FREE Master Addiction Counselor Exam Question and Answers

Question 1

Ellis's ABC Model, a mnemonic for the following, is the cornerstone of rational behavior therapy (REBT).

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Activating event, beliefs, consequences

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Analysis, balancing, creation

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Articulation, beliefs, cognition

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Actions, boundary setting, change

Question 2

To help clients develop new critical thinking abilities, all but one of the following strategies can be combined with REBT:

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Belittling an irrational belief or behavior

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Measuring the impact of current thinking via a satisfaction baseline

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Using humor to illustrate thinking errors

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Using analogies/images to illustrate problems

Question 3

The following factors inspired Aaron Beck's "cognitive-behavioral treatment" (CBT):

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Albert Ellis

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Alfred Adler

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William Glasser

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Carl Rogers

Question 4

Beck's cognitive triad aims to:

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Help reveal one's world view

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Treat cognitive errors

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Enhance cognitive skills

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Improve family relationships

Question 5

In cognitive-behavioral therapy, the Socratic conversation strategy is:

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A shared exchange of questions and answers

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Pitting opposing points of view against each other

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A counselor lecturing to impart learning

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The use of rules of logic to prove a point

Question 6

The four stages of learning a new behavior in "operant conditioning" are:

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Goal, voluntary response, emitted response, and consequences

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Outcome, targeted response, conditioned response, and consequences

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Resultant, determined response, emitted response, and consequences

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Target, conditioned response, evoked response, and consequences

Question 7

The counseling approach known as "bibliotherapy" includes:

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Assigning a client to read key educational literature

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Journal-writing assignments

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Reading key educational literature to a client

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Biblically oriented religious counselling