Professional Responsibility
Respecting the dignity of clients and promoting their welfare.
What is counselors' primary responsibility?
A.1.a
Inform clients before confidential information is disclosed and involve them in the disclosure process
What is Minimal Disclosure?
B.2.d
Providing real-time face-to-face counseling services via the internet.
What is distance-counseling?
The process that allows a counselor to set aside personal values while working with clients...
What is bracketing?
The Code of Ethics followed by School Counselors
What is the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors?
The document that serves as a legal contract between counselor and client.
What is a disclosure statement?
Obtaining clients' permission before observing sessions, reviewing transcripts, or viewing session recordings with supervisors.
What is Permission to Observe?
B.6.c
The steps counselors take, when using distance counseling, to ensure the identity of their client.
What is Client Verification?
Counselors take precautions to prevent hurting clients of imposing their views or beliefs on clients.
What is Avoiding Harm and Imposing Values?
- A.4.
An agreement given by a person not capable or competent to give consent
What is Assent?
When counselors' physical, mental, or emotional state is likely to harm clients.
What is Impairment?
C.2.g
Counselor may inform identifiable others at risk of contracting client's disease.
What to do if client discloses a Contagious, Life-Threatening Diseases?
B.2.b
Counseling via Skype, FaceTime, and Google Hangouts.
What are platforms that are not compliant with HIPPA Law?
Consider the therapeutic relationship, the monetary value, and the client’s motivation.
What counselors do if offered a gift?
Inform parents/guardians and/or appropriate authorities
What would a counselor do if a child poses a serious or foreseeable risk to self or others?
Counselors examine their interactions with clients and take actions improve when necessary
What is Monitor Effectiveness?
C.2.d
1. Determine who signed the subpoena. 2. Try to obtain written, informed consent from client. 3. Reveal only essential information
What do you do if you receive a subpoena for client records?
Allows counselors to overcome problems of distance and time to offer opportunities for networking and interacting not otherwise available.
What are benefits of online counseling?
1. If the relationship does not exploit the client or place the counselor at an unfair advantage. 2. If the client requests it. 3. If such arrangements are an accepted practice among professionals in the community.
When is bartering ethical?
Hurting yourself, hurting others, or someone hurting you.
What are the limits of confidentiality?
When counselors claim only professional qualifications they actually completed.
What is Accurate Representation?
C.4.a.
Revealing confidential information that could lead to the identification of research participants.
What is Disclosure of Research Information?
B.7.d
Not appropriate for clients with serious psychiatric illnesses; sometimes lacks important information; ethical and legal concerns pose potential problems.
What are disadvantages of online therapy?
The number of years that sexual or romantic interaction between counselors and former clients, their family members, or sexual partners is prohibited.
What is five?
Collaborating with family members, friends or religious leaders about a client
What is Support Network Involvement?