Minnesota Model Chemical Dependency Treatment Knowledge Quiz

[All material and information is available in Vernon Johnson’s formative text on

addiction treatment, first published in 1970: “I’ll Quit Tomorrow”]

Part 1. Match the Historical Stages of Recovery with the Scenarios [listed
alphabetically here, not in order]:

a) Acceptance
b) Admission
c) Compliance
d) Empathy
e) Surrender

1. In aftercare, family counseling restores intimacy to a couple’s mutual decision-making. The

alcoholic is pleased that he is able to blend his partner’s needs into a mutual decision.
Stage:_________________________

2. An intervention specialist arranged a loving confrontation after a spouse has not lived up to their
agreement to stay sober through individual counseling and exercise. The spouse still doesn’t think
residential treatment is a better choice than outpatient, but she maintains her promise to check into
Sundown Ranch. Stage: _____________________

3. At the treatment center, Linda burns her First Step paperwork with her group members as sort of a
ceremony to honor the relief she experienced the past two days. She is working with her counselor to
find a home group in AA to replace her group on the first night she is home alone from treatment.
Stage: _______________________________

4. A friend is confronted about her intoxicated behavior, for the fourth or fifth time, at a party. A co-
worker points out that this drinking pattern is similar to her brother who went to outpatient treatment
and is still sober after 8 years in AA. The friend agrees that she has a real problem with alcohol at
social activities and contacts her past Psychologist to work on self esteem and social assertiveness.
Stage: __________________________

5. A teenager reads his first step paperwork in treatment and works with the group members to reduce
his defenses. He experiences a lack of shame over intoxicated behavior and feels like the group
process has worked to make his disease separate from who “he is”. He reflects happily on how group
treatment has produced a life of sobriety. Stage:______________________

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Part 2: The Historical Progression of the Emotional Disease of Addiction.
Use the graphic below to locate the point that best describes the location
that each sentence refers to:

1. In the initial phase of drinking, the person “learns the mood swing” and usually ends up at this point
in the scale in the morning: _________.

2. In the third stage, of Harmful Dependence, the person’s drinking takes them to this place when they
are intoxicated: ________________ [Johnson’s Harmful Dependence is much like the “Substance
Abuser” of today’s diagnosis].

3. In the second stage, between the “Learning the Mood Swing” and “Harmful Dependence” stages, the
starting point is usually at this location: _________. [Though it’s not in the DSM-IV-TR, the World
Health Organization refers to some types of this behavior as “Misuse”.]

4. The downward spiral in “Harmful Dependence” moves the user towards Point A. Now, in the next
and final stage, the addict drinks to get to this point on the continuum: _________.

5. The energy that fuels the addict’s defenses comes from this place: ____________.

 
 
Part 3. The Goals of Group. There are two goals to group therapy. Name
these goals, in any order:

1.

2.
 

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Part 4: The Johari’s Window Model of Group
Use the four parts of the Johari’s Window [Window “Panes” A, B, C, and D] to answer the next
questions. If a questions asks about something going from one part to another, then there will be two
answers that have to be in the right order.

1 and 2. When a person levels their feelings with the group, they are moving information from ______
to _____.

3 and 4. When a person confronts denial, minimizing and other types of defenses, that person is moving
information from ____ to _____.

5 and 6. When an addict doesn’t want to face the pain of the disease, which two parts does he try and
“shrink”? ________ and _______ [any order].

7 and 8. Whether a therapist calls it suppression or repression, the person is moving information from
___ to ____.

View by Self

View by A. Open B. Secret

Others

C. Blind D. Subconscious

The answers and related study guide are available for college instructors or Chemical Dependency
Agency Directors by emailing Dr. Moore at: drmooreargosy@gmail.com

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