When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to -
Answer ✔Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to - Answer
✔jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling
process will proceed
A client arrives for counseling with the presenting complaint of
relationship difficulties. She goes on to describe that she has had
multiple abortions, and seems to use abortion as a birth control method.
You are personally opposed to abortion. How should your personal
beliefs impact the therapeutic relationship? - Answer ✔Your personal
belief system should not have any bearing on the therapeutic relationship
You have been involved in a counseling relationship with a client for six
months, when he presents you with a small gift. What should you do? -
Answer ✔Accept or decline depending on the circumstances
You are court-ordered to disclose confidential information about a client
you are counseling. What do you do? - Answer ✔Limit, as much as
possible, any possibly damaging personal information and obtain written
permission from your client to share confidential information
,What should you do if your client requests to see his confidential file? -
Answer ✔Accept or decline depending upon circumstances
You are a counselor with several clients, and at the same time you are
adjusting to a difficult divorce. You aren't sleeping or eating well, find
you are highly distractible, and generally are less in-touch with your
emotional state. You should... - Answer ✔Be alert to your mental status,
and be able to determine if continuing with your clients poses any threat
of being detrimental to the counseling process
A former client of yours has been arrested for a crime. As his former
counselor, you are called to perform a forensic evaluation. What is your
responsibility in this case? - Answer ✔It is not considered ethical to
perform a forensic evaluation on a current or past client, so you should
decline
You are the supervisor for a new counselor, and are asked to attend her
wedding. Would it be ethical to do so? - Answer ✔Yes, you should be
able to attend her wedding without a breach of ethics
While involved with a research study, you learn that several of your
students are using confidential material in an unethical manner. You had
no prior knowledge of this, and all of your safeguards for professional
practice were appropriate. Are you, as the principal researcher,
responsible for the student's behavior - Answer ✔Yes, you are
ultimately responsible
,When publishing research, it is important to - Answer ✔Give credit to
other contributors or sources, not plagiarize, and submit material to only
one journal at a time
When a conflict arises between the American Counseling Association
(ACA) Code of Ethics and a governing authority, which takes
precedence? - Answer ✔Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the
Code of Ethics
An ethics violation should NOT be reported when - Answer ✔A
counselor has been retained to review another counselor who is in
question; and when confidentiality rights would be violated
What does multicultural/diversity counseling refer to? - Answer
✔Counseling that recognizes diversity and approaches beneficial to
specific groups and an approach that all counselors should ethically be
aware of
Most ethical issues are related to - Answer ✔Confidentiality
Only one psychoanalyst's developmental theory covers the entire
lifespan. Who is he? - Answer ✔Erik Erikson
The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to which psychoanalyst? - Answer
✔Sigmund Freud
, What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four stages - Answer ✔Formal
Operations
Identity Crisis - Answer ✔Erik Erikson
Positive Psychology - Answer ✔processes that contribute to optimal
functioning/ not focusing on abnormalities
Smoking habit to Sigmund Freud - Answer ✔Oral Fixation
Most mental health professionals believe - Answer ✔no one theory of
development completely explains the process
John Bowlby - Answer ✔Attachment Theory
Lawrence Kohlberg's three levels of morality - Answer ✔Pre-
conventional, Conventional, and post-conventional
Female version of Freud's Oedipus complex - Answer ✔Electra
Complex
Researcher known for Rhesus Monkeys - Answer ✔Harry Harlow
Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Answer ✔Theory of human
motivation - psychological, safety, love, affection, belongingness
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