Counseling Techniques Flashcards
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When conducting a functional analysis of a client's substance use, the counselor is primarily trying to identify:
Answer: Antecedents, behaviors, and consequences related to use
Functional analysis (ABC analysis) examines the antecedents (triggers), behaviors (substance use), and consequences to understand what maintains the addictive behavior.
The 'check-in/check-out' technique in group counseling for addiction serves PRIMARILY to:
Answer: Provide structure and help members identify their current emotional state and focus
Check-in/check-out provides consistent group structure, helps members become aware of and articulate their current emotional state, and ensures continuity across sessions.
A client with stimulant use disorder reports using cocaine to cope with depression. A counselor using an integrated treatment approach would FIRST:
Answer: Address both the depression and substance use simultaneously
Integrated treatment addresses co-occurring disorders simultaneously rather than sequentially, as each condition affects the other and treating them together yields better outcomes.
In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for addiction, 'seemingly irrelevant decisions' (SIDs) refer to:
Answer: Small choices that appear unrelated to substance use but gradually lead toward relapse
SIDs are a series of small, apparently unrelated decisions that progressively move a client closer to a high-risk situation, often without conscious awareness of the pattern.
Which approach involves teaching clients to observe urges as temporary waves that rise and fall, without acting on them?
Answer: Urge surfing
Urge surfing, developed by Alan Marlatt, teaches clients to ride out cravings like waves without giving in, recognizing that urges naturally peak and subside.
A counselor uses role-playing to help a client practice refusing offers of drugs at a party. This technique is BEST described as:
Answer: Behavioral rehearsal for social skills training
Behavioral rehearsal within social skills training allows clients to practice and refine refusal skills and other interpersonal strategies in a safe therapeutic environment before applying them in real situations.
The 'columbian technique' or examining evidence for and against a belief is a component of which therapeutic approach?
Answer: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Examining evidence for and against automatic thoughts or core beliefs is a fundamental cognitive restructuring technique within CBT.