Key Legal Issues in Counseling
Parents have rights to access their children's educational information until the age of 18yrs. old
What is FERPA?
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
This is the international honor society for professional counselors, counselor educators and counseling students.
What is Chi Sigma Iota?
Intentionally spreading of falsehood through writing
What is being Libel?
The National Vocational Guidance Association is now known as
What is the American Counseling Association?
Students with a 504 Plan are entitled to accommodations under this act
What is the U.S. Rehabilitaion Act of 1973?
This specialization trains people to deliver counseling services to patients with severe psychological disorders and in many states, prescribe medication.
What are Psychiatric Nurses?
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?
A counselor is justified in breaching confidentiality, or violating autonomy, in order to promote the ultimate welfare of the client.
What is beneficence?
A legal term that protects certain counselor-client communication
What is privileged communication?
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?
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?
This organization was established to confront oppressive systems of power and privilege
What are Counselors for Social Justice?
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?
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)
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
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?
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
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
These are people who work outside the school district and provide college counseling services to students for a fee
What are educational consultants?
This state was the first state to license professional counselors in this year
What is Virgina? What is 1970?
This approach emphasizes counselor-trainee progress through a series of stages as they become more experienced, competent, and independent
What is Developmental supervision approach?
This organization was once known as the American Personnel and Guidance Association
What is the American Counseling Association (ACA)
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?
A counselor did not plan or aim to cause harm to the client
What is unintentional tort?