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What does "maleficence" mean for a counselor?
Meaning the counselor never uses strategies/interventions or other behavior that could cause harm.
What does "beneficence" mean for a counselor?
Meaning the counselor practices for the good of society as well as the client.
What does "fidelity" mean for the counselor?
Meaning the counselor keeps promises.
Yes/No: Should counselors make client their friends?
No, because doing so goes beyond professional boundaries.
Yes/No: counseling your family or friends
True/False: All healthcare employees with authorized access to ePHI are responsible for guarding their login credentials. As misuse could lead to unauthorized access.
True
What is PHI and it's meaning?
Protected Health Information
-all individually identifiable health information, or details about a person that can be traced back to that person.
Most ethical dilemmas are related to?
Confidentiality
Ethics state that a counselor should ________ all clients for group counseling.
a. diagnose
b. test
c. screen
d. both a and b
C. screen
Nosology refers to a system of classification. Name the nosological system(s) utilized by professional counselors who diagnose clients.
A. DSM.
B. ICD.
C. a and b.
D. The Rogerian classification system.
C. both a and b
An 11-year-old child comes to your office with a black eye and tells you she can’t remember how she received it. You have reason to suspect abuse. You should:
A. be empathic and discuss her feelings regarding the matter.
B. drop the matter as it could embarrass her.
C. refer her to a medical doctor of your choice.
D. call the child abuse/neglect hotline.
D. call the child abuse/neglect hotline.
What is HIPAA and it's purpose?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
The purpose of HIPAA to streamline the communication of health information and respecting a patient privacy.
You have achieved the status of NCC. NBCC, nevertheless, feels you have violated professional ethics. NBCC can do any of the following except:
A. Revoke your state counseling license.
B. Remove your name from the list of NCCs in the U.S.
C. Revoke your NCC status.
D. Note in their newsletter that your NCC status has been revoked.
A. Revoke your state counseling license.
State laws can govern title usage and practice, however, they do not govern:
A)counselor licensure.
B)psychologist licensure.
C)involuntary commitment to state psychiatric facilities.
D)accreditation
D) Accreditation
The (DSM) was created by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The Manual of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries, and Causes of Death (ICD) was created by the World Health Organization. Which counselor would most likely be required to utilize one of these guides to diagnose a client?
A. A counselor who wishes to secure insurance (i.e., third-party) payments.
B. A school counselor discussing a child with a teacher.
C. A multicultural counselor who is seeing a client who grew up in another country.
D. A counselor leading a T-group
A. A counselor who wishes to secure insurance (i.e., third-party) payments.
What is the purpose of Tarasoff Warning?
The purpose of the Tarasoff Warning is for counselors/therapist to warn a client in imminent danger. In cases where serious and foreseeable harm is possible.
A 39-year-old female secretary you are seeing in your assertiveness training group reveals that she is plotting to shoot her husband. Based on the Tarasof case you should:
A. warn the husband.
B. keep it confidential because an assertiveness training group is decidedly not the same as one-to-one counseling.
C. make a police report in the city in which the husband resides.
D. tell a supervisor, administrator, or board member if one exists, but do not contact her husband.
A. warn the husband
A woman comes to you for help with an eating disorder. You have no experience or training in this area. Ethically you should:
A. refer this client to a colleague who is indeed trained and experienced with this type of client.
B. keep the client and work on her general lack of self-esteem.
C. tell the client you will do a comprehensive Internet search on the topic and then begin seeing her.
D. explain to the client that a symptom such as eating or not eating is not the real problem and that counseling focuses on real underlying issues.
A. refer this client to a colleague who is indeed trained and experienced with this type of client.
A 14-year-old male threatens to blow up his parents’ garage because he has been grounded. You believe his threat is genuine. You should:
A. ask the child if he will sign a release of information so you can talk to his parents.
B. not talk to the parents since this would weaken the bond of trust you have with the client.
C. have the child sign a contract stating he will not blow up the garage but mention nothing to the parents.
D. warn the parents that their property is in danger.
D. warn the parents that their property is in danger.
Traditionally, ________ counseling has caused the most ethical concerns.
A. behavioral
B. person-centered
C. reality therapy
D. humanistic
A. behavioral
What are the 6 foundational principles for ethical behavior?
1. Autonomy
2. Maleficence
3. Beneficence
4. Justice
5. Fidelity
6. Veracity
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A malpractice or liability insurance company is least likely to defend you if:
A. you are sexually involved with a client.
B. you violate confidentiality.
C. you do not have a client sign a release of information and send a record to another agency or provider.
D. you call a state child abuse hotline and a client takes legal action since the child was actually the victim of an accident.
A. you are sexually involved with a client.
In your initial disclosure statement, it was clearly explained to the client that she must pay her bill in a timely manner. She did not. According to ACA ethical guidelines you can terminate her.
a. This practice was ethical at one time, but now it is not ethical under any circumstances.
b. This practice was not mentioned, but experts have been very critical of this omission.
c. This practice is ethical whether you revealed this to the client in the initial disclosure statement or not.
d. This practice is ethical if you revealed this to the client in the initial disclosure statement.
d. This practice is ethical if you revealed this to the client in the initial disclosure statement.
A 16-year-old girl threatens to kill herself and you fail to inform her parents. Your behavior as a counselor is best described as
A. an example of a multiple relationship.
B. an example of informed consent.
C. an example of negligence, which is a failure to perform a duty, and in this instance is an obligation to protect the client.
D. multiple submission.
C. an example of negligence, which is a failure to perform a duty, and in this instance is an obligation to protect the client.
You have just made a landmark discovery which you feel could literally change the entire field of counseling and thus you write an article which depicts your findings. The next step would be to:
a. Submit the article to no more than two journals simultaneously.
b. Submit the article to every major APA and ACA journal published.
c. Submit the article to one publication at a time despite your conviction that the article must get published.
D. Write your state licensing board and request permission for multiple submission privileges.
c. Submit the article to one publication at a time despite your conviction that the article must get published.