Mental Health/Addictions
True or False: Legally and medically speaking, addiction is classified as a lifestyle choice and a moral failure, rather than a chronic disease.
What is False? (Addiction is explicitly classified as a chronic, organic disease of the brain)
These changes help students access learning without changing academic expectations.
What are accommodations?
In the world of Texas workforce services, the letters "VR" stand for this.
What is Vocational Rehabilitation?
This core ethical standard requires rehabilitation professionals to honor a client's specific cultural background, family dynamics, and preferred identity language when co-creating a rehabilitation plan.
What is Cultural Responsiveness (or Multicultural Competence)?
This law was implemented in 1990 to protect the rights of the disability population.
What is the ADA?
A 24-year-old client presents with unstable relationships, intense fear of abandonment, recurrent self-injury, impulsive spending, chronic emptiness, and rapidly shifting emotions. According to the DSM-5- TR, this is the most likely diagnosis.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This law protects students who need accommodations but may not qualify for special education services.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
These are practiced with consumers to improve confidence before meeting employers.
What are mock interviews?
Certified counselors are strictly forbidden from entering into business partnerships, selling products to, or borrowing money from clients due to this major ethical breach.
What is an Exploitative Dual Relationship (or Conflict of Interest/Dual Relationship)?
Due to a lack of professional training in high-context and nonverbal cues, this specific breakdown in dialogue between a first responder and an individual with an intellectual or psychiatric disability frequently results in a wrongful arrest.
What is escalation of miscommunication?
List psychosocial barriers that commonly prevent individuals with substance use disorders or mental illnesses from seeking treatment.
What is stigma, financial barriers, social isolation, lack of family support?
This specific type of physical management and crisis intervention course is designed to train educators to safely de-escalate crisis behaviors and use specialized physical restraint techniques only as a last resort to protect student safety.
What is Handle With Care?
Consumers may receive these benefits while working if they meet the eligibility requirements.
What are SSI or SSDI benefits?
This ethical and legal concept dictates that professionals must only practice, test, or use specific counseling modalities within the boundaries of their education, training, and supervised experience.
What is Competence (or Scope of Practice)?
An employee experiencing a mental health crisis because they haven't taken their medication becomes disoriented and breaks a store window. Instead of calling medical personnel or mobile crisis units to treat the behavioral emergency, a first responder incorrectly detains them as a common criminal without a lawful or factual basis.
This specific civil rights infraction is known by this legal term.
What is wrongful arrest (False Arrest / False Imprisonment).
List 3 local inpatient rehabilitation/detox centers you can refer a client to who struggles with substance use
What is Outcomes Detox Center, Origins Recovery Center and Hidalgo County Substance Abuse Treatment Center?
This legally binding document outlines a student goals, accommodations, related services, and educational placement.
What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
To be eligible for VR services, a person must have one of these that makes it difficult to obtain employent.
What is a disability?
Because the counselor-client relationship is built on a responsibility of trust, breaking a client's privacy without written consent is only legally and ethically required under specific exceptions, such as this mandatory duty.
What is Reporting Suspected Child Abuse or Neglect (or Vulnerable Adult Abuse)?
Baseline for injury to an elderly person/disabled person carries this charge. It includes 180 days up to 2 years with a fine of up to $10,000.
What is state jail felony?
The memoir A Life on Hold: Living with Schizophrenia by Josie Mendez-Negrete illustrates how stigma can lead individuals with schizophrenia to experience these two common psychosocial outcomes.
What are loneliness and social isolation?
These services help students with disabilities prepare for college for employment, postsecondary education, and independent living before they leave high school.
What is transition services?
This state agency is responsible for providing Vocational Rehabilitation services to Texans with disabilities.
What is the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC)?
Before starting any counseling or rehabilitation service, a consumer has the right to receive this clear, written document explaining the risks, benefits, costs, and limits of privacy.
What is an Informed Consent Document (or Professional Disclosure Statement)?
In 1843 this landmark case was the first to accept an insanity plea.
Who is Daniel M'Naghten?