Exam 10: Treatment Techniques and Approaches

Individual counseling is the main component of effective treatment.

Unlike alcohol-related group therapy, AA is:

The client-therapist relationship:

Being knowledgeable about alcohol and its effects and imparting this knowledge to a client is one of the key roles of the clinician.

AA members report that in the past 25 years, treatment programs have become significantly more important in members' recovery from alcohol dependency.

Group therapy is recommended because:

The major goal of family treatment is facilitation of the alcohol-dependent individual's abstinence.

Relapse prevention has always been a mainstay of alcohol-dependency treatment.

Client education about alcohol addiction:

The most common type of group alcohol treatment program is:

AA is based on the premise that:

Common ingredients of a treatment plan for alcohol dependency include all EXCEPT:

In family treatment, the clinician focuses more on interactions and behaviors than on specific, hurtful incidents from the past.

The family effort that produces the highest rates of entry into treatment is:

The child of an alcohol-dependent parent gives the message that "everything is fine." This may be:

Activity groups are the most common type of group in alcohol-treatment programs.

Pharmacotherapy includes:

The more aggressive a family intervention is, the more likely it is that the intervention will achieve its desired effect.

Alcoholics Anonymous was formed by the American Medical Association.

Disulfiram, which causes an adverse physical reaction to alcohol, is marketed as "ReVia."