Code of Ethics
Biopsychosocial Model
The Law and Counseling
Privacy & Confidentiality
Religion, Spirituality, and Mindfulness in Counseling
100

This type of ethics is followed when clinical mental health counselors comply with the required minimal standards of the profession. It is different from aspirational ethics. 

Mandatory ethics

100

The biopsychosocial model is an approach to medicine and mental health that focuses on the multiple ways psychology and what other field combine to affect health and well-being?

Biology

100

This term is based on court decisions that interpret a

law according to a specific case. 

Case law

100

The client's legal right to decide what information will be shared with others. 

Privacy

100

This term is defined as the capacity and tendency that is innate and unique to all persons. This tendency moves the individual toward knowledge, love, meaning, peace, hope, transcendence, connectedness, compassion, wellness, and wholeness. It includes one’s capacity for creativity, growth, and the development of a value system. 

Spirituality

200

The Code of Ethics is created by what group?

ACA

200

These messenger molecules are released by the pituitary and adrenal glands and fire from one neuron to another. 

Neurotransmitters

200

This type of act, committed against an individual by a mental health counselor, is often unintentional and occurs when mental health professionals do not carry out their responsibilities in accordance with the standards of care outlined by the profession. 

Negligence 

200

A professional's promise to not disclose any of the information revealed during a session.

Confidentiality.

200

This is the more structured, societal construction of spirituality. 

Religion

300

Agreeing to the ____ Code of Ethics is a prerequisite to becoming a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), it consists of seven sections that similar to the ACA Code of Ethics. The seven sections include a total of 95 directives. 

NBCC

300

What system is responsible for our emotional life and the formation of memories? It includes parts of the brain such as the amygdala. 

Limbic system.

300

The process in which a health care provider educates a patient about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a given procedure or intervention.

Informed consent

300

Defined as "the protection of confidentiality between two parties", this client right of privilege may or may not exist in your state.

Privileged Communication

300

Mindfulness can be summarized as paying attention to the here and now through intention, attention, and ____?

Attitude

400

The ACA Code of Ethics was most recently revised in what year?

2014

400

This counseling strategy is an abbreviation of its steps:

Background, Affect, Trouble, Handling, and Empathy. 

BATHE

400

The most common legal claim against mental health professionals, in which counselors have been negligent in carrying out professional responsibilities or duties.

Malpractice

400

Taping sessions, disposing of records, using credit card billing machines, business documents, and a general waiting area are all arenas where a patients right to _____ might be violated. 

Privacy

400

This model of counseling-based wellness was created by Myers, Sweeney, and Witmer. It centers spirituality among the four other life tasks of self-direction, work and leisure, friendship, and love. 

Well of Wellness

500

Laws, codes of ethics, and system policies are examples of what type of force that guides and supports the counseling practice?

External force

500

This neurotransmitter is closely associated with moods and emotions. Too little of it can lead to depression, anger issues, and OCD. 

Serotonin

500

This law is often considered the pinnacle of administrative health care laws. It was passed in 1996 and addresses client and patient privacy and security. 

HIPAA

500

This counseling "duty" was established by the court case Tarasoff v. Board of Regents of the University of California in 1976. It holds that counselors need to take reasonable action to help protect victims from dangerous clients. 

Duty to warn

500

This counseling model has 17 tertiary factors, with a primary factor of global wellness. It is abbreviated as IS-Wel model. 

Indivisible self model

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