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CATC EXAM 1 (ACTUAL / ) QUESTIONS & VERIFIED
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Crisis intervention - ---Answers---Those services which respond to an addict's needs during acute emotional or physical distress
Steps in crises intervention - ---Answers---1. Establish helping relationship. Help client achieve symptom relief
- Assure safety to others and self. Help client return to his
- Assist with action plans
- Arrange for follow up
level of functioning prior to crisis 4.conduct an assessment. Discover what caused the crisis
What to do when client is in crisis - ---Answers---Intervene right away , instill hope, provide support, problem solve right away, provide positive feedback
Stages of crises intervention - ---Answers---1. Assessment stage
- Implementation
- Termination
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Assessment stage - ---Answers---Discover what led to crisis, look at previous events, assess client's psychosocial stage, collaboratively define problem with client
Implementation - ---Answers---Gather more data about client, discuss how client dealt with crises in past, identify client's strengths, resources, and supports that can help with crisis
Termination - ---Answers---This should be a mutual decision
Suicide, what to assess? - ---Answers---Plan, does client have a clear plan? The more detailed the plan the greater the concern.Is suicide attempt or an ideation? Method of means, does client have pills, guns? Family history of suicide recent use of chemicals, determine sources of support, help client develop a prevention plan. Consult with supervisor and a consulting psychiatrist when working with a suicidal client.
Family intervention process - ---Answers---Meeting family members with assistance of trained counselor. Confrontation is used appropriately.
Enabling - ---Answers---Unwittingly protecting a person from full negative consequences if his behavior out of sense of love, compassion, fear, or survival instinct. It's unintentional but allows problem to worsen
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Intervention - ---Answers---Is a process by which harmful, progressive and destructive effects of addiction is interrupted and the addict is helped to stop using drugs. The family stages it so the addict is in touch with reality of his addiction
Therapeutic community - ---Answers---Are based on the idea that substance abuse is the disorder of the whole person. And the addict need to learn a whole new way of living to be re socialized so they can be substance free in the community.
- main functions of case management - ---Answers---
Assessment, planning, linking, advocacy, monitoring
The treatment continuum - ---Answers---Case finding and pre treatment, primary treatment, aftercare, disengagement
Case finding and pretreatment - ---Answers---How treatment programs get clients. The case manager tries to remove barriers that would keep a client from entering treatment
Primary treatment - ---Answers---The case manager orients the client and help him resolve immediate problems that would keep him from focusing on treatment
Aftercare (continuing care) - ---Answers---Case manager helps client transition out of treatment
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