Chemical Dependency Counselor CCDC Exam Prep - Question List

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6.

What instrument assesses anxiety as a direct physiological consequence of a drug and/or medication abuse?

  1. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  2. The Strong interest Inventory.
  3. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence.
  4. The Mental Status Exam.
7. What does case finding and pretreatment mean?
  1. Methods used to get clients.
  2. Services identified to assist a particular client.
  3. The methods used to locate missing clients, usually adolescents.
  4. The case used by discharge planning.
8. A former client calls asking to be admitted. He has completed treatment in this center two times before; both times have been within the recent eight months. He says he has been sober for 6 months; but he has relapsed. What recommendation is the most appropriate?
  1. Client should be asked to come immediately for an assessment interview. if he is drinking, transportation should be arranged.
  2. As he has been sober for six months he should return to AA at the first available AA meeting.
  3. The counselor and the client will review the discharge plan in an attempt to identify the cause for the relapse. The plan will be amended or redrawn.
  4. Staff will determine that he has plenty of orange juice on hand and client is told to wait until the counselor returns to work.
9. In evaluating case management effectiveness, counselors are not expected to monitor the effectiveness of case management activities for individual clients. Which aspect is Considered most important?
  1. Tracking frequency of certain groups of client relapses.
  2. Tracking urine screen results.
  3. Tracking effectiveness of individual clients.
10.

Why is it necessary for a counselor to be familiar with the case management community resources?

  1. Familiarity with client's needed resources insures a smoother discharge.
  2. To better engage in price fixing to get a referral fee.
  3. To avoid engaging in rivalry with many resources.
  4. Knowing something of the treatment philosophies, personnel, logistics and hours of operation assists in the linking of needed services for a client will be helpful.

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