Ethical Practices
The guidelines in which hold counselors to a standard of ethical obligations and inform ethical practices.
What is the ACA Code of Ethics?
The observed MSE component which includes mannerisms, gestures, psychomotor activity, expression, eye contact, and ability to follow requests.
What is behavior?
Codes which indicate unique characteristics, presentation, and intensity.
What are specifiers?
Types of treatments that are backed by research.
What are evidenced based practices?
Category of disorders characterized by hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech.
What are psychotic disorders?
The experience of one or more diagnoses.
What is co-occurring disorder?
The inquired MSE component which may ask: "What is the full date today?"
What is Orientation?
What is the ICD-10?
The coexistence of mental health disorders and substance use disorders.
What is co-occurring disorders?
Delusions and hallucinations are considered what type of symptoms.
What are positive symptoms?
The unethical practice of understating symptoms to meet diagnosis criteria.
What is down-coding?
The inquired MSE component which evaluates the sustained stated of inner feeling. "How are you feeling?"
What is mood?
Non-diagnostic codes which communication further context and alert professionals to important issues (e.g., family problems, poverty, trauma, etc.).
What are V-codes or Z-codes?
The treatment modality usually involves efforts to change thinking patterns and change maladaptive behavior patterns through the use of cognitive restructuring.
What is CBT?
Chronic depressive symptoms and functional impairment for at least 2 years.
What is persistent depressive disorder (PDD)?
The unethical practice of overstating symptoms to meet a diagnosis criteria and receive services.
What is upcoding?
What is thought content?
Diagnosis information which helps guide clinicians to determine accurate diagnosis across similar symptoms and presentation.
What is differential diagnosis?
Treatment modality used in collaboration with a psychiatrist or medical doctor.
What is psychopharmacology? (Or medication)
Criteria includes the experience of threat or perception of threat to death, illness, injury, or sexual violence.
The state's licensing board definition of counseling which defines the range of activities allowed by licensed professional counselors.
What is the scope of practice/diagnosis?
The observed MSE component which is the expression of inner feeling.
What is affect?
A tool which helps guide clinicians towards obtaining additional contextual and cultural information pertinent to the individual's mental health problems.
What is the Cultural Formulation Interview?
Treatment modality which confronts fears, conditions, or behaviors on a hierarchy to decrease distress and avoidant behaviors.
What are exposure-based interventions?
Symptoms of this mental health condition including at least one episode of mania and depression.
What is bi-polar I?