Clinical Evaluation & Intervention Planning Flashcards
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A CIP is conducting a pre-intervention assessment and discovers the identified patient takes prescribed opioids for chronic pain. What is the most critical clinical consideration?
Answer: Pain management and addiction treatment must be coordinated in the intervention plan
Prescribed opioid use with potential addiction requires that the intervention plan coordinate pain management with addiction treatment to ensure continuity of care.
The ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine) criteria use six dimensions for patient placement. Which dimension addresses the risk of withdrawal symptoms?
Answer: Dimension 1: Acute Intoxication and/or Withdrawal Potential
ASAM Dimension 1 specifically evaluates current intoxication and the potential for clinically significant withdrawal requiring medical management.
Which stage of the Prochaska and DiClemente Transtheoretical Model describes a person who acknowledges a problem but is not yet committed to change?
Answer: Contemplation
In the Contemplation stage, individuals recognize that a problem exists and are considering change but remain ambivalent and uncommitted to taking action.
During the clinical evaluation phase, a CIP discovers the identified patient has a history of severe alcohol withdrawal seizures. This information should MOST directly influence which aspect of the intervention plan?
Answer: The requirement for medically supervised detoxification as the first treatment step
A history of withdrawal seizures indicates high medical risk, making medically supervised detoxification a clinical necessity that must be secured before intervention.
What is the primary clinical rationale for conducting a mental status examination as part of an intervention assessment?
Answer: To assess cognitive capacity, orientation, and the presence of psychosis or acute psychiatric disturbance
A mental status examination evaluates orientation, mood, thought process, and cognitive function to identify acute conditions that may affect the intervention's safety or the person's capacity to engage.
In clinical intervention planning, 'motivational enhancement' strategies are most aligned with which therapeutic framework?
Answer: Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Motivational Interviewing is specifically designed to explore and resolve ambivalence, enhancing intrinsic motivation for change, which is the core goal of motivational enhancement.
A family involved in an intervention reports that they have been hiding alcohol bottles, calling in sick on the patient's behalf, and covering financial debts caused by gambling. Clinically, this behavior pattern is BEST described as:
Answer: Enabling behaviors that inadvertently reduce natural consequences of addiction
Hiding substances, covering absences, and paying debts are enabling behaviors that shield the person from natural consequences, reducing their motivation to seek help.