Terms
This term refers to a serious ethical breach that results in harm to a client, distinguishing it from a boundary crossing.
Boundary violation
When documenting for self-protection, this level of thoroughness helps protect counselors legally and ethically.
Detailed documentation
In Texas, a licensed mental health professional must make a report to CPS or the police in this timeframe when they have reasonable cause to believe that a child was the victim of abuse.
Within 24 hours
This technique involves a counselor sharing personal information and is ethically permissible when it benefits the client.
Counselor self-disclosure
This refers to the significantly diminished capacity to perform professional functions.
Impairment
This term serves to protect the welfare of clients because clients are vulnerable in counseling relationships.
Boundaries
This is the preferred method for storing client records.
Electronically
The client.
To facilitate effective treatment.
Supervisees are ethically obligated to inform clients that they are being supervised and to provide this information to clients.
The name of their supervisor.
This collaborative professional process can involve requesting guidance, information, or event testimony from another professional.
Consultation
These agreements between a clinical supervisor and supervisee should be in writing so both parties clearly understand the terms of the relationship.
Supervision agreements
These are used to obtain copies of records, require witnesses to appear for a hearing, and to ask potential witnesses to respond in writing to written questions.
Subpoenas
This type of professional relationship requires counselors to prioritize client welfare and not benefit inappropriately from the relationship.
Fiduciary relationship
Counselors only use these for which they have been trained and are competent.
Testing and assessment services
This concept applies when a reasonable counselor can anticipate significant and harmful possible consequences.
Serious and foreseeable
These are the three major types of records that counselors keep.
Recordings, clinical case notes, and administrative
Minor clients have an ethical right to privacy and confidentiality, but the privacy rights of minors legally belong to whom.
Parents or guardians
Regardless of licensure status, this important ethical duty to clients applies equally to graduate students in counseling training programs.
This legal principle holds that individuals who have control and authority over others (i.e., supervisors) will be held accountable for their negligence.
Vicarious liability
This refers to the initial and ongoing academic, skill, and dispositional assessment of students' competency for professional practice, including remediation and termination as appropriate.
Gatekeeping
To avoid being sued for abandonment, counselors are advised to do this before ending the counseling relationship.
Give the client adequate notice of termination.
In family and group counseling, this legal protection is generally waived when a third party is present during a session, meaning confidentiality under the law may no longer apply.
Privileged communication
This type of fee arrangement allows fees to vary according to the client's financial situation and household size.
Sliding scale
This form of counseling requires counselors to inform clients of legal rights and limitations governing the practice across state lines.
Telemental health counseling