Addiction Counseling Review: Preparing for Comprehensive, Certification, and Licensing Examinations

by Robert Holman Coombs

Addiction Counseling Preparing for Comprehensive, Certification, and Licensing Examinations offers a clear, readable overview of the knowledge and skills those training as alcohol or other drug counselors need to pass their final degree program, certification, and licensing examinations. It is organized into six Addiction Basics, Personality Development and Drugs, Common Client Problems, Counseling Theories and Skills, Treatment Resources, and Career Issues. Each chapter includes challenging study questions that enable readers to assess their own level of understanding, including true/false, multiple choice, and provocative discussion questions. Each chapter also provides a glossary of key terms and, in addition to references, annotated suggestions for further reading and Web site exploration.

This book will be a resource to which students and trainees will go on referring to long after it has helped them through their examinations. In addition, faculty and established professionals will find it a useful one-stop summary of current thinking about best practice.

672 pages, Hardcover

First published October 26, 2004

Reviews

[Claire · Rating 2 out of 5]

Despite being more than a decade old, this book continues to be recommended for prepping for CADC exams. I'm finding much of the info to be out of date and not consistent with current research. I thought that maybe the chapter quizzes would be useful, but many of the answers (which are just lists of multiple choice answers: A D D B A B B C) are wrong too. Sometimes they're wrong due to being outdated, and other times they've just put the wrong letter indicating an answer that contradicts the chapter text (poor editing!). While there are some useful parts to the book, it's not worth the extra time it takes to confirm the quiz answers. Even when you think you get an answer right, how can you trust it?