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Course Introduction
Ethics in Counseling explores the fundamental ethical principles, professional standards, and legal considerations that guide the practice of counseling. The course examines topics such as confidentiality, informed consent, dual relationships, boundaries, and multicultural competence, providing students with the tools to navigate complex ethical dilemmas in diverse counseling settings. Through case studies, discussion, and analysis of current ethical codes, students learn to apply critical thinking and ethical decision-making models to ensure client welfare and uphold professional integrity within the counseling profession.
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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) Professional associations typically do not establish the ethical standards for a profession.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) 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
Q3) ________, theoretically, is generated from a more general standard set of guidelines outlined and set forth by professional organizations, whereas _______ is/are more narrow and based on cultural and possibly religious beliefs.
A) Ethics; morality
B) Morality; ethics
C) Ethics; theories
D) Morality; theories
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Professional Identity and Ethics
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Q1) Worchel et al. (2000) suggested that personal identity is composed of specific personal characteristics that may include age, gender, culture, and physical appearance.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) An individual's social self-schema (i.e., the sum total of his or her social identities) is a unique knowledge structure in memory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A review of reports of therapist misconduct to state licensure boards discovered that ___________ was/were the most frequent complaint(s).
A) self-disclosure
B) dual relationships
C) abandonment
D) breaking confidentiality
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Awareness and Sensitivity to Ethical Issues
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Q1) Researchers have found that cognitive dissonance serves as motivation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) ____________ models note the links between a developing understanding of ethical consideration and the perceived importance and interpretation of various values and beliefs.
A) Developmental
B) Moral
C) Cognitive
D) Social
Answer: A
Q3) Key in the definition of principled ideologies is the idea of _____________.
A) social support
B) connections
C) commitment
D) associations
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Cognitions and Reasoninghermeneutics
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Q1) Burian proposed that dual social relationships can occur due to the loss of objectivity on the part of the counselor.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Hermeneutics is:
A) Circular
B) Linear
C) Rectangular
D) Triangular
Q3) Fusion of horizons is the integration of multiple horizons.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain why autonomy is an important issue in ethical decision making for counselors.
Q5) The second-most-common complaint to state licensure boards against counselors involved:
A) Dual relationships
B) Competence
C) Inappropriate record keeping
D) Breach of confidentiality
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Chapter 5: Client Autonomy and Client Rights
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Q1) Children in most states are not able to legally give informed consent before the age of ____.
A) 14
B) 15
C) 17
D) 18
Q2) Faden et al. (1986) noted that providing consent and informed consent prior to the 1900s was:
A) based on an attempt to obtain compliance
B) based on patient rights
C) based on civil rights
D) based on paternalism
Q3) One of the early judicial decisions promoting consumer rights in the early 1900s was in Schloendorff v. _____________, which focused on a patient's not giving consent for treatment but treatment's still being provided.
A) The Society of the New York Hospital
B) The American Counseling Association
C) The American Medical Association
D) The Association of United States Hospitals
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Chapter 6: Dual Relationships
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Q1) Avoiding dual relationships in certain circumstances is always possible.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ____________was an early opponent of counselor or therapist self-disclosure.
A) Freud
B) Beck
C) Ellis
D) Erikson
Q3) Codes can provide guidance around relationships such as those between former clients, students, and employees.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Counselor self-_________statements have been found to increase client perceptions of expertness and trustworthiness
A) disclosing
B) connecting C) involving
D) relating
Q5) Describe three types of touch that are appropriate for counseling.
Q6) Define dual relationships and give two examples.
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Chapter 7: Counselor Competence
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Q1) The process of physical and emotional depletion resulting from conditions at work or, more concisely, prolonged job stress is referred to as:
A) counselor pressure
B) counselor stress
C) counselor burnout
D) counselor depletion
Q2) Which is considered to be a first step in the counseling process:
A) prescribing medication
B) termination
C) assessment
D) confrontation
Q3) Maslach et al. (2001) described ______ burnout as "a psychological syndrome in response to chronic interpersonal stressors on the job.
A) social
B) job
C) psychological
D) interpersonal
Q4) What is counselor burnout and how does it impair counselor competence?
Q5) What is assessment and how is it used in counseling?
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Chapter 8: Diversity and Multicultural Competence
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Q1) The four forces of counseling include all but which:
A) psychoanalytic
B) behaviorist
C) humanistic
D) solution focused
Q2) The population estimates of major minority groups in the United States, such as Asian, Black, and Latino groups, are approximately 75% of the total U.S. population.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Only phenotype-not genotype-differentiates humans.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Counselors are primarily ____________.
A) American Indian
B) African American
C) European American
D) Asian American
Q5) What are the three competencies set forth by The Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development?
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Chapter 9: Use of Technology and Ethics
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Q1) An example of tests administered through computers is the _________.
A) MTIM
B) MPIM
C) MMPI
D) MDRI
Q2) This is defined as "the feeling (or illusion) of being in someone's presence without sharing any immediate physical space".
A) telespace
B) teleporting
C) telepresence
D) telefeeling
Q3) Researchers have found that online counseling is rated negatively by many clients.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Those attending in-person counseling have higher ratings of satisfaction than those who attend online counseling.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the use of CAI programs.
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Chapter 10: Supervision and Ethics
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Q1) Ronnestad and Skovholt identified six phases of counselor development. List and describe these phases.
Q2) This phase of Ronnestad and Skovholt's model encompasses the first few years after graduation from the counseling program.
A) lay helper
B) advanced student
C) novice professional
D) senior professional
Q3) Ronnestad and Skovholt (2003) have found that students in this phase express concern that they have not had many opportunities to observe more advanced professional counselors.
A) lay helper
B) advanced student
C) beginning student
D) senior professional
Q4) There are several ethical and legal concerns that may place both the counselor and the supervisor at risk, for example, lawsuits or criminal charges.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Ethical Use of Research in Counseling Practice
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Q1) 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
Q2) __________results in many individuals' being falsely accused of sexual abuse as a consequence of counselors' engaging in recovered memory work/counseling.
A) False Memory Syndrome
B) False Abuse Syndrome
C) Recovered Abuse Syndrome
D) Recovered Memory Syndrome
Q3) 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
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) Alhazo et al. (2011) discussed how counselors may consider applying duty to warn to a situation involving an identified partner of a client who is infected with _____ and who has not informed his or her partner of the disease.
A) Genital Warts
B) HIV
C) Syphilis
D) Gonorrhea
Q2) Duty to warn and the laws and court decisions associated with it fit into the hermeneutic model under review of local, state, and federal laws.
A)True
B)False
Q3) State statutes recognizing privileged communication for counselors have expanded to include more than ____ states' offering some degree of privileged communication protection for counseling clients.
A) 30
B) 20
C) 45
D) 10
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Chapter 13: Western Theories of Ethics
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Q1) Keeping a promise-maintaining confidentiality:
A) fidelity
B) benevolence
C) justice
D) autonomy
Q2) Professionals are trained to develop the skills associated with best practice in their fields and a clear sense of their responsibility to society at large.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Natural law is associated closely with the _________ faith.
A) Catholic
B) Jewish
C) Muslim
D) Baptist
Q4) Discuss the history of virtue ethics.
Q5) Natural law theory is a morally absolute theory; it is relativistic.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Compare and contrast the ethical concepts for Virtue Ethics.
Q7) Give a brief overview of Feminist Ethics.
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Chapter 14: Eastern Theories of Ethics
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Q1) Xin is similar to ______ views of conscience.
A) Southern
B) Western
C) Eastern
D) Northern
Q2) What is Karma and how is it often misconstrued?
Q3) Ethics in Hinduism may be understood as including virtues such as humility, patience, and honoring others.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Hinduism, this means not injuring or killing others:
A) Ahisma
B) Confucianism
C) Buddhism
D) Sataya
Q5) Dharma refers to seeking the truth and elevation to a higher level.
A)True
B)False
Q6) List and describe The Four Noble Truths.
Q7) Give a brief overview of Confucianism.
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Chapter 15: Middle Eastern Ethical Theories
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Q1) Islamic ethics is more of a moral relativism approach rather than an absolutism theory.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the role of education according to Judaic ethics.
Q3) The term Islam is Arabic, meaning "submission to God," and it is supported by derivatives of earlier interpretations of the meaning of Islam including concepts of "peace"
A)True
B)False
Q4) ___________ is whatever brings pleasure.
A) Justice
B) Benefit
C) Truthfulness
D) Willing good
Q5) Judaic ethics is founded on the belief that humans have a responsibility to repair the world.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the four components of good?
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Chapter 16: Native American, Hispaniclatino, and African Ethics
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Q1) ____________is more closely associated with a cultural heritage from Spain.
A) Cuban
B) Puerto Rican
C) Hispanic
D) Latino
Q2) There were ____ million Native Americans prior to the entrance of Europeans into the Native Americans' world.
A) 112
B) 20
C) 5
D) 80
Q3) Africans are associated with those whose origins are in the sub-Saharan continent or Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q4) This term refers to the desired characteristics of female Latinas.
A) Familismo
B) Caballerismo
C) Marianismo
D) Masculinismo
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