CAADC Roles and Responsibilities 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which CAADC responsibility is MOST associated with the counselor's duty to remain current in addiction science and evidence-based practices?
- Administrative documentation
- Continuing professional development (Correct answer)
- Outcome reporting to funders
- Insurance pre-authorization
Correct answer: Continuing professional development
Ongoing continuing education and professional development are ethical obligations that keep the counselor current with evolving evidence-based practices.
Question 2: A CAADC who helps design a community needs assessment for substance use disorders is performing which role?
- Direct counselor
- Program evaluator/researcher (Correct answer)
- Peer support specialist
- Detoxification technician
Correct answer: Program evaluator/researcher
Designing needs assessments and evaluating program effectiveness falls under the program evaluation and research role of the advanced addiction counselor.
Question 3: When the CAADC screens a client for co-occurring disorders during intake, the counselor is performing which primary function?
- Diagnostic prescription
- Screening and assessment (Correct answer)
- Case closure
- Peer mentoring
Correct answer: Screening and assessment
Screening and assessment is a core CAADC function that identifies the nature and extent of substance use and potential co-occurring conditions.
Question 4: Which behavior BEST demonstrates the CAADC's role in upholding professional boundaries?
- Accepting gifts from grateful clients to maintain rapport
- Declining a client's social media friend request to preserve the therapeutic relationship (Correct answer)
- Sharing personal recovery details in every session
- Providing clients with personal contact information for emergencies
Correct answer: Declining a client's social media friend request to preserve the therapeutic relationship
Maintaining clear professional boundaries, including declining personal social media connections, protects the integrity of the therapeutic relationship.
Question 5: A CAADC working in a multidisciplinary team is responsible for which of the following within that team context?
- Directing all clinical decisions unilaterally
- Contributing addiction expertise while collaborating with other professionals (Correct answer)
- Assuming the role of medical director by default
- Limiting communication to written reports only
Correct answer: Contributing addiction expertise while collaborating with other professionals
In multidisciplinary teams, the CAADC contributes specialized addiction knowledge while collaborating respectfully with other disciplines.
Question 6: The CAADC's responsibility to maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation PRIMARILY serves which purpose?
- Satisfying the counselor's personal record-keeping preferences
- Supporting continuity of care, legal accountability, and quality assurance (Correct answer)
- Fulfilling social media content requirements
- Enabling insurance fraud detection by third parties
Correct answer: Supporting continuity of care, legal accountability, and quality assurance
Accurate and timely documentation supports continuity of care, provides a legal record, and enables quality assurance monitoring.
Question 7: When a CAADC assists a client in identifying and mobilizing natural support networks (family, 12-step groups, community resources), the counselor is primarily functioning in which role?
- Pharmacist
- Resource broker/linkage specialist (Correct answer)
- Residential director
- Legal advisor
Correct answer: Resource broker/linkage specialist
Identifying and connecting clients to natural supports and community resources is the resource broker or linkage function of the addiction counselor.
CAADC Roles and Responsibilities 5
Which CAADC responsibility is MOST associated with the counselor's duty to remain current in addiction science and evidence-based practices?