CRC CRC Motivational Interviewing & Counseling Techniques 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for addiction recovery primarily focuses on:
- Unconscious childhood trauma
- Identifying and changing maladaptive thoughts and behaviors (Correct answer)
- Medication management protocols
- Spiritual healing practices
Correct answer: Identifying and changing maladaptive thoughts and behaviors
CBT targets the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to help clients develop healthier coping strategies.
Question 2: Person-Centered Therapy emphasizes which core condition as essential to the therapeutic relationship?
- Goal-setting and homework assignments
- Empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard (Correct answer)
- Structured behavioral contracts
- Pharmacological support
Correct answer: Empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard
Carl Rogers identified empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard as the core conditions that facilitate therapeutic change.
Question 3: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) balances which two core strategies?
- Confrontation and avoidance
- Acceptance and change (Correct answer)
- Medication and abstinence
- Individual and group therapy
Correct answer: Acceptance and change
DBT's dialectical philosophy integrates acceptance of the client as they are with strategies for behavioral change.
Question 4: Trauma-Informed Care in addiction counseling is based on the recognition that:
- Trauma is irrelevant to substance use disorders
- There is a high prevalence of trauma history among people with SUDs (Correct answer)
- Trauma must be fully resolved before addressing addiction
- Trauma only affects female clients
Correct 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.
Question 5: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) directs therapeutic attention primarily toward:
- Root causes of addiction in childhood
- Client strengths and a future vision of success (Correct answer)
- Family systems dysfunction
- Pharmacological interventions
Correct 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.
Question 6: Which stage immediately precedes the Action stage in the Transtheoretical Model of Change?
- Precontemplation
- Contemplation
- Preparation (Correct answer)
- Maintenance
Correct answer: Preparation
In Prochaska and DiClemente's model, Preparation (planning specific change steps) precedes the Action stage.
CRC CRC Motivational Interviewing & Counseling Techniques 2
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for addiction recovery primarily focuses on: