CPCE EXAM!!! (2026) WITH
CORRECT VERIFIED AND WELL
ANALYZED ANSWERS GRADED A+
When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required
to
Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to
jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling
process will proceed
A client arrives for counseling with the presenting complaint of
relationship difficulties. She goes on to describe that she has had
multiple abortions, and seems to use abortion as a birth control
method. You are personally opposed to abortion. How should your
personal beliefs impact the therapeutic relationship?
Your personal belief system should not have any bearing on the
therapeutic relationship
You have been involved in a counseling relationship with a client for
six months, when he presents you with a small gift. What should you
do?
Accept or decline depending on the circumstances
You are court-ordered to disclose confidential information about a
client you are counseling. What do you do?
Limit, as much as possible, any possibly damaging personal
information and obtain written permission from your client to share
confidential information
What should you do if your client requests to see his confidential file?
Accept or decline depending upon circumstances
,You are a counselor with several clients, and at the same time you are
adjusting to a difficult divorce. You aren't sleeping or eating well, find
you are highly distractible, and generally are less in-touch with your
emotional state. You should...
Be alert to your mental status, and be able to determine if continuing
with your clients poses any threat of being detrimental to the
counseling process
A former client of yours has been arrested for a crime. As his former
counselor, you are called to perform a forensic evaluation. What is
your responsibility in this case?
It is not considered ethical to perform a forensic evaluation on a
current or past client, so you should decline
You are the supervisor for a new counselor, and are asked to attend
her wedding. Would it be ethical to do so?
Yes, you should be able to attend her wedding without a breach of
ethics
While involved with a research study, you learn that several of your
students are using confidential material in an unethical manner. You
had no prior knowledge of this, and all of your safeguards for
professional practice were appropriate. Are you, as the principal
researcher, responsible for the student's behavior
Yes, you are ultimately responsible
When publishing research, it is important to
Give credit to other contributors or sources, not plagiarize, and
submit material to only one journal at a time
When a conflict arises between the American Counseling Association
(ACA) Code of Ethics and a governing authority, which takes
precedence?
Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the Code of Ethics
An ethics violation should NOT be reported when
A counselor has been retained to review another counselor who is in
question; and when confidentiality rights would be violated
What does multicultural/diversity counseling refer to?
, Counseling that recognizes diversity and approaches beneficial to
specific groups and an approach that all counselors should ethically
be aware of
Most ethical issues are related to
Confidentiality
Only one psychoanalyst's developmental theory covers the entire
lifespan. Who is he?
Erik Erikson
The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to which psychoanalyst?
Sigmund Freud
What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four stages
Formal Operations
Identity Crisis
Erik Erikson
Positive Psychology
processes that contribute to optimal functioning/ not focusing on
abnormalities
Smoking habit to Sigmund Freud
Oral Fixation
Most mental health professionals believe
no one theory of development completely explains the process
John Bowlby
Attachment Theory
Lawrence Kohlberg's three levels of morality
Pre-conventional, Conventional, and post-conventional
Female version of Freud's Oedipus complex
Electra Complex
Researcher known for Rhesus Monkeys
CORRECT VERIFIED AND WELL
ANALYZED ANSWERS GRADED A+
When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required
to
Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to
jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling
process will proceed
A client arrives for counseling with the presenting complaint of
relationship difficulties. She goes on to describe that she has had
multiple abortions, and seems to use abortion as a birth control
method. You are personally opposed to abortion. How should your
personal beliefs impact the therapeutic relationship?
Your personal belief system should not have any bearing on the
therapeutic relationship
You have been involved in a counseling relationship with a client for
six months, when he presents you with a small gift. What should you
do?
Accept or decline depending on the circumstances
You are court-ordered to disclose confidential information about a
client you are counseling. What do you do?
Limit, as much as possible, any possibly damaging personal
information and obtain written permission from your client to share
confidential information
What should you do if your client requests to see his confidential file?
Accept or decline depending upon circumstances
,You are a counselor with several clients, and at the same time you are
adjusting to a difficult divorce. You aren't sleeping or eating well, find
you are highly distractible, and generally are less in-touch with your
emotional state. You should...
Be alert to your mental status, and be able to determine if continuing
with your clients poses any threat of being detrimental to the
counseling process
A former client of yours has been arrested for a crime. As his former
counselor, you are called to perform a forensic evaluation. What is
your responsibility in this case?
It is not considered ethical to perform a forensic evaluation on a
current or past client, so you should decline
You are the supervisor for a new counselor, and are asked to attend
her wedding. Would it be ethical to do so?
Yes, you should be able to attend her wedding without a breach of
ethics
While involved with a research study, you learn that several of your
students are using confidential material in an unethical manner. You
had no prior knowledge of this, and all of your safeguards for
professional practice were appropriate. Are you, as the principal
researcher, responsible for the student's behavior
Yes, you are ultimately responsible
When publishing research, it is important to
Give credit to other contributors or sources, not plagiarize, and
submit material to only one journal at a time
When a conflict arises between the American Counseling Association
(ACA) Code of Ethics and a governing authority, which takes
precedence?
Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the Code of Ethics
An ethics violation should NOT be reported when
A counselor has been retained to review another counselor who is in
question; and when confidentiality rights would be violated
What does multicultural/diversity counseling refer to?
, Counseling that recognizes diversity and approaches beneficial to
specific groups and an approach that all counselors should ethically
be aware of
Most ethical issues are related to
Confidentiality
Only one psychoanalyst's developmental theory covers the entire
lifespan. Who is he?
Erik Erikson
The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to which psychoanalyst?
Sigmund Freud
What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four stages
Formal Operations
Identity Crisis
Erik Erikson
Positive Psychology
processes that contribute to optimal functioning/ not focusing on
abnormalities
Smoking habit to Sigmund Freud
Oral Fixation
Most mental health professionals believe
no one theory of development completely explains the process
John Bowlby
Attachment Theory
Lawrence Kohlberg's three levels of morality
Pre-conventional, Conventional, and post-conventional
Female version of Freud's Oedipus complex
Electra Complex
Researcher known for Rhesus Monkeys
