Foundations & Identity
These are two of the six core values of the counseling profession.
What are autonomy and beneficence? (or others?)
This is the first stage of the counseling process.
What is building rapport or establishing the relationship?
This term means integrating research, clinical expertise, and client preferences.
What is evidence-based practice?
This concept refers to a counselor’s proactive effort to maintain physical, emotional, and spiritual balance.
What is wellness?
This document provides the professional standards counselors use to make decisions that protect client welfare.
What is the ACA Code of Ethics?
The counseling profession began with this early career-focused movement.
What is the vocational guidance movement?
Reflecting, paraphrasing, and summarizing are examples of these.
What are counseling microskills?
The process of collecting data to guide treatment and monitor progress.
What is assessment?
When a counselor’s unresolved personal issues interfere with professional effectiveness, this occurs.
What is counselor impairment?
Before counseling begins (and throughout), clients must understand the nature, purpose, risks, and limits of services. This principle ensures respect for autonomy.
What is informed consent?
Joining one of these, like ACA, CSI, ASCA or SAIGE, helps counselors grow professionally.
What is a professional counseling organization?
Carl Rogers identified empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard as these.
What are the core conditions of person-centered therapy?
Cultural bias, misuse of results, and lack of consent are examples of these.
What are ethical issues in assessment?
A counselor in supervision explores recurring frustration toward a client and recognizes it mirrors past experiences. This insight demonstrates development in this core supervision competency.
What is managing countertransference through reflective supervision?
When imminent risk, abuse, or a court order requires disclosure, a counselor must navigate these carefully defined limits of confidentiality.
What are mandated exceptions to confidentiality?
This philosophical stance emphasizes clients’ inherent capacity for growth and self-direction, forming the basis of counseling’s wellness orientation.
What is the humanistic perspective?
A counselor helping a client set small, achievable goals and reinforcing progress is demonstrating this type of counseling orientation.
What is a behavioral or solution-focused approach?
A counselor uses both standardized measures and client self-reports to inform treatment planning. This reflects which ethical practice principle?
What is integrating multiple sources of data for validity?
A counselor intentionally monitors emotional, physical, and ethical boundaries to ensure their personal values do not override the client’s autonomy.
What is self-regulation or ethical self-awareness?
A counselor discovers that a client poses a serious threat to another person.
What is the duty to warn and protect?
This term describes the ongoing process of integrating one’s values, ethics, and professional roles into a cohesive counselor identity.
What is professional identity development?
When a counselor’s reflections not only restate but deepen client meaning, it demonstrates this advanced microskill.
What is advanced empathy? or What is reflection of meaning?
Failing to account for cultural context in interpreting test results violates which key ethical standard in assessment?
What is fairness or cultural responsiveness in testing?
A counselor notices emotional exhaustion beginning to affect clinical judgment and immediately seeks supervision, consults peers, and revises their workload. This response reflects what ethical responsibility?
What is the duty to monitor personal wellness to maintain professional competence?
A counselor identifies that client risk is compounded by systemic inequities and adapts intervention plans to ensure safety, dignity, and access to care. This demonstrates what higher-order ethical practice?
What is integrating advocacy and social justice into ethical decision-making?