LPCC Law and Ethics, 2025-2026 – Comprehensive Study
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Informed Consent - ANS✔✔ right of a client to be given adequate information about counseling
before making the decision to participate
Conditions of Informed Consent - ANS✔✔ 1. Client is competent to decide
2. Client gets an adequate disclosure of information and understands information sufficiently to
make informed decision
3. Client must give consent freely, voluntarily
Issues address in Informed Consent - ANS✔✔ 1. Nature of services that will be provided
2. Informed consent when changing roles
3. Include information when using technology, distance counseling, and/or social media
4. Obtaining verbal or written consent from client PRIOR to initiating telehealth services
5. Inform client of interdisciplinary team and information that will be shared
6. Explain nature of assessments, purpose, and how results will be used
7. Forensic settings: evaluation by counselor is for evaluation purposes, not therapeutic AND
must obtain written consent from client
8. Counselors being supervised must inform clients of how supervision affects confidentiality
9. Inform participants of purpose, procedures, potential risks, benefits, advantageous
alternative procedures, and limits to confidentiality
Dual relationships - ANS✔✔ any interaction other than the client -professional relationship
(babysitting, bartering for services, going into business with client)
, "Sexual and/or romantic counselor-client interactions or relationships with former clients, their
romantic partners, or their family members are prohibited for a period of
______________________ following last professional contact" - ANS✔✔ 5 years
"Professional Therapy Never Includes Sex" brochure - ANS✔✔ Describes client's rights and
remedies to a client who reports having sexual intercourse or other sexual contact with another
mental health professional.
"you first" policy - ANS✔✔ Allows clients to decide if he/she will acknowledge the counselor
outside of the counseling office
"telehealth" - ANS✔✔ Mode of delivering health care services and public health via information
and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education,
care management, and self-management of patient's health care..."
When is it OK to terminate services with a client? - ANS✔✔ When services are no longer
needed, when there is harm being done, when the client is no longer benefiting, when agreed
upon fees have not been paid, counselor's safety is in jeopardy by client
counselors being supervised... - ANS✔✔ ...must inform client how supervision will affect
confidentiality, who has access to records, and inform of unlicensed status
"Professional Therapy Never Includes Sex" brochure - ANS✔✔ required to be given and
reviewed with client when client discloses sexual intercourse or sexual contact with another
mental health professional
unavoidable dual relationship - ANS✔✔ (a) seek legal/clinical consultation, (b) discuss potential
risks and other aspects of the situations, (c) document in client's file all consultations
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Informed Consent - ANS✔✔ right of a client to be given adequate information about counseling
before making the decision to participate
Conditions of Informed Consent - ANS✔✔ 1. Client is competent to decide
2. Client gets an adequate disclosure of information and understands information sufficiently to
make informed decision
3. Client must give consent freely, voluntarily
Issues address in Informed Consent - ANS✔✔ 1. Nature of services that will be provided
2. Informed consent when changing roles
3. Include information when using technology, distance counseling, and/or social media
4. Obtaining verbal or written consent from client PRIOR to initiating telehealth services
5. Inform client of interdisciplinary team and information that will be shared
6. Explain nature of assessments, purpose, and how results will be used
7. Forensic settings: evaluation by counselor is for evaluation purposes, not therapeutic AND
must obtain written consent from client
8. Counselors being supervised must inform clients of how supervision affects confidentiality
9. Inform participants of purpose, procedures, potential risks, benefits, advantageous
alternative procedures, and limits to confidentiality
Dual relationships - ANS✔✔ any interaction other than the client -professional relationship
(babysitting, bartering for services, going into business with client)
, "Sexual and/or romantic counselor-client interactions or relationships with former clients, their
romantic partners, or their family members are prohibited for a period of
______________________ following last professional contact" - ANS✔✔ 5 years
"Professional Therapy Never Includes Sex" brochure - ANS✔✔ Describes client's rights and
remedies to a client who reports having sexual intercourse or other sexual contact with another
mental health professional.
"you first" policy - ANS✔✔ Allows clients to decide if he/she will acknowledge the counselor
outside of the counseling office
"telehealth" - ANS✔✔ Mode of delivering health care services and public health via information
and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education,
care management, and self-management of patient's health care..."
When is it OK to terminate services with a client? - ANS✔✔ When services are no longer
needed, when there is harm being done, when the client is no longer benefiting, when agreed
upon fees have not been paid, counselor's safety is in jeopardy by client
counselors being supervised... - ANS✔✔ ...must inform client how supervision will affect
confidentiality, who has access to records, and inform of unlicensed status
"Professional Therapy Never Includes Sex" brochure - ANS✔✔ required to be given and
reviewed with client when client discloses sexual intercourse or sexual contact with another
mental health professional
unavoidable dual relationship - ANS✔✔ (a) seek legal/clinical consultation, (b) discuss potential
risks and other aspects of the situations, (c) document in client's file all consultations
