PROTECTION
These provide the framework for the therapeutic relationship within which the work takes place.
What are boundaries?
Addiction professionals accept their responsibility to ensure the safety and welfare of their client and act for the good of each client while exercising respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
What is Client Welfare?
The ethical and legal principle that protects client information shared during therapy sessions.
What is Confidentiality?
The initial step in therapy, where a counselor gathers information about a new client to understand their needs and build a foundation for treatment.
What is the Intake Process?
The compulsive use of a substance regardless of social, legal, or health consequences.
What is an Addiction (or Substance Use Disorder)?
When a therapist engages in exploitative dual relationships with a client, such as sexual contact or a business relationship that benefits the therapist.
What is a boundary violation?
To protect clients of counseling services, to protect members of the profession, and to limit government interference in the regulation of the profession.
What are the purposes of ethical standards in counseling?
It's primary purpose is to protect the privacy of people receiving health care services. It works to protect the confidentiality of people receiving medical treatment. It also aims to ensure patient privacy, security, and portability of health insurance coverage, and to reduce healthcare fraud and abuse.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act? HIPAA
This happens when services are no longer required, no longer serve the client's needs, or the provider is unable to remain objective.
What is Termination?
Also known as dual diagnosis, this term refers to the presence of a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder
What is a co-occurring disorder?
A dysfunctional relationship dynamic where one person assumes the role of "the giver," sacrificing their own needs and well-being for the sake of the other, "the taker."
What is codependency?
Models which help counselors make decisions that follow the best ethical practice when confronted with difficult and challenging ethical dilemmas. They supplement and do not replace the Code.
What is an Ethical Decision Making Model?
A counselors professional agreement to respect the privacy of clients and refrain from disclosing any information to others except in agreed upon conditions.
What is the Confidentiality Agreement?
The decision to terminate a counseling relationship is ideally made by
Who is the counselor and the client?
This is the most common addiction in the United States
What is Nicotine Addiction?
To ensure clients are fully informed of their treatment and their right to refuse services and withdraw consent at any time.
What are Client Rights?
The process where a therapist provides a client with all of the necessary information about the counseling process, including its nature, goals, potential risks and benefits, confidentiality policies, and the client's rights, allowing the client to make an informed decision about participating in therapy.
What is Informed Consent?
A document that allows a healthcare provider to share a patient's protected health information (PHI) with specific individuals or entities.
What is a Consent to Release Information?
Addiction professionals provide the client with the highest quality of care. Providers use ASAM or other relevant placement criteria to ensure that clients are appropriately and effectively served.
What is Level of Care?
Needing more of the substance to achieve the same effect?
What is Developing Tolerance?
This occurs when a person unconsciously projects feelings or attitudes from past relationships onto the therapist, such as seeing the therapist as a parental figure.
What is Transference?
The counselor must have a duty to the client, the counselor must have acted in a negligent or improper manner, and there must be a causal relationship between the negligence and the damage claimed by the client.
What are the three elements of malpractice?
Danger to self, danger to others, and abuse
What are the three exceptions to confidentiality?
A collaborative process between the therapist and client to create a roadmap for therapy.
What is Treatment Planning?
Addictions that do not involve a substance but are the result of repetitively engaging in a particular process.
What are Process Addictions?