Law & Ethics
Represents the ideal standards set and is enforced by professional associations.
What is Ethics?
To avoid doing harm.
What is nonmaleficence?
It is a necessary form of ongoing self-care.
What is personal therapy for counselors?
Intentional setting aside of the counselor's personal values in order to provide ethical and appropriate counseling to all clients.
What is ethical bracketing?
Is a perception of reality based on a very limited set of cultural experiences.
What is cultural tunnel vision?
Counselors comply with minimal standards, acknowledging the basic "musts" and "must nots."
What are mandatory ethics?
To make realistic commitments and keep these promises.
What is fidelity?
The process whereby clients project onto their therapists past feelings or attitudes they had toward significant people in their lives.
What is transference?
Counselors directly attempting to influence a client to adopt their values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
What is value imposition?
Provide a framework for effective delivery of services to diverse client populations.
What is multicultural counseling competencies?
Focuses on moral issues with he goals of solving a particular dilemma and establishing a framework to guide future ethical thinking and behavior.
What is principle ethics?
Calls for maximum involvement of the client at every stage of the process.
What is the feminist model?
Stress generated by listening to the multiple stories of trauma that clients bring to therapy.
What is empathy fatigue?
Counselors in training can learn how to manage their values and how to avoid using their professional role to influence clients in a given direction or to make decisions for clients about how to live.
What is supervision?
A perspective that recognizes the complexity of cultures and values the diversity of beliefs and values.
What is cultural pluralism?
Beliefs and attitudes that provide direction to everyday living.
What is values?
Addresses need for including cultural factors in the process of resolving ethical dilemmas.
What is the transcultural integrative model?
This has been described as the gradually intensifying pattern of physical, psychological and behavioral responses to a continual flow of stressors.
What is burnout?
From a legal perspective, mental health professionals are expected to exercise "_____________," and if they fail to do so, clients can take legal action against them for negligence.
What is reasonable care?
Fails to evaluate other viewpoints and makes little attempt to accommodate the behavior of others.
What is the culturally encapsulated counselor?
The highest professional standards of conduct to which counselors can aspire.
What is aspirational ethics?
Focuses primarily on the social aspects of decision making in counseling.
What is the social constructionist model?
Results in consistently functioning below acceptable practice standards.
What is impairment?
Defined as a more personal quest for transcendence and meaning, whereas religion is often linked with dogma and ritual.
What is spirituality?
People with _____ ______, ______, and _____ disabilities represent the largest minority and disadvantaged group in the United States.
What is chronic medical, physical, and mental?