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LCAS Exam | 150 Questions and Answers Verified100% Correct
How does solution-focused brief therapy differ from many of the other approaches to
counseling? - ✔✔Emphasis is placed on the present and future while devaluing the past
Case Reviews: - ✔✔enable the counselor to assess progress and make any necessary
changes in the treatment plan
The tendency of the family to try and maintain balance when dealing with a loved one's
substance use disorder is called: - ✔✔homeostasis
Your client expresses growing feelings of rage. He has recurring nightmares in which he attacks
random women on the street. If you followed through with what you believed was a duty to
warn, under what circumstances would you be least likely to be disciplined? - ✔✔If the client
discloses the name of a person he plans to harm
In his second counseling session, a client reveals to the counselor that he is gay. Having never
worked with a member of this special population, the counselor's BEST course of action is to: -
✔✔Offer to refer the client to someone with experience in with special issues associated
with the gay community
Determining a clients eligibility and appropriateness for treatment occurs during the
___________ process - ✔✔Screening
Highly structured daily routines, a system of rewards and punishments, and frequent group
confrontation are characteristics of: - ✔✔therapeutic communities
Collateral interviews: - ✔✔Involve gathering information from other persons who are, or
have been, associated with the person being assessed.
,A major criticism of the _________________ is that the questions are so obvious that the test
cannot possibly detect alcoholics who deny having a problem. - ✔✔MAST
The goal of complete abstinence is most consistent with the ______________ model of
addiction - ✔✔Disease
_____________ Can develop between natural and synthetic opiates, but not between opiates
and CNS depressants - ✔✔Cross tolerance
Appropriate treatment goals must be: - ✔✔Observable and measurable, in order to facilitate
monitoring progress
When is confrontation probably least appropriate - ✔✔Prior to establishing rapport with the
client
The goal of screening is to - ✔✔determine whether a client is appropriate and eligible for a
particular treatment service
________ drugs are used to treat mental disorders - ✔✔Psychotropic
Jamal believes that he has everything he will ever need materially and financially, so he has
decided to devote his time to music and other creative outlets for self-expression. Jamal's
motivation is best accounted for by: - ✔✔Humanistic theories
The idea that people have an in-born desire to self-actualize is associated with: -
✔✔humanistic theory
Methadone, Tramadol, and Morphine are all__________ - ✔✔Opiates
, The central focus or "charge" of the twelfth step of Alcoholics anonymous is: - ✔✔service to
others
A counselor's personal values: - ✔✔Are communicated through the therapeutic goals they
offer and how they attempt to reach those goals with the client.
Nonmaleficence - ✔✔do no harm
___________ interventions have been developed or are being sought to block the effects of
abused drugs, reduce cravings for drugs and block the toxic effects of drugs. -
✔✔pharmacological
The terminology now being used in the DSM-5 for diagnostic categories is: - ✔✔Substance
Use Disorder
Which statement BEST describes the relevance of counselor self-exploration - ✔✔Counselors
can benefit greatly from being clients themselves, at some point.
_____________ is the term used to describe the mental activities involved in acquiring,
retaining, and using any type of knowledge. - ✔✔Cognition
In the DSM-5, for a substance use disorder severity indicator of mild, how many criteria must be
present? - ✔✔two to three
In which situation is it acceptable to release confidential information without prior consent
from the client? - ✔✔When the client admits to abusing a child
Substance ________ is a syndrome that develops temporarily after ingestion of a psychoactive
substance - ✔✔intoxication
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