Question 1

Motivational interviewing is not a theory of counseling; rather, it is a transtheoretical approach to the change process that encompasses both an attitude and set of techniques designed to elicit and enhance a client’s internal change processes.

Question 2

Counselors who are skilled at helping clients see the benefit of making changes in their lives witness the most successful outcomes when they encourage client motivation

Question 3

Glutamate, the predominant excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, functions in many key aspects of the brain’s operations such as learning and memory.

Question 4

A clinical interview takes into consideration many relevant components. Which is not a component of the clinical interview?

Question 5

An individual with binge eating disorder engages in random fasting and diets and feels extreme shame and self-hatred after bingeing. Individuals with binge eating disorder tend to eat rapidly and secretly and be depressed and obese

Question 6

What do you need to know for contextual analysis of substance use?

Question 7

A gambling disorder diagnosis requires that an individual show four or more of the nine gambling behaviors that are persistent and problematic in a 10-month period.

Question 8

Cognitive interventions are specifically intended to modify automatic thoughts and drug-related beliefs, as well as to modify conditional assumptions and core beliefs

Question 9

Alcohol is considered a …

Question 10

A basic concept of the neurobiology of addiction is the “reward pathway,” which comprises the areas of the brain most involved in addiction. The brain’s limbic system is home to the areas of the brain thought to make up the reward pathway—which area of the brain is not part of the limbic system?

Question 11

In the counseling process, change requires that clients make up their mind to do something differently, engage in different behaviors and thoughts, and then maintain the new, transformed state

Question 12

According to Buck & Amos, 2000, signs of gambling addiction can include:

Question 13

In Motivational Interviewing, counselors are encouraged to utilize close questions as opposed to open ended questions.

Question 14

It takes increasing amounts of mood-altering chemicals or processes to achieve the desired effect. This process is called:

Question 15

Effective counselors encourage a sense of hope in clients, because hope is seen as a condition of successful psychotherapy

Question 16

Which is not part of the primary characteristics of workaholics:

Question 17

Most clients have little understanding of psychological testing. Therefore, it is important to encourage client education at all stages of the assessment process and indicate to the client that questions are always welcome.

Question 18

Resistance can appear in a variety of ways throughout the change process. Motivational interviewing encourages counselors to approach resistance with un-welcoming arms

Question 19

The ASAM criteria are the most widely used and thorough set of guidelines for assessment, service planning, placement, continued stay, and discharge planning of patients with addictive disorders. Dimension 2 refers to:

Question 20

Which is not part of the five objectives for assessment:

Question 21

Addiction is considered to be a chronic, or lifelong, disease by both the medical establishment and programs like Alcoholics Anonymous. There is increasing neuroscientific data suggesting that 12-step programs may help addicts achieve and maintain sobriety by protecting and enhancing the prefrontal cortex of the brain.

Question 22

Reflective listening is simply the act of repeating back to the client the content of his or her words in an unbiased, nonjudgmental manner.

Question 23

Mindfulness is understood as a centering process, a method for heightening awareness in the present moment. It is the deliberate practice of noticing, accepting, describing, and not judging one’s immediate perceptual experience, and particularly helpful in relapse prevention.

Question 24

Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral (CB) interventions that are well represented among effective treatments for problematic alcohol use include:

Question 25

There are varying definitions of sexual addiction. Sexaholics Anonymous, Inc. (SA) defines a sexaholic as someone who is addicted to: