Introduction to Professional Ethics
Defines the minimum standards society will tolerate and is enforced by the government.
What is the law?
Counselor taking steps to promote one’s wellness on all levels.
What is self-care?
Also known as psychotherapy notes, they deal with client reactions such as transference and the therapist’s subjective impressions of a client. These notes are not meant to be shared with others.
What are process notes?
A counselor’s ethical duty to protect private client communication. As a general rule, psychotherapists are prohibited from disclosing communications to any third party unless mandated or permitted by law to do so.
What is confidentiality?
Views psychological problems as arising from within the individual’s present environment and the intergenerational family system. Symptoms are believed to be an expression of dysfunctions within the system, which are often passed along through numerous generations.
What is systems theory?
Represents the standards set and enforced by professional associations.
What are ethics?
Involves the therapist being able to enter the client’s world without getting lost in that world.
What is empathy?
Standards that are commonly accepted by the profession and are considered as the acceptable standard of practice in the community.
What is standard of care?
A mental health professional’s responsibility to inform an endangered person when it is believed a client poses a serious danger to an identifiable person
What is duty to warn?
The integration of the best available research with clinical expertise. Interventions that have empirical evidence to support their use with client problems.
What is evidence-based practice?
The moral principle whereby professionals make honest promises and keep these promises.
What is fidelity?
A state of physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual fatigue characterized by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.
What is burnout?
The ethically and clinically appropriate process by which a professional relationship is ended.
What is termination?
HIPAA stands for...
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996?
Holds clinical supervisors responsible for supervisees’ actions in a professional realm without any need to establish that supervisors were negligent or careless.
What is strict liability?
Professional behavior that violates established codes of a profession.
What is unethical behavior?
Client's unconscious feelings towards the counselor that they have had towards significant people in their life.
What is transference?
A legal concept that involves negligence that results in injury or loss to a client; failure to render professional services or to exercise the degree of skill that is expected of other professionals in a similar situation.
What is malpractice?
A mental health professional’s responsibility to protect clients when it is likely that they might hurt themselves.
What is duty to protect?
Liability that occurs when supervisors are derelict in the supervision of their trainees, when they give trainees inappropriate advice about treatment, or when they give tasks to trainees that exceed their competence.
What is direct liability?
The moral principle of striving to be fair by giving equally to others.
What is justice?
Projections by therapists that distort the way they perceive and react to a client.
What is countertransference?
The ongoing process of informing clients about their therapy for the purpose of helping them make autonomous decisions pertaining to their therapy.
What is informed consent?
A procedure designed to encourage reporting of any suspected cases of child, elder, and dependent abuse.
What is mandatory reporting?
Counselors assuming the role of speaking on the behalf of oppressed client populations.
What is advocacy?