CRC Motivational Interviewing & Counseling Techniques Flashcards

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for addiction recovery primarily focuses on:

Answer: Identifying and changing maladaptive thoughts and behaviors

CBT targets the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to help clients develop healthier coping strategies.

Person-Centered Therapy emphasizes which core condition as essential to the therapeutic relationship?

Answer: Empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard

Carl Rogers identified empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard as the core conditions that facilitate therapeutic change.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) balances which two core strategies?

Answer: Acceptance and change

DBT's dialectical philosophy integrates acceptance of the client as they are with strategies for behavioral change.

Trauma-Informed Care in addiction counseling is based on the recognition that:

Answer: There is a high prevalence of trauma history among people with SUDs

Trauma-Informed Care acknowledges that most people with substance use disorders have experienced trauma, which profoundly impacts treatment.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) directs therapeutic attention primarily toward:

Answer: Client strengths and a future vision of success

SFBT builds solutions using the client's existing strengths and preferred future rather than analyzing the problem's origins.

Which stage immediately precedes the Action stage in the Transtheoretical Model of Change?

Answer: Preparation

In Prochaska and DiClemente's model, Preparation (planning specific change steps) precedes the Action stage.