Professional Responsibilities
Skill, knowledge or attribute of a professional
What is a competence?
Document that states the policies and procedures of a mental health professional
What is an informed consent form?
Shut it down
What a mental health professional must do to a sexual relationship with a client?
When a counselor sends a client to their private practice and is a big no-no.
What is Self-Referral?
A document that used by mental health professional in the event of unexpected closure of practice.
What is a professional will
Goals and benefits of therapy, potential risks, counselor qualifications, fees, confidentiality limits, ...
What is information contained in informed consent form?
Sexual and/or romantic encounters between counselor and client can begin how long after last professional contact.
What is 5 years?
Acceptable attitude of a counselor toward clients in relation to age, culture, disability, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, marital status or any basis proscribed by law.
What is nondiscrimination?
A weakened or damaged human faculty or function and that must be monitored by mental health professionals.
What is impairment?
Minors and incapacitated adults
Who are those unable to give consent to treatment?
People therapists cannot counsel professionally.
What are friends and family?
A counselor provides services to the public for little or no financial return.
What is pro Bono?
Professional procedures that are accepted as being correct or most effective and that mental health professionals need to be updated on through continuing education.
What are best practices?
Persons who come to treatment under the order of a legal institution and who need to understand what type of information about them can be shared and with whom.
What are mandated clients?
Public support for or recommendation of a particular cause in favor of a client.
What is advocacy?
Therapists should not take part in this: a single intense or severe act or multiple persistent or pervasive acts
What is sexual harassment?
Implying doctoral level competence when used by a counselor
What is ABD or Anything but Dissertation?
The duration of informed consent in a counseling relationship
What is during the entire relationship, from beginning to termination? Informed consent is a constant.
In couples therapy, the policy that states that all information is available to both parties, even if obtained in individual session.
What is "no-secret" policy?
Therapists use treatments and theories that have an empirical foundation
What is scientific basis for treatment?