How Are the Cognitive-Behavioral and the AA 12-Step Approach to the Treatment

question 27

Multiple Choice

How are the cognitive-behavioral and the AA 12-step approach to the treatment of alcohol abuse different?

• A) Cognitive-behavioral approaches emphasize skills to control addiction rather than always requiring complete abstinence.
• B) Twelve-step programs reject the disease or medical model of addiction.
• C) Cognitive-behavioral approaches lack the empirical support that AA programs have established.
• D) There is no fundamental difference other than the 12-step program belief that only a Higher Power can cure the person.

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Definitions:

Absorption Costing

A technique in accounting that rolls all manufacturing expenses including direct material costs, direct labor, and every overhead, regardless if fixed or variable, into the overall cost of a product.

Unit Product Cost

The overall expense involved in creating one unit of a product, encompassing direct materials, direct labor, and distributed overhead costs.

Absorption Costing

An accounting method that includes all manufacturing costs (both variable and fixed) in the cost of a product.

Variable Costing

An accounting method that includes only variable costs in product cost calculations and treats fixed costs as period costs.