Your 16-year-old client is in for an annual physical. During your assessment, he admits to using recreational street drugs at "parties." How should you respond to this admission?
1. Ask nonjudgmental questions about his drug use.
2. Offer to help him find rehabilitation.
3. Call his parents.
4. Pretend he never made the statement.
ANS: 1
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