Guidelines for presenting screening questions to clients

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What is the primary purpose of clinical questions in screening clients for addiction?

  • To conduct biological tests to verify self-reports
  • To ask carefully worded questions during conversations (correct)
  • To gather information about the client's strengths and resources
  • To provide accurate assurances about privacy and confidentiality

Why are substance-focused items intermixed with other clinical questions during screening?

  • To ignore the negative consequences of substance use
  • To increase defensiveness in clients
  • To gather information on other health or social issues (correct)
  • To avoid listening to concerns raised by clients

When are biological markers particularly useful in addiction screening?

  • When the honesty of self-report is in doubt (correct)
  • When clients show strengths and resources
  • When clients refuse to answer clinical questions
  • When subtle tests are reliable indicators

What is the advised use of subtle tests in making decisions about clients during addiction screening?

<p>Subtle tests are unreliable and not recommended (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In addiction screening, what areas should be focused on to gather information over time during treatment?

<p>Nature and severity of substance use, client's strengths, and functional analysis (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three categories under 'nature and severity of substance use and problems' in addiction screening?

<p>Substance use, negative consequences, and dependence (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three phases of mourning?

<p>Avoidance, confrontation, accommodation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does infant and toddler mental health refer to?

<p>Ability to regulate emotions and establish relationships (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are positive stress responses characterized by?

<p>Brief increases in heart rate and mild elevations in stress hormone levels (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do tolerable stress responses rely on to buffer the stress?

<p>Supportive relationships (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does chronic emotional trauma during childhood affect the hippocampus?

<p>It can damage the hippocampus (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which factor is NOT mentioned as influencing early mental health?

<p>Amount of time spent playing outside (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the concept of 'limbic resonance' associated with in babies?

<p>'Experience-dependent' behavior (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the significance of the underdevelopment of the frontal cortex in children?

<p>Difficulty with impulse control and emotional regulation (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How do extreme or chronic stress affect brain flexibility over time?

<p>Reduces brain flexibility (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are common functional deficits resulting from exposure to violence and chronic stress according to the text?

<p>Poor integration of left and right hemispheres (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Biological markers are recommended to make important decisions about clients in addiction screening.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Subtle tests are reliable for making important decisions about clients in addiction screening.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The nature and severity of substance use and problems include four categories in addiction screening.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Clinical questions involve asking carefully worded questions only at the beginning of treatment in addiction screening.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Clients' strengths and resources are not part of the information gathered over time during treatment in addiction screening.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Substance-focused items are not intermixed with other clinical questions about health or social issues to decrease defensiveness in addiction screening.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Babies are left-hemisphere dominant.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Tolerable stress responses are not buffered by supportive relationships.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The developing brain is not sensitive to stress and emotional trauma.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Chronic emotional trauma during childhood has no impact on the hippocampus.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Healthy stress response systems do not depend on interactions.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Exposure to violence and chronic stress does not result in any functional deficits.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Infant and toddler mental health does not include establishing secure relationships.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Lack of basic needs results in long-term thinking in children.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Extreme or chronic stress, without support or intervention, leads to flexible brains over time.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Learning to cope with and manage emotions is an unimportant part of healthy child development.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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