{"id":6660,"date":"2020-11-17T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:30:30","slug":"situational-confidence-drugs-dtcq-8d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/situational-confidence-drugs-dtcq-8d\/","title":{"rendered":"Situational Confidence – Drugs | DTCQ-8D"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drug-Taking Confidence Questionnaire for Drugs (DTCQ-8D)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Recommended frequency: Every 4 weeks<\/em><\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n

With respect to addictive behaviours, an important component of self-efficacy is a person\u2019s perception of his or her ability to resist alcohol or drugs. The Drug-Taking Confidence Questionnaire (DTCQ-8) measures the client\u2019s confidence in his or her abilities to cope in situations that are high-risk for substance use. The tool yields information about client strengths and needs in the area of\u00a0relapse potential<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The tool allows for exploration of a client\u2019s relapse potential by not only identifying potential high-risk situations for that person, but also by exploring his or her level of confidence in being able to cope with a particular high-risk situation.<\/p>\n

The DTCQ-8 was developed to be a reliable and valid brief measure of coping self-efficacy for substance users to serve the needs of clinicians and researchers who desire a global measure of a client\u2019s confidence across high-risk situations (Sklar & Turner, 1999). The tool\u2019s eight questions each capture one of the high-risk situations identified by Marlatt and Gordon in 1985. The DTCQ-8 has separate questionnaires, one for alcohol use, and one for other drug use.<\/p>\n

The Eight Categories of the DTCQ<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The eight high-risk situations that Marlatt and Gordon identified (1985) as high-risk for relapse fall into two major classes of situations: (i) personal states; and (ii) situations involving other people.<\/p>\n

The category \u201cpersonal states\u201d refers to internal states, both physical and emotional (thoughts and feelings). It includes five situations:<\/p>\n

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  1. Unpleasant emotions.<\/li>\n
  2. Physical discomfort.<\/li>\n
  3. Pleasant emotions.<\/li>\n
  4. Testing personal control.<\/li>\n
  5. Urges and temptations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The other category, \u201cSituations involving other people,\u201d refers to challenging situations that involve others:<\/p>\n

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    1. Conflict with others.<\/li>\n
    2. Social pressure to drink.<\/li>\n
    3. Pleasant times with others.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Drug-Taking Confidence Questionnaire for Drugs (DTCQ-8D) Recommended frequency: Every 4 weeks Summary With respect to addictive behaviours, an important component of self-efficacy is a person\u2019s perception of his or her ability to resist alcohol or drugs. The Drug-Taking Confidence Questionnaire (DTCQ-8) measures the client\u2019s confidence in his or her abilities to cope in situations that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-assessment-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}