Ethics
The principle that therapists must act in the best interest of clients.
What is beneficence?
The federal law protecting the privacy of health information.
What is HIPAA?
The first step when assessing suicide risk.
What is asking directly about suicidal thoughts, plan, and intent?
The process of oversight to promote professional growth and client safety.
What is clinical supervision?
Behaving in a way that reflects integrity, accountability, and respect.
What is professional conduct?
The duty to avoid causing harm in therapy
What is nonmaleficence?
The requirement to report suspected child or elder abuse.
What is mandated reporting?
A short-term intervention focused on stabilizing and ensuring safety.
What is crisis counseling?
Seeking peer input without formal oversight.
What is consultation?
Continuing to learn and maintain competence after licensure.
What is ongoing professional development?
The concept of respecting a client’s right to make their own choices.
What is autonomy?
When a client poses a credible threat of harm to an identifiable person.
What is the duty to warn or protect?
A written plan outlining coping strategies and emergency contacts.
What is a safety plan?
The model focusing on the therapist’s developmental stage in supervision.
What is the Integrated Developmental Model (IDM)?
Managing personal stress to prevent emotional exhaustion and reduced empathy.
What is burnout prevention?
Maintaining fairness and equality in providing services.
What is justice?
The legal process allowing disclosure when records are subpoenaed by court order.
What is compelled disclosure?
The process of helping clients regulate after a traumatic event.
What is stabilization?
A supervisor’s obligation to address supervisee competence or ethical violations.
What is gatekeeping?
Setting clear communication and relational parameters with clients.
What are professional boundaries?
The ethical obligation to keep information private except in legally mandated situations.
What is confidentiality?
The written authorization clients sign to share their information with others.
What is a release of information (ROI)?
When a therapist remains calm and directive in life-threatening situations.
What is crisis management?
Reflecting on personal biases and emotional reactions during supervision.
What is self-of-the-therapist work?
The practice of monitoring one’s own emotional and physical well-being to sustain ethical care.
What is self-care?