Law & Ethics
This document is required before initiating treatment.
What is informed consent?
This theory is associated with the idea that maladaptive thoughts lead to emotional distress and behavioral problems.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
According to Erik Erikson, this is the primary psychosocial task of adolescence.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
The acronym “OCD” stand for, and its two main symptom types are X and X.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Symptoms include obsessions (intrusive thoughts) and compulsions (repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed to reduce distress)?
A treatment goal should be x.
What is measurable?
Only X can legally authorize release of a minor’s records.
Who is the parent or legal guardian, unless minor has legal rights to confidentiality (e.g., reproductive health services)?
This theory focuses on resolving unconscious conflicts and emphasizes early childhood experiences.
What is Psychodynamic or Psychoanalytic Theory.
This developmental theorist proposed the stages of cognitive development, including sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This is the minimum duration of symptoms required for a diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder.
What is at least two weeks?
This is the first step after identifying suicidal ideation is present.
What is assess for risk level (plan, means, intent, history)?
A therapist learns during a session that their client is in a relationship with the therapist’s close friend. The client wants this kept confidential. X are the ethical and legal concerns here.
What is possible conflict of interest or dual relationship risk?
The therapist must consider whether they can remain objective and may need to refer out to avoid ethical violations
Within this theory a therapist use “miracle questions” and scaling techniques to highlight client strengths and future goals.
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)?
Within this age range children typically enter Piaget’s preoperational stage, characterized by symbolic play but difficulty with logic.
What is approximately 2 to 7 years old?
This key feature distinguishes Bipolar I Disorder from Bipolar II Disorder.
What is Bipolar I includes at least one manic episode?
Bipolar II includes hypomanic episodes but no full manic episodes
This modality uses homework and structured skill-building.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) ?
A client discloses they committed a serious crime years ago that was never reported. Are you legally required to report it.
What is No?
Past crimes (without ongoing danger or mandatory reporting triggers) are generally protected by confidentiality unless there’s a present risk of harm to others.
This theory views the family as a system where symptoms are expressions of dysfunction in family roles, boundaries, or communication patterns.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
According to Bowlby’s attachment theory, this type of attachment is associated with inconsistent caregiving, leading to anxiety and uncertainty in relationships.
What is Anxious-ambivalent (insecure) attachment?
The primary symptom clusters of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) include the following:
What are re-experiencing, avoidance, negative alterations in cognition/mood, and hyperarousal?
For these reasons, client collaboration critical in treatment planning:
What is it increases client engagement, motivation, and ownership of progress?
This is the difference between a subpoena and a court order.
What is a subpoena requests information but requires client consent unless a court order accompanies it; a court order compels disclosure regardless.
A therapist using this theory might reframe problems as part of a client’s larger social narrative, helping them externalize issues and rewrite their story.
What is Narrative Therapy?
In attachment theory, this adult relational pattern is commonly associated with early avoidant attachment in childhood.
What is dismissive or avoidant adult attachment style?
characterized by emotional distance and discomfort with closeness.
A client presents with fluctuating moods, intense fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, identity disturbance, impulsive behaviors, and recurrent suicidal gestures. The most likely diagnosis is x and cluster x of personality disorders(extra points).
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
What is Cluster B of the personality disorders? (dramatic, emotional, or erratic disorders).
You would address ambivalence in treatment planning by using the following modality/techniques:
What is motivational interviewing techniques and collaboratively set small, achievable goals that reflect client readiness?