Key Legal Issues in Counseling
Counseling Specializations
Professional Organizations
Ethical and Legal Issues
Questions from every Category
100

Parents have rights to access their children's educational information until the age of 18yrs. old

What is FERPA?

100

This counselor seeks to help individual with disabilities work through personal and vocational issues they may encounter as a result of their impairment

What is a certified rehabilitation counselor

100

This is the international honor society for professional counselors, counselor educators and counseling students.

What is Chi Sigma Iota?

100

Intentionally spreading of falsehood through writing

What is being Libel?

100

The National Vocational Guidance Association is now known as

What is the American Counseling Association? 

200

Students with a 504 Plan are entitled to accommodations under this act

What is the U.S. Rehabilitaion Act of 1973?

200

This specialization trains people to deliver counseling services to patients  with severe psychological disorders and in many states, prescribe medication.

What are Psychiatric Nurses?

200

This organization champions imaginative and creative approaches to counseling and compromises counseling professionals from diverse specializations, including dance, art , music  and play therapy   

What is The Association for Creativity in Counseling?

200

A counselor is justified in breaching confidentiality, or violating autonomy, in order to promote the ultimate welfare of the client.

What is beneficence?

200

A legal term that protects certain counselor-client communication

What is privileged communication?

300

In cases where an adult is neglecting him or herself in some manner, some states allow law enforcement to intervene when these individuals refuse service

What is elder abuse?

300

This act provided funding for the establishment of mental health centers across the United States to provide greater access to mental health care services

What is the Health Act of 1963?

300

This organization was established to confront oppressive systems of power and privilege

What are Counselors for Social Justice?

300

This section of the ACA Code of Ethics states avoid any virtual relationships with current clients, including through social media or other media

What is the counseling relationship?

300

Both of these organizations are devoted to the specialization of career counseling.

What is the National Career Development Association (NCDA) and what is the National Employment Counseling Association (NECA)

400

Requires insurance coverage for mental health conditions, including substance use disorders, to be no more restrictive than insurance coverage for other medical conditions

What is the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act

400

These counselors work in centers to support students who have mental health and educational concerns that are negatively affecting their personal, social and academic endeavors

What is College Counseling?

400

This organization was first established to to join together Catholic Members of the APGA and the Catholic guidance councils across the united states.

What is the Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling

400

 This court case states that mental health practitioners could be held legally responsible for failing to take adequate steps to warn third parties about clients who present a serious threat to them 

What is Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California

400

These are people who work outside the school district and provide college counseling services to students for a fee

What are educational consultants?

500

This state was the first state to license professional counselors in this year

What is Virgina? What is 1970?

500

This approach emphasizes counselor-trainee progress through a series of stages as they become more experienced, competent, and independent 

What is Developmental supervision approach?

500

This organization was once known as the American Personnel and Guidance Association

What is the American Counseling Association (ACA)

500

 This section of the ACA Code of Ethics states that a counselor must notify their employer about any improper or unethical organizational practices that negatively affect clients, or counselors' ability to provide services. 

What is Relationships with other Professionals?

500

A counselor did not plan or aim to cause harm to the client

What is unintentional tort?

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