Imagine that you are an addictions counselor. You are asked to develop a contingency management treatment program for a patient who is in recovery for methadone addiction

Briefly describe the five elements that you would include in your treatment program. Be specific in your examples.

What will be an ideal response?

*Answers should include specific details for the following five elements:
1) A written contract
2) An operational definition of the therapeutic target
3) A schedule for how progress will be monitored
4) A specification of what consequences will follow the target responses
5) An attempt to minimize delays in delivering consequences following drug testing

Psychology

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a. They are less likely to have health insurance than the majority group. b. They have less access to treatment providers who possess the appropriate language skills. c. Their cultures have more of a stigma relating to mental illness. d. There are fewer treatment providers in locations where more racial and ethnic minorities reside. e. They are more likely to suffer from disorders that fall outside the range of available treatments.

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Which sequence represents the stages of prenatal development from longest to shortest??

a. ?fetal, embryonic, germinal b. ?embryonic, fetal, germinal c. ?germinal, fetal, embryonic d. ?embryonic, germinal, fetal

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