ACA Code of Ethics Practice Exam – Core Values,
Ethical Principles & Sections A–I|Questions with
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Core Professional Value #1
Enhancing human development throughout the life span
Core Professional Value #2
Honoring diversity and embracing a multicultural approach in support of the worth, dignity,
potential, and uniqueness of people within their social and cultural contexts
Core Professional Value #3
Promoting social justice
Core Professional Value #4
Safeguarding the integrity of the counselor-client relationship
Core Professional Value #5
Practicing in a competent and ethnical manner
Autonomy
Fostering the right to control the direction of one's life
Nonmaleficence
Avoiding actions that cause harm
Beneficence
Working for the good of the individual and society by promoting mental health and well-being
Justice
Treating individuals equitably and fostering fairness and equality
Fidelity
Honoring commitments and keeping promises, including fulfilling one's responsibilities of trust
in professional relationships
Veracity
,Dealing truthfully with individuals with whom counselors come into professional contact
Section A
The Counseling Relationship
Section B
Confidentiality and Privacy
Section C
Professional Responsibility
Section D
Relationships With Other Professionals
Section E
Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation
Section F
Supervision, Training, and Teaching
Section G
Research and Publication
Section H
Distance Counseling, Technology, and Social Media
Section I
Resolving Ethical Issues
Section A: The Counseling Relationship
Client welfare, informed consent, clients served by others, avoiding harm and imposing values,
prohibited noncounseling roles and relationships, managing and maintaining boundaries and
professional relationships, roles and relationships and individual, group, institutional, and
societal levels, multiple clients, group work, fees and business practices, fees and business
practices, termination and referral, abandonment and neglect.
Primary Responsibility
The ___________ of counselors is to respect the dignity and promote the welfare of clients.
, documentation
Counselors must provide sufficient __________ in a timely manner regardless of medium of
services. When amendments are made, they must be done in accordance with company policy.
Counseling Plans
Counselors and clients work together to create ______________ that offer reasonable promise
of success and are consistent with abilities, temperament, developmental level, and
circumstances of clients. Plans are reviewed and revised regularly.
support networks; involve
Counselors understand clients' ___________ hold meaning and make an effort to ______ them
when feasible.
Informed Consent
Clients have the freedom to choose whether or not to enter or continue in a counseling
relationship and have the appropriate information to make that choice. Counselors must review
in writing and verbally with clients. Ongoing part of counseling process.
necessary information
Clients must have all the ____________ about the counseling relationship and process:
purposes, goals, techniques, procedures, limitations, potential risks, benefits of services;
counselor's qualifications, credentials, experience, and approach to counseling; what happens if
counselor becomes incapacitated or dies; role of technology; fees and billing; arrangements for
nonpayment; confidentiality limits; rights to review records; rights to refuse services.
culturally; developmentally
Clients must be informed about the counseling relationship and process in ________ and
___________ appropriate ways. Language must be clear and understandable. If client speaks
another language, counselor should provide interpreter/translator when feasible.
consent; assent
Minors and incapacitated adults are unable to give ___________, but can give their ______.
Counselor should include the person on decision making when appropriate and recognize need
to balance client's rights and rights of parent or guardian.
mandated clients
Ethical Principles & Sections A–I|Questions with
Verified A+ Graded Answers Latest Updated 2026
Core Professional Value #1
Enhancing human development throughout the life span
Core Professional Value #2
Honoring diversity and embracing a multicultural approach in support of the worth, dignity,
potential, and uniqueness of people within their social and cultural contexts
Core Professional Value #3
Promoting social justice
Core Professional Value #4
Safeguarding the integrity of the counselor-client relationship
Core Professional Value #5
Practicing in a competent and ethnical manner
Autonomy
Fostering the right to control the direction of one's life
Nonmaleficence
Avoiding actions that cause harm
Beneficence
Working for the good of the individual and society by promoting mental health and well-being
Justice
Treating individuals equitably and fostering fairness and equality
Fidelity
Honoring commitments and keeping promises, including fulfilling one's responsibilities of trust
in professional relationships
Veracity
,Dealing truthfully with individuals with whom counselors come into professional contact
Section A
The Counseling Relationship
Section B
Confidentiality and Privacy
Section C
Professional Responsibility
Section D
Relationships With Other Professionals
Section E
Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation
Section F
Supervision, Training, and Teaching
Section G
Research and Publication
Section H
Distance Counseling, Technology, and Social Media
Section I
Resolving Ethical Issues
Section A: The Counseling Relationship
Client welfare, informed consent, clients served by others, avoiding harm and imposing values,
prohibited noncounseling roles and relationships, managing and maintaining boundaries and
professional relationships, roles and relationships and individual, group, institutional, and
societal levels, multiple clients, group work, fees and business practices, fees and business
practices, termination and referral, abandonment and neglect.
Primary Responsibility
The ___________ of counselors is to respect the dignity and promote the welfare of clients.
, documentation
Counselors must provide sufficient __________ in a timely manner regardless of medium of
services. When amendments are made, they must be done in accordance with company policy.
Counseling Plans
Counselors and clients work together to create ______________ that offer reasonable promise
of success and are consistent with abilities, temperament, developmental level, and
circumstances of clients. Plans are reviewed and revised regularly.
support networks; involve
Counselors understand clients' ___________ hold meaning and make an effort to ______ them
when feasible.
Informed Consent
Clients have the freedom to choose whether or not to enter or continue in a counseling
relationship and have the appropriate information to make that choice. Counselors must review
in writing and verbally with clients. Ongoing part of counseling process.
necessary information
Clients must have all the ____________ about the counseling relationship and process:
purposes, goals, techniques, procedures, limitations, potential risks, benefits of services;
counselor's qualifications, credentials, experience, and approach to counseling; what happens if
counselor becomes incapacitated or dies; role of technology; fees and billing; arrangements for
nonpayment; confidentiality limits; rights to review records; rights to refuse services.
culturally; developmentally
Clients must be informed about the counseling relationship and process in ________ and
___________ appropriate ways. Language must be clear and understandable. If client speaks
another language, counselor should provide interpreter/translator when feasible.
consent; assent
Minors and incapacitated adults are unable to give ___________, but can give their ______.
Counselor should include the person on decision making when appropriate and recognize need
to balance client's rights and rights of parent or guardian.
mandated clients
