools of assessment - ANSWERS-counselor's observation.
-clinical interviews.
-laboratory tests.
instrument tests and self-report inventories.
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