History
Licensure
CACREP
Professional Identity
Licensing Board Procedures
100

This movement in the early 1900s marked the beginning of counseling

What is the Vocational Guidance movement?

100

This U.S. state was the first to pass a counselor licensure law.

What is Virginia?

100

CACREP stands for this.

What is the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs?

100

One reason standardization supports professional identity is this.

What is the role of clarity or consistency across the profession?

100

This type of relationship exists when a mental health professional has both a professional and a personal relationship with the same client.

What is a dual relationship?

200

This person is considered a founding figure of the counseling profession

Who is Frank Parsons?

200

This state was the last to adopt counselor licensure in 2009.
 

What is California?

200

CACREP was established in this year.

What is 1981?

200

Counselors seek to distinguish themselves from these related professions.

What are psychologists and social workers?

200

According to Chapter 16, this is the primary ethical risk of engaging in a dual relationship with a client.

What is the potential for harm or exploitation?

300

These global events increased the need for vocational and mental health services.

What are World War I and World War II?

300

Licensure ensures these two key aspects for professional counselors.
 

What are minimum standards and public protection?

300

One benefit of CACREP-accredited programs is this.

What is standardized training (or increased credibility)?

300

A strong professional identity supports this key value in counseling.

What is client trust (or ethical practice)?

300

This key strategy is recommended to minimize risks when a boundary crossing is unavoidable

What is documentation and consultation with a supervisor or colleague?

400

This 1963 legislation helped fund community-based mental health services.

What is the Community Mental Health Act?

400

Licensure varies by state, creating an issue for counselors who move between states.

What is the lack of portability?

400

Critics argue that CACREP may unintentionally limit this within the profession.

What is diversity and access?

400

Developing a shared professional identity helps counselors do this nationally.

What is an advocate or collaborator across systems?

400

True or False: All dual relationships are unethical.

What is false? (Some dual relationships are unavoidable and not inherently unethical, but they must be managed carefully.)

500

Counselors began distinguishing their role from psychologists and social workers during this decade.

What are the 1970s (or 1980s)?

500

Licensure helps establish this important professional aspect.

What is professional identity?

500

CACREP promotes this by requiring consistent education and ethical training.

What is counselor professionalization (or quality assurance)?

500

Name one drawback of enforcing too narrow a professional identity.

What is excluding diverse perspectives or limiting innovation?

500

This term describes when a therapist unintentionally begins to blur the lines between their role as a professional and another role (e.g., friend, business partner).

What is boundary drift?