The Counseling Relationship
Counselors act to avoid harming their clients and they are aware of their own values and avoid imposing their values
What is ACA Avoiding Harm and Imposing Values- A.4.
Recognize the level of suicide risk (low/med/high) is difficult to accurately quantify. If required to use a risk assessment, realize it is only one element in the process.
What is ASCA Serious and Foreseeable Harm to Self and Others A.9.b
To the extent possible, clients are informed before confidential information is disclosed and are involved in the disclosure decision-making process
What is ACA Minimal Disclosure B.2.e
Recognize, honor, and respect the importance of parents/guardians when providing services to students and collaborate as appropriate.
What is ASCA Responsibility to Parents/Guardians B.1.a
Counselors work to develop and strengthen relationships with colleagues from other disciplines to help serve clients
What is ACA Forming Relationships D.1.b.
Assess potential risks and benefits prior to extending relationships beyond the school building and school hours.
What is ASCA Sustaining Healthy Relationships and Managing Boundaries A.5.c
Counselors release data in which client is identified only with the permission of the client and only released to those persons qualified to interpret the data
What is ACA Release of Data to Qualified Professionals E.4
When clients disclose that they have disease commonly known to be both communicable and life threatening, counselors may be justified in disclosing information to identifiable third parties, if there is a risk to them contracting the disease
What is ACA Contagious, Life-Threatening Diseases B.2.c
Counselors are alert to their own physical, mental, or emotional problems and refrain from offering services to a client when impaired
What is ACA Impairment C.2.g
Counselors who are members of interdisciplinary teams clarify the ethical obligations of the team as a whole and of the individual members. If there are ethical concerns counselors first attempt to resolve the concern within the team
What is ACA Establishing Professional and Ethical Obligations D.1.d
Clients have the freedom to choose whether or not to enter into a counseling relationship and they need adequate information about the counseling process and the counselor
What is ACA Informed Consent- A.2.a
Address their personal biases related to students' post-secondary choices.
What is ASCA Academic, Career, and Social/Emotional Planning A.4.e
Request of the court that disclosure not be required when the school counselor's testimony or case notes are subpoenaed if the release may potentially harm the student or counseling relationship.
What is ASCA Confidentiality A.2.i
Exercise leadership to create systemic change to create a safe and supportive environment and equitable outcomes for all students.
What is ASCA Responsibilities to the School B.2.d
Collaborate with all relevant stakeholders, including students, school faculty/staff, and parents/guardians, when students need assistance, including when early warning signs of student distress are identified.
What is ASCA Appropriate Collaboration, Advocacy, and Referrals for Counseling A.6.a
Counselors understand the challenges of accepting gifts and understand that in some cultures, gifts are a token of respect and showing gratitude
What is ACA Receiving Gifts A.10.f
Counselors use with caution assessment techniques that were normed on populations other than that of the client.
What is ACA Multicultural Issues/Diversity in Assessment E.8.
Counselors are responsible for understanding/adhering to guidelines regarding confidentiality in their research practices.
What is ACA Confidentiality in Research G.1.b
When providing services, counselors use techniques/procedures/modalities that are grounded in theory and/or have an empirical or scientific foundation.
What is ACA Scientific Basis for Treatment C.7.a
Develop and maintain professional relationships and systems of communication with faculty, staff and administrators to support students.
What is ASCA Responsibility to the School B.2.a
Sexual/romantic counselor-client interactions or relationships with former clients, their romantic partners, or their family members are prohibited for a period of 5 years following the last professional contact.
What is ACA Sexual and/or Romantic Relationships With Former Clients A.5.c
Conduct and disseminate the results of school counseling program assessments to determine the effectiveness of activities supporting students.
What is ASCA Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation A.14.i
Recognize the difficulty in adhering to FERPA's definition of sole-possession records (personal notes).
What is ASCA Student Records 1.13.c
Foster and affirm all students and their identity and psychosocial development.
What is ASCA Supporting Student Development A.1.b
Counselors are respectful of approaches that are grounded in theory and/or have an empirical or scientific foundation but may differ from their own. Counselors acknowledge the expertise of other professional groups and are respectful of their practices.
What is ACA Different Approaches D.1.a