COUC 501 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
– LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
HIGHLY STUDIED
GRADED A+
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A firm grounding in the area of professional orientation includes 3 main
components:
-developing a professional identity
-learning about ethics and
-learning about the ____ as it applies to counseling
*Developing a professional identity as a counselor: understanding the history,
knowing the professional roles, learning about becoming involved, gaining
awareness of credentials, knowing how to advocate for your clients, and developing
_____ in your profession.. ANSWER -law
pride
Moral behavior is based on our values, or personal belief system.
Values are influenced by upbringing and culture.
_________: set aside persona lvalues within the counseling relationship.
Professional values include honoring ________, promoting social justice, safeguarding
the integrity of the counselor-client relationship.
Ethics: a discipline concerned with ___________ and moral decision making. Ethics
prevail over personal values.
,Law is different from morality or ethics. Laws must be followed. Laws dictate
__________ standards of behavior, whereas ethics pertain to a wider range of
professional functioning.. ANSWER -Bracket
diversity
conduct
minimum
Learning about ethics: becoming familiar with ethical standards, understanding
ethical issues, developing ethical reasoning and decision making ________.. ANSWER -
skills
-Many questions are _________and depend on the situation. Not black and white.
-We are either contributing to the welfare and good and wellbeing or we are not..
ANSWER -ambiguous
A counselor at a community agency decides to start a group for women recovering
from sexual abuse. On the first group meeting, the counselor hands out the informed
consent form but rushes the members to sign the form without reviewing. The
counselor reviews the benefits of group but worries reviewing risks will cause the
members to feel anxious or frightened and drop out of group before they experience
the benefits. She plans to review the risks on the third session.
A)Veracity
b)Autonomy
C)Justice
D)Beneficence
E) Fidelity
A master's level counseling student is feeling overwhelmed due to having a major
paper. She has worked overtime for the past two weeks and her oldest child has a
stomach virus, limiting the time she has to spend on researching and writing the
paper. In a panic, she goes online and finds an online service that, for a small fee, will
provide her sections of the paper, guaranteeing the information w. ANSWER -A, B, F
,A marriage counselor has been working with a couple for the past six months. The
couple started counseling to decide whether they wanted to continue in the
marriage or divorce. The counselor believes that marriage should be for life. He has
helped the couple see the roots of their unhappiness in the marriage, as well as, the
benefits and consequences of remaining married or divorcing. One day the couple
walks in and tells the counselor they have decided to move forward with a divorce.
The counselor begins to tell the couple all the reasons they should not divorce and
how their choice is wrong.
A)Veracity
b)Nonmaleficence
C)Justice
D)Autonomy
E)Fidelity
A counselor is leaving her employment at a community mental health clinic to take
another job. In preparation for leaving, she tells all her clients that she will be
leaving and her last date at the agency will be May 1. Two weeks before her May 1
date of departure, t. ANSWER -D, B
A client initially comes into counseling worried that she might be bipolar like her
mother and states several times that, "If I am bipolar, it will ruin my life!" The
counselor assesses the client and administers a test that also assesses for bipolar.
Both the counselor's assessment and the results show that the client is bipolar. Four
weeks later, the client requests to see the results of her assessment. The counselor
refuses to release the results telling the client the results were not conclusive.
A)Veracity
B)Autonomy
C)Fidelity
D)Nonmaleficence
E) Justice
An experienced career counselor works for a community agency that covers a broad
range of services to clients. Two clients come in to see the counselor. The first client
is a respected member of the community and is a department head in the local
government. The second client is a part time employee at a factory who has had
several arrests and is well known in. ANSWER -A, B, D
, From the perspective of principle ethics, a counselor who is counseling a client
planning a violent act against another person, and who intervenes to notify the
client's family members is:
A)sacrificing client autonomy in order to prevent harm and to do good.
b)sacrificing fidelity in order to be truthful.
C)sacrificing justice in order to be faithful to promises made.
D)sacrificing veracity in order to protect the client's anonymity.
E) sacrificing beneficence in order to promote fidelity.
Virtue ethicists believe that:
A)to determine whether a counselor is ethical, each decision the counselor makes
must be carefully weighed.
b)that moral choices cannot be made by rule; what is needed instead is good
judgment.
C)actions speak louder than words.
D)counselors should always be truthful.
Law and ethics differ from one another in that:
A) laws dictate minimum standards of behavior that society will tolerate, whereas e.
ANSWER -A, B, A, C, A
At their most fundamental level, codes of ethics serve to:
A) protect and promote the welfare of the client.
b)protect and promote the welfare of the counselor.
C)protect and promote the welfare of the profession.
D)protect and promote the welfare of the counselor's agency.
E) protect and promote the welfare of the client's family unit.
The personal values of counselors:
A) have no place in the counseling session.
– LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
HIGHLY STUDIED
GRADED A+
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A firm grounding in the area of professional orientation includes 3 main
components:
-developing a professional identity
-learning about ethics and
-learning about the ____ as it applies to counseling
*Developing a professional identity as a counselor: understanding the history,
knowing the professional roles, learning about becoming involved, gaining
awareness of credentials, knowing how to advocate for your clients, and developing
_____ in your profession.. ANSWER -law
pride
Moral behavior is based on our values, or personal belief system.
Values are influenced by upbringing and culture.
_________: set aside persona lvalues within the counseling relationship.
Professional values include honoring ________, promoting social justice, safeguarding
the integrity of the counselor-client relationship.
Ethics: a discipline concerned with ___________ and moral decision making. Ethics
prevail over personal values.
,Law is different from morality or ethics. Laws must be followed. Laws dictate
__________ standards of behavior, whereas ethics pertain to a wider range of
professional functioning.. ANSWER -Bracket
diversity
conduct
minimum
Learning about ethics: becoming familiar with ethical standards, understanding
ethical issues, developing ethical reasoning and decision making ________.. ANSWER -
skills
-Many questions are _________and depend on the situation. Not black and white.
-We are either contributing to the welfare and good and wellbeing or we are not..
ANSWER -ambiguous
A counselor at a community agency decides to start a group for women recovering
from sexual abuse. On the first group meeting, the counselor hands out the informed
consent form but rushes the members to sign the form without reviewing. The
counselor reviews the benefits of group but worries reviewing risks will cause the
members to feel anxious or frightened and drop out of group before they experience
the benefits. She plans to review the risks on the third session.
A)Veracity
b)Autonomy
C)Justice
D)Beneficence
E) Fidelity
A master's level counseling student is feeling overwhelmed due to having a major
paper. She has worked overtime for the past two weeks and her oldest child has a
stomach virus, limiting the time she has to spend on researching and writing the
paper. In a panic, she goes online and finds an online service that, for a small fee, will
provide her sections of the paper, guaranteeing the information w. ANSWER -A, B, F
,A marriage counselor has been working with a couple for the past six months. The
couple started counseling to decide whether they wanted to continue in the
marriage or divorce. The counselor believes that marriage should be for life. He has
helped the couple see the roots of their unhappiness in the marriage, as well as, the
benefits and consequences of remaining married or divorcing. One day the couple
walks in and tells the counselor they have decided to move forward with a divorce.
The counselor begins to tell the couple all the reasons they should not divorce and
how their choice is wrong.
A)Veracity
b)Nonmaleficence
C)Justice
D)Autonomy
E)Fidelity
A counselor is leaving her employment at a community mental health clinic to take
another job. In preparation for leaving, she tells all her clients that she will be
leaving and her last date at the agency will be May 1. Two weeks before her May 1
date of departure, t. ANSWER -D, B
A client initially comes into counseling worried that she might be bipolar like her
mother and states several times that, "If I am bipolar, it will ruin my life!" The
counselor assesses the client and administers a test that also assesses for bipolar.
Both the counselor's assessment and the results show that the client is bipolar. Four
weeks later, the client requests to see the results of her assessment. The counselor
refuses to release the results telling the client the results were not conclusive.
A)Veracity
B)Autonomy
C)Fidelity
D)Nonmaleficence
E) Justice
An experienced career counselor works for a community agency that covers a broad
range of services to clients. Two clients come in to see the counselor. The first client
is a respected member of the community and is a department head in the local
government. The second client is a part time employee at a factory who has had
several arrests and is well known in. ANSWER -A, B, D
, From the perspective of principle ethics, a counselor who is counseling a client
planning a violent act against another person, and who intervenes to notify the
client's family members is:
A)sacrificing client autonomy in order to prevent harm and to do good.
b)sacrificing fidelity in order to be truthful.
C)sacrificing justice in order to be faithful to promises made.
D)sacrificing veracity in order to protect the client's anonymity.
E) sacrificing beneficence in order to promote fidelity.
Virtue ethicists believe that:
A)to determine whether a counselor is ethical, each decision the counselor makes
must be carefully weighed.
b)that moral choices cannot be made by rule; what is needed instead is good
judgment.
C)actions speak louder than words.
D)counselors should always be truthful.
Law and ethics differ from one another in that:
A) laws dictate minimum standards of behavior that society will tolerate, whereas e.
ANSWER -A, B, A, C, A
At their most fundamental level, codes of ethics serve to:
A) protect and promote the welfare of the client.
b)protect and promote the welfare of the counselor.
C)protect and promote the welfare of the profession.
D)protect and promote the welfare of the counselor's agency.
E) protect and promote the welfare of the client's family unit.
The personal values of counselors:
A) have no place in the counseling session.
