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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
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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
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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
Down Syndrome - answer✔Chromosomal abnormality
John Watson - answer✔Little Albert experiment
Albert Bandura's best-known research - answer✔Bobo Doll study
What did Lev Vygotsky stress in his development theory? - answer✔Cultural Context and
language
Freudian Defense Mechanism - answer✔Repression
Imprinting - answer✔Konrad Lorenz
Incorporating several therapeutic theories in your work - answer✔eclectic
Complaining of feeling restless, mood swings, times of hopelessness, periods of high energy and
creativity in which she can go days without sleep - answer✔Bipolar
Client presents with his wife both complaining the patient has had a change in cognitive function
including language and memory. Client denies loss of pleasure in normal activities and denies
feeling sad, but client is able to manage his medications but requires someone to set up his
medication box and set a timer for him. - answer✔Neurocognitive Disorder
Disorder of thought; disorder of mood - answer✔Schizophrenia; bipolar disorder
Mirroring back client's verbalizations, and not passing judgment. Facilitating in assisting his
client in reaching resolution of the presenting problems. - answer✔Rogerian, client-centered
therapy
Binge eating coupled with inappropriate methods of controlling one's weight may be a symptom
of - answer✔Bulimia
Concerns of his health; reports chronic intestinal difficulties, but has not sought medical
treatment for his concerns. For the last five years he rarely feels at ease while at his job. Feels
uneasy when outside the home - answer✔Agoraphobia
loss of appetite; nervousness, and recurrent nightmares of a past hospital experience from years
prior, where she says she almost died - answer✔PTSD
