Addiction Medicine Behavioral Therapies & Counseling Flashcards
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Which technique used in 12-step facilitation therapy encourages the patient to accept that addiction is a disease beyond personal control?
Answer: Surrender and acceptance
12-step facilitation therapy encourages 'surrender and acceptance' — acknowledging powerlessness over the substance and embracing the disease model as the first step toward recovery.
What is the primary goal of motivational enhancement therapy (MET) in addiction treatment?
Answer: Increasing intrinsic motivation to change substance use behavior
MET aims to rapidly build and strengthen the patient's internal motivation and commitment to change by eliciting and reinforcing their own reasons for seeking recovery.
In CBT for substance use disorders, a 'high-risk situation' is defined as:
Answer: A situation, emotion, or cue that increases the likelihood of substance use
In CBT, a high-risk situation is any internal or external trigger — emotional, interpersonal, or environmental — that elevates the probability that the patient will use substances.
Which element distinguishes individual drug counseling (IDC) from other psychotherapies for addiction?
Answer: It emphasizes 12-step participation as a central component
Individual Drug Counseling (IDC) integrates 12-step principles and encourages active 12-step meeting attendance as a central component of the recovery plan.
When using contingency management (CM) in a clinical setting, which schedule of reinforcement is most effective for maintaining abstinence?
Answer: Escalating schedule with reset after positive screen
Escalating reinforcement schedules — where rewards increase with consecutive negative drug screens and reset to baseline after a positive screen — produce the strongest and most sustained abstinence.
Which core process in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for addiction encourages patients to observe thoughts without fusion or avoidance?
Answer: Cognitive defusion
Cognitive defusion in ACT teaches patients to observe their cravings and urge-related thoughts as transient mental events rather than truths that must be acted upon.
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