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When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to -
Answer✔✔-Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-
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? - Answer✔✔-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? -
Answer✔✔-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... - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-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 - Answer✔✔-Yes, you are ultimately responsible
, When publishing research, it is important to - Answer✔✔-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? -
Answer✔✔-Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the Code of Ethics
An ethics violation should NOT be reported when - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-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 - Answer✔✔-Confidentiality
Only one psychoanalyst's developmental theory covers the entire lifespan. Who
is he? - Answer✔✔-Erik Erikson
The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to which psychoanalyst? - Answer✔✔-
Sigmund Freud
What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four stages - Answer✔✔-Formal
Operations
Identity Crisis - Answer✔✔-Erik Erikson
Practice Questions with
Verified Answers. GRADED A+.
Latest 2026/2027 Update
When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to -
Answer✔✔-Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-
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? - Answer✔✔-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? -
Answer✔✔-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... - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-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 - Answer✔✔-Yes, you are ultimately responsible
, When publishing research, it is important to - Answer✔✔-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? -
Answer✔✔-Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the Code of Ethics
An ethics violation should NOT be reported when - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-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 - Answer✔✔-Confidentiality
Only one psychoanalyst's developmental theory covers the entire lifespan. Who
is he? - Answer✔✔-Erik Erikson
The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to which psychoanalyst? - Answer✔✔-
Sigmund Freud
What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four stages - Answer✔✔-Formal
Operations
Identity Crisis - Answer✔✔-Erik Erikson
