To respect the dignity and promote the welfare of clients
What is the primary responsibility of counselors (A.1.a.)
100
Counselors obtain permission from clients prior to recording sessions.
What is Permission to Record? (B.6.c.)
100
Counselors do not misuse results and interpretations and prevent others from misusing them.
What is Client Welfare (E.1.b.)
100
Supervisors monitor client's well being while supervising performance and professional development of supervisee.
What is Client Welfare? (F.1.a.)
100
Fostering the right to control the direction of one's life.
What is Autonomy? (ACA Code of Ethics Preamble)
200
Work jointly with counselor to offer reasonable promise of success
What is a counseling plan? (A.1.c.)
200
Counselors provide reasonable access to records and copies of records when requested by competent clients.
What is Client Access? (B.6.e.)
200
Only use tests and assessments the counselor is trained in.
What is Limits of Competence? (E.2.a.)
200
Supervisors are trained in supervision methods and techniques.
What is Counselor Supervision Competence? (F.2.a.)
200
Working for the good of the individual and society by promoting mental health and well-being.
What is Beneficence? (ACA Code of Ethics Preamble)
300
An on-going process of giving the client verbal and written opportunities to engage, or continue to engage, in counseling.
What is Informed Consent? (A.2.a.)
300
Abide by ACA Code of Ethics.
What is Professional Responsibility? (C.Introduction)
300
Release assessment results only to those qualified to interpret the data
What is Release of Data to Qualified Personnel? (E.4.)
300
Supervisors are responsible for incorporating into their supervision information about policies and procedures supervisors adhere to and due process for appealing supervisor actions.
What is Informed Consent? (F.4.a.)
300
Avoid actions that cause harm
What is Nonmaleficence? (ACA Code of Ethics Preamble)
400
Obtaining client consent before helping improve provision of services or removing systemic barriers that inhibit client access, growth, and development
What is client advocacy with consent? (A.7.b.)
400
Practice only within boundaries of training, education, supervised experience, credentialing, and professional experience.
What are boundaries of competence? (C.2.a.)
400
Counselors do not permit unsupervised use of assessments unless designed, intended, and validated for such.
What is Unsupervised Assessments (Self-Administration)? (E.7.d.)
400
Before providing services to clients, supervisors and supervisees disclose status and explains confidentiality limits inherent.
What is Professional Disclosure? (F.5.c.)
400
Treating individuals equitably and fostering fairness and equality
What is Justice? (ACA Code of Ethics Preamble)
500
Managing clients who are also seen by other professionals
What is obtaining client releases to talk with other involved professionals & striving to establish positive and collaborative professional relationships? (A.3.)
500
Claim this after appropriate education, training, and supervised experience only...
What is a Specialty Area? (C.2.b.)
500
Counselors do not appropriate, reproduce, or modify published assessments or parts of assessments without written permission from the publisher
What is Assessment Security? (E.10.)
500
Responsibility of supervisors to identify and attempt to repair supervisee limitations.
What is Gatekeeping and Remediation? (F.6.b.)
500
Honoring commitments and keeping promises, including fulfilling one's responsibilities of trust in professional relationships