Professional Issues in Counseling Test Questions
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Professional Issues in Counseling examines the ethical, legal, and professional responsibilities inherent in the practice of counseling. This course explores topics such as confidentiality, informed consent, multicultural competence, boundaries and dual relationships, supervision, and advocacy. Students will analyze relevant professional codes of ethics, case studies, and current trends affecting the counseling profession, as well as develop critical thinking skills to effectively navigate dilemmas they may encounter in practice. Emphasis is placed on fostering professional identity, self-awareness, and an understanding of the evolving roles and expectations of counselors in diverse settings.
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Ethics in Counseling and Therapy Developing an Ethical Identity 1st Edition by Rick A. Houser
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) The decision making model put forth by the ACA is a:
A) Global model
B) Rectangular model
C) Circular model
D) Linear model
Answer: D
Q2) Ethics texts typically focus on ethical issues and give little attention to ethical ________ and decision making.
A) dilemmas
B) theories
C) predicaments
D) quandaries.
Answer: B
Q3) This component involves moral reasoning or understanding of options and choices that are to be made.
A) moral sensitivity
B) moral judgment
C) moral development
D) moral character
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Professional Identity and Ethics
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Q1) When the individual acts to conform to societal or group norms he or she is in what stage of Moral Development?
A) 1st
B) 2nd
C) 4th
D) 3rd
Answer: C
Q2) This is a cognitive structure that represents knowledge about a concept or type of stimulus:
A) diagram
B) script
C) schema
D) representation
Answer: C
Q3) Erik Erickson (1968) has made significant contributions to the identification and understanding of personal self-identity
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Awareness and Sensitivity to Ethical Issues
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Q1) The idea of commitment to an organization for counselors and therapists may be interpreted as a commitment to a professional organization such as the ________.
A) ASW
B) ACA
C) APA
D) AMA
Answer: B
Q2) Ethical decisions based on these ideologies are based on context and not necessarily on principles that cut across situations.
A) Cognitive
B) Moral
C) Ethical
D) Expedient
Answer: D
Q3) When dissonance is present, the individual is comfortable.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Cognitions and Reasoninghermeneutics
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Q1) This is defined as the range of possible meanings available to a person at their moment and place in history. It is composed of the dispositions the person brings to the present by virtue of their place in tradition(s) or culture.
A) scope
B) landscape
C) verizon
D) horizon
Q2) His famous six-stage model became the most influential perspective on how moral understanding was both cognitive and developmental.
A) Kohlberg
B) Glasser
C) Jung
D) Rogers
Q3) Give three examples of boundary issues.
Q4) Explain why autonomy is an important issue in ethical decision making for counselors.
Q5) What is multicultural competency and why is it important?
Q6) What is confidentiality and when is it important to break it?
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Chapter 5: Client Autonomy and Client Rights
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Q1) _______ acknowledged consent before the medical treatment of those who were free, not slaves.
A) Socrates
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Guiere
Q2) What is assent and how would you go about obtaining it?
Q3) Assent does not hold the same legal status as consent.
A)True
B)False
Q4) This is defined as an iterative process in which a person who lacks power sets a personally meaningful goal oriented towards increasing power, takes action toward that goal, and observes and reflects on the impact of this action, drawing on his or her evolving self-efficacy, knowledge, and competence related to the goal.
A) autonomy
B) beneficence
C) empowerment
D) fidelity
Q5) What is fidelity and how does it relate to counseling?
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Chapter 6: Dual Relationships
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Q1) Having dual or multiple relationships with clients may or may not be a problem; however, the potential for problems increases
A)True
B)False
Q2) _________ role theory provides insight into how boundaries may be understood A) Social B) Biological
C) Psychological
D) Ecological
Q3) Greeting a client in a public setting may unintentionally break confidentiality. A)True
B)False
Q4) Pearson and Piazza (1997) identified several types of relationships that affect professionals. Please list and describe the four types of relationships they identified.
Q5) Avoiding dual relationships in certain circumstances is always possible. A)True
B)False
Q6) How do cognitive schemas impact the counseling process? Please provide an example.
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Chapter 7: Counselor Competence
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Q1) Spruill et al. (2004) suggested a __________ model of using and selecting interventions; they proposed significant differences in definitions of levels of competence.
A) developmental
B) social
C) psychological
D) biological
Q2) Higher levels of client satisfaction are related to lower levels of counselor burnout/counselor fatigue syndrome.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is counselor burnout and how does it impair counselor competence?
Q4) Counselors who have higher levels or ego development or feelings of self-efficacy report higher levels of counselor burnout/counselor fatigue syndrome.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Counselor burnout and counselor impairment cannot affect counselor competence. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Diversity and Multicultural Competence
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Q1) Discuss the structure of the Latino family.
Q2) According to Pedersen, the first stage in developing cultural competency is:
A) awareness of culturally learned assumptions
B) an awareness of the worldviews of clients
C) an understanding of culturally relevant facts
D) development of culturally appropriate interventions
Q3) Balcazar, Suarez-Balcazar, and Taylor-Ritzler (2009) suggested there are four elements of diversity and multicultural competence including all but which:
A) Self-awareness
B) Cultural knowledge
C) Ability to communicate understanding through empathy
D) Referring clients out if the counselor is prejudice towards a certain population
Q4) According to Pedersen, the first second stage in developing cultural competency is:
A) awareness of culturally learned assumptions
B) an awareness of the counselor's own worldview and biases
C) an understanding of culturally relevant facts
D) development of culturally appropriate interventions
Q5) Compare and contrast race, phenotype, and genotype.
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Chapter 9: Use of Technology and Ethics
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Q1) Speyer (2004) defined Internet therapy as "any type of professional therapeutic interaction that makes use of the Internet to connect qualified mental health professionals and their clients"
A)True
B)False
Q2) Virtual reality has been used with a number of mental health issues including all but which:
A) Sexual Disorders
B) PTSD
C) Suicidal Ideation
D) Phobias
Q3) The percentage of Americans who use technology has increased to almost ____% of the adult population
A) 20
B) 30
C) 70
D) 60
Q4) How can fear of flying be treated through virtual reality?
Q5) What is an EMR and what are the benefits of using it in counseling?
Q6) Describe the use of CAI programs.
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Chapter 10: Supervision and Ethics
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Q1) Compare and contrast clinical and administrative supervisors.
Q2) One relevant ethical issue in counselor supervision is promoting the development of the counselor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Supervisors' values, beliefs, professional identity, and so forth influence the horizon of the ethical decision-making process.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ACES identified _____ standards for counseling supervisors; these standards are identified in terms of personal traits, knowledge, and competencies.
A) 5
B) 11
C) 21
D) 17
Q5) Describe potential dual relationships that may occur between supervisor and supervisee.
Q6) Describe in detail the final phase of Ronnestad and Skovholt's model.
Q7) Describe in detail the second phase of Ronnestad and Skovholt's model.
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Chapter 11: Ethical Use of Research in Counseling Practice
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Q1) J. Carey and Dimmitt (2008) proposed that counselors should develop:
A) cognitive behavioral practice teams
B) scientific practice teams
C) evidence-based practice teams
D) ethical practice teams
Q2) The fifth step in Mayer's EBP approach is:
A) evaluation of the study to determine its quality and use
B) identification of a study that most closely resembles the issue to be addressed and the evaluation of the outcomes achieved in the study.
C) assessment of how the study outcomes may be applied to the current issue.
D) identification of a question
Q3) The goal during this step of Mayer's model is to discover the best information available on the topic.
A) Step 1
B) Step 2
C) Step 3
D) Step 4
Q4) Rousseau and McCarthy (2007) offered several principles in using EBP. Name and describe three of these principles.
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Chapter 12: Professional Codes of Ethics and the Law
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Q1) Criminal law affect counseling practice but civil law does not.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One criminal behavior that counselors have engaged in is fraudulent billing for client services.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compare and contrast criminal and civil law.
Q4) There are almost 2 million reports of ____abuse made in the United States each year.
A) child
B) elder
C) partner
D) animal
Q5) What guidelines does the ACA Code of Ethics provide regarding working with clients who have HIV/AIDS?
Q6) What are professional code of ethics? List three professional code of ethics that apply to the counseling discipline.
Q7) Describe FERPA and discuss why it is important for counselors.
Q8) Discuss the Tarasoff case.
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Chapter 13: Western Theories of Ethics
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Q1) ________values, is composed of pursuing knowledge and sociability.
A) biological
B) worldly
C) natural
D) human
Q2) _______ values are composed of two values, life and procreation
A) biological
B) worldly
C) natural
D) human
Q3) Give a brief overview of respect for persons ethics.
Q4) Justice refers to the central duty to do no harm either through intention or by entering into any action that may indirectly cause harm in others.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The duty to treat all fairly:
A) fidelity
B) benevolence
C) justice
D) nonmalevolence
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Chapter 14: Eastern Theories of Ethics
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Q1) __________ concludes that suffering, impermanence, and no-self are fundamental components.
A) Hinduism
B) Taoism
C) Buddhism
D) Confucianism
Q2) Confucianism is focused on developing desired virtues established through obligations to others.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The history of Confucianism dates back more than _______ years.
A) 1,000
B) 2,000
C) 3,000
D) 4,000
Q4) Chinese consider Confucius the "second teacher".
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is Karma and how is it often misconstrued?
Q6) What is "The Middle Way" according to Buddhism?
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Chapter 15: Middle Eastern Ethical Theories
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Q1) One of the major writers on Muslim ethics was:
A) Abd al-Jabbar
B) Jabbar al-Abd
C) Kabbar al-Dba
D) Dba al-Kabbar
Q2) Dorff (2000) noted the key foundation in Judaism and its ethics is a linkage between all but which:
A) friends
B) Individual
C) family
D) community
Q3) If someone screams in a department store and it upsets others this is considered to be an:
A) Evil or forbidden act
B) Undesirable act
C) Neutral act
D) Desirable act
Q4) Give a brief history of Islam.
Q5) Discuss the role of education according to Judaic ethics.
Q6) List and describe the five major classes of ethics according to Islam.
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Chapter 16: Native American, Hispaniclatino, and African Ethics
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Q1) Estimates of the number of those who identify as Native American range from 2.5 million to:
A) 3 million
B) 5 million
C) 10 million
D) 20 million
Q2) This term refers to masculine chivalry in Hispanic/Latino cultures.
A) Familismo
B) Caballerismo
C) Marianismo
D) Masculinismo
Q3) Bopp, Bopp, Brown, and Lane (1985) identified the "Sacred Tree" as a symbol of connections within the universe.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare and contrast the origins of Hispanic and Latino cultures.
Q5) Alaskan Natives entered the Americas reportedly through the Bering Strait from Europe between 5000 and 3500 BCE.
A)True
B)False
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