Treatment goals should be included in the discharge summary:
a. Only if they were achieved
b. Regardless of whether or not they were achieved
c. Only in a sensitive manner, if they were not achieved
d. Only in a manner that would not bias a future treating professional
Medications noted on the discharge summary must include:
a. Any and all medications prescribed by doctors associated with the present case management team
b. Any and all medications prescribed by doctors, internal or external, during the tenure of the current treatment
c. Any and all medications prescribed by doctors during the past 5 years
d. Medications prescribed by doctors associated with the present case management team that have not been
discontinued
Which of the following is not necessarily an item that needs to be included in the discharge summary?
a. The reason the client turned to you for services initially
b. Diagnoses
c. Identified issues which were not addressed
d. Levels of rapport and communication established between counselor and counselee
The chief importance of the discharge summary is:
a. As a tool to foster reimbursement of funds
b. As a formal manner for providing closure
c. As a roadmap to assist future providers in understanding the case
d. As a legal document to prove that all Is were dotted and all Ts crossed
A summarization letter regarding reasons for termination should:
a. Precede the termination interview
b. Follow the termination interview
c. Be presented at the termination interview
d. Be presented as the client departs from the termination interview
A final interview must take place with the client.
a. Always
b. Never
c. Sometimes
d. If circumstances allow
Which of the following is an acceptable way in which to close a case?
a. A warm phone call
b. A highly explanatory and detailed letter
c. Face to face
d. An e-mail, Skype, or IM
A goal is most often decided upon by two parties only, the client and his or her case manager. An exception is:
a. A court-mandated counselee
b. A violent offender
c. A counselee not yet at the age of majority
d. A counselee with mental retardation
Brent attends Narcotics Anonymous (a client-led group) meetings as mandated by a court decision. His program
objectives will be conceptualized by:
a. His NA sponsor
b. His case manager
c. He and his case manager
d. In most states, by the judge who ruled on his case
Long-term goals:
a. Are always long
b. Can be shortened only with a treatment-plan revision
c. Are long; however, with limitations on length of treatment, the term long is subjective
d. Can be more than one sentence since they are often more complex that their shorter counterparts
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