Potential Questions to Ask About a Client During Substance Abuse

question 46

Multiple Choice

Potential questions to ask about a client during substance abuse or dependence assessment that focus on the confusion area include which of the following:

• A) What happens when the client loses self-control over his/her drinking/drugging
• B) How will the client monitor himself/herself
• C) What is getting in the way of the client accepting that there is a drug/alcohol abuse problem
• D) What values does the client cherish the most

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Definitions:

Replicable Results

Results that can be consistently repeated or duplicated in scientific experimentation, ensuring reliability.

Wish Fulfillment

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to the satisfaction of a desire through dreaming or fantasizing.

Reinforcement

In behaviorism, a consequence that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.

Falsifiable

A criterion for a theory or hypothesis that it can be proven wrong by an observation or a physical experiment.