CPCE EXAM 2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS
When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to -
Precise Answer ✔✔Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to - Precise
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? - Precise 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? -
Precise 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? - Precise 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? -
Precise 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... - Precise 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? - Precise 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? - Precise 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔Yes, you are
ultimately responsible
,When publishing research, it is important to - Precise 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? - Precise Answer ✔✔Ultimately the law may be adhered to
over the Code of Ethics
An ethics violation should NOT be reported when - Precise 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? - Precise 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔Confidentiality
Only one psychoanalyst's developmental theory covers the entire
lifespan. Who is he? - Precise Answer ✔✔Erik Erikson
The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to which psychoanalyst? - Precise
Answer ✔✔Sigmund Freud
, What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four stages - Precise Answer
✔✔Formal Operations
Identity Crisis - Precise Answer ✔✔Erik Erikson
Positive Psychology - Precise Answer ✔✔processes that contribute to
optimal functioning/ not focusing on abnormalities
Smoking habit to Sigmund Freud - Precise Answer ✔✔Oral Fixation
Most mental health professionals believe - Precise Answer ✔✔no one
theory of development completely explains the process
John Bowlby - Precise Answer ✔✔Attachment Theory
Lawrence Kohlberg's three levels of morality - Precise Answer ✔✔Pre-
conventional, Conventional, and post-conventional
Female version of Freud's Oedipus complex - Precise Answer
✔✔Electra Complex
Researcher known for Rhesus Monkeys - Precise Answer ✔✔Harry
Harlow
SOLUTIONS
When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to -
Precise Answer ✔✔Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to - Precise
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? - Precise 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? -
Precise 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? - Precise 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? -
Precise 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... - Precise 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? - Precise 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? - Precise 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔Yes, you are
ultimately responsible
,When publishing research, it is important to - Precise 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? - Precise Answer ✔✔Ultimately the law may be adhered to
over the Code of Ethics
An ethics violation should NOT be reported when - Precise 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? - Precise 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔Confidentiality
Only one psychoanalyst's developmental theory covers the entire
lifespan. Who is he? - Precise Answer ✔✔Erik Erikson
The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to which psychoanalyst? - Precise
Answer ✔✔Sigmund Freud
, What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four stages - Precise Answer
✔✔Formal Operations
Identity Crisis - Precise Answer ✔✔Erik Erikson
Positive Psychology - Precise Answer ✔✔processes that contribute to
optimal functioning/ not focusing on abnormalities
Smoking habit to Sigmund Freud - Precise Answer ✔✔Oral Fixation
Most mental health professionals believe - Precise Answer ✔✔no one
theory of development completely explains the process
John Bowlby - Precise Answer ✔✔Attachment Theory
Lawrence Kohlberg's three levels of morality - Precise Answer ✔✔Pre-
conventional, Conventional, and post-conventional
Female version of Freud's Oedipus complex - Precise Answer
✔✔Electra Complex
Researcher known for Rhesus Monkeys - Precise Answer ✔✔Harry
Harlow
